Round 1

Argentine Grand Prix

Autódromo Juan y Oscar Gálvez

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Sunday, 15 January 1978

1st

2nd

3rd

Patrick Depailler

Fastest Lap

Gilles Villeneuve

1:49.760Lap 3 · 195.743 km/h

Pos	Driver	Constructor	Grid	Laps	Time	Pts
P1	MA Mario Andretti	Lotus	1	52	1:37:04.470	9
P2	NL Niki Lauda	Brabham	53	52	1:37:17.680	6
P3	PD Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	107	52	1:37:18.110	4
P4	JH James Hunt	McLaren	62	52	1:37:20.520	3
P5	RP Ronnie Peterson	Lotus	32	52	1:38:19.320	2
P6	PT Patrick Tambay	McLaren	93	52	1:38:24.370	1
P7	CR Carlos Reutemann	Ferrari	25	52	1:38:27.070	0
P8	GV Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	71	52	1:38:43.350 1:49.760	0
P9	EF Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	178	52	1:38:45.070	0
P10	JS Jody Scheckter	Wolf	155	52	1:38:47.970	0
P11	JM Jochen Mass	ATS	132	52	1:38:53.540	0
P12	JJ Jean-Pierre Jarier	ATS	111	51	Finished	0
P13	BL Brett Lunger	McLaren	2411	51	Finished	0
P14	DP Didier Pironi	Tyrrell	239	51	Finished	0
P15	CR Clay Regazzoni	Shadow	161	51	Finished	0
P16	JL Jacques Laffite	Ligier	88	50	Engine	0
P17	HS Hans-Joachim Stuck	Shadow	181	50	Finished	0
P18	VB Vittorio Brambilla	Surtees	126	50	Finished	0
DNF	JW John Watson	Brabham	4	41	Engine	0
DNF	AJ Alan Jones	Williams	14	36	Fuel system	0
DNF	DO Danny Ongais	Ensign	21	35	Distributor	0
DNF	LL Lamberto Leoni	Ensign	22	28	Engine	0
DNF	AM Arturo Merzario	Merzario	20	9	Differential	0
DNF	RK Rupert Keegan	Surtees	19	4	Overheating	0
DNQ	HR Héctor Rebaque	Lotus			Finished	0
DNQ	EC Eddie Cheever	Theodore			Finished	0
DNQ	DG Divina Galica	Hesketh			Finished	0