1976 Czechoslovak motorcycle Grand Prix

The 1976 Czechoslovak motorcycle Grand Prix was the tenth round of the 1976 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 22 August 1976 at the Brno circuit.

  1976 Czechoslovak Grand Prix

Race details
Race 10 of 12 races in the 1976 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	22 August 1976
Official name	Grand Prix ČSSR[1][2][3]
Location	Brno
Course	Permanent racing facility 10.920 km (6.785 mi)
500cc
Pole position Rider Teuvo Länsivuori Suzuki Time 3:49.220 Fastest lap Rider Teuvo Länsivuori Suzuki Time 3:42.160 Podium First John Newbold Suzuki Second Teuvo Länsivuori Suzuki Third Philippe Coulon Suzuki
350cc
Pole position Rider Walter Villa Harley-Davidson Time 3:50.990 Fastest lap Rider Walter Villa Podium First Walter Villa Harley-Davidson Second Victor Palomo Yamaha Third Tom Herron Yamaha
250cc
Pole position Rider Walter Villa Harley-Davidson Time 3:54.580 Fastest lap Rider Walter Villa Harley-Davidson Time 3:52.160 Podium First Walter Villa Harley-Davidson Second Gianfranco Bonera Harley-Davidson Third Takazumi Katayama Yamaha
Sidecar (B2A)
Pole position Rider Rolf Steinhausen König Time 4:07.950 Fastest lap Rider Rolf Biland Yamaha Time 4:00.570 Podium First Hermann Schmid Yamaha Second Werner Schwärzel König Third Rolf Biland Yamaha

500cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Time/Retired	Points
1	7	John Newbold	Texaco Heron Team Suzuki	Suzuki	56'56.450	15
2	3	Teuvo Länsivuori	Life Racing Team	Suzuki	+11.040	12
3	23	Philippe Coulon		Suzuki	+22.680	10
4	11	Karl Auer	Racing Team NO	Yamaha	+1'34.200	8
5	44	Max Wiener	Racing Team NO	Yamaha	+1'42.860	6
6	29	Olivier Chevallier		Yamaha	+1'53.110	5
7	4	Bernd Tügenthal		Yamaha	+2'13.200	4
8	14	Boet van Dulmen	Laponder Racing	Suzuki	+3'12.190	3
9	10	Chas Mortimer		Suzuki	+3'30.680	2
10	18	Edmar Ferreira	Goias Swaep Motor	Yamaha	+3'31.300	1
11	30	Bo Granath		Yamaha	+3'52.700
12	38	Charles Dobson		Yamaha	+1 lap
13	41	János Drapál		Yamaha	+1 lap
14	37	Giorgio Gatti		Yamaha	+1 lap
15	34	Michael Schmid	Racing Team Albatros	Yamaha	+1 lap
16	47	Walter Kaletsch		Yamaha	+2 laps
17	19	Lars Johansson		Yamaha	+9 laps
Ret	11	Giacomo Agostini	Team API Marlboro	Suzuki	Retired
Ret	10	Dieter Braun		Suzuki	Retired
Ret	??	Roberto Gallina	Gallina Corse	Suzuki	Retired
Ret	30	Marco Lucchinelli	Gallina Corse	Suzuki	Infection
Ret	20	Víctor Palomo	Swaep Motor Racing	Yamaha	Retired
Ret	28	Pat Hennen	Colemans	Suzuki	Retired
Ret	31	Børge Nielsen		Yamaha	Retired
Ret	21	Tom Herron		Yamaha	Retired
Ret	28	Virginio Ferrari	Gallina Corse	Suzuki	Retired
Ret	27	Marcel Ankoné	Nimag Suzuki	Suzuki	Retired
Ret	44	Helmut Kassner		Suzuki	Retired
Ret	??	Piers Forester		Yamaha	Retired
Ret	??	Jean-Philippe Orban		Suzuki	Retired
Ret	??	Francois Hollebecq		Suzuki	Retired
Ret	??	Peter Baláž		Yamaha	Retired
Ret	??	Roland Freymond		Yamaha	Retired
Ret	??	Bohumil Staša		ČZ	Retired
Ret	??	Christian Estrosi		Suzuki	Retired
Ret	3	Alex George	Hermetite Racing International	Urs-Métisse	Retired
Ret	??	Bob Coulter		Yamaha	Retired
5	6	Jack Findlay	Jack Findlay Racing	Suzuki	Retired
Sources: [4][5][6]

350 cc classification

Pos	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	5	Walter Villa	Harley-Davidson	14	53:59.61	1	15
2	9	Víctor Palomo	Yamaha	14	+3.05	5	12
3	8	Tom Herron	Yamaha	14	+4.98	4	10
4	3	Pentti Korhonen	Yamaha	14	+13.66	9	8
5	6	Chas Mortimer	Yamaha	14	+16.55	13	6
6	26	John Dodds	Yamaha	14	+19.46	11	5
7	23	Gianfranco Bonera	Harley-Davidson	14	+1:25.18		4
8	16	Karl Auer	Yamaha	14	+1:40.28		3
9	34	Franz Kunz	Yamaha	14	+1:45.31	18	2
10	32	Christian Sarron	Yamaha	14	+1:50.82		1
11	19	Takazumi Katayama	Yamaha	14	+1:56.46	14
12	10	Alex George	Yamaha	14	+2:27.19
13	42	Peter Baláz	Yamaha	14	+2:27.29
14	29	Giovanni Proni	Yamaha	14	+2:44.46
15	20	Leif Gustafsson	Yamaha	14	+3:15.50	17
16	17	Max Wiener	Yamaha	14	+3:43.38
17	40	János Reisz	Yamaha	13	+1 lap
18	45	Jan Bartunek	Jawa	13	+1 lap
19	14	Olivier Chevallier	Yamaha	12	+2 laps	12
Ret		Johnny Cecotto	Yamaha			2
Ret		Dieter Braun	Morbidelli			3
Ret		Giacomo Agostini	MV Agusta			6
Ret		Bruno Kneubühler	Yamaha			7
Ret		Jean-François Baldé	Yamaha			8
Ret		Patrick Fernandez	Yamaha			10
Ret		Tapio Virtanen	MZ			15
Ret		Marcel Ankoné	Yamaha			16
Ret		Gérard Choukroun	Yamaha			19
Ret		Mario Lega	Yamaha			20
42 starters in total
[6]

250 cc classification

Pos	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	1	Walter Villa	Harley-Davidson	13	50:46.12	1	15
2	15	Gianfranco Bonera	Harley-Davidson	13	+35.63	2	12
3	6	Takazumi Katayama	Yamaha	13	+50.22	4	10
4	10	Víctor Palomo	Yamaha	13	+53.21		8
5	8	Bruno Kneubühler	Yamaha	13	+54.55	6	6
6	12	Tom Herron	Yamaha	13	+1:04.26	8	5
7	3	Dieter Braun	Yamaha	13	+1:14.38	5	4
8	16	Pentti Korhonen	Yamaha	13	+1:26.67	3	3
9	22	John Dodds	Yamaha	13	+1:36.84		2
10	11	Harald Bartol	Yamaha	13	+1:45.35		1
11	36	János Drapál	Yamaha	13	+1:49.91	10
12	20	Patrick Fernandez	Yamaha	13	+1:56.64	9
13	17	Olivier Chevallier	Yamaha	13	+1:56.94
14	25	Christian Sarron	Yamaha	13	+2:07.27
15	4	Bernd Tügenthal	Yamaha	13	+2:51.50
16	23	Mario Lega	Yamaha	13	+2:51.91
17	7	Leif Gustafsson	Yamaha	13	+3:20.82
18	14	Pentti Salonen	Yamaha	13	+3:26.14
19	23	Rudolf Weiss	Yamaha	13	+3:26.66
20	31	Bo Granath	Yamaha	13	+3:27.26
21	39	Peter Baláz	Jawa	13	+3:53.43
22	30	Ken Nemoto	Yamaha	13	+4:16.67
23	47	Hans Stadelmann	Yamaha	12	+1 lap
24	29	Alan Engel	Kawasaki	12	+1 lap
25	43	Oldrich Kaba	Jawa	12	+1 lap
26	44	Vladimir Jarolin	Jawa	12	+1 lap
27	45	Jan Bartunek	Jawa	12	+1 lap
28	46	János Reisz	Yamaha	12	+1 lap
29	38	Andrzej Szymanski	Yamaha	12	+1 lap
30	37	Zbygniew Chomno	Yamaha	11	+2 laps
Ret		Franz Kunz	Yamaha			7
Ret		Tapio Virtanen	MZ			11
Ret		Chas Mortimer	Yamaha			12
Ret?	42	Bohumil Stasa	Jawa
41 starters in total
[6]

Sidecar classification

Pos	No.	Rider	Passenger	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	7	Hermann Schmid	Jean-Pierre Martial	Yamaha	12	49:14.73	5	15
2	2	Werner Schwärzel	Andreas Huber	König	12	+0.54	2	12
3	3	Rolf Biland	Ken Williams	Yamaha	12	+2.90	6	10
4	1	Rolf Steinhausen	Sepp Huber	König	12	+3.76	1	8
5	12	George O'Dell	Kenny Arthur	Yamaha	12	+46.61		6
6	17	Martin Kooy	Rob Vader	König	12	+48.71		5
7	16	Dick Greasley	Cliff Holland	Yamaha	12	+1:19.85	12	4
8	22	Walter Ohrmann	Bernd Grube	Yamaha	12	+1:24.68	4	3
9	25	Alain Michel	Bernard Garcia	Yamaha	12	+1:34.49	11	2
10	9	Amedeo Zini	Andrea Fornaro	König	12	+2:49.34		1
11	25	Rüdi Kurth	Dane Rowe	Yamaha	11	+1 lap	10
12	19	Egon Schons	Karl Lauterback	König	11	+1 lap
13	11	Georg Neumann	Gerhard Lehmann	König	10	+2 laps
14	28	Gerhard Müller	Gerd Hoffmann	König	10	+2 laps
15	21	Siegfried Schauzu	Wolfgang Kalauch	Aro	10	+2 laps
16	32	Bruno Holzer	Charly Meierhans	Yamaha	2	+10 laps
Ret		Ernst Trachsel	Benedikt Stahli	Yamaha			3
Ret		Otto Haller	Erich Haselbeck	BMW			7
Ret		Helmut Schilling	Rainer Gundel	Aro			8
Ret		Max Venus	Norbert Bittermann	König			9
31 starters in total
[6]

References

1. "Grand Prix uitslagen en bijzonderheden 1976 - heden". Archived from the original on 2015-07-25. Retrieved 2019-07-26.
2. "1976 500cc Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes | The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". www.progcovers.com.
3. "Brno Circuit | The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". www.progcovers.com.
4. "1976 Czechoslovakian MotoGP | Motor Sport Magazine Database". Motor Sport Magazine. April 3, 2018.
5. "motogp.com · CZECH REPUBLIC GRAND PRIX · 500cc Race Classification 1976". www.motogp.com.
6. Carter, Chris (ed.). Motocourse 1976-1977. Hazleton Securities Ltd. p. 119. ISBN 0-905138-02-3.

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