{"id":18065,"date":"2019-01-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acpmotorsports.com\/?p=18065"},"modified":"2025-06-02T04:55:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T08:55:38","slug":"jean-pierre-jarrier-united-states-1978-f1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/jean-pierre-jarrier-united-states-1978-f1\/","title":{"rendered":"jean pierre jarier united states 1978 #F1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium_large wp-image-8912\" src=\"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-content\/uploads\/post2\/Lastflag_jean_pierre_jarrier__united_states_1978_-d5rltij-750x503.jpg\" width=\"750\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jean-Pierre Jacques Jarier (FRA) (John Player Team #Lotus), #Lotus 79 &#8211; #Ford V8 (finished 15th)<\/p>\n<p>On Jarier&#8217;s right is John Watson in his #Brabham BT46. Starting USA that year, Jarrier replaced Ronnie Peterson who had died due to severe leg injuries suffered during a crash at the start of the previous race, in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>There was a mess at Lotus at the US GP on Sunday. Mario had an axle failure and crash in Sunday morning warm up&#8230;.with no time to test the backup car, he took Jarier car. Jarier then used Mario&#8217;s backup car for the race. Mario had clutch issues and retired with an engine failure. Jarier was running third late in the race when he ran out of fuel.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of Ronnie Peterson&#8217;s fatal crash at the\u00a01978 Italian Grand Prix, this was the first use of the now standard procedure of having a specially trained medical team line up behind the cars at the start of the race and follow them <!--more-->for most of the first lap.<\/p>\n<p>In this race, the Medical car hit a curb and was in the air for a short period of time.<\/p>\n<p>1978 United States Grand Prix (Eath)<\/p>\n<p>, @WGI Watkins Glen Grand Prix Race Course ++ ericok<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean-Pierre Jacques Jarier (FRA) (John Player Team #Lotus), #Lotus 79 &#8211; #Ford V8 (finished 15th) On Jarier&#8217;s right is John Watson in his #Brabham BT46. Starting USA that year, Jarrier replaced Ronnie Peterson who had died due to severe leg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[137,89],"class_list":["post-18065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-f1","tag-f1","tag-race-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40304,"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18065\/revisions\/40304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}