Race · Round 15 of 15 · 7 October 1979

1979 United States Grand Prix

Gilles Villeneuve won for Ferrari from 3rd on the grid at Watkins Glen. 16 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: Watkins GlenWatkins Glen, New York, United States of America
Winner: Gilles VilleneuveFerrari
Pole: Alan Jones
Fastest lap: Nelson Piquet
Entries: 308 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	—	3	59	Finished	9
2	Rene Arnoux	Renault	—	7	59	Finished	6
3	Didier Pironi	Tyrrell	009	10	59	Finished	4
4	Elio de Angelis	Shadow	DN9	20	59	Finished	3
5	Hans-Joachim Stuck	ATS	—	14	59	Finished	2
6	John Watson	McLaren	—	13	58	Finished	1
7	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	—	23	54	Finished	0
8	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	BT49	2	53	Transmission	0	fastest lap
DNF	Derek Daly	Tyrrell	009	15	52	Spun off	0
DNF	Jody Scheckter	Ferrari	—	16	48	Tyre	0
DNF	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	—	19	44	Suspension	0
DNF	Alan Jones	Williams	—	1	36	Wheel	0
DNF	Marc Surer	Ensign	—	21	32	Engine	0
DNF	Clay Regazzoni	Williams	—	5	29	Accident	0
DNF	Ricardo Zunino	Brabham	BT49	9	25	Spun off	0
DNF	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	—	8	24	Engine	0
DNF	Patrick Tambay	McLaren	—	22	20	Engine	0
DNF	Keke Rosberg	Walter Wolf Racing	—	12	20	Accident	0
DNF	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Tyrrell	009	11	18	Accident	0
DNF	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	—	17	16	Gearbox	0
DNF	Carlos Reutemann	Team Lotus	—	6	6	Spun off	0
DNF	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	JS11	4	3	Spun off	0
DNF	Jacky Ickx	Ligier	JS11	24	2	Spun off	0
DNF	Bruno Giacomelli	Alfa Romeo	—	18	0	Spun off	0
DNQ	Vittorio Brambilla	Alfa Romeo	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Jochen Mass	Arrows	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Jan Lammers	Shadow	DN9	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Héctor Rebaque	Rebaque	HR100	—	—	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 watkins-glen-3 · 5.435 km · 11 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
Gilles Villeneuve	3	1	59
Rene Arnoux	7	2	59
Didier Pironi	10	3	59
Elio de Angelis	20	4	59
Hans-Joachim Stuck	14	5	59
John Watson	13	6	58
Emerson Fittipaldi	23	7	54
Nelson Piquet	2	8	53
Derek Daly	15	DNF	52
Jody Scheckter	16	DNF	48
Riccardo Patrese	19	DNF	44
Alan Jones	1	DNF	36
Marc Surer	21	DNF	32
Clay Regazzoni	5	DNF	29
Ricardo Zunino	9	DNF	25
Jean-Pierre Jabouille	8	DNF	24
Patrick Tambay	22	DNF	20
Keke Rosberg	12	DNF	20
Jean-Pierre Jarier	11	DNF	18
Mario Andretti	17	DNF	16
Carlos Reutemann	6	DNF	6
Jacques Laffite	4	DNF	3
Jacky Ickx	24	DNF	2
Bruno Giacomelli	18	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Alan Jones	Williams	27	1:35.615	—	—
2	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	6	1:36.914	+1.299	+1.299
3	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	12	1:36.948	+1.333	+0.034
4	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:37.066	+1.451	+0.118
5	Clay Regazzoni	Williams	28	1:37.128	+1.513	+0.062
6	Carlos Reutemann	Team Lotus	2	1:37.872	+2.257	+0.744
7	Rene Arnoux	Renault	16	1:38.195	+2.580	+0.323
8	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	15	1:38.218	+2.603	+0.023
9	Ricardo Zunino	Brabham	5	1:38.509	+2.894	+0.291
10	Didier Pironi	Tyrrell	3	1:38.823	+3.208	+0.314
11	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Tyrrell	4	1:38.945	+3.330	+0.122
12	Keke Rosberg	Walter Wolf Racing	20	1:39.035	+3.420	+0.090
13	John Watson	McLaren	7	1:39.233	+3.618	+0.198
14	Hans-Joachim Stuck	ATS	9	1:39.329	+3.714	+0.096
15	Derek Daly	Tyrrell	33	1:39.468	+3.853	+0.139
16	Jody Scheckter	Ferrari	11	1:39.576	+3.961	+0.108
17	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	1	1:40.144	+4.529	+0.568
18	Bruno Giacomelli	Alfa Romeo	35	1:40.277	+4.662	+0.133
19	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	29	1:40.337	+4.722	+0.060
20	Elio de Angelis	Shadow	18	1:40.625	+5.010	+0.288
21	Marc Surer	Ensign	22	1:40.635	+5.020	+0.010
22	Patrick Tambay	McLaren	8	1:40.731	+5.116	+0.096
23	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	14	1:40.741	+5.126	+0.010
24	Jacky Ickx	Ligier	25	1:40.745	+5.130	+0.004
25	Vittorio Brambilla	Alfa Romeo	36	1:40.789	+5.174	+0.044
26	Jochen Mass	Arrows	30	1:40.824	+5.209	+0.035
27	Jan Lammers	Shadow	17	1:42.088	+6.473	+1.264
28	Héctor Rebaque	Rebaque	31	1:43.060	+7.445	+0.972
29	Alex Ribeiro	Fittipaldi	19	1:45.183	+9.568	+2.123
30	Arturo Merzario	Merzario	24	1:49.318	+13.703	+4.135

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: 15 of 1979
Grand Prix: United States Grand Prix
Dates: 7 Oct 1979
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Ferrari
Entrant: Ferrari
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.