1976 Czechoslovak motorcycle Grand Prix

  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
Location	Brno
Course	Permanent racing facility 10.920 km (6.785 mi)
500 cc
Pole position
Rider	Teuvo Länsivuori	Suzuki
Time	3:49.22
Fastest lap
Rider	Teuvo Länsivuori	Suzuki
Time	3:42.16
Podium
First	John Newbold	Suzuki
Second	Teuvo Länsivuori	Suzuki
Third	Philippe Coulon	Suzuki
350 cc
Pole position
Rider	Walter Villa	Harley-Davidson
Time	3:50.99
Podium
First	Walter Villa	Harley-Davidson
Second	Victor Palomo	Yamaha
Third	Tom Herron	Yamaha
250 cc
Pole position
Rider	Walter Villa	Harley-Davidson
Time	3:54.58
Fastest lap
Rider	Walter Villa	Harley-Davidson
Time	3:52.16
Podium
First	Walter Villa	Harley-Davidson
Second	Gianfranco Bonera	Harley-Davidson
Third	Takazumi Katayama	Yamaha
Sidecars
Pole position
Rider	Rolf Steinhausen	König
Passenger	Sepp Huber
Time	4:07.95
Fastest lap
Rider	Rolf Biland	Yamaha
Passenger	Ken Williams
Time	4:00.57
Podium
First	Hermann Schmid	Yamaha
	Jean-Pierre Martial
Second	Werner Schwärzel	König
	Andreas Huber
Third	Rolf Biland	Yamaha
	Ken Williams

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.

500 cc classification

Pos	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	7	John Newbold	Suzuki	15	56:56.45	10	15
2	3	Teuvo Länsivuori	Suzuki	15	+11.04	1	12
3	23	Philippe Coulon	Suzuki	15	+22.68	2	10
4	11	Karl Auer	Yamaha	15	+1:34.20	17	8
5	44	Max Wiener	Yamaha	15	+1:42.86	4	6
6	29	Olivier Chevallier	Yamaha	15	+1:53.11	13	5
7	4	Bernd Tügenthal	Yamaha	15	+2:12.90	15	4
8	14	Boet van Dulmen	Suzuki	15	+3:12.19		3
9	10	Chas Mortimer	Suzuki	15	+3:30.68	18	2
10	18	Edmar Ferreira	Yamaha	15	+3:31.30		1
11	30	Bo Granath	Yamaha	15	+3:52.70	9
12	38	Charles Dobson	Yamaha	14	+1 lap
13	41	János Drapál	Yamaha	14	+1 lap
14	37	Giorgio Gatti	Yamaha	14	+1 lap
15	34	Michael Schmid	Yamaha	14	+1 lap
16	47	Walter Kaletsch	Yamaha	13	+2 laps
17	19	Lars Johansson	Yamaha	6	+9 laps
Ret		Pat Hennen	Suzuki			3
Ret		Virginio Ferrari	Suzuki			5
Ret		Marco Lucchinelli	Suzuki			6
Ret		Christian Estrosi	Suzuki			7
Ret		Dieter Braun	Suzuki			8
Ret		Børge Nielsen	Yamaha			11
Ret		Giacomo Agostini	Suzuki			12
Ret		Alex George	Suzuki			14
Ret		Roland Freymond	Yamaha			16
Ret		Francis Hollbecq	Suzuki			19
38 starters in total
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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
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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
41 starters in total
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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
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References

1. Carter, Chris (ed.). Motocourse 1976-1977. Hazleton Securities Ltd. p. 119. ISBN 0-905138-02-3.