The 1976 World Championship for Makes season was part of the 24th season of FIAWorld Sportscar Championship racing. It featured a series for production based cars from the following FIA categories
Group 5 Special Production Cars
Group 4 Special Grand Touring Cars
Group 3 Series Production Grand Touring Cars
Group 2 Touring Cars
Group 1 Series Production Touring Cars
The series ran from March 21, 1976 to September 4, 1976, and comprised 7 races in total.
Following the 1975 season, the FIA chose to divide the World Championship into two series that would run simultaneously but separately. Open-cockpit sportscars (formerly kown as FIA Group 5 Sports Cars, now officially FIA Group 6 Two-Seater Racing Cars) would transfer from the World Championship for Makes to a new World Championship for Sports Cars, while production-based cars (such as the new Group 5 Special Production Cars) would contest the World Championship for Makes. Events in which both types of car ran, such as the 12 Hours of Sebring or 24 Hours of Le Mans, were not counted towards either championship.
Points were awarded to the top 10 finishers in the order of 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1. Manufacturers were only given points for their highest finishing car with any other cars from that manufacturer merely skipped in the points allocation. Only the best 5 points finishes for each make counted towards the championship with any other points earned not included in the totals. Discarded points are shown in the table below within brackets.
In additional to the outright championship the FIA also awarded three Divisional titles.[1]
Division 1 was for cars with an engine capacity of up to 2000cc, Division 2 for cars from 2001 to 3000cc and Division 3 for those above 3000cc.[2]
March Trophy (6 Hours)
6 Hours of Silverstone
ADAC 1000km Nürburgring
Martha 1000 (6 Hours)
6 Hours of Watkins Glen
ACF 6 Hours of Dijon
Jacky Ickx
Gunnar Nilsson
