F1 Points Calculator - 1976 Season

Explore the 1976 Formula 1 World Championship results and simulate alternative standings. Use our drag-and-drop calculator to replay James Hunt against Niki Lauda, settled by one point in the Fuji rain. Scoring is 9-6-4-3-2-1 with a split season: a driver's best seven of the first eight races plus best seven of the last eight.

1976 F1 Season Highlights

• 16 rounds, opening in Brazil (Interlagos) and closing with the first Japanese GP at Fuji
• James Hunt wins the World Championship (69 pts) for McLaren, beating Lauda by one point
• Niki Lauda P2 (68 pts) was nearly killed at the Nürburgring in August, raced again six weeks later at Monza, and withdrew in the Fuji deluge
• Jody Scheckter P3 (49 pts) won the Swedish GP in the six-wheeled Tyrrell P34
• Ferrari win the Constructors' Championship (83 pts to McLaren's 74)
• Hunt's British GP win was taken away after the restart row, but his Spanish GP win was given back on appeal
• John Watson won the Austrian GP, Penske's only F1 win
• 9-6-4-3-2-1 points system, split season (best 7 + best 7). Constructors counted only each team's best car
• No Sprint races, no fastest lap bonus point

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