As with all the books in the "No Filter" series, "Formula 1 1976" is culled from the pages of the motoring press at the time, telling the story as it happened with no recourse to hindsight. This is the story as the drivers, the teams and the journalists saw it, at the moment it happened, bringing a unique perspective to historic events... There has never been a Formula 1 season like 1976. There have been others of perhaps higher quality, others of equal, perhaps even greater drama, others that had yet more controversy – we’re looking at you, 2021. But no season has grabbed hold of the public consciousness the way 1976 did. Spawning a feature film, countless documentaries and books in its wake across the last 46 years, like so many of the great sporting events it has calcified into caricature, such that the whole season has been reduced to the horrors of the Nürburgring and the rains of Suzuka. That, apparently, was 1976. Yet that tells but a fraction of it, it’s the punchline without the lead-in. Within these pages are the race reports and news articles that bring the season to life, but plenty more besides. James Hunt and Jody Scheckter were regular columnists in 'Motor' and 'Autosport' respectively, giving an unfolding insight into the campaign, while there are in depth interviews with Hunt, Niki Lauda, Ronnie Peterson, John Watson, Patrick Depailler, Jacques Laffite, Mauro Forghieri, Bernie Ecclestone, Frank Williams, Ken Tyrrell and John Surtees that shine a different light not just on the title battle, but the evolving world of Formula 1 too, which even embraced its first six-wheeled winner when Scheckter won in Sweden in the Tyrrell P34. The beauty of the pages lying in wait for you is that, as with all the books that will follow in this series, by using only the contemporary accounts, the story is written with no idea of what is going to happen on the final page, of just who dunnit? In 1976, that sense is particularly stron