Sunday 14th March 1976
James Hunt won his second consecutive non-championship Race of Champions at Brands Hatch with his McLaren M23. He also set fastest lap on the way to victory. Alan Jones was second in his Surtees and Jacky Ickx finished third in one of Lord Hesketh’s cars. This was also the race debut of the Ferrari 312T2. The cars unfortunately DNF’d. Lauda was out with a brake problem 17 laps in, and Martini crashed his in the warm-up.