1976 Formula One season

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The 1976 Formula One season was the 30th season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It featured the 1976 World Championship of Drivers and the 1976 International Cup for Formula 1 Manufacturers. The two titles were contested over a 16-race series that began on 25 January and ended on 24 October. Two non-championship races were also held during the season. In an extraordinarily political and dramatic season, the Drivers' Championship went to McLaren driver James Hunt by one point from Ferrari's defending champion Niki Lauda, although Ferrari took the Manufacturers' trophy. The controversy began in Spain, where Hunt was initially disqualified from first place, handing the victory to Lauda, only for the decision to be overturned on appeal months later. In protest, Ferrari declined to enter the Austrian Grand Prix. Hunt won in France and, it seemed, in Britain, but the race had been restarted after a first lap pile-up and Hunt drove on an access road returning to the pits, which was against the...

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