Although the contract included making the circuit safer over those years (and the organizers did that) it had already been decided that the 1976 race would be the last race at the Nordschleife.
Aínda que o contrato incluía facer o circuíto máis seguro durante eses anos (e os organizadores fixeron iso) xa se decidira que a carreira de 1976 sería a última carreira no Nordschleife.