Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Kotahi te huringa i muri i te tere, a, ka mutu i te 19 i Buenos Aires i te 1978 Argentine Grand Prix. Ko te McLaren a Lunger te 20 i Rio de Janeiro i te 1978 Brazilian Grand Prix a ko te 11 i Johannesburg i te
1978 South African Grand Prix, i te marama o Poutu-te-rangi. I tiimata a Lunger i te 24, i te tuunga whakamutunga, mo te 1978 British Grand Prix i Brands Hatch. Ko tana wa tohu ko te 1: 20.39. I haere tonu ia ki te tohu i tana mahi F1 pai rawa atu, te 8 o nga waahi, ahakoa, kotahi te huringa i muri i te toa a Carlos Reutemann. I te 1978 Austrian Grand Prix i mutu ia i te 8th, 2 nga huringa i muri i te tere toa. I tiimata a Lunger mai i te tuunga 24 i te United States Grand Prix 1978. Ko tōna wā ko te 1:43.067. I mutu ia i te tekau mā toru.