1977 German motorcycle Grand Prix

  1977 German Grand Prix

Race details
Race 3 of 13 races in the 1977 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	8 May 1977
Official name	Grosser Preis von Deutschland
Location	Hockenheimring
Course	Permanent racing facility 6.789 km (4.219 mi)
500 cc
Pole position
Rider	Barry Sheene	Suzuki
Time	2:14.2
Fastest lap
Rider	Barry Sheene	Suzuki
Time	2:14.4
Podium
First	Barry Sheene	Suzuki
Second	Pat Hennen	Suzuki
Third	Steve Baker	Yamaha
350 cc
Pole position
Rider	Alan North	Yamaha
Time	2:16.2
Fastest lap
Rider	Giacomo Agostini	Yamaha
Time	2:21.8
Podium
First	Takazumi Katayama	Yamaha
Second	Giacomo Agostini	Yamaha
Third	Olivier Chevallier	Yamaha
250 cc
Pole position
Rider	Akihiro Kiyohara	Kawasaki
Time	2:26.9
Fastest lap
Rider	Akihiro Kiyohara	Kawasaki
Time	2:28.0
Podium
First	Christian Sarron	Yamaha
Second	Akihiro Kiyohara	Kawasaki
Third	Franco Uncini	Harley-Davidson
125 cc
Pole position
Rider	Eugenio Lazzarini	Morbidelli
Time	2:33.0
Fastest lap
Rider	Pierpaolo Bianchi	Morbidelli
Time	2:45.4
Podium
First	Pierpaolo Bianchi	Morbidelli
Second	Eugenio Lazzarini	Morbidelli
Third	Anton Mang	Morbidelli
Sidecars
Pole position
Rider	Rolf Biland	Schmid-Yamaha
Passenger	Ken Williams
Time	2:27.0
Fastest lap
Rider	Rolf Biland	Schmid-Yamaha
Passenger	Ken Williams
Time	2:36.3
Podium
First	Rolf Biland	Schmid-Yamaha
	Ken Williams
Second	Max Venus	König
	Norman Bittermann
Third	George O'Dell	Windle-Yamaha
	Kenny Arthur

The 1977 German motorcycle Grand Prix was the third round of the 1977 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 8 May 1977 at the Hockenheimring circuit.

500 cc classification

Pos	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	7	Barry Sheene	Suzuki	20	45:36.1	1	15
2	3	Pat Hennen	Suzuki	20	+9.6	3	12
3	2	Steve Baker	Yamaha	20	+18.2	8	10
4	16	Steve Parrish	Suzuki	20	+27.4	7	8
5	6	Philippe Coulon	Suzuki	20	+27.9	4	6
6	45	Wil Hartog	Suzuki	20	+48.4		5
7	4	Marco Lucchinelli	Suzuki	20	+51.4		4
8	49	Anton Mang	Suzuki	20	+1:10.3		3
9	28	Max Wiener	Yamaha	20	+1:13.2		2
10	58	Boet van Dulmen	Suzuki	20	+1:14.3		1
11	42	Stu Avant	Suzuki	20	+1:14.6
12	32	Gianfranco Bonera	Suzuki	20	+1:38.4	10
13	8	Jack Findlay	Suzuki	20	+1:50.0
14	10	Alex George	Suzuki	20	+1:55.9
15	5	John Newbold	Suzuki	20	+2:43.5
		Giacomo Agostini	Yamaha			2
		Armando Toracca	Suzuki			5
		Michel Rougerie	Suzuki			6
		Virginio Ferrari	Suzuki			9
41 starters in total, 31 finishers
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350 cc classification

Pos	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	8	Takazumi Katayama	Yamaha	20	48:28.8		15
2	9	Giacomo Agostini	Yamaha	20	+15.1		12
3	10	Olivier Chevallier	Yamaha	20	+15.5		10
4	56	Alan North	Yamaha	20	+18.9	1	8
5	51	Philippe Bouzanne	Yamaha	20	+35.5		6
6	4	Tom Herron	Yamaha	20	+42.8	6	5
7	1	Walter Villa	Harley-Davidson	20	+47.0	4	4
8	54	Christian Sarron	Yamaha	20	+52.9		3
9	17	Michel Rougerie	Yamaha	20	+57.4	5	2
10	46	Pekka Nurmi	Yamaha	20	+1:00.7	7	1
11	24	Helmut Kassner	Yamaha	20	+1:10.2
12	7	Bruno Kneubühler	Yamaha	20	+1:10.5	10
13	27	Ian Richards	Yamaha	20	+1:18.1
14	47	John Newbold	Yamaha	20	+1:18.6
15	57	Edi Stöllinger	Yamaha	20	+1:29.7
		Giuseppe Consalvi	Yamaha			2
		Jon Ekerold	Yamaha			3
		John Dodds	Yamaha			8
		Franco Uncini	Harley-Davidson			9
45 starters in total, 30 finishers
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250 cc classification

Pos	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	62	Christian Sarron	Yamaha	19	49:33.0		15
2	54	Akihiro Kiyohara	Kawasaki	19	+0.1	1	12
3	69	Franco Uncini	Harley-Davidson	19	+45.3	6	10
4	70	Vinicio Salmi	Yamaha	19	+1:00.5		8
5	36	Pekka Nurmi	Yamaha	19	+1:02.5		6
6	59	Kork Ballington	Yamaha	19	+1:02.7		5
7	5	Tom Herron	Yamaha	19	+1:02.9	4	4
8	51	Aldo Nannini	Yamaha	19	+1:07.1	8	3
9	71	Alan North	Yamaha	19	+1:27.2		2
10	53	Barry Ditchburn	Kawasaki	19	+1:43.5	3	1
11	34	Michel Frutschi	Yamaha	19	+1:46.8
12	63	Edi Stöllinger	Yamaha	19	+1:56.5
13	64	Vic Soussan	Yamaha	19	+2:07.5
14	46	Harald Merkl	Yamaha	19	+2:31.5
15	50	Egid Schwemmer	Yamaha	18	+1 lap
		Walter Villa	Harley-Davidson			2
		Hans Müller	Yamaha			5
		Leif Gustafsson	Yamaha			7
		Hans Schweiger	Kawasaki			9
		Svend Andersson	Yamaha			10
45 starters in total, 27 finishers
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125 cc classification

Pos	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	1	Pierpaolo Bianchi	Morbidelli	17	48:41.1	2	15
2	42	Eugenio Lazzarini	Morbidelli	17	+16.6	1	12
3	2	Anton Mang	Morbidelli	17	+51.5	5	10
4	52	Giovanni Ziggliotto	Morbidelli	17	+51.8		8
5	4	Gert Bender	Bender	17	+1:22.1	4	6
6	55	Ángel Nieto	Bultaco	17	+1:22.8	3	5
7	38	Hans Müller	Morbidelli	17	+1:30.2	7	4
8	32	Rolf Blatter	Morbidelli	17	+2:02.5		3
9	48	Jan Huberts	Morbidelli	17	+2:03.4		2
10	35	Matti Kinnunen	Morbidelli	17	+2:06.1		1
11	36	Hans Hallberg	Morbidelli	17	+2:09.7
12	6	Xaver Tschannen	Bender	17	+2:45.6
13	8	Manfred Kugler	Morbidelli	17	+2:47.2
14	29	Ernst Fagerer	Morbidelli	17	+2:50.8
15	53	Patrick Plisson	Morbidelli	17	+4:00.0
		Harald Bartol	Morbidelli			6
		Pierluigi Conforti	Morbidelli			8
		János Drapál	Morbidelli			9
		Stefan Dörflinger	Morbidelli			10
46 starters in total, 26 finishers
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50 cc classification

Pos	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	2	Herbert Rittberger	Kreidler	11	35:16.7	4	15
2	45	Eugenio Lazzarini	Kreidler	11	+4.3	2	12
3	1	Ángel Nieto	Bultaco	11	+42.3	1	10
4	8	Hans Hummel	Kreidler	11	+1:17.8	8	8
5	10	Aldo Pero	Kreidler	11	+1:53.5		6
6	16	Hagen Klein	Kreidler	11	+2:10.2		5
7	52	Patrick Plisson	ABF	11	+2:33.7	9	4
8	48	Engelbert Kip	Kreidler	11	+2:42.4		3
9	12	Ingo Emmerich	Kreidler	11	+3:01.0	10	2
10	30	Jacques Hutteau	ABF	11	+3:13.1		1
11	54	Ricardo Tormo	Bultaco	10	+1 lap	3
12	33	Lennart Lundgren	Kreidler	10	+1 lap
13	35	Klaus Hilbk	Kreidler	10	+1 lap
14	42	Bruno de Carlo	Kreidler	10	+1 lap
15	17	Kasim Rapczynski	Kreidler	10	+1 lap
		Ulrich Graf	Kreidler			5
		Stefan Dörflinger	Kreidler			6
		Hans Müller	Kreidler			7
46 starters in total, 26 finishers
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Sidecar classification

Pos	No.	Rider	Passenger	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	4	Rolf Biland	Kenny Williams	Schmid-Yamaha	18	52:34.5	1	15
2	22	Max Venus	Norman Bittermann	König	18	+28.4	10	12
3	8	George O'Dell	Kenny Arthur	Windle-Yamaha	18	+43.1	4	10
4	29	Bruno Holzer	Charly Meierhans	LCR-Yamaha	18	+58.2	5	8
5	6	Helmut Schilling	Rainer Gundel	Aro	18	+59.7	7	6
6	1	Rolf Steinhausen	Sepp Huber	Busch-König	18	+1:16.8	8	5
7	9	Alain Michel	Gérard Lecorre	Yamaha	18	+1:48.3	2	4
8	5	Siegfried Schauzu	"Schimanski"	Yamaha	18	+1:54.6		3
9	11	Ted Janssen	Erich Schmitz	Colyam	18	+2:06.2		2
10	39	Kurt Jelonek	Volker Riess	König	17	+1 lap		1
		Hermann Schmid	Jean-Petit Matille	Schmid-Yamaha			3
		Werner Schwärzel	Andreas Huber	Aro			6
		Dick Greasley	Mick Skeels	Chell-Yamaha			9
30 starters in total, 15 finishers
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References

1. Carter, Chris (ed.). Motocourse 1977-1978. Hazleton Securities Ltd. p. 67. ISBN 0-905138-04-X.