1978 Formula One season
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The 1978 Formula One season was the 32nd season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It featured the 1978 World Championship of F1 Drivers and the International Cup for F1 Constructors, contested concurrently over a sixteen race series which commenced on 15 January and ended on 8 October. The season also included the non-championship BRDC International Trophy.
American Mario Andretti won the Drivers' Championship, driving for John Player Team Lotus. He remains the last American to win a championship.
Swede Ronnie Peterson posthumously finished runner-up in the Drivers' Championship to Lotus teammate Andretti just 13 points short. He had a fatal crash at the Italian Grand Prix.
Argentinian Carlos Reutemann finished third for Ferrari.
Ronnie Peterson moved to Lotus.
Carlos Reutemann
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Carlos Alberto "Lole" Reutemann was an Argentine racing driver who raced in Formula One from 1972 to 1982, and later became a politician in his native province of Santa Fe, for the Justicialist Party, and governor of Santa Fe in Argentina.
Reutemann's debut in Formula One, the 1972 Argentine Grand Prix in Buenos Aires
Reutemann at the wheel of the Brabham BT44 during the 1974 Race of Champions at Brands Hatch, England
Reutemann with Juan Manuel Fangio at the 1981 Argentine Grand Prix