QualifyingResultsRaceResultsLap ChartFastest Lap: James Hunt - 1:41.871
Drive of the Race: Clay Regazzoni - Another recovery drive after lap 1 malaise.
Reject of the Race: Patrick Tambay - spun multiple times.
Ratings1) Jody Scheckter - 9/10 - Just a reminder of his pace.
2) James Hunt - 8/10 - Brilliant pole position, just not fast enough to challenge Scheckter for the win.
3) Thomas Nurmester - 7/10 - Developing a canny habit of picking up good results.
4) Carlos Reutemann - 6/10 - Not his finest race, but can hold head up for 1978.
5) Patrick Depailler - 4/10 - Motivation has gone, will be glad to leave Ferrari.
6) Alan Jones - 10/10 - Brilliant race on return from injury.
7) Clay Regazzoni - 10/10 - Great recovery drive after missing rear wing on lap 1.
8) Kazuyoshi Hoshino - 8/10 - Used local knowledge to great effect
9) Gunnar Nilsson - 7/10 - Respectable
10) Masahiro Hasemi - 7/10 - Couldn't quite replicate the success of last year
11) Patrick Tambay - 1/10 - Went off more than milk in a broken fridge.
12) Kunimitsu Takahashi - 9/10 - Ran as high as 8th in the March
13) Jean-Pierre Jarier - 5/10 - Eh
14) Jean-Pierre Jabouille - 4/10 - Renault? Double finish? Cannot compute....
15) Francois Migault - 3/10 - No sign of points heroics this time
16) Riccardo Patrese - 2/10 - Poor race for the sole finishing Renault. Wait, they both finished? No. You're lying. Stop it, you're not real, you're not real. That's what they tell me...
17) Vittorio Brambilla - 1/10 - That's numberwang.
Ret) Mario Andretti - 6/10 - That's the world champion.
Ret) Robert Kagan - 5/10 - Apparently is set to feature in Penthouse magazine. Talk about PR.
Ret) Ronnie Peterson - 4/10 - RIP the streak, once lived, forever loved.
Ret) Jacques Laffite - 5/10 - Anonymous
Ret) Tom Pryce - 4/10 - Anonymouser
Ret) Tom Sneva - 3/10 - Frustration grows
Ret) Didier Pironi - 5/10 - Eh
Ret) Harvey Jones - 5/10 - Forced to avoid the first corner fracas, he dropped down the order. Two wheels on the grass whilst moving up the field sent him into the barrrier.
Ret) Hans-Joachim Stuck - 5/10 - Didn't even get a lap in.
DNQ) Noritake Takahara - 4/10 - Will Noritake this DNQ and run.
DNQ) John Watson - 5/10 - Shadow lacked the pace to make the grid
DNPQ) Stephen South - 9/10 - Brilliant lap.
DNPQ) Henri Pescarolo - 6/10 - Eh
DNPQ) Bertram Schafer - 6/10 - Didn't stand much chance of making the grid anyway
DNPQ) Naoki Nagasaki - 4/10 - Mitsuoka left all their speed in 1976
DNPQ) Akio Mitsuoka - 3/10 - See above
DNPQ) Kuniomi Nagamatsu - 2/10 - Heros never had any to start with.
DNPQ) Hiroshi Takagi - -1/10 - Dropping the car after setting just one lap is not the way to go.
Race VideoSoon...
BudgetsWill be released with the end-of-season prize money
Congratulations to Lotus [Ataxia;pi3141] for winning the Constructor's and Entrant's championships!Post-season prize money and information on 1978 to follow soon.