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| Round 6 of the FIA Cup for Rally Drivers 1978 | |
| Round 5 of the FIA World Rally Championship 1978 | |
| Start: | 29 May 1978 in Athens |
| Finish: | 2 June 1978 in Athens |
| Distance: | 2763 km including 727 km over 54 special stages |
| Special stage surface: | Gravel with some asphalt |
| Participants: | 160 teams at the start, 37 at the finish |
| Final classification | |||||||
| Pos | Nr | Driver | Nation | Car | Group | Pos | Total time |
| Codriver | Nation | Entrant | Class | Pos | Behind winner | ||
| 1 | 5 | Walter Röhrl | Frg | Fiat 131 Abarth | 4 | 1 | 10:00.50 |
| Christian Geistdörfer | Frg | 3 | 1 | 0.00 | |||
| 2 | 7 | Markku Alén | Fin | Fiat 131 Abarth | 4 | 2 | 10:10.54 |
| Ilkka Kivimäki | Fin | 3 | 2 | 10.04 | |||
| 3 | 12 | Shekhar Mehta | Ken | Datsun 160J | 2 | 1 | 10:23.36 |
| Yvonne Mehta | Ken | 3 | 1 | 22.46 | |||
| 4 | 4 | Harry Källström | Swe | Datsun 160J | 2 | 2 | 10:24.01 |
| Claes Billstam | Swe | 3 | 2 | 23.11 | |||
| 5 | 10 | Achim Warmbold | Frg | Opel Kadett GT/E | 2 | 3 | 10:54.19 |
| Hans Sylvan | Swe | 3 | 3 | 53.29 | |||
| 6 | 8 | 'Siroco' | Gre | Lancia Stratos HF | 4 | 3 | 11:04.17 |
| Manólis Makrinos | Gre | 3 | 3 | 1:03.27 | |||
| 7 | 16 | Billy Coleman | Irl | Ford Escort RS1800 | 4 | 4 | 11:13.49 |
| Jim Porter | Gbr | 3 | 4 | 1:12.59 | |||
| 8 | 29 | Evangelos Gallo | Gre | Toyota Celica | 2 | 4 | 11:36.32 |
| Andreas Arkentis | Gre | 2 | 1 | 1:35.42 | |||
| 9 | 32 | Miloslav Zapadlo | Tch | Škoda 130RS | 2 | 5 | 11:41.23 |
| Jiří Motal | Tch | 1 | 1 | 1:40.33 | |||
| 10 | 20 | Stasys Brundza | Urs | Lada 1600 | 2 | 6 | 11:44.49 |
| Arvydas Girdauskas | Urs | 2 | 2 | 1:43.59 | |||
| 11 | 42 | Carlos Torres | Por | Mazda RX 3 | 1 | 1 | 11:56.21 |
| Pedro de Almeida | Por | 4 | 1 | 1:55.31 | |||
| 12 | 57 | Alain Coppier | Fra | Datsun Violet KPL710 | 1 | 2 | 12:01.54 |
| Robert Jocteur Monrozier | Fra | 2 | 1 | 2:01.04 | |||
| 13 | 19 | John Haugland | Nor | Škoda 130RS | 2 | 7 | 12:11.24 |
| Per Odvar Nyborg | Nor | 1 | 2 | 2:10.34 | |||
| 14 | 11 | 'Iaveris' | Gre | Ford Escort RS1800 | 4 | 5 | 12:12.12 |
| Kóstas Stefanis | Gre | 3 | 5 | 2:11.22 | |||
| 15 | 97 | Pierre Lartigue | Fra | Peugeot 504 | 2 | 8 | 12:14.14 |
| René Ponte | Fra | 3 | 4 | 2:13.24 | |||
| 16 | 145 | Jens-Ole Kristiansen | Den | Opel Kadett GT/E | 1 | 3 | 12:35.06 |
| Niels Erik Pedersen | Den | 3 | 1 | 2:34.16 | |||
| 17 | 158 | Manolis Halivelakis | Gre | Toyota Corolla | 1 | 4 | 13:07.26 |
| Theodoros Korakis | Gre | 1 | 1 | 3:06.36 | |||
| 18 | 52 | Rudi Stohl | Aut | Lada 1600 | 2 | 9 | 13:20.03 |
| Fritz Heisler | Frg | 2 | 3 | 3:19.13 | |||
| 19 | 89 | Ioánnis Bardopoulos | Gre | Ford Escort RS2000 | 1 | 5 | 13:20.27 |
| Ioánnis Vassiliades | Gre | 3 | 2 | 3:19.37 | |||
| 20 | 66 | Hanspeter Ruedin | Sui | Mitsubishi Colt Lancer | 2 | 10 | 13:22.09 |
| Eckardt Ender | Ken | 2 | 4 | 3:21.19 | |||
| 21 | 170 | 'Simetra I' | Gre | Ford Escort | 1 | 6 | 13:26.02 |
| Níkos Generalis | Gre | 1 | 2 | 3:25.12 | |||
| 22 | 94 | Dieter Heimbürger | Gdr | Wartburg 353 W | 2 | 11 | 13:27.52 |
| Roland Weitz | Gdr | 0 | 1 | 3:27.02 | |||
| 23 | 24 | Andrzej Jaroszewicz | Pol | Polski Fiat 125p | 2 | 12 | 13:35.12 |
| Ryszard Żyszkowski | Pol | 2 | 5 | 3:34.22 | |||
| Retirements | |||||||
| SS | Nr | Driver | Nation | Car | Group | Reason | |
| Codriver | Nation | Entrant | Class | ||||
| R17 | 1 | Sandro Munari | Ita | Fiat 131 Abarth | 4 | Suspension | |
| Mario Mannucci | Ita | 3 | |||||
| R42 | 2 | Ove Andersson | Swe | Toyota Celica 2000GT | 2 | Engine | |
| Henry Liddon | Gbr | 3 | |||||
| R15 | 3 | Anders Kulläng | Swe | Opel Kadett GT/E | 2 | Accident | |
| Bruno Berglund | Swe | 3 | |||||
| R11 | 6 | Jean-Pierre Nicolas | Fra | Citroën CX 2400 | 2 | Suspension | |
| Vincent Laverne | Fra | 4 | |||||
| R26 | 9 | Jean-Luc Thérier | Fra | Toyota Celica 2000GT | 2 | Engine | |
| Michel Vial | Fra | 3 | |||||
| R | 14 | Johnny Pesmazoglou | Gre | Opel Kadett GT/E | 2 | Clutch | |
| Haris Kaltsounis | Gre | 3 | |||||
| R | 15 | Georg Fischer | Aut | Datsun Sunny | 2 | ||
| Harald Gottlieb | Aut | 2 | |||||
| R13 | 17 | Iórgos Moschous | Gre | Datsun 160J | 2 | Accident | |
| 'Konstantinos' | Gre | 3 | |||||
| R21 | 18 | Jean-Paul Luc | Fra | Citroën CX 2400 | 2 | Injection | |
| Bruno Charbonnier | Fra | 4 | |||||
| R34 | 21 | 'Leonidas' | Gre | Renault 5 Alpine | 2 | Transmission | |
| Kóstas Fertakis | Gre | 2 | |||||
| R26 | 22 | Henri Toivonen | Fin | Citroën CX 2400 | 2 | Fuel line | |
| Juha Paajanen | Fin | 4 | |||||
| R | 23 | Mihális Moschous | Gre | Ford Escort RS2000 | 2 | ||
| P. Koutsikos | Gre | 3 | |||||
| R1 | 25 | Nikolay Elizarov | Urs | Lada 1600 | 2 | Oil filter | |
| Valentin Grigoriev | Urs | 2 | |||||
| R17 | 26 | René Trautmann | Fra | Citroën CX 2400 | 1 | Accident | |
| Serge Roch | Fra | 4 | |||||
| R | 27 | 'Carlo' | Gre | Renault 5 TS | 2 | ||
| Mihalis Kriadis | Gre | 1 | |||||
| R17 | 28 | Tomasz Ciecierzyński | Pol | Polski Fiat 125p | 2 | Head gasket | |
| Jacek Rózański | Pol | 2 | |||||
| R5 | 30 | Sergey Vukovich | Urs | Lada 1600 | 2 | Transmission | |
| Viktor Moskovski | Urs | 2 | |||||
| R4 | 33 | Włodzimierz Groblewski | Pol | Polski Fiat 125p | 2 | Halfshaft | |
| Jacek Lewandowski | Pol | 2 | |||||
| R | 36 | Marianne Hoepfner | Fra | Toyota Celica | 1 | Suspension | |
| Christine Fourton | Fra | 3 | |||||
| R | 46 | Janina Jedynak | Pol | Polski Fiat 125p | 1 | ||
| Krystyna Dembyńska | Pol | 2 | |||||
| R | 69 | Pierre Fougerouse | Fra | Toyota Celica | 2 | ||
| 'Nanouk' | Fra | 3 | |||||
| R | 103 | Claude Laurent | Fra | Fiat 127 Sport | 2 | Gearbox | |
| Dominique Laurent | Fra | 0 | |||||
| R | 154 | Guy Deladrière | Bel | Alfa Romeo Alfetta GT | 1 | Electrical | |
| R. Denhaut | Bel | 3 | |||||