Race · Round 13 of 16 ·
1978 Dutch Grand Prix
Mario Andretti won for Team Lotus from pole at Circuit Zandvoort. 14 of the starters were not classified.
- Circuit
- Circuit ZandvoortZandvoort, Netherlands
- Winner
- Mario AndrettiTeam Lotus
- Pole
- Mario Andretti
- Fastest lap
- Niki Lauda
- Entries
- 3312 classified
Classification
A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.
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.
Qualifying
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | No. | Time | Gap | Interval |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mario Andretti | Team Lotus | 5 | 1:16.360 | — | — |
| 2 | Ronnie Peterson | Team Lotus | 6 | 1:16.970 | +0.610 | +0.610 |
| 3 | Niki Lauda | Brabham | 1 | 1:17.330 | +0.970 | +0.360 |
| 4 | Carlos Reutemann | Ferrari | 11 | 1:17.340 | +0.980 | +0.010 |
| 5 | Gilles Villeneuve | Ferrari | 12 | 1:17.540 | +1.180 | +0.200 |
| 6 | Jacques Laffite | Ligier | 26 | 1:17.550 | +1.190 | +0.010 |
| 7 | James Hunt | McLaren | 7 | 1:17.670 | +1.310 | +0.120 |
| 8 | John Watson | Brabham | 2 | 1:17.730 | +1.370 | +0.060 |
| 9 | Jean-Pierre Jabouille | Renault | 15 | 1:18.280 | +1.920 | +0.550 |
| 10 | Emerson Fittipaldi | Fittipaldi | 14 | 1:18.300 | +1.940 | +0.020 |
| 11 | Alan Jones | Williams | 27 | 1:18.420 | +2.060 | +0.120 |
| 12 | Patrick Depailler | Tyrrell | 4 | 1:18.430 | +2.070 | +0.010 |
| 13 | Riccardo Patrese | Arrows | 35 | 1:18.500 | +2.140 | +0.070 |
| 14 | Patrick Tambay | McLaren | 8 | 1:18.500 | +2.140 | +0.000 |
| 15 | Jody Scheckter | Walter Wolf Racing | 20 | 1:18.570 | +2.210 | +0.070 |
| 16 | Derek Daly | Ensign | 22 | 1:19.390 | +3.030 | +0.820 |
| 17 | Didier Pironi | Tyrrell | 3 | 1:19.590 | +3.230 | +0.200 |
| 18 | Hans-Joachim Stuck | Shadow | 16 | 1:19.620 | +3.260 | +0.030 |
| 19 | Bruno Giacomelli | McLaren | 33 | 1:19.830 | +3.470 | +0.210 |
| 20 | Héctor Rebaque | Team Lotus | 25 | 1:20.020 | +3.660 | +0.190 |
| 21 | Brett Lunger | McLaren | 30 | 1:20.030 | +3.670 | +0.010 |
| 22 | Vittorio Brambilla | Surtees | 19 | 1:20.260 | +3.900 | +0.230 |
| 23 | Rene Arnoux | Martini | 31 | 1:20.310 | +3.950 | +0.050 |
| 24 | Keke Rosberg | Walter Wolf Racing | 32 | 1:20.470 | +4.110 | +0.160 |
| 25 | Rupert Keegan | Surtees | 18 | 1:20.520 | +4.160 | +0.050 |
| 26 | Nelson Piquet | McLaren | 29 | 1:20.640 | +4.280 | +0.120 |
| 27 | Arturo Merzario | Merzario | 37 | 1:20.640 | +4.280 | +0.000 |
| 28 | Clay Regazzoni | Shadow | 17 | 1:20.690 | +4.330 | +0.050 |
| 29 | Michael Bleekemolen | ATS | 10 | 1:21.330 | +4.970 | +0.640 |
| 30 | Jochen Mass | ATS | 9 | 1:21.820 | +5.460 | +0.490 |
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.
Practice sessions Pre-qualifying
Pre-qualifying
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | No. | Best lap | Gap | Interval | Laps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bruno Giacomelli | McLaren | 33 | 1:19.590 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Brett Lunger | McLaren | 30 | 1:20.010 | +0.420 | +0.420 | — |
| 3 | Arturo Merzario | Merzario | 37 | 1:20.320 | +0.730 | +0.310 | — |
| 4 | Keke Rosberg | Walter Wolf Racing | 32 | 1:20.460 | +0.870 | +0.140 | — |
| 5 | Nelson Piquet | McLaren | 29 | 1:20.520 | +0.930 | +0.060 | — |
| 6 | Rene Arnoux | Martini | 31 | 1:20.520 | +0.930 | +0.000 | — |
| 7 | Héctor Rebaque | Team Lotus | 25 | 1:20.950 | +1.360 | +0.430 | — |
| 8 | Harald Ertl | Ensign | 23 | 1:21.000 | +1.410 | +0.050 | — |
| 9 | Danny Ongais | Shadow | 39 | 1:21.410 | +1.820 | +0.410 | — |
| 10 | Rolf Stommelen | Arrows | 36 | 1:22.240 | +2.650 | +0.830 | — |
Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.
Photographs from this race
Filed on Wikimedia Commons under this race's own category, each shown with the photographer and licence its terms require. The filing is the Commons editors' and has not been checked here.
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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.
Fittipaldi F5
Fittipaldi F5A Auto und Technik Museum Sinsheim · Marcin Wichary · CC BY 2.0
McLaren M26
McLaren M26 2007 · Darren · CC BY 2.0
Lotus 78
2017 FIA Masters Historic Formula One Championship, Circuit of the Americas (23970306838) · https://www.flickr.com/photos/mrlaugh/ · CC BY-SA 2.0 · unchecked
Renault RS01
Paris - Retromobile 2013 - Renault F1 RS01 - 1978 - 102 · Thesupermat · CC BY-SA 3.0 · unchecked
Shadow DN9
Elio de Angelis - Shadow DN9B at Druids Bend at the 1979 Race of Champions (50140833091) · Martin Lee from London, UK · CC BY-SA 2.0
Tyrrell 008
Tyrrell 008 2007 · Darren · CC BY 2.0A 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
Williams FW06
Williams FW06 front Donington Grand Prix Collection · Morio · CC BY-SA 3.0Where this comes from
- Round
- 13 of 1978
- Grand Prix
- Dutch Grand Prix
- Dates
- 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.