1976 Japanese Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 16 of 16 in the 1976 Formula One season | |||
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| Date | 24 October 1976 | ||
| Official name | XI Japanese Grand Prix | ||
| Location | Fuji Speedway, Oyama, Shizuoka Japan | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 4.359 km (2.70 mi) | ||
| Distance | 73 laps, 319.690 km (197.72 mi) | ||
| Weather | Very wet and misty, eventually drying | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Lotus-Ford | ||
| Time | 1:12.77 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Jacques Laffite
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Ligier-Matra | |
| Time | 1:19.97 on lap 70 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Lotus-Ford | ||
| Second | Tyrrell-Ford | ||
| Third | McLaren-Ford | ||
The 1976 Japanese Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Fuji on 24 October 1976.
The 1976 World Championship was to be decided at the Mount Fuji circuit, with Niki Lauda just three points ahead of James Hunt after a season full of incidents including Lauda's near-fatal crash at the Nürburgring and subsequent missed races.
The field was almost unchanged from the previous race, but Noritake Takahara rented the second Surtees replacing Brett Lunger and Hans Binder was back in the second Wolf-Williams after Masami Kuwashima's money failed to materialize. Maki resurrected its Formula One car for Tony Trimmer while Heros Racing entered an old Tyrrell for Kazuyoshi Hoshino. Kojima Engineering entered a locally-built chassis for Masahiro Hasemi (on Dunlop tyres).
Mario Andretti took pole position in the Lotus 77 with Hunt on second place and Lauda third. Then came John Watson's Penske, Jody Scheckter, Carlos Pace, Clay Regazzoni and Vittorio Brambilla. The top 10 was completed by Ronnie Peterson and Hasemi. The Maki failed to qualify.
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