1976 Belgian motorcycle Grand Prix

  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 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 Aro Time 4:11.900 Fastest lap Rider Aro Time 4:22.900 Podium First Rolf Steinhausen Busch König Second König Third Aro

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.

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		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			Yamaha
15	29			Yamaha
16	15			Yamaha
17	3			Yamaha
Ret	11	Giacomo Agostini	Team API Marlboro	Suzuki	Retired
Ret	6	Jack Findlay	Jack Findlay Racing	Suzuki	Retired
Ret	12		Racing Team NO	Yamaha	Retired
4	17	Takazumi Katayama	Takazumi Katayama Sarome Team	Suzuki	Retired
Ret	??		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			Suzuki	Retired
Ret	??	Philippe Coulon		Suzuki	Retired
Ret	13			Yamaha	Retired
DNS	??	Patrick Pons	Team Sonauto Gauloises	Yamaha	Did not start
DNS	47		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		Yamaha
14	27	Boet van Dulmen	Yamaha			12
15	22	M. Arias	Yamaha
16	16	Jean-François Baldé	Yamaha
17	32		Yamaha
18	34	Franco Uncini	Yamaha
19	39	R. Hubin	Yamaha			10
Ret		Bruno Kneubühler	Yamaha			2
Ret		Leif Gustafsson	Yamaha			4
Ret			Yamaha			13
Ret			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		Seel EB			15
12	15	Hans Müller	Yamaha
13	42	Anton Mang	Morbidelli			6
14	36		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		ABF	6	+1:09.8		6
6	40		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		Derbi
12	37	R. Dumont	Kreidler
13	19		Kreidler
14	29	Rolf Blatter	Kreidler
15	21	W. Golembeck	Kreidler
16	26		Kreidler
17	27		Kreidler
18	5	Theo Timmer	Kreidler
19	39	G. Muyters	Kreidler
Ret			ABF			4
Ret			Derbi			10
Ret		C. Dumont	Kreidler			12
[6]

Sidecar classification[]

Pos	No.	Rider	Passenger	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	1	Rolf Steinhausen		Busch-König	9	39:56.5	2	15
2	2			König	9	+0.3	3	12
3	11			Aro	9	+2.7	4	10
4	28			Aro	9	+38.9	1	8
5	22			Yamaha	9	+1:24.3		'6
6	12	George O'Dell		Yamaha	9	+1:53.9		'5
7	10			BMW	9	+1:58.8		4
8	21	Ted Janssen		Yamaha	9	+2:17.7		3
9	5			Yamaha	9	+2:26.8		2
10	19	Alain Michel		Yamaha	9	+2:44.9		1
11	16			Chell Yamaha	9
12	30			Chell Yamaha	9
13	15			BMW	9
14	17			HTS	9
15	24			König	9
16	7			Yamaha	8	+1 lap
Ret		Rolf Biland		Yamaha			6
Ret				Yamaha			7
Ret				König			8
Ret				König			9
Ret				König			10
[6]

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