1978 Spanish Grand Prix
The Grand Prix of Spain 1978 took place on 4 June at the Circuito Permanente del Jarama near Madrid and was the seventh race of the Formula 1 season 1978.
- 3.1 Start -up
- 3.2 race
- 4.1 Drivers' Championship
- 4.2 Constructors' Championship
Reports
Background
Two weeks after the first victory of the Lotus 79 directly at the first Grand Prix assignment in Belgium by Mario Andretti Team Lotus could now each provide two factory riders a copy of this car available, so that even Ronnie Peterson was able to compete with the new model. In addition, we received further financial support from the sponsor Olympus, who had finished his commitment to the financially troubled Hesketh team. For Hesketh, this meant the end. The team did not occur henceforth in appearance.
Was not there also the Martini team. Instead, the Spanish guest driver Emilio de Villota returned at the wheel of his McLaren M23 private occasion of his home Grand Prix back to the participants. Patrick Tambay took after an injury break due to its place in the McLaren factory team again.
Training
The two Lotus works drivers dominated the workout at will and qualified to think for the first row, with pole sitter Andretti faster by around a second lap time graduated as the third-placed Carlos Reutemann in the Ferrari 312T3. This was followed by James Hunt and Niki Lauda before Gilles Villeneuve. John Watson, Riccardo Patrese, Jody Scheckter and Jacques Laffite completed the top ten. The other four participating French followed behind her compatriot Laffite in the starting blocks 11 to 14
Race
While Peterson just a bad start into which threw him back up to ninth place, Hunt took over after a good start from the starting position four of the lead. He was followed by Andretti, Reutemann, Watson and Villeneuve.
In the sixth round Andretti took the lead and gave rapidly a head start. Meanwhile, Peterson worked up to the 29th round to the fifth forward, partly aided by technical problems of the counterparty Villeneuve, Patrese and Reutemann.
Laffite and Peterson moved into the 37th round past Watson, who was slightly disabled due to excessive rounding maneuvers. One lap later, Peterson walked past Laffite and thus took the third place. He pulled up to the 53rd round, a second-placed Hunt and eventually overtook him. This was shortly after Laffite Lauda and back before the Austrians failed due to an engine failure. Hunt remained then for three laps in fourth place until he was overtaken by Scheckter and Watson. Shortly before Reutemann had a caused by a technical defect in his Ferrari serious accident in which he struck across the barriers of time in the fencing, unharmed survived.
Lotus celebrated the second double victory in a row. Laffite was third ahead of Scheckter, Watson and Hunt.
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).