Race · Round 5 of 15 · 29 April 1979

1979 Spanish Grand Prix

Patrick Depailler won for Ligier from 2nd on the grid at Circuito del Jarama. 10 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: Circuito del JaramaMadrid, Spain
Winner: Patrick DepaillerLigier
Pole: Jacques Laffite
Fastest lap: Gilles Villeneuve
Entries: 2714 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Patrick Depailler	Ligier	JS11	2	75	Finished	9
2	Carlos Reutemann	Team Lotus	—	8	75	Finished	6
3	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	—	4	75	Finished	4
4	Jody Scheckter	Ferrari	—	5	75	Finished	3
5	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Tyrrell	009	12	75	Finished	2
6	Didier Pironi	Tyrrell	009	10	75	Finished	1
7	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	—	3	75	Finished	0	fastest lap
8	Jochen Mass	Arrows	—	17	75	Finished	0
9	Rene Arnoux	Renault	—	11	74	Finished	0
10	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	—	16	74	Finished	0
11	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	—	19	74	Finished	0
12	Jan Lammers	Shadow	DN9	24	73	Finished	0
13	Patrick Tambay	McLaren	—	20	72	Finished	0
14	Hans-Joachim Stuck	ATS	—	21	69	Finished	0
DNF	Niki Lauda	Brabham	—	6	63	Water leak	0
DNF	Héctor Rebaque	Team Lotus	79	23	58	Engine	0
DNF	Alan Jones	Williams	—	13	54	Gearbox	0
DNF	Elio de Angelis	Shadow	DN9	22	52	Engine	0
DNF	Clay Regazzoni	Williams	—	14	32	Engine	0
DNF	James Hunt	Walter Wolf Racing	—	15	26	Brakes	0
DNF	John Watson	McLaren	—	18	21	Engine	0
DNF	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	—	9	21	Turbo	0
DNF	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	JS11	1	15	Engine	0
DNF	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	—	7	15	Injection	0
DNQ	Derek Daly	Ensign	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Arturo Merzario	Merzario	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Gianfranco Brancatelli	Kauhsen	WK	—	—	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 jarama-1 · 3.404 km · 15 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
Patrick Depailler	2	1	75
Carlos Reutemann	8	2	75
Mario Andretti	4	3	75
Jody Scheckter	5	4	75
Jean-Pierre Jarier	12	5	75
Didier Pironi	10	6	75
Gilles Villeneuve	3	7	75
Jochen Mass	17	8	75
Rene Arnoux	11	9	74
Riccardo Patrese	16	10	74
Emerson Fittipaldi	19	11	74
Jan Lammers	24	12	73
Patrick Tambay	20	13	72
Hans-Joachim Stuck	21	14	69
Niki Lauda	6	DNF	63
Héctor Rebaque	23	DNF	58
Alan Jones	13	DNF	54
Elio de Angelis	22	DNF	52
Clay Regazzoni	14	DNF	32
James Hunt	15	DNF	26
John Watson	18	DNF	21
Jean-Pierre Jabouille	9	DNF	21
Jacques Laffite	1	DNF	15
Nelson Piquet	7	DNF	15

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:14.500	—	—
2	Patrick Depailler	Ligier	25	1:14.790	+0.290	+0.290
3	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	12	1:14.820	+0.320	+0.030
4	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	1	1:15.070	+0.570	+0.250
5	Jody Scheckter	Ferrari	11	1:15.100	+0.600	+0.030
6	Niki Lauda	Brabham	5	1:15.450	+0.950	+0.350
7	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	6	1:15.610	+1.110	+0.160
8	Carlos Reutemann	Team Lotus	2	1:15.670	+1.170	+0.060
9	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	15	1:15.780	+1.280	+0.110
10	Didier Pironi	Tyrrell	3	1:16.040	+1.540	+0.260
11	Rene Arnoux	Renault	16	1:16.060	+1.560	+0.020
12	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Tyrrell	4	1:16.080	+1.580	+0.020
13	Alan Jones	Williams	27	1:16.230	+1.730	+0.150
14	Clay Regazzoni	Williams	28	1:16.610	+2.110	+0.380
15	James Hunt	Walter Wolf Racing	20	1:16.880	+2.380	+0.270
16	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	29	1:16.920	+2.420	+0.040
17	Jochen Mass	Arrows	30	1:17.040	+2.540	+0.120
18	John Watson	McLaren	7	1:17.110	+2.610	+0.070
19	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	14	1:17.350	+2.850	+0.240
20	Patrick Tambay	McLaren	8	1:17.450	+2.950	+0.100
21	Hans-Joachim Stuck	ATS	9	1:17.570	+3.070	+0.120
22	Elio de Angelis	Shadow	18	1:17.850	+3.350	+0.280
23	Héctor Rebaque	Team Lotus	31	1:18.420	+3.920	+0.570
24	Jan Lammers	Shadow	17	1:18.790	+4.290	+0.370
25	Derek Daly	Ensign	22	1:19.300	+4.800	+0.510
26	Arturo Merzario	Merzario	24	1:20.460	+5.960	+1.160
27	Gianfranco Brancatelli	Kauhsen	36	1:23.240	+8.740	+2.780

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: 5 of 1979
Grand Prix: Spanish Grand Prix
Dates: 29 Apr 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.