1977

Pos	Driver	Nat	Car	Pts	Wins	Share of the leader
1	Niki Lauda	Austrian	Ferrari	70	3
2	Jody Scheckter	South African	Wolf	55	3
3	Mario Andretti	American	Team Lotus	47	4
4	Carlos Reutemann	Argentine	Ferrari	41	1
5	James Hunt	British	McLaren	40	3
6	Jochen Mass	German	McLaren	25	0
7	AJAlan Jones	Australian	Shadow	22	1
8	Gunnar Nilsson	Swedish	Team Lotus	20	1
9	Patrick Depailler	French	Tyrrell	20	0
10	Jacques Laffite	French	Ligier	18	1
11	HSHans-Joachim Stuck	German	Brabham / March	12	0
12	Emerson Fittipaldi	Brazilian	Fittipaldi	11	0
13	John Watson	British	Brabham	9	0
14	Ronnie Peterson	Swedish	Tyrrell	7	0
15	Carlos Pace	Brazilian	Brabham	6	0
16	Vittorio Brambilla	Italian	Surtees	6	0
17	Clay Regazzoni	Swiss	Ensign	5	0
18	Patrick Tambay	French	Ensign	5	0
19	Jean-Pierre Jarier	French	Ligier / Penske / Shadow	1	0
20	Riccardo Patrese	Italian	Shadow	1	0
21	RZRenzo Zorzi	Italian	Shadow	1	0
—	Ian Ashley	British	Hesketh	0	0
—	HBHans Binder	Austrian	Penske / Surtees	0	0
—	Harald Ertl	Austrian	Hesketh	0	0
—	BGBruno Giacomelli	Italian	McLaren	0	0
—	BHBrian Henton	British	Boro / March	0	0
—	Ingo Hoffmann	Brazilian	Fittipaldi	0	0
—	Kazuyoshi Hoshino	Japanese	Kojima	0	0
—	Jacky Ickx	Belgian	Ensign	0	0
—	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	French	Renault	0	0
—	Rupert Keegan	British	Hesketh	0	0
—	BLBrett Lunger	American	March / McLaren	0	0
—	BLBoy Lunger	Dutch	March	0	0
—	Arturo Merzario	Italian	March / Shadow	0	0
—	PNPatrick Nève	Belgian	March	0	0
—	Jackie Oliver	British	Shadow	0	0
—	Danny Ongais	American	Penske	0	0
—	Larry Perkins	Australian	BRM / Surtees	0	0
—	Tom Pryce	British	Shadow	0	0
—	DPDavid Purley	British	LEC	0	0
—	HRHector Rebaque	Mexican	Hesketh	0	0
—	Alex Ribeiro	Brazilian	March	0	0
—	ISIan Scheckter	South African	March	0	0
—	VSVern Schuppan	Australian	Surtees	0	0
—	NTNoritake Takahara	Japanese	Kojima	0	0
—	Kunimitsu Takahashi	Japanese	Tyrrell	0	0
—	GVGilles Villeneuve	Canadian	Ferrari / McLaren	0	0
—	Emilio de Villota	Spanish	McLaren	0	0

Read from the season’s final standings row, never summed from the race results. 27 of 48 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 17, 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 1977, 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 1977, not those that entered. The constructors’ championship has been awarded since 1958, so both tables exist for this season. 1977 is complete: all 17 rounds are loaded and both tables are final.