1977 Canadian Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 16 of 17 in the 1977 Formula One season | |||
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| Date | October 9, 1977 | ||
| Location | Mosport Park, Canada | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 3.957 km (2.459 mi) | ||
| Distance | 80 laps, 316.56 km (196.72 mi) | ||
| Weather | Cold with temperatures approaching 12 °C (54 °F); wind speeds up to 12.8 kilometres per hour (8.0 mph) | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Lotus-Ford | ||
| Time | 1:11.385 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Mario Andretti
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Lotus-Ford | |
| Time | 1:13.299 on lap 56 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Wolf-Ford | ||
| Second | Tyrrell-Ford | ||
| Third | McLaren-Ford | ||
The 1977 Canadian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on October 9, 1977, at Mosport Park. It was the 16th and penultimate race of the 1977 Formula One season.
The field arrived in Canada without Niki Lauda who, having clinched the Drivers' Championship at the previous race at Watkins Glen, and having already announced his intention to drive for Brabham in 1978, abruptly quit Ferrari following the team's decision to run a third car for Gilles Villeneuve.
In qualifying, Lotus's Mario Andretti took his sixth pole position of the season, with McLaren's James Hunt alongside him on the front row. Ronnie Peterson was third in his six-wheeled Tyrrell, ahead of Gunnar Nilsson in the second Lotus. The top ten was completed by Jochen Mass in the second McLaren, Patrick Depailler in the second Tyrrell, the Shadows of Alan Jones and Riccardo Patrese, Jody Scheckter in the Wolf, and John Watson in the Brabham. But the safety of the bumpy, high-speed Mosport Park track was in question: during practice Ian Ashley's Hesketh crested one of these bumps on the Mario Andretti straight; it flipped, vaulted the barrier and crashed into a television tower, seriously injuring Ashley and ending his Formula One career. The Englishman survived, but it took 40 minutes to remove him from the car and an additional 30 minutes passed until a helicopter arrived. These problems were underlined later that day when Mass crashed at the first corner into a barrier that flattened upon impact.
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