The 1977 World Sports Car Championship season was the 25th season of

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motor racing. It featured two separate World Championship series.Results, Automobile Year 1977/78, pages 196 to 223 * The 1977 World Championship for Sports Cars,International Championship Regulations 1977, 1977 FIA Yearbook, page 11 which was contested by Group 6 Two-Seater Racing Cars * The 1977 World Championship for Makes, which was open to cars from various production-based categories including Group 5 Special Production Cars In 1978 the World Championship of Makes would become the sole international series, while the World Championship for Sports Cars would be downgraded by the FIA to become the

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. The European Championship was discontinued at the end of the 1978 season.

World Championship for Sports Cars

The 1977 World Championship for Sports Cars, which was restricted to Group 6 Two-Seater Racing Cars, was contested over an eight race series which ran from 17 April to 18 September 1977. The championship was won by

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Schedule

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Race results

Points system

Points towards the 1977 World Championship for Sports Cars were awarded to each relevant car manufacturer for the first ten places in each race in the order of 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1. Points were only awarded for the best placed car from each manufacturer at each race with no points given for places gained by other cars from the same manufacturer. Only the best six results counted towards each manufacturer’s championship total, with any other points earned not included. Discarded points are shown within brackets in the table below.

Championship results

Results of the 1977 World Championship for Sports Cars were as follows.

The cars

The following models contributed to the nett point scores of their respective manufacturers in the 1977 World Championship for Sports Cars. * Alfa Romeo 33SC12 *

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PA5 BMW & PA5

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T294

& T296

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B36 ROC Chrysler-Simca, B23

, B31

, B36

, B31 Chrysler-Simca & B36 BMW *

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C5 BMW * TOJ SC302

* AMS 277 Fiat &

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* McLaren M8F Chevrolet *

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76S BMW

World Championship of Makes

The 1977 World Championship for Makes was open to cars from various production-based categories including Group 5 Special Production Cars. The championship was won by Porsche.

References

External links

1977 World Sportscar Championship results
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