Race · Round 10 of 15 · 29 July 1979

1979 German Grand Prix

Alan Jones won for Williams from 2nd on the grid at Hockenheimring. 12 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: HockenheimringHockenheim, Germany
Winner: Alan JonesWilliams
Pole: Jean-Pierre Jabouille
Fastest lap: Gilles Villeneuve
Entries: 2612 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Alan Jones	Williams	—	2	45	Finished	9
2	Clay Regazzoni	Williams	—	6	45	Finished	6
3	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	JS11	3	45	Finished	4
4	Jody Scheckter	Ferrari	—	5	45	Finished	3
5	John Watson	McLaren	—	12	45	Finished	2
6	Jochen Mass	Arrows	—	18	44	Finished	1
7	Geoff Lees	Tyrrell	009	16	44	Finished	0
8	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	—	9	44	Finished	0	fastest lap
9	Didier Pironi	Tyrrell	009	8	44	Finished	0
10	Jan Lammers	Shadow	DN9	20	44	Finished	0
11	Elio de Angelis	Shadow	DN9	21	43	Finished	0
12	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	—	4	42	Engine	0
DNF	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	—	19	34	Tyre	0
DNF	Patrick Tambay	McLaren	—	15	30	Suspension	0
DNF	Keke Rosberg	Walter Wolf Racing	—	17	29	Engine	0
DNF	Niki Lauda	Brabham	—	7	27	Engine	0
DNF	Jacky Ickx	Ligier	JS11	14	24	Tyre	0
DNF	Héctor Rebaque	Team Lotus	79	24	22	Handling	0
DNF	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	—	11	16	Transmission	0
DNF	Rene Arnoux	Renault	—	10	9	Tyre	0
DNF	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	—	1	7	Spun off	0
DNF	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	—	22	4	Electrical	0
DNF	Carlos Reutemann	Team Lotus	—	13	1	Accident	0
DNF	Hans-Joachim Stuck	ATS	—	23	0	Suspension	0
DNQ	Patrick Gaillard	Ensign	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Arturo Merzario	Merzario	—	—	—	DNQ	0

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

F1DB layout hockenheimring-1 · 6.79 km · 14 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
Alan Jones	2	1	45
Clay Regazzoni	6	2	45
Jacques Laffite	3	3	45
Jody Scheckter	5	4	45
John Watson	12	5	45
Jochen Mass	18	6	44
Geoff Lees	16	7	44
Gilles Villeneuve	9	8	44
Didier Pironi	8	9	44
Jan Lammers	20	10	44
Elio de Angelis	21	11	43
Nelson Piquet	4	12	42
Riccardo Patrese	19	DNF	34
Patrick Tambay	15	DNF	30
Keke Rosberg	17	DNF	29
Niki Lauda	7	DNF	27
Jacky Ickx	14	DNF	24
Héctor Rebaque	24	DNF	22
Mario Andretti	11	DNF	16
Rene Arnoux	10	DNF	9
Jean-Pierre Jabouille	1	DNF	7
Emerson Fittipaldi	22	DNF	4
Carlos Reutemann	13	DNF	1
Hans-Joachim Stuck	23	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	15	1:48.480	—	—
2	Alan Jones	Williams	27	1:48.750	+0.270	+0.270
3	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:49.430	+0.950	+0.680
4	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	6	1:49.500	+1.020	+0.070
5	Jody Scheckter	Ferrari	11	1:50.000	+1.520	+0.500
6	Clay Regazzoni	Williams	28	1:50.120	+1.640	+0.120
7	Niki Lauda	Brabham	5	1:50.370	+1.890	+0.250
8	Didier Pironi	Tyrrell	3	1:50.400	+1.920	+0.030
9	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	12	1:50.410	+1.930	+0.010
10	Rene Arnoux	Renault	16	1:50.480	+2.000	+0.070
11	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	1	1:50.680	+2.200	+0.200
12	John Watson	McLaren	7	1:50.860	+2.380	+0.180
13	Carlos Reutemann	Team Lotus	2	1:50.940	+2.460	+0.080
14	Jacky Ickx	Ligier	25	1:51.070	+2.590	+0.130
15	Patrick Tambay	McLaren	8	1:51.470	+2.990	+0.400
16	Geoff Lees	Tyrrell	4	1:51.500	+3.020	+0.030
17	Keke Rosberg	Walter Wolf Racing	20	1:52.010	+3.530	+0.510
18	Jochen Mass	Arrows	30	1:52.740	+4.260	+0.730
19	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	29	1:52.930	+4.450	+0.190
20	Jan Lammers	Shadow	17	1:53.590	+5.110	+0.660
21	Elio de Angelis	Shadow	18	1:53.730	+5.250	+0.140
22	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	14	1:54.010	+5.530	+0.280
23	Hans-Joachim Stuck	ATS	9	1:54.470	+5.990	+0.460
24	Héctor Rebaque	Team Lotus	31	1:55.860	+7.380	+1.390
25	Patrick Gaillard	Ensign	22	1:55.950	+7.470	+0.090
26	Arturo Merzario	Merzario	24	2:01.840	+13.360	+5.890

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.

The cars in this race

The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.

Where this comes from

Round: 10 of 1979
Grand Prix: German Grand Prix
Dates: 29 Jul 1979
Layout raced: Forest circuit · 6.79 km · 14 turns
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Williams
Entrant: Williams-Ford
Confidence: reference

The layout raced and its figures are this register’s, from its own sources; the figures under the race’s drawing are F1DB’s, and at some circuits the two disagree.