F1/Seasons/1978/Round 8
1978 · Round 8 of 16

Swedish Grand Prix

June 17, 1978 · Scandinavian Raceway · Anderstorp · Sweden
Lauda
WINNER
Niki Lauda · Brabham · from grid 3
FASTEST LAP
Lap timing starts in 2004. This race has none.
+11
MOST PLACES GAINED
Patrick Tambay · grid 15 to P4
15 of 24
CLASSIFIED
9 retired

01/Classification

24 cars
Finishing order
PosDriverConstructorGrid+/-LapsTime / statusPtsFastest lap
1Niki LaudaBrabham3+2701:41:00.6069
2Riccardo PatreseArrows5+370+34.0196
3Ronnie PetersonTeam Lotus4+170+34.1054
4Patrick TambayMcLaren15+1169+1 Lap3
5Clay RegazzoniShadow16+1169+1 Lap2
6Emerson FittipaldiFittipaldi13+769+1 Lap1
7Jacques LaffiteLigier11+469+1 Lap0
8James HuntMcLaren14+669+1 Lap0
9Gilles VilleneuveFerrari7-269+1 Lap0
10Carlos ReutemannFerrari8-269+1 Lap0
11Hans-Joachim StuckShadow20+968+2 Laps0
12Hector RebaqueTeam Lotus21+968+2 Laps0
13Jochen MassATS19+668+2 Laps0
14Rolf StommelenArrows24+1067+3 Laps0
15Keke RosbergATS23+863+7 Laps0
RArturo MerzarioMerzario2262+8 Laps0
RMario AndrettiTeam Lotus146Engine0
RAlan JonesWilliams946Wheel0
RPatrick DepaillerTyrrell1242Suspension0
RJean-Pierre JabouilleRenault1028Engine0
RJohn WatsonBrabham219Spun off0
RJody ScheckterWolf616Overheating0
RDidier PironiTyrrell178Accident0
RVittorio BrambillaSurtees187Accident0

Ordered on the source’s position column and printed from position_text. Those two disagree on purpose: position is a sort key that is never null, and position_text is what happened to the car. 9 of 24 cars here were not classified (9 retired). Across the archive that is 9,612 of 26,048 result rows, so a page that printed the sort key would tell more than a third of every field it finished.


02/Grid to finish

15 of 24 cars
Grid minus finishing position
PLACES GAINED
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
Patrick TambayMcLaren154+11
Clay RegazzoniShadow165+11
Rolf StommelenArrows2414+10
Hans-Joachim StuckShadow2011+9
Hector RebaqueTeam Lotus2112+9
PLACES LOST
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
Gilles VilleneuveFerrari79-2
Carlos ReutemannFerrari810-2

Movement is grid minus finishing position, and it is computed for 15 of the 24 cars entered. It is left blank for the other 9: a car that was not classified has no finishing position to subtract from, and no car here carries grid 0, the value the source uses for a pit lane start or for no recorded grid slot. Scoring a grid of 0 as a gain of every place on the grid is the arithmetic this rule exists to stop; 266 of 26,048 rows across the archive are grid 0, and 40 of those were classified.


03/The 1978 season

16 rounds
JAN 15 to OCT 8
RdDateGrand PrixCircuitWinnerConstructorCars
1JAN 15Argentine Grand PrixAutódromo Juan y Oscar GálvezMario AndrettiTeam Lotus24
2JAN 29Brazilian Grand PrixAutódromo Internacional Nelson PiquetCarlos ReutemannFerrari24
3MAR 4South African Grand PrixKyalamiRonnie PetersonTeam Lotus26
4APR 2United States Grand Prix WestLong BeachCarlos ReutemannFerrari24
5MAY 7Monaco Grand PrixCircuit de MonacoPatrick DepaillerTyrrell20
6MAY 21Belgian Grand PrixZolderMario AndrettiTeam Lotus24
7JUN 4Spanish Grand PrixJaramaMario AndrettiTeam Lotus24
8JUN 17Swedish Grand PrixScandinavian RacewayNiki LaudaBrabham24
9JUL 2French Grand PrixCircuit Paul RicardMario AndrettiTeam Lotus26
10JUL 16British Grand PrixBrands HatchCarlos ReutemannFerrari26
11JUL 30German Grand PrixHockenheimringMario AndrettiTeam Lotus24
12AUG 13Austrian Grand PrixRed Bull RingRonnie PetersonTeam Lotus26
13AUG 27Dutch Grand PrixCircuit Park ZandvoortMario AndrettiTeam Lotus27
14SEP 10Italian Grand PrixAutodromo Nazionale di MonzaNiki LaudaBrabham24
15OCT 1United States Grand PrixWatkins GlenCarlos ReutemannFerrari26
16OCT 8Canadian Grand PrixCircuit Gilles VilleneuveGilles VilleneuveFerrari22

Every figure here is one race, read from f1_results and f1_races. The finishing order is the source’s position column; the printed position is position_text, which is a letter on 9,612 of 26,048 rows across the archive (R retired 9,089, W withdrew 364, D disqualified 159). Grid 0 is a pit lane start and prints as PIT, not as a place ahead of pole; 266 of 26,048 rows are grid 0. Time is a total for the winner and a gap to the car ahead for everyone else, and it is present on 8,508 of 26,048 rows only, so most of the archive shows the status instead; where both exist and the status is not “Finished” the status is printed beside the time, because 8,335 of 16,436 classified rows finished lapped or otherwise not cleanly. The fastest lap column is empty before 2004: the source carries lap timing on 8,977 of 26,048 rows and a ranked fastest lap in 447 of 1,161 races, and speed on 8,238 of those, none after 2024. Points are printed as the source stores them and are never rounded to a whole number: 38 of 26,048 rows are fractional (0.5, 1.33, 3.14), which is half points for a shortened race and a split score for a shared car, and every one of them is real. Three races (1951 French, 1956 Argentine, 1957 British) print two cars as first, because two drivers shared one car and the record books credit both; in those three the source hangs the race points on other rows, which is why 5 of 1,164 winning rows across the archive print zero points. Constructors carry no logo in any f1_* table, so none is drawn and none is invented. The 1978 season is complete at 16 rounds.