Race · Round 2 of 16 · 29 January 1978

1978 Brazilian Grand Prix

Carlos Reutemann won for Ferrari from 4th on the grid at Jacarepagua. 11 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: JacarepaguaRio de Janeiro, Brazil
Winner: Carlos ReutemannFerrari
Pole: Ronnie Peterson
Fastest lap: Carlos Reutemann
Entries: 2811 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Carlos Reutemann	Ferrari	—	4	63	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	F5A	7	63	Finished	6
3	Niki Lauda	Brabham	—	10	63	Finished	4
4	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	—	3	63	Finished	3
5	Clay Regazzoni	Shadow	—	15	62	Finished	2
6	Didier Pironi	Tyrrell	008	19	62	Finished	1
7	Jochen Mass	ATS	—	20	62	Finished	0
8	John Watson	Brabham	—	21	61	Finished	0
9	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	—	14	61	Finished	0
10	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	—	18	59	Finished	0
11	Alan Jones	Williams	FW06	8	58	Finished	0
DNF	Héctor Rebaque	Team Lotus	78	22	40	Physical	0
DNF	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	—	6	35	Spun off	0
DNF	Patrick Tambay	McLaren	M26	5	34	Spun off	0
DNF	Hans-Joachim Stuck	Shadow	—	9	25	Fuel system	0
DNF	James Hunt	McLaren	M26	2	25	Spun off	0
DNF	Jody Scheckter	Walter Wolf Racing	—	12	16	Accident	0
DNF	Ronnie Peterson	Team Lotus	—	1	15	Collision	0
DNF	Danny Ongais	Ensign	N177	23	13	Brakes	0
DNF	Brett Lunger	McLaren	—	13	11	Overheating	0
DNF	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	008	11	8	Accident	0
DNF	Rupert Keegan	Surtees	—	24	5	Accident	0
DNS	Lamberto Leoni	Ensign	N177	17	—	DNS	0
DNS	Jean-Pierre Jarier	ATS	—	16	—	DNS	0
DNQ	Arturo Merzario	Merzario	A1	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Eddie Cheever	Theodore	TR1	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Vittorio Brambilla	Surtees	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Divina Galica	Hesketh	308E	—	—	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 jacarepagua-1 · 5.031 km · 11 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
Carlos Reutemann	4	1	63
Emerson Fittipaldi	7	2	63
Niki Lauda	10	3	63
Mario Andretti	3	4	63
Clay Regazzoni	15	5	62
Didier Pironi	19	6	62
Jochen Mass	20	7	62
John Watson	21	8	61
Jacques Laffite	14	9	61
Riccardo Patrese	18	10	59
Alan Jones	8	11	58
Héctor Rebaque	22	DNF	40
Gilles Villeneuve	6	DNF	35
Patrick Tambay	5	DNF	34
Hans-Joachim Stuck	9	DNF	25
James Hunt	2	DNF	25
Jody Scheckter	12	DNF	16
Ronnie Peterson	1	DNF	15
Danny Ongais	23	DNF	13
Brett Lunger	13	DNF	11
Patrick Depailler	11	DNF	8
Rupert Keegan	24	DNF	5

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Ronnie Peterson	Team Lotus	6	1:40.450	—	—
2	James Hunt	McLaren	7	1:40.530	+0.080	+0.080
3	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	5	1:40.620	+0.170	+0.090
4	Carlos Reutemann	Ferrari	11	1:40.730	+0.280	+0.110
5	Patrick Tambay	McLaren	8	1:40.940	+0.490	+0.210
6	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	12	1:40.970	+0.520	+0.030
7	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	14	1:41.500	+1.050	+0.530
8	Alan Jones	Williams	27	1:41.870	+1.420	+0.370
9	Hans-Joachim Stuck	Shadow	16	1:42.070	+1.620	+0.200
10	Niki Lauda	Brabham	1	1:42.080	+1.630	+0.010
11	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	4	1:42.100	+1.650	+0.020
12	Jody Scheckter	Walter Wolf Racing	20	1:42.110	+1.660	+0.010
13	Brett Lunger	McLaren	30	1:42.650	+2.200	+0.540
14	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:42.710	+2.260	+0.060
15	Clay Regazzoni	Shadow	17	1:42.800	+2.350	+0.090
16	Jean-Pierre Jarier	ATS	10	1:42.910	+2.460	+0.110
17	Lamberto Leoni	Ensign	23	1:43.190	+2.740	+0.280
18	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	36	1:43.190	+2.740	+0.000
19	Didier Pironi	Tyrrell	3	1:43.550	+3.100	+0.360
20	Jochen Mass	ATS	9	1:43.740	+3.290	+0.190
21	John Watson	Brabham	2	1:43.750	+3.300	+0.010
22	Héctor Rebaque	Team Lotus	25	1:43.860	+3.410	+0.110
23	Danny Ongais	Ensign	22	1:43.940	+3.490	+0.080
24	Rupert Keegan	Surtees	18	1:44.200	+3.750	+0.260
25	Arturo Merzario	Merzario	37	1:44.200	+3.750	+0.000
26	Eddie Cheever	Theodore	32	1:44.280	+3.830	+0.080
27	Vittorio Brambilla	Surtees	19	1:44.660	+4.210	+0.380
28	Divina Galica	Hesketh	24	1:46.790	+6.340	+2.130

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: 2 of 1978
Grand Prix: Brazilian Grand Prix
Dates: 29 Jan 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.