F1 pole positions
Polesitters
- First pole position (drivers)
- No driver took their first pole position in 1978
- Last pole position (drivers)
- Jean-Pierre Jarier
- Niki Lauda
- Ronnie Peterson
- John Watson
- First pole position (constructors)
- No constructor took their first pole position in 1978
- Last pole position (constructors)
- No constructor took their last pole position in 1978
- First pole position since…
- 1974 for Carlos Reutemann
- 1975 for Jean-Pierre Jarier
- 1976 for Ronnie Peterson
- Last pole position until…
- 1980 for Brabham
- 1982 for Mario Andretti
- 1983 for Lotus
- First pole position by a…
- Argentine driver since 1974
- French driver since 1976
- Swedish driver since 1976
- Last pole position by a…
- Argentine driver until 1981
- American driver until 1982
- British driver until 1984
- Austrian driver until 1987