Race · Round 7 of 16 · 4 June 1978

1978 Spanish Grand Prix

Mario Andretti won for Team Lotus from pole at Circuito del Jarama. 9 of the starters were not classified.

Dry · High of 25 °C, no rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

ERA5's reanalysis, through Open-Meteo, of the circuit's whole local day and not the race's hours, for the grid cell the circuit sits in and not the track, so a shower can be missing from it. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.

Circuit: Circuito del JaramaMadrid, Spain
Winner: Mario AndrettiTeam Lotus
Pole: Mario Andretti
Fastest lap: Mario Andretti
Entries: 2915 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	—	1	75	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Ronnie Peterson	Team Lotus	—	2	75	Finished	6
3	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	—	10	75	Finished	4
4	Jody Scheckter	Walter Wolf Racing	—	9	75	Finished	3
5	John Watson	Brabham	—	7	75	Finished	2
6	James Hunt	McLaren	M26	4	74	Finished	1
7	Vittorio Brambilla	Surtees	—	16	74	Finished	0
8	Alan Jones	Williams	FW06	18	74	Finished	0
9	Jochen Mass	ATS	—	17	74	Finished	0
10	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	—	5	74	Finished	0
11	Rupert Keegan	Surtees	—	23	73	Finished	0
12	Didier Pironi	Tyrrell	008	13	71	Finished	0
13	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	RS01	11	71	Finished	0
14	Rolf Stommelen	Arrows	—	19	71	Finished	0
15	Clay Regazzoni	Shadow	—	22	67	Fuel pipe	0
DNF	Jacky Ickx	Ensign	N177	21	64	Engine	0
DNF	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	F5A	15	62	Throttle	0
DNF	Carlos Reutemann	Ferrari	—	3	57	Accident	0
DNF	Niki Lauda	Brabham	—	6	56	Engine	0
DNF	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	008	12	51	Engine	0
DNF	Hans-Joachim Stuck	Shadow	—	24	45	Suspension	0
DNF	Héctor Rebaque	Team Lotus	78	20	21	Exhaust	0
DNF	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	—	8	21	Engine	0
DNF	Patrick Tambay	McLaren	M26	14	16	Spun off	0
DNQ	Arturo Merzario	Merzario	A1	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Brett Lunger	McLaren	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Emilio de Villota	McLaren	M23	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Alberto Colombo	ATS	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNPQ	Keke Rosberg	Theodore	TR1	—	—	DNPQ	0

A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.

F1DB layout jarama-1 · 3.404 km · 15 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Mario Andretti	1	1	75
Ronnie Peterson	2	2	75
Jacques Laffite	10	3	75
Jody Scheckter	9	4	75
John Watson	7	5	75
James Hunt	4	6	74
Vittorio Brambilla	16	7	74
Alan Jones	18	8	74
Jochen Mass	17	9	74
Gilles Villeneuve	5	10	74
Rupert Keegan	23	11	73
Didier Pironi	13	12	71
Jean-Pierre Jabouille	11	13	71
Rolf Stommelen	19	14	71
Clay Regazzoni	22	15	67
Jacky Ickx	21	DNF	64
Emerson Fittipaldi	15	DNF	62
Carlos Reutemann	3	DNF	57
Niki Lauda	6	DNF	56
Patrick Depailler	12	DNF	51
Hans-Joachim Stuck	24	DNF	45
Héctor Rebaque	20	DNF	21
Riccardo Patrese	8	DNF	21
Patrick Tambay	14	DNF	16

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	5	1:16.390	—	0 m	—
2	Ronnie Peterson	Team Lotus	6	1:16.680	+0.290	13 m	+0.290
3	Carlos Reutemann	Ferrari	11	1:17.400	+1.010	45 m	+0.720
4	James Hunt	McLaren	7	1:17.660	+1.270	57 m	+0.260
5	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	12	1:17.760	+1.370	61 m	+0.100
6	Niki Lauda	Brabham	1	1:17.940	+1.550	69 m	+0.180
7	John Watson	Brabham	2	1:17.980	+1.590	71 m	+0.040
8	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	35	1:18.140	+1.750	78 m	+0.160
9	Jody Scheckter	Walter Wolf Racing	20	1:18.240	+1.850	82 m	+0.100
10	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:18.420	+2.030	90 m	+0.180
11	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	15	1:18.990	+2.600	116 m	+0.570
12	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	4	1:19.060	+2.670	119 m	+0.070
13	Didier Pironi	Tyrrell	3	1:19.110	+2.720	121 m	+0.050
14	Patrick Tambay	McLaren	8	1:19.280	+2.890	129 m	+0.170
15	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	14	1:19.330	+2.940	131 m	+0.050
16	Vittorio Brambilla	Surtees	19	1:19.710	+3.320	148 m	+0.380
17	Jochen Mass	ATS	9	1:19.980	+3.590	160 m	+0.270
18	Alan Jones	Williams	27	1:19.990	+3.600	160 m	+0.010
19	Rolf Stommelen	Arrows	36	1:20.030	+3.640	162 m	+0.040
20	Héctor Rebaque	Team Lotus	25	1:20.210	+3.820	170 m	+0.180
21	Jacky Ickx	Ensign	22	1:20.360	+3.970	177 m	+0.150
22	Clay Regazzoni	Shadow	17	1:20.670	+4.280	191 m	+0.310
23	Rupert Keegan	Surtees	18	1:20.770	+4.380	195 m	+0.100
24	Hans-Joachim Stuck	Shadow	16	1:20.870	+4.480	200 m	+0.100
25	Arturo Merzario	Merzario	37	1:20.910	+4.520	201 m	+0.040
26	Brett Lunger	McLaren	30	1:21.170	+4.780	213 m	+0.260
27	Emilio de Villota	McLaren	28	1:21.550	+5.160	230 m	+0.380
28	Alberto Colombo	ATS	10	1:21.590	+5.200	232 m	+0.040

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Pit stops

Pit stops are recorded from 1994. F1DB, the source of every stop here, holds none before then, so this race has no stints to draw.

Practice sessions Pre-qualifying

Pre-qualifying

Pre-qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Héctor Rebaque	Team Lotus	25	1:19.840	—	0 m	—	—
2	Rolf Stommelen	Arrows	36	1:19.970	+0.130	6 m	+0.130	—
3	Arturo Merzario	Merzario	37	1:20.030	+0.190	8 m	+0.060	—
4	Brett Lunger	McLaren	30	1:20.190	+0.350	15 m	+0.160	—
5	Keke Rosberg	Theodore	32	1:21.250	+1.410	60 m	+1.060	—

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

The cars in this race

The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.

A photograph marked unchecked has a file name that does not name the car it is shown for. Most are still the right car, filed under the driver rather than the machine — but nobody has confirmed these one by one.

1 more photograph

Where this comes from

Round: 7 of 1978
Grand Prix: Spanish Grand Prix
Dates: 4 Jun 1978
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Team Lotus
Entrant: Lotus-Ford
Confidence: reference

No layout is recorded for this round: this register has no layout timeline for the circuit, and a blank here is better than a guess.