1978 Spanish Grand Prix
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7th of 16 races in the 1978 World Automobile Championship | ||
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Surname: | XXIV Gran Premio de España | |
Date: | 4th June 1978 | |
Place: | San Sebastian de los Reyes | |
Course: | Circuito Permanente del Jarama | |
Length: | 255.3 km in 75 laps of 3.404 km
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Weather: | sunny and warm | |
Spectator: | ~ 35,000 | |
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Time: | 1: 16.39 min | |
Fastest lap | ||
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Time: | 1: 20.06 min | |
Podium | ||
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The 1978 Spanish Grand Prix took place on June 4th at the Circuito Permanente del Jarama near Madrid and was the seventh race of the 1978 World Automobile Championship .
Reports
background
Two weeks after the first victory of the Lotus 79 right at the first Grand Prix use in Belgium by Mario Andretti could that Team Lotus is now one copy of this car make two works drivers available, so that Ronnie Peterson was able to compete with the new model. In addition, they received further financial support from the sponsor Olympus , who had ended his commitment to the financially troubled Hesketh team. For Hesketh this meant the end. The team no longer appeared.
The Martini team was also not present . Instead, the Spanish guest starter Emilio de Villota returned to the field at the wheel of his private McLaren M23 on the occasion of his home Grand Prix. Patrick Tambay returned to his place on the McLaren factory team after a break due to injury .
training
The two Lotus works drivers dominated the training at will and qualified themselves for the front row, with pole setter Andretti completing a lap time around one second faster than third-placed Carlos Reutemann in a Ferrari 312T3 . This was followed by James Hunt before Gilles Villeneuve and Niki Lauda . John Watson , Riccardo Patrese , Jody Scheckter and Jacques Laffite completed the top ten. The four other participating French followed behind their compatriot Laffite on the starting positions 11 to 14.
run
While Peterson only had a bad start that threw him back to ninth place, Hunt took the lead after a good start from position four. He was followed by Andretti, Reutemann, Watson and Villeneuve.
On the sixth lap, Andretti took the lead and quickly gained a lead. Meanwhile, Peterson worked his way up to fifth place by the 29th lap, partly due to technical problems of opponents Villeneuve, Patrese and Reutemann.
Laffite and Peterson passed Watson on the 37th lap, who was slightly handicapped due to lapping maneuvers. One lap later, Peterson passed Laffite and took third place. He caught runner-up Hunt by lap 53 and eventually overtook him. Shortly afterwards, the latter fell behind Laffite and Lauda before the Austrian retired due to an engine failure. Hunt stayed in fourth place for three laps until he was overtaken by Scheckter and Watson. Shortly before, Reutemann had survived a serious accident caused by a technical defect in his Ferrari, in which he hit the safety fences over the crash barriers.
Lotus celebrated the second one-two in a row. Laffite came third in front of Scheckter, Watson and Hunt.
Registration list
Classifications
Starting grid
Item | driver | constructor | time | Ø speed | begin |
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1 |
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1: 16.39 | 160.419 km / h | 1 |
2 |
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1: 16.68 | 159.812 km / h | 2 |
3 |
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1: 17.40 | 158.326 km / h | 3 |
4th |
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1: 17.66 | 157.796 km / h | 4th |
5 |
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1: 17.76 | 157.593 km / h | 5 |
6th |
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1: 17.94 | 157.229 km / h | 6th |
7th |
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1: 17.98 | 157.148 km / h | 7th |
8th |
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1: 18.14 | 156.826 km / h | 8th |
9 |
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1: 18.24 | 156.626 km / h | 9 |
10 |
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1: 18.42 | 156.266 km / h | 10 |
11 |
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1: 18.99 | 155.139 km / h | 11 |
12 |
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1: 19.06 | 155.001 km / h | 12 |
13 |
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1: 19.11 | 154.903 km / h | 13 |
14th |
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1: 19.28 | 154.571 km / h | 14th |
15th |
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1: 19.33 | 154.474 km / h | 15th |
16 |
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1: 19.71 | 153.737 km / h | 16 |
17th |
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1: 19.98 | 153.218 km / h | 17th |
18th |
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1: 19.99 | 153.199 km / h | 18th |
19th |
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1: 20.03 | 153.123 km / h | 19th |
20th |
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1: 20.21 | 152.779 km / h | 20th |
21st |
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1: 20.36 | 152.494 km / h | 21st |
22nd |
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1: 20.67 | 151.908 km / h | 22nd |
23 |
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1: 20.77 | 151.720 km / h | 23 |
24 |
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1: 20.87 | 151.532 km / h | 24 |
DNQ |
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1: 20.91 | 151.457 km / h | - |
DNQ |
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1: 21.17 | 150.972 km / h | - |
DNQ |
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1: 21.55 | 150.269 km / h | - |
DNQ |
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1: 21.59 | 150.195 km / h | - |
DNPQ |
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no time | - | - |
run
Item | driver | constructor | Round | Stops | time | begin | Fastest lap | Failure reason |
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75 | 0 | 1: 41: 47.06 | 1 | 1: 20.06 | |
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75 | 0 | + 19.56 | 2 | 1: 20.40 | |
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75 | 0 | + 37.24 | 10 | 1: 21.10 | |
4th |
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75 | 0 | +1: 00.06 | 9 | 1: 21.33 | |
5 |
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75 | 0 | +1: 05.93 | 7th | 1: 21.27 | |
6th |
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74 | 1 | + 1 lap | 4th | 1: 20.44 | |
7th |
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74 | 0 | + 1 lap | 16 | 1: 22.44 | |
8th |
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74 | 0 | + 1 lap | 18th | 1: 21.87 | |
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74 | 0 | + 1 lap | 17th | 1: 22.04 | |
10 |
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74 | 2 | + 1 lap | 5 | 1: 20.94 | |
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73 | 0 | + 2 rounds | 23 | 1: 23.20 | |
12 |
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71 | 0 | + 4 rounds | 13 | 1: 21.58 | |
13 |
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71 | 0 | + 4 rounds | 11 | 1: 22.63 | |
14th |
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71 | 1 | + 4 rounds | 19th | 1: 23.35 | |
15th |
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67 | 0 | DNF | 22nd | 1: 22.53 | broken fuel line |
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64 | 0 | DNF | 21st | 1: 22.19 | Engine failure |
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62 | 0 | NC | 15th | 1: 22.11 | Unrated |
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57 | 0 | DNF | 3 | 1: 20.78 | accident |
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56 | 0 | DNF | 6th | 1: 20.85 | Engine failure |
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50 | 0 | DNF | 12 | 1: 20.84 | Engine failure |
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45 | 0 | DNF | 24 | 1: 22.90 | task |
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21st | 0 | DNF | 8th | 1: 21.14 | Engine failure |
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21st | 0 | DNF | 20th | 1: 23.46 | defective exhaust system |
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16 | 0 | DNF | 14th | 1: 21.71 | Lathe operator |
World Cup stands after the race
The first six of the race got 9, 6, 4, 3, 2 and 1 point (s) respectively.
Driver ranking
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Constructors' championship
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Individual evidence
- ↑ "Training" ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Motorsportarchiv.de; accessed on August 5, 2012)
- ^ "Report" (accessed on August 5, 2012)
- ↑ "World Cup stands" ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Motorsportarchiv.de; accessed on August 5, 2012)