1978 Austrian motorcycle Grand Prix
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Race 3 of 13 races in the 1978 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date | 30 April 1978 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Official name | Großer Preis von Österreich[1][2][3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location | Salzburgring | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Course |
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350 cc | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1978 Austrian motorcycle Grand Prix was the third round of the 1978 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 28–30 April 1978 at the Salzburgring.
Classification[]
500 cc[]
Pos. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Time/Retired | Points | |||
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1 | Kenny Roberts | Yamaha Motor Company | Yamaha | 48'30.300 | 15 | |||
2 | Johnny Cecotto | Yamaha Motor Company | Yamaha | +16.460 | 12 | |||
3 | Barry Sheene | Texaco Heron Team Suzuki | Suzuki | +46.230 | 10 | |||
4 | Marco Lucchinelli | Cagiva Corse | Suzuki | +1'13.760 | 8 | |||
5 | Tepi Länsivuori | Suzuki | +1'17.340 | 6 | ||||
6 | Michel Rougerie | Suzuki | +1 lap | 5 | ||||
7 | Wil Hartog | Riemersma Racing | Suzuki | +1 lap | 4 | |||
8 | Boet van Dulmen | Suzuki | +1 lap | 3 | ||||
9 | Franco Bonera | Team Kiwi Yamoto | Suzuki | +1 lap | 2 | |||
10 | Bruno Kneubühler | RSS Racing Team | Suzuki | +1 lap | 1 | |||
11 | Philippe Coulon | Marlboro Nava Total | Suzuki | +1 lap | ||||
12 | Suzuki | +1 lap | ||||||
13 | Helmut Kassner | Suzuki | +1 lap | |||||
14 | Caramba Racing Team Bohme | Suzuki | +2 laps | |||||
15 | Caramba Racing Team Bohme | Suzuki | +2 laps | |||||
16 | Bo Granath | Suzuki | +2 laps | |||||
17 | Suzuki | +2 laps | ||||||
18 | Kazenmaier Autovermietung | Suzuki | +2 laps | |||||
19 | Suzuki | +2 laps | ||||||
Ret | Steve Baker | Team Gallina Nava Olio Fiat | Suzuki | Accident | ||||
Virginio Ferrari | Team Gallina Nava Olio Fiat | Suzuki | Retired | |||||
Ret | Pat Hennen | Suzuki | Retired | |||||
Ret | Alex George | Sarome & Motul Team | Yamaha | Retired | ||||
Ret | John Newbold | Ray Hamblin Motorcycles | Suzuki | Retired | ||||
Ret | Mobel Nenning Racing Team | Suzuki | Retired | |||||
Ret | Takazumi Katayama | Sarome & Motul Team | Yamaha | Retired | ||||
Ret | Suzuki | Retired | ||||||
Ret | Team La Licorne | Suzuki | Accident | |||||
Ret | Steve Parrish | Suzuki | Retired | |||||
Ret | Walter Villa | Suzuki | Retired | |||||
Ret | Jack Middelburg | Suzuki | Accident | |||||
Ret | Tom Herron | Suzuki | Retired | |||||
Ret | Jon Ekerold | Suzuki Deutschland | Suzuki | Retired | ||||
Ret | Suzuki | Retired | ||||||
Ret | Suzuki | Retired | ||||||
Ret | Suzuki | Retired | ||||||
Sources: [4][5][6] |
350cc[]
Pos | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time | Grid | Points | |
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1 | Kork Ballington | Kawasaki | 35 | 50:38.28 | 1 | 15 | |
2 | Franco Uncini | Yamaha | 35 | +14.37 | 2 | 12 | |
3 | Takazumi Katayama | Yamaha | 35 | +18.19 | 3 | 10 | |
4 | Jon Ekerold | Yamaha | 35 | +46.73 | 12 | 8 | |
5 | Olivier Chevallier | Yamaha | 35 | +59.64 | 4 | 6 | |
6 | Michel Rougerie | Yamaha | 35 | +1:05.34 | 17 | 5 | |
7 | Gregg Hansford | Kawasaki | 35 | +1:12.82 | 6 | 4 | |
8 | Pentti Korhonen | Yamaha | 35 | +1:13.94 | 20 | 3 | |
9 | Vic Soussan | Yamaha | 35 | +1:14.11 | 15 | 2 | |
10 | Franco Bonera | Yamaha | 35 | +1:14.34 | 16 | 1 | |
11 | Patrick Fernandez | Yamaha | 35 | +1:14.67 | 8 | ||
12 | Chas Mortimer | Yamaha | 35 | +1:18.98 | 7 | ||
13 | John Dodds | Yamaha | 34 | +1 lap | |||
14 | Yamaha | 34 | +1 lap | 19 | |||
15 | Michel Frutschi | Yamaha | 34 | +1 lap | |||
16 | Yamaha | 34 | +1 lap | ||||
17 | Roland Freymond | Yamaha | 34 | +1 lap | |||
18 | Yamaha | 34 | +1 lap | ||||
19 | Yamaha | 34 | +1 lap | ||||
20 | Yamaha | 34 | +1 lap | ||||
21 | Yamaha | 34 | +1 lap | ||||
22 | Yamaha | 34 | +1 lap | ||||
Leif Gustafsson | Yamaha | 5 | |||||
Mick Grant | Kawasaki | 9 | |||||
Tom Herron | Yamaha | 10 | |||||
Pierluigi Conforti | Yamaha | 11 | |||||
Anton Mang | Kawasaki | 13 | |||||
Yamaha | 14 | ||||||
Christian Sarron | Yamaha | 18 | |||||
36 starters in total | |||||||
[6] |
125cc[]
Pos | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time | Grid | Points | |
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1 | Eugenio Lazzarini | MBA | 30 | 47:23.66 | 1 | 15 | |
2 | Harald Bartol | Morbidelli | 30 | +2.23 | 3 | 12 | |
3 | Pierpaolo Bianchi | Minarelli | 30 | +28.74 | 2 | 10 | |
4 | Thierry Espié | Motobécane | 30 | +34.18 | 4 | 8 | |
5 | Pierluigi Conforti | Morbidelli | 30 | +34.70 | 9 | 6 | |
6 | Per-Edward Carlson | Morbidelli | 30 | +1:01.55 | 7 | 5 | |
7 | Hans Müller | Morbidelli | 30 | +1:03.98 | 6 | 4 | |
8 | Morbidelli | 30 | +1:04.69 | 17 | 3 | ||
9 | Jean-Louis Guignabodet | Bender | 30 | +1:11.17 | 11 | 2 | |
10 | Ricardo Tormo | Bultaco | 30 | +1:14.37 | 1 | ||
11 | Patrick Plisson | Morbidelli | 30 | +1:35.90 | 15 | ||
12 | Morbidelli | 30 | +1:36.30 | 16 | |||
13 | Stefan Dörflinger | Morbidelli | 29 | +1 lap | 10 | ||
14 | Morbidelli | 29 | +1 lap | ||||
15 | Morbidelli | 29 | +1 lap | ||||
16 | Morbidelli | 29 | +1 lap | 18 | |||
17 | August Auinger | Morbidelli | 29 | +1 lap | |||
18 | Ivan Palazzese | Morbidelli | |||||
19 | Morbidelli | ||||||
20 | Bender | ||||||
Maurizio Massimiani | Morbidelli | 5 | |||||
Morbidelli | 8 | ||||||
Ángel Nieto | Bultaco | 12 | |||||
Gert Bender | Bender | 13 | |||||
Cees van Dongen | Morbidelli | 14 | |||||
Hans Hummel | Morbidelli | 19 | |||||
Rolf Blatter | Morbidelli | 20 | |||||
36 starters in total, 24 finishers | |||||||
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Sidecar classification[]
Pos | Rider | Passenger | Manufacturer | Laps | Time | Grid | Points | |
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1 | Rolf Biland | Kenny Williams | TTM-Yamaha | 30 | 46:19.30 | 1 | 15 | |
2 | Kenny Birch | Seymaz-Yamaha | 30 | +17.72 | 11 | 12 | ||
3 | Alain Michel | Stu Collins | Seymaz-Yamaha | 30 | +17.86 | 3 | 10 | |
4 | George O'Dell | Cliff Holland | Seymaz-Yamaha | 30 | +22.19 | 5 | 8 | |
5 | Karl Meierhans | LCR-Yamaha | 30 | +1:21.42 | 9 | 6 | ||
6 | Per-Erik Wickström | Yamaha | 30 | +1:26.83 | 7 | 5 | ||
7 | Karl Altricher | Schmid-Yamaha | 29 | +1 lap | 4 | |||
8 | Bernd Schappacher | König | 29 | +1 lap | 12 | 3 | ||
9 | Manfred Kürnsteiner | Suzuki | 29 | +1 lap | 2 | |||
10 | Rainer Gundel | MKM-Yamaha | 28 | +2 laps | 1 | |||
11 | Andreas Stager | TTM-Suzuki | 27 | +3 laps | 15 | |||
12 | Jock Taylor | Lewis Ward | Windle-Yamaha | 27 | +3 laps | |||
13 | Philippe Miserez | Seymaz-Yamaha | 25 | +5 laps | 13 | |||
Andreas Huber | Fath | 2 | ||||||
Kenny Arthur | Schmid-Yamaha | 4 | ||||||
Rolf Steinhausen | Wolfgang Kalauch | Seymaz-Yamaha | 6 | |||||
Lorenzo Puzo | Busch-Yamaha | 8 | ||||||
Gordon Russell | Busch-Yamaha | 10 | ||||||
Egbert Streuer | Johan van der Kap | Schmid-Yamaha | 14 | |||||
21 starters in total | ||||||||
[6] |
References[]
- ^ "Alle Grand-Prix uitslagen en bijzonderheden, van 1973 (het jaar dat Jack begon met racen) tot heden". Archive.li. Archived from the original on 13 April 2013. Retrieved 1 November 2018.
- ^ Mitchell, Malcolm. "1978 500cc Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
- ^ Mitchell, Malcolm. "Salzburgring - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
- ^ "1978 Austrian MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". Motorsportmagazine.com. 1 February 2018. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
- ^ "AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX · 500cc Race Classification 1978". Motogp.com. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
- ^ a b c d Coleman, Barry (ed.). Motocourse 1978-1979. Hazleton Securities Ltd. p. 75. ISBN 0-905138-06-6.
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