Race · Round 1 of 15 · 21 January 1979

1979 Argentine Grand Prix

Jacques Laffite won for Ligier from pole at Autodromo Oscar Galvez. 12 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: Autodromo Oscar GalvezBuenos Aires, Argentina
Winner: Jacques LaffiteLigier
Pole: Jacques Laffite
Fastest lap: Jacques Laffite
Entries: 2612 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	JS11	1	53	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Carlos Reutemann	Team Lotus	—	3	53	Finished	6
3	John Watson	McLaren	—	6	53	Finished	4
4	Patrick Depailler	Ligier	JS11	2	53	Finished	3
5	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	—	7	52	Finished	2
6	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	—	11	52	Finished	1
7	Elio de Angelis	Shadow	DN9	16	52	Finished	0
8	Jochen Mass	Arrows	—	14	51	Finished	0
9	Alan Jones	Williams	—	15	51	Finished	0
10	Clay Regazzoni	Williams	—	17	51	Finished	0
11	Derek Daly	Ensign	—	24	51	Finished	0
12	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	—	10	48	Engine	0
DNF	Héctor Rebaque	Team Lotus	79	19	46	Suspension	0
DNF	Jan Lammers	Shadow	DN9	21	42	Transmission	0
DNF	James Hunt	Walter Wolf Racing	—	18	41	Electrical	0
DNF	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Tyrrell	009	4	15	Engine	0
DNF	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	—	12	15	Engine	0
DNF	Niki Lauda	Brabham	—	23	8	Fuel system	0
DNF	Rene Arnoux	Renault	—	25	6	Engine	0
DNF	Jody Scheckter	Ferrari	—	5	0	Collision	0
DNF	Didier Pironi	Tyrrell	009	8	0	Collision	0
DNF	Patrick Tambay	McLaren	—	9	0	Collision	0
DNF	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	—	20	0	Collision	0
DNF	Arturo Merzario	Merzario	—	22	0	Collision	0
DNS	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	—	13	—	Accident	0
DNS	Hans-Joachim Stuck	ATS	—	—	—	Car not ready	0

A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.

F1DB layout buenos-aires-3 · 5.968 km · 16 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Jacques Laffite	1	1	53
Carlos Reutemann	3	2	53
John Watson	6	3	53
Patrick Depailler	2	4	53
Mario Andretti	7	5	52
Emerson Fittipaldi	11	6	52
Elio de Angelis	16	7	52
Jochen Mass	14	8	51
Alan Jones	15	9	51
Clay Regazzoni	17	10	51
Derek Daly	24	11	51
Gilles Villeneuve	10	12	48
Héctor Rebaque	19	DNF	46
Jan Lammers	21	DNF	42
James Hunt	18	DNF	41
Jean-Pierre Jarier	4	DNF	15
Jean-Pierre Jabouille	12	DNF	15
Niki Lauda	23	DNF	8
Rene Arnoux	25	DNF	6
Jody Scheckter	5	DNF	0
Didier Pironi	8	DNF	0
Patrick Tambay	9	DNF	0
Nelson Piquet	20	DNF	0
Arturo Merzario	22	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:44.200	—	—
2	Patrick Depailler	Ligier	25	1:45.240	+1.040	+1.040
3	Carlos Reutemann	Team Lotus	2	1:45.340	+1.140	+0.100
4	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Tyrrell	4	1:45.360	+1.160	+0.020
5	Jody Scheckter	Ferrari	11	1:45.580	+1.380	+0.220
6	John Watson	McLaren	7	1:45.760	+1.560	+0.180
7	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	1	1:45.960	+1.760	+0.200
8	Didier Pironi	Tyrrell	3	1:46.430	+2.230	+0.470
9	Patrick Tambay	McLaren	8	1:46.560	+2.360	+0.130
10	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	12	1:46.880	+2.680	+0.320
11	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	14	1:47.150	+2.950	+0.270
12	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	15	1:47.460	+3.260	+0.310
13	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	29	1:48.330	+4.130	+0.870
14	Jochen Mass	Arrows	30	1:48.340	+4.140	+0.010
15	Alan Jones	Williams	27	1:48.440	+4.240	+0.100
16	Elio de Angelis	Shadow	18	1:48.510	+4.310	+0.070
17	Clay Regazzoni	Williams	28	1:48.640	+4.440	+0.130
18	James Hunt	Walter Wolf Racing	20	1:48.770	+4.570	+0.130
19	Héctor Rebaque	Team Lotus	31	1:49.360	+5.160	+0.590
20	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	6	1:49.490	+5.290	+0.130
21	Jan Lammers	Shadow	17	1:49.510	+5.310	+0.020
22	Arturo Merzario	Merzario	24	1:50.260	+6.060	+0.750
23	Niki Lauda	Brabham	5	1:50.290	+6.090	+0.030
24	Derek Daly	Ensign	22	1:51.050	+6.850	+0.760
25	Hans-Joachim Stuck	ATS	9	1:51.280	+7.080	+0.230
26	Rene Arnoux	Renault	16	1:51.520	+7.320	+0.240

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

Pit stops

Pit stops are recorded from 1994. F1DB, the source of every stop here, holds none before then, so this race has no stints to draw.

Photographs from this race

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2 more photographs

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The cars in this race

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Where this comes from

Round: 1 of 1979
Grand Prix: Argentine Grand Prix
Dates: 21 Jan 1979
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Ligier
Entrant: Ligier-Ford
Confidence: reference

No layout is recorded for this round: this register has no layout timeline for the circuit, and a blank here is better than a guess.