1977 Canadian Grand Prix

Mosport Park, October 9th

Although plans are afoot to transfer the Canadian Grand Prix to a makeshift “road” circuit round the Canadian National Exhibition Centre in the middle of Toronto, this year’s race took place in the rural surroundings of Mosport Park some 7-miles away from the centre of the City. The cars came straight up from the United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen and many teams faced a busy week rebuilding damaged machinery from the American race.

March Engineering were faced with a problem after lan Scheckter crashed 771/2 beyond immediate repair at Watkins Glen, so they arranged to fly out the monocoque of 771/1 round which the mechanics built a fresh car for the South African to drive in Canada. Similarly Jones’ damaged Shadow was rebuilt round the repaired monocoque of Patrese’s DN8/5A which was damaged at Monza, but the Brabham team simply transferred Stuck over to their spare BT45/1B after he damaged BT45/3B in the American race, keeping their fingers crossed that they would not be requiring the luxury of a spare chassis.

Race Results

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Circuit - Mosport Park

Country

Canada

Location

Bowmanville, Ontario

Type

Permanent road course

Length

2.459 (Miles)

Record

Marco Werner (Audi R10 TDI), 1m05.823, 134.488 mph, ALMS Sports Cars, 2008

3,436

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