1976

Pos	Driver	Nat	Car	Pts	Wins	Share of the leader
1	James Hunt	British	McLaren	69	6
2	Niki Lauda	Austrian	Ferrari	68	5
3	Jody Scheckter	South African	Tyrrell	49	1
4	Patrick Depailler	French	Tyrrell	39	0
5	Clay Regazzoni	Swiss	Ferrari	31	1
6	Mario Andretti	American	Parnelli / Team Lotus	22	1
7	John Watson	British	Penske	20	1
8	Jacques Laffite	French	Ligier	20	0
9	Jochen Mass	German	McLaren	19	0
10	Gunnar Nilsson	Swedish	Team Lotus	11	0
11	Ronnie Peterson	Swedish	March / Team Lotus	10	1
12	Tom Pryce	British	Shadow	10	0
13	HSHans-Joachim Stuck	German	March	8	0
14	Carlos Pace	Brazilian	Brabham-Alfa Romeo	7	0
15	AJAlan Jones	Australian	Surtees	7	0
16	Carlos Reutemann	Argentine	Brabham-Alfa Romeo / Ferrari	3	0
17	Emerson Fittipaldi	Brazilian	Fittipaldi	3	0
18	Chris Amon	New Zealander	Ensign / Wolf	2	0
19	Vittorio Brambilla	Italian	March	1	0
20	Rolf Stommelen	German	Brabham-Alfa Romeo / Hesketh	1	0
—	CAConny Andersson	Swedish	Surtees	0	0
—	Ian Ashley	British	BRM	0	0
—	HBHans Binder	Austrian	Ensign / Wolf	0	0
—	WBWarwick Brown	Australian	Wolf	0	0
—	GEGuy Edwards	British	Hesketh	0	0
—	Harald Ertl	Austrian	Hesketh	0	0
—	BEBob Evans	British	Brabham-Ford / Team Lotus	0	0
—	MHMasahiro Hasemi	Japanese	Kojima	0	0
—	Ingo Hoffmann	Brazilian	Fittipaldi	0	0
—	Kazuyoshi Hoshino	Japanese	Tyrrell	0	0
—	Jacky Ickx	Belgian	Ensign / Wolf	0	0
—	Jean-Pierre Jarier	French	Shadow	0	0
—	LKLoris Kessel	Swiss	Brabham-Ford	0	0
—	MLMichel Leclère	French	Wolf	0	0
—	Lella Lombardi	Italian	Brabham-Ford / March	0	0
—	BLBrett Lunger	American	Surtees	0	0
—	BLBoy Lunger	Dutch	Penske	0	0
—	Arturo Merzario	Italian	March / Wolf	0	0
—	PNPatrick Nève	Belgian	Brabham-Ford / Ensign	0	0
—	Larry Perkins	Australian	Boro / Brabham-Alfa Romeo	0	0
—	Henri Pescarolo	French	Surtees	0	0
—	APAlessandro Pesenti-Rossi	Italian	Tyrrell	0	0
—	Alex Ribeiro	Brazilian	Hesketh	0	0
—	ISIan Scheckter	South African	Tyrrell	0	0
—	OSOtto Stuppacher	Austrian	Tyrrell	0	0
—	NTNoritake Takahara	Japanese	Surtees	0	0
—	RZRenzo Zorzi	Italian	Williams	0	0

Read from the season’s final standings row, never summed from the race results. 27 of 47 entries in this table carry no championship position and are ruled below the placed field, ordered by points.

Read from the season’s final constructor standings row. A constructor scores through both of its cars, so these totals are not the sum of any one driver’s line above.

Both championship tables on this page are read from the season’s standings rows at round 16, the last round loaded, and neither is derived by adding up the race results. That distinction is the whole point: for most of the sport’s history only a driver’s best few results counted toward the title, a race stopped short paid half points, and a driver could be excluded from a championship he had scored in, so a table built by summing the results column would disagree with the championship as it was actually awarded. Positions are the source’s own; where it recorded none, the row prints a dash and sits below the placed field rather than being given a place it never held or dropped from the page. A points total is printed as it is stored, to two decimals where it needs them, because the sport has awarded half points and split shared drives since the 1950s and those fractions are real. The calendar is every round in the archive for 1976, in round order, with the winner taken from the classification code the source prints rather than from its sort key; three of the 1,161 races loaded were won by a shared car, and for those the calendar names one driver while the race classification credits both. The Cars column counts the rows in each race’s classification, which includes cars that retired, so it is entries with a recorded result rather than a count of cars that took the start. The drivers and constructors counted in the masthead are those that appear in a race result for 1976, not those that entered. The constructors’ championship has been awarded since 1958, so both tables exist for this season. 1976 is complete: all 16 rounds are loaded and both tables are final.