1978 British Grand Prix
The Grand Prix of Great Britain in 1978 was on July 16 held at the Brands Hatch Circuit, and was the tenth race of the Formula 1 season 1978.
- 3.1 Start -up
- 3.2 race
- 4.1 Drivers' Championship
- 4.2 Constructors' Championship
Reports
Background
The usual starting field was supplemented for the British Grand Prix by a factory-backed Ensign N175, which the private team Deliotti Mario Racing filed for the debutant Geoff Lees, and a private McLaren M23 of the team Melchester Racing for the occasional driver Tony Trimmer
Training
The two pilots Lotus 79 Mario Andretti and Ronnie Peterson were one and two of her favorite role again meet with the achievement of starting places, where the Swede was exceptionally faster than the Americans. Jody Scheckter and Niki Lauda were the second row in front of Riccardo Patrese and Alan Jones.
John Watson, Gilles Villeneuve, James Hunt who reached only the spaces 9, 13 and 14, respectively, could not be satisfied with their training results.
Among the four pilots who could not qualify for the 26 starting places allowed to were three of the five Britons, who were lined up to contest their home race.
Race
Andretti took over in the first round of the leadership and much pointed out first, a renewed dominance of the two Lotus drivers, to Peterson in the seventh round was eliminated with the fuel delivery because of a problem. Two laps later, Hunt turned off, so that the British audience with Watson in seventh place all that remained was a country man.
In lap 24 Andretti had to drive due to a puncture the box. He returned the eleventh back on the track, but fell four laps later with engine failure. Scheckter, who was by getting to the top, had to defend itself against Jones until this short time later had to give up due to a broken drive shaft. Scheckter, who in turn had to fight with a gearbox problem, could not prevent Lauda took the lead on lap 34. After check Marketers Riccardo Patrese failure and Carlos Reutemann took places two and three before John Watson, Didier Pironi and Keke Rosberg, who drove a strong race in the ATS.
Due to the technically -related losses of Patrese and Pironi Rosberg came even to fourth place, but came under increasing pressure from Patrick Depailler that eventually overtook him in the 49th round.
Reutemann took the Ferrari 312T3 with newly developed Michelin tires constantly on the leading Lauda. He used a lapping maneuver against Bruno Giacomelli, a sudden pull on the reigning world champions. At the same time Rosberg ended promising race with a damaged suspension, so Patrick Depailler, Hans -Joachim Stuck and Patrick Tambay occupied the points behind the podium placed Reutemann, Lauda and Watson.
Message list
Classifications
Line-up
Race
WM stands after the race
The first six of the race were 9, 6, 4, 3, 2 and 1 point (s).