Race · Round 16 of 16 · 8 October 1978

1978 Canadian Grand Prix

Gilles Villeneuve won for Ferrari from 3rd on the grid at Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve. 10 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship race win for Gilles Villeneuve.

Circuit: Circuit Gilles-VilleneuveMontreal, Canada
Winner: Gilles VilleneuveFerrari
Pole: Jean-Pierre Jarier
Fastest lap: Alan Jones
Entries: 2812 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	—	3	70	Finished	9
2	Jody Scheckter	Walter Wolf Racing	—	2	70	Finished	6
3	Carlos Reutemann	Ferrari	—	11	70	Finished	4
4	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	—	12	70	Finished	3
5	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	008	13	70	Finished	2
6	Derek Daly	Ensign	N177	15	70	Finished	1
7	Didier Pironi	Tyrrell	008	18	70	Finished	0
8	Patrick Tambay	McLaren	M26	17	70	Finished	0
9	Alan Jones	Williams	FW06	5	70	Finished	0	fastest lap
10	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	—	9	69	Finished	0
11	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	—	14	69	Finished	0
12	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	RS01	22	65	Finished	0
NC	Keke Rosberg	ATS	—	21	58	NC	0
DNF	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	—	10	52	Transmission	0
DNF	James Hunt	McLaren	M26	19	51	Spun off	0
DNF	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Team Lotus	—	1	49	Oil leak	0
DNF	Rene Arnoux	Surtees	TS20	16	37	Engine	0
DNF	Bobby Rahal	Walter Wolf Racing	—	20	16	Fuel system	0
DNF	John Watson	Brabham	—	4	8	Accident	0
DNF	Niki Lauda	Brabham	—	7	5	Brakes	0
DNF	Hans-Joachim Stuck	Shadow	—	8	1	Accident	0
DNF	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	F5A	6	0	Accident	0
DNQ	Clay Regazzoni	Shadow	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Beppe Gabbiani	Surtees	TS20	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Arturo Merzario	Merzario	A1	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Héctor Rebaque	Team Lotus	78	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Rolf Stommelen	Arrows	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Michael Bleekemolen	ATS	—	—	—	DNQ	0

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

F1DB layout montreal-1 · 4.41 km · 19 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
Gilles Villeneuve	3	1	70
Jody Scheckter	2	2	70
Carlos Reutemann	11	3	70
Riccardo Patrese	12	4	70
Patrick Depailler	13	5	70
Derek Daly	15	6	70
Didier Pironi	18	7	70
Patrick Tambay	17	8	70
Alan Jones	5	9	70
Mario Andretti	9	10	69
Nelson Piquet	14	11	69
Jean-Pierre Jabouille	22	12	65
Keke Rosberg	21	NC	58
Jacques Laffite	10	DNF	52
James Hunt	19	DNF	51
Jean-Pierre Jarier	1	DNF	49
Rene Arnoux	16	DNF	37
Bobby Rahal	20	DNF	16
John Watson	4	DNF	8
Niki Lauda	7	DNF	5
Hans-Joachim Stuck	8	DNF	1
Emerson Fittipaldi	6	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Team Lotus	55	1:38.015	—	—
2	Jody Scheckter	Walter Wolf Racing	20	1:38.026	+0.011	+0.011
3	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	12	1:38.230	+0.215	+0.204
4	John Watson	Brabham	2	1:38.417	+0.402	+0.187
5	Alan Jones	Williams	27	1:38.861	+0.846	+0.444
6	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	14	1:38.930	+0.915	+0.069
7	Niki Lauda	Brabham	1	1:39.020	+1.005	+0.090
8	Hans-Joachim Stuck	Shadow	16	1:39.081	+1.066	+0.061
9	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	5	1:39.236	+1.221	+0.155
10	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:39.381	+1.366	+0.145
11	Carlos Reutemann	Ferrari	11	1:39.455	+1.440	+0.074
12	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	35	1:39.491	+1.476	+0.036
13	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	4	1:39.619	+1.604	+0.128
14	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	66	1:39.624	+1.609	+0.005
15	Derek Daly	Ensign	22	1:40.042	+2.027	+0.418
16	Rene Arnoux	Surtees	18	1:40.515	+2.500	+0.473
17	Patrick Tambay	McLaren	8	1:40.669	+2.654	+0.154
18	Didier Pironi	Tyrrell	3	1:40.959	+2.944	+0.290
19	James Hunt	McLaren	7	1:40.970	+2.955	+0.011
20	Bobby Rahal	Walter Wolf Racing	21	1:40.983	+2.968	+0.013
21	Keke Rosberg	ATS	10	1:41.611	+3.596	+0.628
22	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	15	1:41.689	+3.674	+0.078
23	Clay Regazzoni	Shadow	17	1:41.739	+3.724	+0.050
24	Beppe Gabbiani	Surtees	19	1:41.799	+3.784	+0.060
25	Arturo Merzario	Merzario	37	1:41.962	+3.947	+0.163
26	Héctor Rebaque	Team Lotus	25	1:42.413	+4.398	+0.451
27	Rolf Stommelen	Arrows	36	1:43.267	+5.252	+0.854
28	Michael Bleekemolen	ATS	9	1:45.553	+7.538	+2.286

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.

1 more photograph

Surtees TS20
SurteesTS20BarryBoor · The original uploader was Scottanon at English Wikipedia . · Attribution

Where this comes from

Round: 16 of 1978
Grand Prix: Canadian Grand Prix
Dates: 8 Oct 1978
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Ferrari
Entrant: Ferrari
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.