1976 Spanish Grand Prix
The Grand Prix of Spain 1976 took place on 2 May at the Circuito Permanente del Jarama near Madrid and was the fourth race of the Formula 1 season 1976.
- 3.1 Start -up
- 3.2 race
- 4.1 Drivers' Championship
- 4.2 Constructors' Championship
Reports
Background
The Formula 1 started with several rule changes in the European season. These included, among others, size limits on the airbox and the rear wing of the racing cars. The last part extremely towering Airboxes thus belonged to the past. Scuderia Ferrari presented in response to these changes the 312T2, a development of the 312T, in which the combustion air is sucked in through inlets, which were on the sides of the cockpit. The positive effect of the airbox was thereby maintained and only edited the rules. Ensign also presented a new car. The most spectacular new development was, however, the Tyrrell P34, which decreed as the first Formula 1 race over six wheels, the front four were steerable. Patrick graduated from the Premiere Depailler use of the car, while his team-mate Jody Scheckter with the conventional 007 was launched.
As Vel 's Parnelli Jones Team Racing had finished his Formula 1 involvement after the Grand Prix in Long Beach, Mario Andretti was looking for a new contract. The Team Lotus signed him then instead of Brian Henton as the second regular driver next to Gunnar Nilsson.
The new team RAM Racing first appeared and announced two customer Brabham for the two debutant Loris Kessel and Emilio Zapico. With Emilio de Villota the wheel of a Williams FW04 Private another local Formula 1 newcomer complemented the message list. The former main sponsor of Ensign, the Dutch company HB Bewaking alarm system, put a previous vehicle of the type Ensign N175 one under the name Boro 001 and engaged Larry Perkins as a driver.
The team of Frank Williams Racing Cars entered henceforth officially under the name of his increasingly influential main sponsor Walter Wolf Racing.
Training
The entry list comprised 30 participants, of which only the 24 fastest training have been approved for the race.
James Hunt secured the pole position next to Niki Lauda and before Patrick Depailler, together with McLaren driver Jochen Mass was the second row in the six-wheeled Tyrrell. This was followed by Clay Regazzoni in the second Ferrari next to Vittorio Brambilla on March in series three, and Gunnar Nilsson, and Jacques Laffite in the fourth row.
Race
Lauda to auszubeschleunigen Hunt before the first corner succeeded. Brambilla also started very well and took a third place before Depailler and Mass, but this could not defend permanently. Until the twelfth round he fell to behind Laffite back to sixth place.
In the 32th round of Hunt took over the leadership of Lauda. Two laps later came also measure past the Austrians and formed by his teammate McLaren one - two lead. This lasted until the 66th round, failed as a measure due to an engine failure. This came Nilsson, who had previously come to some positions to the front, to third place. Carlos Reutemann and Carlos Pace secured the Brabham team with the fourth and sixth, the first points of the season. Chris Amon finished the race after a commanding performance in the new Ensign in fifth place.
In the Parc fermé, the width of the McLaren M23 of James Hunt was assessed as non-compliant. The victory was denied him then. McLaren lodged an appeal against the disqualification. Two months later, the protest was upheld and restored the original race result.
Message list
Classifications
Line-up
Race
WM stands after the race
The first six of the race were 9, 6, 4, 3, 2 and 1 point (s).