F1/Seasons/1976/Round 11
1976 · Round 11 of 16

Austrian Grand Prix

August 15, 1976 · Red Bull Ring · Spielberg · Austria
Watson
WINNER
John Watson · Penske · from grid 2
FASTEST LAP
Lap timing starts in 2004. This race has none.
+13
MOST PLACES GAINED
Henri Pescarolo · grid 22 to P9
12 of 25
CLASSIFIED
13 retired

01/Classification

25 cars
Finishing order
PosDriverConstructorGrid+/-LapsTime / statusPtsFastest lap
1John WatsonPenske2+1541:30:07.8609
2Jacques LaffiteLigier5+354+10.7906
3Gunnar NilssonTeam Lotus4+154+11.9804
4James HuntMcLaren1-354+12.4403
5Mario AndrettiTeam Lotus9+454+21.4902
6Ronnie PetersonMarch3-354+34.3401
7Jochen MassMcLaren12+554+59.4500
8Harald ErtlHesketh20+1253+1 Lap0
9Henri PescaroloSurtees22+1352+2 Laps0
10Brett LungerSurtees16+651Accident0
11Alessandro Pesenti-RossiTyrrell23+1251+3 Laps0
12Lella LombardiBrabham-Ford24+1250+4 Laps0
RHans BinderEnsign1947Throttle0
RLoris KesselBrabham-Ford2544Not classified0
RVittorio BrambillaMarch743Accident0
REmerson FittipaldiFittipaldi1743Accident0
RCarlos PaceBrabham-Alfa Romeo1840Accident0
RJean-Pierre JarierShadow840Fuel pump0
RAlan JonesSurtees1530Accident0
RHans-Joachim StuckMarch1126Fuel system0
RPatrick DepaillerTyrrell1324Suspension0
RArturo MerzarioWolf2117Accident0
RTom PryceShadow614Brakes0
RJody ScheckterTyrrell1014Suspension0
RCarlos ReutemannBrabham-Alfa Romeo140Clutch0

Ordered on the source’s position column and printed from position_text. Those two disagree on purpose: position is a sort key that is never null, and position_text is what happened to the car. 13 of 25 cars here were not classified (13 retired). Across the archive that is 9,612 of 26,048 result rows, so a page that printed the sort key would tell more than a third of every field it finished.


02/Grid to finish

12 of 25 cars
Grid minus finishing position
PLACES GAINED
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
Henri PescaroloSurtees229+13
Harald ErtlHesketh208+12
Alessandro Pesenti-RossiTyrrell2311+12
Lella LombardiBrabham-Ford2412+12
Brett LungerSurtees1610+6
PLACES LOST
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
James HuntMcLaren14-3
Ronnie PetersonMarch36-3

Movement is grid minus finishing position, and it is computed for 12 of the 25 cars entered. It is left blank for the other 13: a car that was not classified has no finishing position to subtract from, and no car here carries grid 0, the value the source uses for a pit lane start or for no recorded grid slot. Scoring a grid of 0 as a gain of every place on the grid is the arithmetic this rule exists to stop; 266 of 26,048 rows across the archive are grid 0, and 40 of those were classified.


03/The 1976 season

16 rounds
JAN 25 to OCT 24
RdDateGrand PrixCircuitWinnerConstructorCars
1JAN 25Brazilian Grand PrixAutódromo José Carlos PaceNiki LaudaFerrari22
2MAR 6South African Grand PrixKyalamiNiki LaudaFerrari25
3MAR 28United States Grand Prix WestLong BeachClay RegazzoniFerrari20
4MAY 2Spanish Grand PrixJaramaJames HuntMcLaren24
5MAY 16Belgian Grand PrixZolderNiki LaudaFerrari26
6MAY 30Monaco Grand PrixCircuit de MonacoNiki LaudaFerrari20
7JUN 13Swedish Grand PrixScandinavian RacewayJody ScheckterTyrrell26
8JUL 4French Grand PrixCircuit Paul RicardJames HuntMcLaren27
9JUL 18British Grand PrixBrands HatchNiki LaudaFerrari26
10AUG 1German Grand PrixNürburgringJames HuntMcLaren26
11AUG 15Austrian Grand PrixRed Bull RingJohn WatsonPenske25
12AUG 29Dutch Grand PrixCircuit Park ZandvoortJames HuntMcLaren26
13SEP 12Italian Grand PrixAutodromo Nazionale di MonzaRonnie PetersonMarch29
14OCT 3Canadian Grand PrixMosport International RacewayJames HuntMcLaren26
15OCT 10United States Grand PrixWatkins GlenJames HuntMcLaren26
16OCT 24Japanese Grand PrixFuji SpeedwayMario AndrettiTeam Lotus25

Every figure here is one race, read from f1_results and f1_races. The finishing order is the source’s position column; the printed position is position_text, which is a letter on 9,612 of 26,048 rows across the archive (R retired 9,089, W withdrew 364, D disqualified 159). Grid 0 is a pit lane start and prints as PIT, not as a place ahead of pole; 266 of 26,048 rows are grid 0. Time is a total for the winner and a gap to the car ahead for everyone else, and it is present on 8,508 of 26,048 rows only, so most of the archive shows the status instead; where both exist and the status is not “Finished” the status is printed beside the time, because 8,335 of 16,436 classified rows finished lapped or otherwise not cleanly. The fastest lap column is empty before 2004: the source carries lap timing on 8,977 of 26,048 rows and a ranked fastest lap in 447 of 1,161 races, and speed on 8,238 of those, none after 2024. Points are printed as the source stores them and are never rounded to a whole number: 38 of 26,048 rows are fractional (0.5, 1.33, 3.14), which is half points for a shortened race and a split score for a shared car, and every one of them is real. Three races (1951 French, 1956 Argentine, 1957 British) print two cars as first, because two drivers shared one car and the record books credit both; in those three the source hangs the race points on other rows, which is why 5 of 1,164 winning rows across the archive print zero points. Constructors carry no logo in any f1_* table, so none is drawn and none is invented. The 1976 season is complete at 16 rounds.