Race · Round 14 of 15 · 30 September 1979

1979 Canadian Grand Prix

Alan Jones won for Williams from pole at Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve. 14 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: Circuit Gilles-VilleneuveMontreal, Canada
Winner: Alan JonesWilliams
Pole: Alan Jones
Fastest lap: Alan Jones
Entries: 2910 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Alan Jones	Williams	—	1	72	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	—	2	72	Finished	6
3	Clay Regazzoni	Williams	—	3	72	Finished	4
4	Jody Scheckter	Ferrari	—	9	71	Finished	3
5	Didier Pironi	Tyrrell	009	6	71	Finished	2
6	John Watson	McLaren	—	17	70	Finished	1
7	Ricardo Zunino	Brabham	BT49	19	68	Finished	0
8	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	—	15	67	Finished	0
9	Jan Lammers	Shadow	DN9	21	67	Finished	0
10	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	—	10	66	Out of fuel	0
DNF	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	BT49	4	61	Gearbox	0
DNF	Vittorio Brambilla	Alfa Romeo	—	18	52	Fuel system	0
DNF	Jacky Ickx	Ligier	JS11	16	47	Gearbox	0
DNF	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Tyrrell	009	13	33	Engine	0
DNF	Derek Daly	Tyrrell	009	24	28	Engine	0
DNF	Héctor Rebaque	Rebaque	HR100	22	26	Chassis	0
DNF	Elio de Angelis	Shadow	DN9	23	24	Ignition	0
DNF	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	—	7	24	Brakes	0
DNF	Carlos Reutemann	Team Lotus	—	11	23	Suspension	0
DNF	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	—	14	20	Spun off	0
DNF	Patrick Tambay	McLaren	—	20	19	Engine	0
DNF	Rene Arnoux	Renault	—	8	14	Accident	0
DNF	Hans-Joachim Stuck	ATS	—	12	14	Accident	0
DNF	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	JS11	5	10	Engine	0
DNQ	Jochen Mass	Arrows	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Marc Surer	Ensign	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Keke Rosberg	Walter Wolf Racing	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Alex Ribeiro	Fittipaldi	—	—	—	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 montreal-2 · 4.41 km · 19 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	1	1	72
Gilles Villeneuve	2	2	72
Clay Regazzoni	3	3	72
Jody Scheckter	9	4	71
Didier Pironi	6	5	71
John Watson	17	6	70
Ricardo Zunino	19	7	68
Emerson Fittipaldi	15	8	67
Jan Lammers	21	9	67
Mario Andretti	10	10	66
Nelson Piquet	4	DNF	61
Vittorio Brambilla	18	DNF	52
Jacky Ickx	16	DNF	47
Jean-Pierre Jarier	13	DNF	33
Derek Daly	24	DNF	28
Héctor Rebaque	22	DNF	26
Elio de Angelis	23	DNF	24
Jean-Pierre Jabouille	7	DNF	24
Carlos Reutemann	11	DNF	23
Riccardo Patrese	14	DNF	20
Patrick Tambay	20	DNF	19
Rene Arnoux	8	DNF	14
Hans-Joachim Stuck	12	DNF	14
Jacques Laffite	5	DNF	10

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Alan Jones	Williams	27	1:29.892	—	—
2	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	12	1:30.554	+0.662	+0.662
3	Clay Regazzoni	Williams	28	1:30.768	+0.876	+0.214
4	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	6	1:30.775	+0.883	+0.007
5	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:30.820	+0.928	+0.045
6	Didier Pironi	Tyrrell	3	1:31.941	+2.049	+1.121
7	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	15	1:32.103	+2.211	+0.162
8	Rene Arnoux	Renault	16	1:32.116	+2.224	+0.013
9	Jody Scheckter	Ferrari	11	1:32.280	+2.388	+0.164
10	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	1	1:32.651	+2.759	+0.371
11	Carlos Reutemann	Team Lotus	2	1:32.682	+2.790	+0.031
12	Hans-Joachim Stuck	ATS	9	1:32.858	+2.966	+0.176
13	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Tyrrell	4	1:33.065	+3.173	+0.207
14	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	29	1:33.090	+3.198	+0.025
15	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	14	1:33.297	+3.405	+0.207
16	Jacky Ickx	Ligier	25	1:33.355	+3.463	+0.058
17	John Watson	McLaren	7	1:33.362	+3.470	+0.007
18	Vittorio Brambilla	Alfa Romeo	36	1:33.378	+3.486	+0.016
19	Ricardo Zunino	Brabham	5	1:33.511	+3.619	+0.133
20	Patrick Tambay	McLaren	8	1:33.603	+3.711	+0.092
21	Jan Lammers	Shadow	17	1:34.102	+4.210	+0.499
22	Héctor Rebaque	Rebaque	31	1:34.129	+4.237	+0.027
23	Elio de Angelis	Shadow	18	1:34.256	+4.364	+0.127
24	Derek Daly	Tyrrell	33	1:34.301	+4.409	+0.045
25	Jochen Mass	Arrows	30	1:34.365	+4.473	+0.064
26	Marc Surer	Ensign	22	1:34.747	+4.855	+0.382
27	Keke Rosberg	Walter Wolf Racing	20	1:35.061	+5.169	+0.314
28	Alex Ribeiro	Fittipaldi	19	1:36.901	+7.009	+1.840
29	Arturo Merzario	Merzario	24	1:37.590	+7.698	+0.689

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.

Brabham BT49
Piquetmonaco · Eric Verplanken · CC BY-SA 3.0 · unchecked

A photograph marked unchecked has a file name that does not name the car it is shown for. Most are still the right car, filed under the driver rather than the machine — but nobody has confirmed these one by one.

Where this comes from

Round: 14 of 1979
Grand Prix: Canadian Grand Prix
Dates: 30 Sep 1979
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Williams
Entrant: Williams-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.