French G.P. to Andretti
NZPA-Reuter Le Castellet Mario Andretti (U.S.) in a Lotus scored his third victory in four races by winning the French Grand Prix for the second successive time yesterday. Andretti shot into the lead from second place on the grid and drove so faultlessly that only mechanical failure could have stopped him from adding this event to the Belgian and Spanish grands prix he won earlier. Ronnie Peterson, of Sweden, in the second Lotus, was runner-up, ahead of the Britons James Hunt (McLaren) and John Watson (Brabham), the Australian Alan Jones (Williams) and South African Jody Scheckkter (Wolf). A surprise abandonment was that of the reigning world champion, Niki Lauda, of Austria, in the tenth lap with what was officially called engine failure, in his Alfa Brabham.
Andretti’s win gave him a commanding championship lead, with 45 points over Peterson, who has 36, and Lauda with 25. Keke Rosberg (Finland), the winner of the 1978 Peter Stuyvesant series in New Zealand, was sixteenth of the 18 finishers in his German A.T.S. car.
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Press, 4 July 1978, Page 28
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