Race · Round 4 of 15 ·
1979 United States Grand Prix West
Gilles Villeneuve won for Ferrari from pole at Long Beach. 15 of the starters were not classified.
- Circuit
- Long BeachLong Beach, California, United States of America
- Winner
- Gilles VilleneuveFerrari
- Fastest lap
- Gilles Villeneuve
- Entries
- 269 classified
Classification
A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.
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.
Qualifying
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | No. | Time | Gap | Interval |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gilles Villeneuve | Ferrari | 12 | 1:18.825 | — | — |
| 2 | Carlos Reutemann | Team Lotus | 2 | 1:18.886 | +0.061 | +0.061 |
| 3 | Jody Scheckter | Ferrari | 11 | 1:18.911 | +0.086 | +0.025 |
| 4 | Patrick Depailler | Ligier | 25 | 1:19.025 | +0.200 | +0.114 |
| 5 | Jacques Laffite | Ligier | 26 | 1:19.032 | +0.207 | +0.007 |
| 6 | Mario Andretti | Team Lotus | 1 | 1:19.454 | +0.629 | +0.422 |
| 7 | Jean-Pierre Jarier | Tyrrell | 4 | 1:19.580 | +0.755 | +0.126 |
| 8 | James Hunt | Walter Wolf Racing | 20 | 1:19.643 | +0.818 | +0.063 |
| 9 | Riccardo Patrese | Arrows | 29 | 1:19.727 | +0.902 | +0.084 |
| 10 | Alan Jones | Williams | 27 | 1:19.910 | +1.085 | +0.183 |
| 11 | Niki Lauda | Brabham | 5 | 1:20.041 | +1.216 | +0.131 |
| 12 | Nelson Piquet | Brabham | 6 | 1:20.456 | +1.631 | +0.415 |
| 13 | Jochen Mass | Arrows | 30 | 1:20.608 | +1.783 | +0.152 |
| 14 | Jan Lammers | Shadow | 17 | 1:20.740 | +1.915 | +0.132 |
| 15 | Clay Regazzoni | Williams | 28 | 1:20.768 | +1.943 | +0.028 |
| 16 | Emerson Fittipaldi | Fittipaldi | 14 | 1:21.033 | +2.208 | +0.265 |
| 17 | Didier Pironi | Tyrrell | 3 | 1:21.192 | +2.367 | +0.159 |
| 18 | John Watson | McLaren | 7 | 1:21.304 | +2.479 | +0.112 |
| 19 | Patrick Tambay | McLaren | 8 | 1:21.411 | +2.586 | +0.107 |
| 20 | Jean-Pierre Jabouille | Renault | 15 | 1:21.635 | +2.810 | +0.224 |
| 21 | Elio de Angelis | Shadow | 18 | 1:21.961 | +3.136 | +0.326 |
| 22 | Rene Arnoux | Renault | 16 | 1:22.088 | +3.263 | +0.127 |
| 23 | Hans-Joachim Stuck | ATS | 9 | 1:22.828 | +4.003 | +0.740 |
| 24 | Arturo Merzario | Merzario | 24 | 1:22.938 | +4.113 | +0.110 |
| 25 | Héctor Rebaque | Team Lotus | 31 | 1:22.990 | +4.165 | +0.052 |
| 26 | Derek Daly | Ensign | 22 | 1:23.888 | +5.063 | +0.898 |
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.
Ligier JS11
Jacques Laffite Ligier JS11 15 2019 Silverstone Classic (48557917442) · https://www.flickr.com/photos/davehamster/ · CC BY 2.0
Tyrrell 009
Tyrrell 009 Mont-Tremblant Esses · John Chapman ( Pyrope ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Shadow DN9
Elio de Angelis - Shadow DN9B at Druids Bend at the 1979 Race of Champions (50140833091) · Martin Lee from London, UK · CC BY-SA 2.0
Lotus 79
Ronnie Peterson - Lotus 79 at Druids at the 1978 British Grand Prix (50050520537) · Martin Lee from London, UK · CC BY-SA 2.0Where this comes from
- Round
- 4 of 1979
- Grand Prix
- United States Grand Prix West
- Dates
- 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.