1978 FIA Formula One World Championship Season Review

1978 Ferrari and Lauda had now gone their separate ways despite winning the championship together in 77 Lauda moved to Brabham and Ferrari took on the young Gilles Villeneuve Frank Williams and Patrick Head formed Williams Grand Prix Engineering mounting their first title challenge with Alan Jones in the driving seat Tyrrell had reverted back to four wheels from their radical sixwheeled P34 and this year it was Brabham who turned heads with the introduction of their BT46B fan car On its first Grand Prix in Sweden it took first place only to be banned from future competition by the FIA