1978 Czechoslovak motorcycle Grand Prix

  1978 Czechoslovak Grand Prix

Race details
Race 12 of 13 races in the 1978 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	27 August 1978
Official name	Grand Prix ČSSR
Location	Brno
Course	Permanent racing facility 10.920 km (6.785 mi)
350 cc
Pole position
Rider	Kork Ballington	Kawasaki
Time	3:55.79
Fastest lap
Rider	Kork Ballington	Kawasaki
Time	3:54.33
Podium
First	Kork Ballington	Kawasaki
Second	Gregg Hansford	Kawasaki
Third	Michel Rougerie	Yamaha
250 cc
Pole position
Rider	Kork Ballington	Kawasaki
Time	4:04.40
Fastest lap
Rider	Kork Ballington	Kawasaki
Time	4:03.17
Podium
First	Kork Ballington	Kawasaki
Second	Gregg Hansford	Kawasaki
Third	Mario Lega	Morbidelli
50 cc
Pole position
Rider	Ricardo Tormo	Bultaco
Time	4:50.65
Fastest lap
Rider	Ricardo Tormo	Bultaco
Time	4:48.65
Podium
First	Ricardo Tormo	Bultaco
Second	Claudio Lusuardi	Bultaco
Third	Henk van Kessel	Sparton
Sidecars
Pole position
Rider	Werner Schwärzel	Fath
Passenger	Andreas Huber
Time	4:06.68
Fastest lap
Rider	Alain Michel	Seymaz-Yamaha
Passenger	Stu Collins
Time	4:10.24
Podium
First	Alain Michel	Seymaz-Yamaha
	Stu Collins
Second	Rolf Biland	TTM-Yamaha
	Kenny Williams
Third	Dick Greasley	Busch-Yamaha
	Gordon Russell

The 1978 Czechoslovak motorcycle Grand Prix was the twelfth round of the 1978 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 27 August 1978 at the Brno circuit.

350 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	Kork Ballington	Kawasaki	13	51:22.59	1	15
2	Gregg Hansford	Kawasaki	13	+2.32	4	12
3	Michel Rougerie	Yamaha	13	+18.43	2	10
4	Jon Ekerold	Yamaha	13	+28.96	6	8
5	Paolo Pileri	Morbidelli	13	+32.18	3	6
6	Takazumi Katayama	Yamaha	13	+33.24	17	5
7	Anton Mang	Kawasaki	13	+35.70	15	4
8	Tom Herron	Yamaha	13	+40.43	9	3
9	Pentti Korhonen	Yamaha	13	+50.13	5	2
10	Raymond Roche	Yamaha	13	+50.59	7	1
11	Guy Bertin	Yamaha	13	+1:26.54	16
12	Olivier Chevallier	Yamaha	13	+1:37.59	8
13	Bruno Kneubühler	Yamaha	13	+1:55.60	11
14	Adelio Faccioli	Yamaha	13	+2:08.82	18
15	Harald Merkl	Yamaha	13	+2:24.23
16	Seppo Rossi	Yamaha	13	+3:12.77
17	Jean-Claude Hogrel	Yamaha	13	+3:15.62
18	Edi Stöllinger	Yamaha	13	+3:16.10
19	Carlos Lavado	Yamaha	13	+6:49.57
20	Y. Matsumoto	Yamaha	12	+1 lap
21	Michael Schmid	Yamaha	12	+1 lap
22	K. Johansson	Yamaha	12	+1 lap
	Franco Uncini	Yamaha			10
	Richard Hubin	Yamaha			12
	Patrick Fernandez	Yamaha			13
	Vic Soussan	Yamaha			14
	Sauro Pazzaglia	Yamaha			19
	Roland Freymond	Yamaha			20
40 starters in total
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250 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	Kork Ballington	Kawasaki	11	45:18.37	1	15
2	Gregg Hansford	Kawasaki	11	+16.24	3	12
3	Mario Lega	Morbidelli	11	+22.41	10	10
4	Patrick Fernandez	Yamaha	11	+31.09	7	8
5	Jon Ekerold	Yamaha	11	+31.37	5	6
6	Raymond Roche	Yamaha	11	+1:10.83	16	5
7	Vic Soussan	Yamaha	11	+1:16.36	15	4
8	Walter Villa	Harley-Davidson	11	+1:19.66	18	3
9	Franco Uncini	Yamaha	11	+1:27.88	9	2
10	Anton Mang	Kawasaki	11	+1:32.44	14	1
11	Guy Bertin	Yamaha	11	+1:33.15	17
12	Edi Stöllinger	Kawasaki	11	+1:34.23	20
13	Marc Fontan	Yamaha	11	+1:34.77	19
14	Jacques Cornu	Yamaha	11	+2:06.73
15	Olivier Chevallier	Yamaha	11	+2:07.32	6
16	Grunwald Harfmann	Yamaha	11	+2:12.01	11
17	Dave Hickman	Jawa	11	+2:12.57
18	Bernd Tügethal	Yamaha	11	+2:21.48
19	Seppo Rossi	Yamaha	11	+2:22.01
20	Harald Merkl	Yamaha	11	+2:30.92
21	Giovanni Pellettier	Yamaha	11	+2:43.95
22	T. Laurens	Yamaha	11	+2:55.32
23	Karl-Thomas Grässel	Yamaha	11	+2:55.79
24	Eero Hyvärinen	Yamaha	11	+3:16.23
	Paolo Pileri	Morbidelli			2
	Leif Gustafsson	Yamaha			4
	Richard Hubin	Yamaha			8
	Tom Herron	Yamaha			12
	Jean-François Baldé	Kawasaki			13
40 starters in total
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50 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	Ricardo Tormo	Bultaco	8	38:47.11	1	15
2	Claudio Lusuardi	Bultaco	8	+2:24.29	6	12
3	Henk van Kessel	Sparton	8	+2:46.19	13	10
4	Enrico Cereda	DRS	8	+2:46.77	7	8
5	Reiner Scheidhauer	Kreidler	8	+2:47.28	8	6
6	Aldo Pero	Kreidler	8	+3:18.51	12	5
7	Luigi Rinaudo	Tomos	8	+3:42.61	18	4
8	Patrick Plisson	ABF	8	+3:50.05	17	3
9	Zbyned Havrda	Kreidler	8	+3:51.59		2
10	Wolfgang Müller	Kreidler	8	+4:23.98	9	1
11	Ingo Emmerich	Kreidler	8	+4:24.57	11
12	Cees van Dongen	Kreidler	8	+4:36.71
13	Daniel Corvi	Kreidler	8	+4:38.70	4
14	Chris Baert	Kreidler	8	+4:51.86
15	Bruno di Carlo	Kreidler	8	+5:11.73
16	Wolfgang Glawaty	Kreidler	8	+5:30.71
17	Otto Machinek	Kreidler	7	+1 lap
18	Ove Skifjeld	Kreidler	7	+1 lap
19	Henrique Sande	Kreidler	7	+1 lap	5
20	O. Krmicek	Kreidler	6	+2 laps
	Stefan Dörflinger	Kreidler			2
	Eugenio Lazzarini	Kreidler			3
	Hagen Klein	Kreidler			10
	Pierre Dumont	Kreidler			14
	Rolf Blatter	Kreidler			15
	Hans Hummel	Kreidler			16
	Günter Schirnhofer	Kreidler			19
	Theo Timmer	Kreidler			20
34 starters in total
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Sidecar classification

Pos	Rider	Passenger	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	Alain Michel	Stu Collins	Seymaz-Yamaha	11	46:22.09	2	15
2	Rolf Biland	Kenny Williams	TTM-Yamaha	11	+21.11	3	12
3	Dick Greasley	Gordon Russell	Busch-Yamaha	11	+22.27	7	10
4	Jock Taylor	James Neil	Windle-Yamaha	11	+40.14	4	8
5	Hermann Schmid	Kenny Arthur	Schmid-Yamaha	11	+1:15.03	8	6
6	Max Venus	Norbert Bittermann	CAT-Yamaha	11	+1:18.93	9	5
7	Siegfried Schauzu	Lorenzo Puzo	Busch-Yamaha	11	+2:15.02	11	4
8	Cees Smit	Jan Smit	Seymaz-Yamaha	11	+2:21.90		3
9	Amedeo Zini	Andrea Fornaro	Busch-König	11	+2:25.37		2
10	Egbert Streuer	Johann van der Kaap	Schmid-Yamaha	11	+3:04.12		1
11	Klaus Sprengel	Manfred Kürnsteiner	Suzuki	11	+3:26.94
12	Kurt Jelonek	V. Knapp	König	11	+3:47.02
13	Gerald Corbaz	Roland Gabriel	Schmid-Yamaha	10	+1 lap
14	Kalevi Rahko	Kari Laatikäinen	Schmid-Yamaha	10	+1 lap
15	Heinz Thevissen	Lothar Klein	HTS-Yamaha	10	+1 lap
16	Heinz Luthringhauser	Hermann Hahnn	BMW	10	+1 lap
17	Ted Janssen	Dennis Keen	Yamaha	5	+6 laps
	Werner Schwärzel	Andreas Huber	Fath			1
	Rolf Steinhausen	Wolfgang Kalauch	Seymaz-Yamaha			5
	Bruno Holzer	Karl Meierhans	LCR-Yamaha			6
	Göte Brodin	B. Gäl-Iros	Yamaha			10
	George O'Dell	Cliff Holland	Seymaz-Yamaha			12
	Hermann Huber	Bernd Schappacher	König			13
	Otto Haller	Rainer Gundel	MKM-Yamaha			14
	Gustav Pape	Franz Kallenberg	König			15
30 starters in total
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References

1. Coleman, Barry (ed.). Motocourse 1978-1979. Hazleton Securities Ltd. p. 133. ISBN 0-905138-06-6.