Race · Round 12 of 16 · 13 August 1978

1978 Austrian Grand Prix

Ronnie Peterson won for Team Lotus from pole at Red Bull Ring. 17 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship podium for Gilles Villeneuve.

Circuit: Red Bull RingSpielberg, Austria
Winner: Ronnie PetersonTeam Lotus
Pole: Ronnie Peterson
Fastest lap: Ronnie Peterson
Entries: 319 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Ronnie Peterson	Team Lotus	—	1	54	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	008	13	54	Finished	6
3	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	—	11	54	Finished	4
4	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	F5A	6	53	Finished	3
5	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	—	5	53	Finished	2
6	Vittorio Brambilla	Surtees	—	21	53	Finished	1
7	John Watson	Brabham	—	10	53	Finished	0
8	Brett Lunger	McLaren	—	17	52	Finished	0
9	Rene Arnoux	Martini	MK23	26	52	Finished	0
NC	Clay Regazzoni	Shadow	—	22	50	NC	0
NC	Keke Rosberg	Walter Wolf Racing	—	25	49	NC	0
DSQ	Derek Daly	Ensign	N177	19	43	Push start	0
DNF	Patrick Tambay	McLaren	M26	14	40	Accident	0
DNF	Hans-Joachim Stuck	Shadow	—	23	33	Accident	0
DNF	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	RS01	3	31	Gearbox	0
DNF	Niki Lauda	Brabham	—	12	28	Accident	0
DSQ	Carlos Reutemann	Ferrari	—	4	27	Push start	0
DNF	Didier Pironi	Tyrrell	008	9	20	Accident	0
DNF	James Hunt	McLaren	M26	8	8	Accident	0
DNF	Alan Jones	Williams	FW06	15	7	Accident	0
DNF	Harald Ertl	Ensign	N177	24	6	Accident	0
DNF	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	—	16	6	Accident	0
DNF	Jody Scheckter	Walter Wolf Racing	—	7	3	Accident	0
DNF	Nelson Piquet	McLaren	—	20	2	Accident	0
DNF	Héctor Rebaque	Team Lotus	78	18	1	Accident	0
DNF	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	—	2	0	Accident	0
DNQ	Arturo Merzario	Merzario	A1	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Jochen Mass	ATS	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Rupert Keegan	Surtees	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Hans Binder	ATS	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNPQ	Rolf Stommelen	Arrows	—	—	—	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 spielberg-2 · 5.942 km · 18 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
Ronnie Peterson	1	1	54
Patrick Depailler	13	2	54
Gilles Villeneuve	11	3	54
Emerson Fittipaldi	6	4	53
Jacques Laffite	5	5	53
Vittorio Brambilla	21	6	53
John Watson	10	7	53
Brett Lunger	17	8	52
Rene Arnoux	26	9	52
Clay Regazzoni	22	NC	50
Keke Rosberg	25	NC	49
Derek Daly	19	DSQ	43
Patrick Tambay	14	DNF	40
Hans-Joachim Stuck	23	DNF	33
Jean-Pierre Jabouille	3	DNF	31
Niki Lauda	12	DNF	28
Carlos Reutemann	4	DSQ	27
Didier Pironi	9	DNF	20
James Hunt	8	DNF	8
Alan Jones	15	DNF	7
Harald Ertl	24	DNF	6
Riccardo Patrese	16	DNF	6
Jody Scheckter	7	DNF	3
Nelson Piquet	20	DNF	2
Héctor Rebaque	18	DNF	1
Mario Andretti	2	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Ronnie Peterson	Team Lotus	6	1:37.710	—	—
2	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	5	1:37.760	+0.050	+0.050
3	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	15	1:38.320	+0.610	+0.560
4	Carlos Reutemann	Ferrari	11	1:38.500	+0.790	+0.180
5	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:38.710	+1.000	+0.210
6	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	14	1:38.770	+1.060	+0.060
7	Jody Scheckter	Walter Wolf Racing	20	1:38.850	+1.140	+0.080
8	James Hunt	McLaren	7	1:39.100	+1.390	+0.250
9	Didier Pironi	Tyrrell	3	1:39.230	+1.520	+0.130
10	John Watson	Brabham	2	1:39.350	+1.640	+0.120
11	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	12	1:39.400	+1.690	+0.050
12	Niki Lauda	Brabham	1	1:39.490	+1.780	+0.090
13	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	4	1:39.510	+1.800	+0.020
14	Patrick Tambay	McLaren	8	1:39.590	+1.880	+0.080
15	Alan Jones	Williams	27	1:39.810	+2.100	+0.220
16	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	35	1:40.110	+2.400	+0.300
17	Brett Lunger	McLaren	30	1:40.800	+3.090	+0.690
18	Héctor Rebaque	Team Lotus	25	1:40.840	+3.130	+0.040
19	Derek Daly	Ensign	22	1:41.020	+3.310	+0.180
20	Nelson Piquet	McLaren	29	1:41.150	+3.440	+0.130
21	Vittorio Brambilla	Surtees	19	1:41.160	+3.450	+0.010
22	Clay Regazzoni	Shadow	17	1:41.420	+3.710	+0.260
23	Hans-Joachim Stuck	Shadow	16	1:41.580	+3.870	+0.160
24	Harald Ertl	Ensign	23	1:41.600	+3.890	+0.020
25	Keke Rosberg	Walter Wolf Racing	32	1:41.720	+4.010	+0.120
26	Rene Arnoux	Martini	31	1:41.840	+4.130	+0.120
27	Arturo Merzario	Merzario	37	1:41.850	+4.140	+0.010
28	Jochen Mass	ATS	9	1:42.470	+4.760	+0.620
29	Rupert Keegan	Surtees	18	1:43.060	+5.350	+0.590
30	Hans Binder	ATS	10	1:44.460	+6.750	+1.400

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

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.

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.

Where this comes from

Round: 12 of 1978
Grand Prix: Austrian Grand Prix
Dates: 13 Aug 1978
Layout raced: Osterreichring · 5.942 km · 12 turns
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Team Lotus
Entrant: Lotus-Ford
Confidence: reference

The layout raced and its figures are this register’s, from its own sources; the figures under the race’s drawing are F1DB’s, and at some circuits the two disagree.