The 1977 Formula One season was the 31st season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It featured the 28th World Championship of Drivers and the 20th International Cup for Formula 1 Constructors. The season commenced on 9 January 1977 and ended on 23 October after seventeen races, making it the longest Formula One season in the sport's history at the time. The season also included a single non-championship race for Formula One cars, the 1977 Race of Champions.
Austrian Niki Lauda took his second title, driving for Ferrari
Jody Scheckter placed second for Wolf
Mario Andretti (pictured in 1978) placed third for Lotus
Carlos Reutemann during the 1977 Monaco Grand Prix
Carlos Alberto "Lole" Reutemann was an Argentine racing driver who raced in Formula One from 1972 to 1982, and later became a politician in his native province of Santa Fe, for the Justicialist Party, and governor of Santa Fe in Argentina.
Reutemann's debut in Formula One, the 1972 Argentine Grand Prix in Buenos Aires
Reutemann at the wheel of the Brabham BT44 during the 1974 Race of Champions at Brands Hatch, England
Reutemann with Juan Manuel Fangio at the 1981 Argentine Grand Prix