1977 French motorcycle Grand Prix

1977 French Grand Prix
Race details
Race 6 of 13 races in the; 1977 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	29 May 1977
Official name	Grand Prix de France Moto
Location	Circuit Paul Ricard
Course	Permanent racing facility; 5.810 km (3.610 mi);
500cc
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Steve Baker
Time	2:09.060
Fastest lap
Rider	Giacomo Agostini
Time	2:08.320
Podium
First	Barry Sheene
Second	Giacomo Agostini
Third	Steve Baker
350cc
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Jon Ekerold
Time	2:15.360
Fastest lap
Rider	Takazumi Katayama
Time	2:13.390
Podium
First	Takazumi Katayama
Second	Jon Ekerold
Third	Bruno Kneubühler
250cc
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Barry Ditchburn
Time	2:16.920
Fastest lap
Rider	Alan North
Time	2:17.270
Podium
First	Jon Ekerold
Second	Alan North
Third	Vic Soussan
125cc
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Pierpaolo Bianchi
Time	2:24.550
Fastest lap
Rider	Pierpaolo Bianchi
Time	2:21.800
Podium
First	Pierpaolo Bianchi
Second	Eugenio Lazzarini
Third	Harald Bartol
Sidecar (B2A)
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Rolf Biland
Time	2:17.550
Fastest lap
Rider	Alain Michel
Time	2:19.920
Podium
First	Alain Michel
Second	George O'Dell
Third	Helmut Schilling

Date29 May 1977

Official nameGrand Prix de France Moto^[1]

LocationCircuit Paul Ricard

Course

Permanent racing facility
5.810 km (3.610 mi)

The 1977 French motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixth round of the 1977 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 29 May 1977 at Circuit Paul Ricard.

[1]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Time/Retired	Points
1	7	Barry Sheene	Texaco Heron Team Suzuki	Suzuki	48'00.730	15
2	8	Giacomo Agostini	Team API Marlboro	Yamaha	+3.340	12
3	32	Steve Baker	Yamaha Motor Company	Yamaha	+15.640	10
4	17	Gianfranco Bonera	Team Nava Olio Fiat	Suzuki	+18.170	8
5	6	Philippe Coulon	Marlboro Masche Total	Suzuki	+19.740	6
6	12	Steve Parrish	Texaco Heron Team Suzuki	Suzuki	+23.770	5
7	2	Teuvo Länsivuori	Life Racing Team	Suzuki	+30.480	4
8	16	Virginio Ferrari	Team Nava Olio Fiat	Suzuki	+30.680	3
9	19	Armando Toracca	MC della Robbia	Suzuki	+40.890	2
10	3	Pat Hennen	Texaco Heron Team Suzuki	Suzuki	+55.550	1
11	15	Christian Estrosi	Marlboro Masche Total	Suzuki	+1'00.250
12	18	Boet van Dulmen	Pullshaw	Suzuki	+1'10.770
13	11	Warren Willing		Yamaha	+1'12.950
14	20	John Woodley		Suzuki	+1'55.220
15	68	Giovanni Rolando		Suzuki	+2'07.590
16	77	Jean-Philippe Orban	Jean-Philippe Orban Racing Team	Suzuki	+1 lap
17	43	Helmut Kassner	Boeri Giudici Racing Team	Suzuki	+1 lap
18	35	Markku Matikainen	Länsivuori Team	Suzuki	+1 lap
19	73	Carlos Delgado de San Antonio		Suzuki	+1 lap
Ret	23	Alex George	Hermetite Racing International	Suzuki	Retired
Ret	9	John Williams	Team Appleby Glade	Suzuki	Retired
Ret	36	Graziano Rossi		Suzuki	Retired
Ret	??	Hervé Moineau		Suzuki	Retired
Ret	42	Stuart Avant	Sid Griffiths Racing	Suzuki	Retired
Ret	??	Nico Cereghini	Life Racing Team	Suzuki	Retired
Ret	??	Bernard Fau		Suzuki	Retired
Ret	4	Marco Lucchinelli	Life Racing Team	Suzuki	Retired
Ret	??	Michel Rougerie		Suzuki	Retired
Ret	??	Claude Ben El Hadj		Suzuki	Retired
Ret	45	Wil Hartog	Riemersma Racing	Suzuki	Retired
Ret	??	Børge Nielsen		Suzuki	Retired
Ret	26	Anton Mang	Valvoline Racing Hamburg	Suzuki	Retired
Ret	??	Karl Auer	MSC Rottenberg	Suzuki	Retired
Ret	28	Max Wiener	MSC Rottenberg	Suzuki	Retired
Ret	28	André Pogolotti		Suzuki	Retired
Ret	5	John Newbold	Maurice Newbold	Suzuki	Retired
DNS	5	Daniel Rouge	Maurice Newbold	Suzuki	Did not start
Sources: ^[2]^[3]^[4]

Pos	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	8	Takazumi Katayama	Yamaha	22	49:23.00	2	15
2	23	Jon Ekerold	Yamaha	22	+24.77	1	12
3	7	Bruno Kneubühler	Yamaha	22	+44.44	6	10
4	36	Vic Soussan	Yamaha	22	+48.49	3	8
5	24	Eero Hyvärinen	Yamaha	22	+48.78	9	6
6	5	John Dodds	Yamaha	22	+49.80	7	5
7	4	Tom Herron	Yamaha	22	+54.68	10	4
8	9	Olivier Chevallier	Yamaha	22	+1:04.55	11	3
9	32	Pekka Nurmi	Yamaha	22	+1:04.97		2
10		John Newbold	Yamaha	22	+1:13.71		1
11	11	Giacomo Agostini	Yamaha	22	+1:38.90
12	124	Jean-Claude Hogrel	Yamaha	22	+2:04.15
13	100	Børge Nielsen	Yamaha	22	+2:09.55
14	125	Thierry Espié	Yamaha	22	+2:20.82
15	71	Helmut Kassner	Yamaha	22	+3:05.02	13
16		Bernard Fau	Yamaha	21	+1 lap	12
17	120	Ken Nemoto	Yamaha	21	+1 lap	15
18	25	Pierre Soulas	Yamaha	21	+1 lap
19	44	Roland Faesser	Yamaha	21	+1 lap
20	126	Pierre Tocco	Yamaha	21	+1 lap
		Patrick Pons	Yamaha			4
		Alan North	Yamaha			5
		Eric Saul	Yamaha			8
		Vanes Francini	Yamaha			14
38 starters in total
^[2]

Pos	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	30	Jon Ekerold	Yamaha	20	46:29.19	17	15
2	148	Alan North	Yamaha	20	+6.05	11	12
3	33	Vic Soussan	Yamaha	20	+6.70	8	10
4	167	Mario Lega	Morbidelli	20	+7.12	21	8
5	27	Guy Bertin	Yamaha	20	+16.86	10	6
6	8	Bruno Kneubühler	Yamaha	20	+19.78	25	5
7	5	Tom Herron	Yamaha	20	+22.99	6	4
8	2	Takazumi Katayama	Yamaha	20	+24.63	2	3
9	112	Eero Hyvärinen	Yamaha	20	+34.16	9	2
10	31	John Dodds	Yamaha	20	+38.71	12	1
11	28	Eric Saul	Yamaha	20	+39.75
12	9	Olivier Chevallier	Yamaha	20	+40.17	14
13	32	Pekka Nurmi	Yamaha	20	+46.99
14	21	Jean-Claude Hogrel	Yamaha	20	+1:10.46
15	100	Clive Horton	Yamaha	20	+1:10.76
16	113	Alain Beraud	Yamaha	20	+1:11.43
17	107	Pascal Renaudet	Harley-Davidson	20	+1:31.37
18	70	Roland Faesser	Yamaha	20	+1:31.66
19	164	Franco Solaroli	Harley-Davidson	20	+1:33.04
20	106	Ken Nemoto	Yamaha	20	+1:42.74
		Barry Ditchburn	Kawasaki			1
		Akihiko Kiyohara	Kawasaki			3
		Christian Sarron	Yamaha			4
		Aldo Nannini	Yamaha			5
		Michel Frutschi	Yamaha			7
		Franco Uncini	Harley-Davidson			13
		Mick Grant	Kawasaki			15
36 starters in total, 24 finishers
^[2]

Pos	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	1	Pierpaolo Bianchi	Morbidelli	18	43:08.68	1	15
2	8	Eugenio Lazzarini	Morbidelli	18	+17.34	2	12
3	63	Harald Bartol	Morbidelli	18	+1:16.57	3	10
4	7	Gert Bender	Bender	18	+1:47.51	13	8
5	6	Jean-Louis Guignabodet	Morbidelli	18	+1:48.88	8	6
6	19	Giovanni Ziggiotto	Morbidelli	18	+1:50.81	7	5
7	65	Sauro Pazzaglia	Morbidelli	18	+1:51.35	14	4
8	10	Julien van Zeebroeck	Morbidelli	18	+2:03.09	9	3
9		Maurizio Massimiani	Morbidelli	18	+2:03.72	17	2
10	52	Pierluigi Conforti	Morbidelli	18	+2:07.34	6	1
11	49	Walter Koschine	Morbidelli	18	+2:23.58
12	58	Yves Dupont	Morbidelli	18	+2:27.29	10
13	43	Matti Kinnunen	Morbidelli	17	+1 lap	4
14	48	Thierry Noblesse	Morbidelli	17	+1 lap
15	24	François Granon	Maico	17	+1 lap
16	17	Enrico Cereda	Morbidelli	17	+1 lap
17	56	Patrick Herouard	Morbidelli	17	+1 lap
18	78	Horst Seel	Seel	17	+1 lap
19	70	Ernst Fagerer	Morbidelli	17	+1 lap
20	45	Laurent Gomis	Morbidelli	17	+1 lap
		Anton Mang	Morbidelli			5
		Pieraldo Cipriani	Morbidelli			11
		Per-Edward Carlsson	Morbidelli			12
		Stefan Dörflinger	Morbidelli			15
38 starters in total, 27 finishers
^[2]

Pos	No.	Rider	Passenger	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	9	Alain Michel	Gérard Lecorre	Yamaha	18	42:35.36	2	15
2	8	George O'Dell	Kenny Arthur	Seymaz-Yamaha	18	+35.56	3	12
3	6	Helmut Schilling	Rainer Gundel	Aro	18	+44.71	6	10
4	3	Hermann Schmid	Jean-Petit Matille	Schmid-Yamaha	18	+48.00	4	8
5	31	Göte Brodin	Bengt Forsberg	Windle-Yamaha	18	+48.31	8	6
6	5	Siegfried Schauzu	Wolfgang Kalauch	Yamaha	18	+2:07.59		5
7	20	Jean-François Monnin	Edouard Weber	Seymaz-Yamaha	18	+2:10.29		4
8	29	Yvan Trolliet	Pierre Muller	Yamaha	18	+2:14.78	10	3
9	7	Dick Greasley	Mick Skeels	Chell-Yamaha	18	+2:19.35		2
10	51	Max Venus	Norman Bittermann	König	18	+2:25.43	11	1
11		Michel Chevassier	Max Gross	Yamaha	17	+1 lap
12	18	Hans-Peter Hubacher	Pudu Dubach	Yamaha	17	+1 lap
13	14	Ted Janssen	Erich Schmitz	Colyam	17	+1 lap
14	52	Herbert Prügl	Hans Kussberger	Rotax	17	+1 lap
15	33	Marc Alexandre	Paul Gerard	Kova-König	17	+1 lap
		Rolf Biland	Kenny Williams	Schmid-Yamaha			1
		Bruno Holzer	Charly Meierhans	LCR-Yamaha			5
		Ernst Trachsel	"Agner"	Schmid-Yamaha			7
		Werner Schwärzel	Andreas Huber	Aro			9
28 starters in total, 21 finishers
^[2]

1977 French motorcycle Grand Prix

350 cc classification

250 cc classification

125 cc classification

Sidecar classification

References

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