1976 Belgian motorcycle Grand Prix

The 1976 Belgian motorcycle Grand Prix was the seventh round of the 1976 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 4 July 1976 at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps.

  1976 Belgian Grand Prix

Race details
Race 7 of 12 races in the 1976 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	4 July 1976
Official name	Grand Prix Belgique/Grote Prijs Belgie[1][2][3]
Location	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps
Course	Permanent racing facility 14.10 km (8.76 mi)
500 cc
Pole position Rider Barry Sheene Suzuki Time 3:52.700 Fastest lap Rider John Williams Suzuki Time 3:52.600 Podium First John Williams Suzuki Second Barry Sheene Suzuki Third Marcel Ankoné Suzuki
250 cc
Pole position Rider Walter Villa Harley-Davidson Time 4:05.400 Fastest lap Rider Walter Villa Harley-Davidson Time 4:06.900 Podium First Walter Villa Harley-Davidson Second Paolo Pileri Morbidelli Third Takazumi Katayama Yamaha
125 cc
Pole position Rider Ángel Nieto Bultaco Time 4:25.700 Fastest lap Rider Pierpaolo Bianchi Morbidelli Time 4:22.700 Podium First Ángel Nieto Bultaco Second Paolo Pileri Morbidelli Third Gert Bender Bender
50 cc
Pole position Rider Ángel Nieto Bultaco Time 5:07.400 Fastest lap Rider Herbert Rittberger Kreidler Time 5:08.300 Podium First Herbert Rittberger Kreidler Second Ángel Nieto Bultaco Third Ulrich Graf Kreidler
Sidecar (B2A)
Pole position Rider Siegfried Schauzu Aro Time 4:11.900 Fastest lap Rider Helmut Schilling Aro Time 4:22.900 Podium First Rolf Steinhausen Busch König Second Werner Schwärzel König Third Helmut Schilling Aro

500cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Time/Retired	Points
1	5	John Williams	Texaco Heron Team Suzuki	Suzuki	39'22.800	15
2	7	Barry Sheene	Texaco Heron Team Suzuki	Suzuki	+7.400	12
3	28	Marcel Ankoné	Nimag Suzuki	Suzuki	+17.000	10
4	20	Michel Rougerie		Suzuki	+28.600	8
5	4	Teuvo Länsivuori	Life Racing Team	Suzuki	+38.600	6
6	14	Dieter Braun		Suzuki	+41.100	5
7	11	Chas Mortimer		Suzuki	+56.500	4
8	40	Pat Hennen	Colemans	Suzuki	+57.700	3
9	8	John Newbold	Texaco Heron Team Suzuki	Suzuki	+59.900	2
10	44	Helmut Kassner		Suzuki	+1'03.900	1
11	6	Alex George	Hermetite Racing International	Yamaha
12	19	Tom Herron		Suzuki
13	27	Boet Van Dulmen	Laponder Racing	Suzuki
14	36	Jean Pierre Orban		Yamaha
15	29	Philippe Chaltin		Yamaha
16	15	Kees Van Der Kruys		Yamaha
17	3	Etienne Geeraerd		Yamaha
Ret	11	Giacomo Agostini	Team API Marlboro	Suzuki	Retired
Ret	6	Jack Findlay	Jack Findlay Racing	Suzuki	Retired
Ret	12	Karl Auer	Racing Team NO	Yamaha	Retired
4	17	Yoshimi Katayama	Takazumi Katayama Sarome Team	Suzuki	Retired
Ret	??	Nico Cereghini	Life Racing Team	Suzuki	Retired
WD	2	Phil Read	Team Life International	Suzuki	Withdrawn
Ret	??	Bruno Kneubühler		Yamaha	Retired
Ret	33	Víctor Palomo	Swaep Motor Racing	Yamaha	Retired
Ret	18	Olivier Chevallier		Yamaha	Retired
Ret	36	Alain Nies		Suzuki	Retired
Ret	??	Philippe Coulon		Suzuki	Retired
Ret	13	Bernard Fau		Yamaha	Retired
DNS	??	Patrick Pons	Team Sonauto Gauloises	Yamaha	Did not start
DNS	47	Stuart Avant	Colemans	Suzuki	Did not start
Sources: [4][5][6]

250 cc classification

Pos	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	8	Walter Villa	Harley Davidson	11	45:51.9	1	15
2	20	Paolo Pileri	Morbidelli	11	+48.6	5	12
3	7	Takazumi Katayama	Yamaha	11	+57.3	3	10
4	37	John Dodds	Yamaha	11	+57.5	8	8
5	6	Gianfranco Bonera	Harley-Davidson	11	+57.9	7	6
6	17	Víctor Palomo	Yamaha	11	+58.3	6	5
7	5	Dieter Braun	Yamaha	11	+58.9		4
8	35	Pentti Korhonen	Yamaha	11	+1:08.4	9	3
9	24	Patrick Fernandez	Yamaha	11	+1:21.0	14	2
10	9	Tom Herron	Yamaha	11	+1:21.2		1
11	47	Victor Soussan	Yamaha
12	33	Henk Van Kessel	Yamaha			11
13	45	Philippe Bouzanne	Yamaha
14	27	Boet Van Dulmen	Yamaha			12
15	22	M. Arias	Yamaha
16	16	Jean François Baldé	Yamaha
17	32	Ken Nemoto	Yamaha
18	34	Franco Uncini	Yamaha
19	39	R. Hubin	Yamaha			10
Ret		Bruno Kneubühler	Yamaha			2
Ret		Leif Gustafsson	Yamaha			4
Ret		Pekka Nurmi	Yamaha			13
Ret		Mati Reinup	MZ			15
[6]

125 cc classification

Pos	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	26	Ángel Nieto	Bultaco	10	44:47.1	1	15
2	3	Paolo Pileri	Morbidelli	10	+4.8	3	12
3	6	Eugenio Lazzarini	Morbidelli	10	+56.7	8	10
4	28	Gert Bender	Bender	10	+1:07.0	5	8
5	2	Harald Bartol	Morbidelli	10	+1:17.9	7	6
6	24	Patrick Plisson	Morbidelli	10	+2:35.6	4	5
7	7	Stefan Dörflinger	Morbidelli	10	+2:36.5	13	4
8	33	Julien Van Zeebroeck	Morbidelli	10	+2:46.1	12	3
9	1	Leif Gustafsson	Yamaha	10	+3:15.1		2
10	16	Cees Van Dongen	Morbidelli	10	+3:33.2	14	1
11	29	Horst Seel	Seel EB			15
12	15	Hans Müller	Yamaha
13	42	Anton Mang	Morbidelli			6
14	36	Piet Van Niel	Yamaha
Ret		Pierpaolo Bianchi	Morbidelli			2
Ret		Henk Van Kessel	AGV Condor			9
Ret		Claudio Lusuardi	Malamaz			10
Ret		Jean Louis Guignabodet	Morbidelli			11
[6]

50 cc classification

Pos	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	14	Herbert Rittberger	Kreidler	6	31:20.7	2	15
2	10	Ángel Nieto	Bultaco	6	+20.1	1	12
3	7	Ulrich Graf	Kreidler	6	+37.7	3	12
4	15	Eugenio Lazzarini	UFO	6	+1:07.6	6	8
5	18	Benjamin Laurent	ABF	6	+1:09.8		6
6	40	Engelbert Kip	Kreidler			9	5
7	12	Rudolf Kunz	Kreidler			7	4
8	16	Cees van Dongen	Kreidler			11	3
9	3	Hans Hummel	Kreidler			5	2
10	1	Stefan Dörflinger	Kreidler			8	1
11	30	Ramon Gali	Derbi
12	37	R. Dumont	Kreidler
13	19	Ingo Emmerich	Kreidler
14	29	Rolf Blatter	Kreidler
15	21	W. Golembeck	Kreidler
16	26	Guido De Lys	Kreidler
17	27	Jaap Bosman	Kreidler
18	5	Theo Timmer	Kreidler
19	39	G. Muyters	Kreidler
Ret		Pierre Audry	ABF			4
Ret		Joaquin Gali	Derbi			10
Ret		C. Dumont	Kreidler			12
[6]

Sidecar classification

Pos	No.	Rider	Passenger	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	1	Rolf Steinhausen	Sepp Huber	Busch-König	9	39:56.5	2	15
2	2	Werner Schwärzel	Andreas Huber	König	9	+0.3	3	12
3	11	Helmut Schilling	Rainer Gundel	Aro	9	+2.7	4	10
4	28	Siegfried Schauzu	Wolfgang Kalauch	Aro	9	+38.9	1	8
5	22	Rudi Kurth	Dane Rowe	Yamaha	9	+1:24.3		'6
6	12	George O'Dell	Kenny Arthur	Yamaha	9	+1:53.9		'5
7	10	Otto Haller	Erich Haselbeck	BMW	9	+1:58.8		4
8	21	Ted Janssen	Erich Schmitz	Yamaha	9	+2:17.7		3
9	5	Mac Hobson	John Inchcliff	Yamaha	9	+2:26.8		2
10	19	Alain Michel	Bernard Garcia	Yamaha	9	+2:44.9		1
11	16	Dick Greasley	Cliff Holland	Chell Yamaha	9
12	30	Bruno Holzer	Charly Meierhans	Chell Yamaha	9
13	15	Heinz Luthringshauser	Lorenzo Puzo	BMW	9
14	17	Heinz Thevissen	Juppi Esch	HTS	9
15	24	Mark Alexandre	Paul Gerard	König	9
16	7	Hermann Schmid	Jean Pierre Martial	Yamaha	8	+1 lap
Ret		Rolf Biland	Ken Williams	Yamaha			6
Ret		Walter Ohrmann	Bernd Grube	Yamaha			7
Ret		Gustav Pape	Franz Kallenberg	König			8
Ret		Martin Kooy	Rob Vader	König			9
Ret		Amedeo Zini	Andrea Fornaro	König			10
[6]

References

1. "Grand Prix uitslagen en bijzonderheden 1976 - heden". Archived from the original on 25 July 2015. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
2. "1976 500cc Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes | The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
3. "Spa-Francorchamps | The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
4. "1976 Belgian MotoGP | Motor Sport Magazine Database". Motorsportmagazine.com. April 3, 2018. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
5. "motogp.com · BELGIUM GRAND PRIX · 500cc Race Classification 1976". Motogp.com. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
6. Carter, Chris (ed.). Motocourse 1976-1977. Hazleton Securities Ltd. p. 99. ISBN 0-905138-02-3.