Race · Round 8 of 16 · 17 June 1978

1978 Swedish Grand Prix

Niki Lauda won for Brabham from 3rd on the grid at Scandinavian Raceway. 9 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship podium for Riccardo Patrese.

Circuit: Scandinavian RacewayAnderstorp, Sweden
Winner: Niki LaudaBrabham
Pole: Mario Andretti
Fastest lap: Niki Lauda
Entries: 2715 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Niki Lauda	Brabham	—	3	70	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	—	5	70	Finished	6
3	Ronnie Peterson	Team Lotus	—	4	70	Finished	4
4	Patrick Tambay	McLaren	M26	15	69	Finished	3
5	Clay Regazzoni	Shadow	—	16	69	Finished	2
6	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	F5A	13	69	Finished	1
7	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	—	11	69	Finished	0
8	James Hunt	McLaren	M26	14	69	Finished	0
9	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	—	7	69	Finished	0
10	Carlos Reutemann	Ferrari	—	8	69	Finished	0
11	Hans-Joachim Stuck	Shadow	—	20	68	Finished	0
12	Héctor Rebaque	Team Lotus	78	21	68	Finished	0
13	Jochen Mass	ATS	—	19	68	Finished	0
14	Rolf Stommelen	Arrows	—	24	67	Finished	0
15	Keke Rosberg	ATS	—	23	63	Finished	0
NC	Arturo Merzario	Merzario	A1	22	62	NC	0
DNF	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	—	1	46	Engine	0
DNF	Alan Jones	Williams	FW06	9	46	Wheel	0
DNF	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	008	12	42	Suspension	0
DNF	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	RS01	10	28	Engine	0
DNF	John Watson	Brabham	—	2	19	Spun off	0
DNF	Jody Scheckter	Walter Wolf Racing	—	6	16	Overheating	0
DNF	Didier Pironi	Tyrrell	008	17	8	Accident	0
DNF	Vittorio Brambilla	Surtees	—	18	7	Accident	0
DNQ	Rupert Keegan	Surtees	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Brett Lunger	McLaren	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Jacky Ickx	Ensign	N177	—	—	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 anderstorp-1 · 4.031 km · 8 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
Niki Lauda	3	1	70
Riccardo Patrese	5	2	70
Ronnie Peterson	4	3	70
Patrick Tambay	15	4	69
Clay Regazzoni	16	5	69
Emerson Fittipaldi	13	6	69
Jacques Laffite	11	7	69
James Hunt	14	8	69
Gilles Villeneuve	7	9	69
Carlos Reutemann	8	10	69
Hans-Joachim Stuck	20	11	68
Héctor Rebaque	21	12	68
Jochen Mass	19	13	68
Rolf Stommelen	24	14	67
Keke Rosberg	23	15	63
Arturo Merzario	22	NC	62
Mario Andretti	1	DNF	46
Alan Jones	9	DNF	46
Patrick Depailler	12	DNF	42
Jean-Pierre Jabouille	10	DNF	28
John Watson	2	DNF	19
Jody Scheckter	6	DNF	16
Didier Pironi	17	DNF	8
Vittorio Brambilla	18	DNF	7

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	5	1:22.058	—	—
2	John Watson	Brabham	2	1:22.737	+0.679	+0.679
3	Niki Lauda	Brabham	1	1:22.783	+0.725	+0.046
4	Ronnie Peterson	Team Lotus	6	1:23.120	+1.062	+0.337
5	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	35	1:23.369	+1.311	+0.249
6	Jody Scheckter	Walter Wolf Racing	20	1:23.621	+1.563	+0.252
7	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	12	1:23.730	+1.672	+0.109
8	Carlos Reutemann	Ferrari	11	1:23.737	+1.679	+0.007
9	Alan Jones	Williams	27	1:23.951	+1.893	+0.214
10	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	15	1:23.963	+1.905	+0.012
11	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:24.030	+1.972	+0.067
12	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	4	1:24.203	+2.145	+0.173
13	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	14	1:24.274	+2.216	+0.071
14	James Hunt	McLaren	7	1:24.761	+2.703	+0.487
15	Patrick Tambay	McLaren	8	1:24.986	+2.928	+0.225
16	Clay Regazzoni	Shadow	17	1:25.007	+2.949	+0.021
17	Didier Pironi	Tyrrell	3	1:25.813	+3.755	+0.806
18	Vittorio Brambilla	Surtees	19	1:26.618	+4.560	+0.805
19	Jochen Mass	ATS	9	1:26.787	+4.729	+0.169
20	Hans-Joachim Stuck	Shadow	16	1:27.011	+4.953	+0.224
21	Héctor Rebaque	Team Lotus	25	1:27.139	+5.081	+0.128
22	Arturo Merzario	Merzario	37	1:27.479	+5.421	+0.340
23	Keke Rosberg	ATS	10	1:27.560	+5.502	+0.081
24	Rolf Stommelen	Arrows	36	1:27.812	+5.754	+0.252
25	Rupert Keegan	Surtees	18	1:28.282	+6.224	+0.470
26	Brett Lunger	McLaren	30	1:28.388	+6.330	+0.106
27	Jacky Ickx	Ensign	22	1:28.400	+6.342	+0.012

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: 8 of 1978
Grand Prix: Swedish Grand Prix
Dates: 17 Jun 1978
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Brabham
Entrant: Brabham-Alfa Romeo
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.