The 1976 Monaco Grand Prix (formally the XXXIV Grand Prix de Monaco) was a Formula One motor race held at the Monaco street circuit in Monaco on 30 May 1976. It was the sixth round of the 1976 Formula One season and the 34th Monaco Grand Prix. The race was contested over 78 laps of the 3.3 km circuit for a race distance of 257 kilometres.
The race was won by Ferrari driver Niki Lauda, who had also taken pole position in his Ferrari 312T2.
Qualifying
Qualifying classification Driver ConstructorTime11 Niki LaudaFerrari1:29.6522 Clay RegazzoniFerrari1:29.91310 Ronnie PetersonMarch-Ford1:30.0844 Patrick DepaillerTyrrell-Ford1:30.3353 Jody ScheckterTyrrell-Ford1:30.55634March-Ford1:30.66730 Emerson FittipaldiFittipaldi-Ford1:31.39826 Jacques LaffiteLigier-Matra1:31.4699 Vittorio BrambillaMarch-Ford1:31.471017 Jean-Pierre JarierShadow-Ford1:31.651112 Jochen MassMcLaren-Ford1:31.671222 Chris AmonEnsign-Ford1:31.75138 Carlos Pace1:31.811411 James HuntMcLaren-Ford1:31.881516 Tom PryceShadow-Ford1:31.98166 Gunnar NilssonLotus-Ford1:32.101728 John WatsonPenske-Ford1:32.141821 Michel LeclèreWolf-Williams-Ford1:32.171919 Alan JonesSurtees-Ford1:32.33207 Carlos ReutemannBrabham-Alfa Romeo1:32.43 2120 Jacky IckxWolf-Williams-Ford1:32.74 2238 Henri PescaroloSurtees-Ford1:32.82 2337 Larry PerkinsBoro-Ford1:33.73 2424 Harald ErtlHesketh-Ford1:33.93 2535 Arturo MerzarioMarch-Ford1:35.17Source:
*Drivers with a red background all failed to qualify as the grid was limited to 20 places.
Race Lauda won by 11 seconds over Jody Scheckter driving the six-wheeled Tyrrell P34, whilst Scheckter's teammate, Patrick Depailler, completed the podium in third. As a consequence of the race, Lauda extended his lead in the World Drivers' Championship to 36 points over his teammate Clay Regazzoni who had retired after starting second, going off track on oil laid down when James Hunt retired with a blown engine on lap 25, climbing back to third before crashing.
A lap down in fourth was the March 761 of Hans-Joachim Stuck with the McLaren M23 of Jochen Mass and the Fittipaldi FD04 of Emerson Fittipaldi completing the point scoring positions.
Race classification Pos No Driver ConstructorLapsTime/Retired Grid Points 1 1 Niki Lauda Ferrari 78 1:59:51.47 1 9 2 3 Jody Scheckter Tyrrell-Ford 78 + 11.13 5 6 3 4 Patrick Depailler Tyrrell-Ford 78 + 1:04.84 4 4 4 34 March-Ford 77 + 1 Lap 6 3 5 12 Jochen Mass McLaren-Ford 77 + 1 Lap 11 2 6 30 Emerson Fittipaldi Fittipaldi-Ford 77 + 1 lap 7 1 7 16 Tom Pryce Shadow-Ford 77 + 1 Lap 15 8 17 Jean-Pierre Jarier Shadow-Ford 76 + 2 Laps 10 9 8 Carlos Pace 76 + 2 Laps 13 10 28 John Watson Penske-Ford 76 + 2 Laps 17 11 21 Michel Leclère Wolf-Williams-Ford 76 + 2 Laps 18 12 26 Jacques Laffite Ligier-Matra 75 Accident 8 13 22 Chris Amon Ensign-Ford 74 + 4 Laps 12 14 2 Clay Regazzoni Ferrari 73 Accident 2 6 Gunnar Nilsson Lotus-Ford 39 Engine 16 10 Ronnie Peterson March-Ford 26 Accident 3 11 James Hunt McLaren-Ford 24 Engine 14 9 Vittorio Brambilla March-Ford 9 Suspension 9 19 Alan Jones Surtees-Ford 1 Collision 19 7 Carlos Reutemann Brabham-Alfa Romeo 0 Accident 20 Source:
Championship standings after the race Points are accurate at the conclusion of the race and do not reflect final results of the 1976 Spanish Grand Prix as it was under appeal.
Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 Niki Lauda 51 2 Clay Regazzoni 15 3 Patrick Depailler 14 4 Jody Scheckter 14 5 Jochen Mass 10Source:
Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 1 Ferrari 54 2 Tyrrell-Ford 22 3 McLaren-Ford 12 4 Ligier-Matra 7 5 Lotus-Ford 6Source:
Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
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