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1979 Season
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1979 Canadian GP
1978 United States GP

1979 United States GP

1979 Bradford & Bingley Trophy
1980 Argentine GP
1980 United States GP
October 7, Watkins Glen

Event OverviewSessionsEntry List
Qualifying Qualification
Race Starting GridClassification • Fastest Laps • Laps Led

Fastest Laps

PosCar NoDriverCar / EngineLapTimeDiffPercentageSpeed (km/h)
1
6
 Nélson Piquet  Brabham / Ford
51
1'40.054 - 100.0% 195.554
2
7
 John Watson  McLaren / Ford
52
1'40.264 0.210 100.2% 195.145
3
16
 René Arnoux  Renault / Renault
48
1'41.322 1.268 101.3% 193.107
4
12
 Gilles Villeneuve  Ferrari / Ferrari
38
1'42.029 1.975 102.0% 191.769
5
3
 Didier Pironi  Tyrrell / Ford
56
1'42.108 2.054 102.1% 191.621
6
18
 Elio de Angelis  Shadow / Ford
41
1'42.147 2.093 102.1% 191.547
7
33
 Derek Daly  Tyrrell / Ford
49
1'42.887 2.833 102.8% 190.170
8
9
 Hans-Joachim Stuck  ATS / Ford
44
1'43.400 3.346 103.3% 189.226
9
11
 Jody Scheckter  Ferrari / Ferrari
45
1'43.574 3.520 103.5% 188.908
10
29
 Riccardo Patrese  Arrows / Ford
4
1'46.278 6.224 106.2% 184.102
11
27
 Alan Jones  Williams / Ford
3
1'47.622 7.568 107.6% 181.803
12
28
 Clay Regazzoni  Williams / Ford
29
1'48.378 8.324 108.3% 180.535
13
14
 Emerson Fittipaldi  Fittipaldi / Ford
48
1'53.048 12.994 113.0% 173.077
14
22
 Marc Surer  Ensign / Ford
30
1'57.377 17.323 117.3% 166.694
15
15
 Jean-Pierre Jabouille  Renault / Renault
17
1'59.042 18.988 119.0% 164.362
16
4
 Jean-Pierre Jarier  Tyrrell / Ford
17
2'00.685 20.631 120.6% 162.125
17
20
 Keke Rosberg  Wolf / Ford
17
2'01.546 21.492 121.5% 160.976
18
2
 Carlos Reutemann  Lotus / Ford
5
2'01.981 21.927 121.9% 160.402
19
5
 Ricardo Zunino  Brabham / Ford
25
2'02.393 22.339 122.3% 159.862
20
8
 Patrick Tambay  McLaren / Ford
15
2'03.637 23.583 123.6% 158.254
21
1
 Mario Andretti  Lotus / Ford
14
2'04.813 24.759 124.7% 156.763
22
26
 Jacques Laffite  Ligier / Ford
3
2'08.018 27.964 127.9% 152.838
23
25
 Jacky Ickx  Ligier / Ford
1
2'10.062 30.008 130.0% 150.436