| 1976 Canadian Grand Prix | |||||
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Race 14 of 16 in the1976 Formula One season
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| Race details | |||||
| Date | 3 October 1976 (1976-10-03) | ||||
| Official name | XV Labatt's Canadian Grand Prix[1] | ||||
| Location | Mosport International Raceway,Ontario,Canada | ||||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||||
| Course length | 3.957 km (2.458 miles) | ||||
| Distance | 80 laps, 316.56 km (196.64 miles) | ||||
| Weather | Mild with temperatures approaching 22 °C (72 °F); wind speeds up to 8.9 kilometres per hour (5.5 mph)[2] | ||||
| Pole position | |||||
| Driver | McLaren-Ford | ||||
| Time | 1:12.389 | ||||
| Fastest lap | |||||
| Driver |  Patrick Depailler | Tyrrell-Ford | |||
| Time | 1:13.817 on lap 60 | ||||
| Podium | |||||
| First | McLaren-Ford | ||||
| Second | Tyrrell-Ford | ||||
| Third | Lotus-Ford | ||||
Lap leaders | |||||
The1976 Canadian Grand Prix was aFormula Onemotor race held atMosport Park on 3 October 1976.
At this weekend, British championship contenderJames Hunt found out that he lost 9 points from his victory at theBritish Grand Prix that year, and Austrian championship leaderNiki Lauda gained another 3 points (he finished 2nd at that race). Hunt won the Mosport event, but it made no difference to his championship points standings before the race.
James Hunt managed to take pole position from theMarch cars ofRonnie Peterson andVittorio Brambilla, whilst the rest of the top 10 qualifiers werePatrick Depailler,Mario Andretti,Niki Lauda,Jody Scheckter,Hans Joachim Stuck,Jacques Laffite andCarlos Pace in the leadingBrabham.
James Hunt started from pole position but as ever, he didn't get away well off the start and allowed Peterson and in theMarch to take first ahead of Hunt and teammate Brambilla for the early stages. That was until Hunt retook the lead on lap 10, whilst Peterson and Brambilla fell out of the points later on. As Depailler took second forTyrrell and Andretti was third in the leadingLotus. The order of the top 3 didn't change whilst Hunt's rival Lauda who was running 5th for most of the race had also dropped out of the points with the Marches due to handling problems, he would eventually finished 8th as a result.James Hunt had won the race ahead ofPatrick Depailler,Mario Andretti,Jody Scheckter,Jochen Mass andClay Regazzoni. Which closed the gap from 17 back to 8 points in the championship, but Hunt was still slightly furious over his disqualification from theBritish Grand Prix after the race.
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