The 1976 New Zealand Grand Prix was a motor race held at

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on 4 January 1976. The race, which had 12 starters,Australian Competition Yearbook, 1977 Edition, pages 94–97 was the opening round of the 1976 Peter Stuyvesant Series. It was the 22nd New Zealand Grand Prix, and the first time the race was not run with the Tasman Series since 1964. New Zealander Ken Smith won his first New Zealand Grand Prix in his Lola T332 and thereby became the first New Zealander to win the race since Chris Amon back in

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. The rest of the podium was completed by Australians Bruce Allison and Kevin Bartlett.

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New Zealand Grand Prix January 1976 sports events in New Zealand