Race · Round 7 of 15 · 27 May 1979

1979 Monaco Grand Prix

Jody Scheckter won for Ferrari from pole at Circuit de Monaco. 12 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: Circuit de MonacoMonte Carlo, Monaco
Winner: Jody ScheckterFerrari
Pole: Jody Scheckter
Fastest lap: Patrick Depailler
Entries: 258 classified

Two sources disagree about this race

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DNPQagainstDNQ

F1DB's race result has Brancatelli DNPQ. He is slowest of the three on its pre-qualifying sheet, behind Hans-Joachim Stuck and Jochen Mass, but its qualifying sheet holds all three - him 25th with no time - which says he went through. The race article sides with the race result: two went through, and it lists him as not pre-qualifying, on 1:38.15, and leaves him out of its qualifying table. Both F1DB rows are kept as published. Source: https://github.com/f1db/f1db/tree/main/src/data/seasons/1979/races/07-monaco (race-results.yml and pre-qualifying-results.yml against qualifying-results.yml); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Monaco_Grand_Prix

Recorded rather than resolved, and open for somebody to settle. Every one is listed on the quality page. If you can settle it against a source that can be checked, report what you have.

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Jody Scheckter	Ferrari	—	1	76	Finished	9
2	Clay Regazzoni	Williams	—	16	76	Finished	6
3	Carlos Reutemann	Team Lotus	—	11	76	Finished	4
4	John Watson	McLaren	—	14	76	Finished	3
5	Patrick Depailler	Ligier	JS11	3	74	Engine	2	fastest lap
6	Jochen Mass	Arrows	—	8	69	Finished	1
7	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	—	18	68	Transmission	0
8	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	—	20	68	Finished	0
DNF	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	JS11	5	55	Gearbox	0
DNF	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	—	2	54	Transmission	0
DNF	Alan Jones	Williams	—	9	43	Steering	0
DNF	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Tyrrell	009	6	34	Suspension	0
DNF	Hans-Joachim Stuck	ATS	—	12	30	Wheel	0
DNF	Niki Lauda	Brabham	—	4	21	Accident	0
DNF	Didier Pironi	Tyrrell	009	7	21	Accident	0
DNF	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	—	13	21	Suspension	0
DNF	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	—	17	17	Engine	0
DNF	Rene Arnoux	Renault	—	19	8	Accident	0
DNF	James Hunt	Walter Wolf Racing	—	10	4	Transmission	0
DNF	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	—	15	4	Suspension	0
DNQ	Elio de Angelis	Shadow	DN9	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Patrick Tambay	McLaren	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Jan Lammers	Shadow	DN9	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Derek Daly	Ensign	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNPQ	Gianfranco Brancatelli	Merzario	—	—	—	DNPQ	0

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

F1DB layout monaco-4 · 3.312 km · 20 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
Jody Scheckter	1	1	76
Clay Regazzoni	16	2	76
Carlos Reutemann	11	3	76
John Watson	14	4	76
Patrick Depailler	3	5	74
Jochen Mass	8	6	69
Nelson Piquet	18	7	68
Jean-Pierre Jabouille	20	8	68
Jacques Laffite	5	DNF	55
Gilles Villeneuve	2	DNF	54
Alan Jones	9	DNF	43
Jean-Pierre Jarier	6	DNF	34
Hans-Joachim Stuck	12	DNF	30
Niki Lauda	4	DNF	21
Didier Pironi	7	DNF	21
Mario Andretti	13	DNF	21
Emerson Fittipaldi	17	DNF	17
Rene Arnoux	19	DNF	8
James Hunt	10	DNF	4
Riccardo Patrese	15	DNF	4

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Jody Scheckter	Ferrari	11	1:26.450	—	—
2	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	12	1:26.520	+0.070	+0.070
3	Patrick Depailler	Ligier	25	1:27.110	+0.660	+0.590
4	Niki Lauda	Brabham	5	1:27.210	+0.760	+0.100
5	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:27.260	+0.810	+0.050
6	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Tyrrell	4	1:27.420	+0.970	+0.160
7	Didier Pironi	Tyrrell	3	1:27.420	+0.970	+0.000
8	Jochen Mass	Arrows	30	1:27.470	+1.020	+0.050
9	Alan Jones	Williams	27	1:27.670	+1.220	+0.200
10	James Hunt	Walter Wolf Racing	20	1:27.960	+1.510	+0.290
11	Carlos Reutemann	Team Lotus	2	1:27.990	+1.540	+0.030
12	Hans-Joachim Stuck	ATS	9	1:28.220	+1.770	+0.230
13	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	1	1:28.230	+1.780	+0.010
14	John Watson	McLaren	7	1:28.230	+1.780	+0.000
15	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	29	1:28.300	+1.850	+0.070
16	Clay Regazzoni	Williams	28	1:28.480	+2.030	+0.180
17	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	14	1:28.490	+2.040	+0.010
18	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	6	1:28.520	+2.070	+0.030
19	Rene Arnoux	Renault	16	1:28.570	+2.120	+0.050
20	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	15	1:28.680	+2.230	+0.110
21	Elio de Angelis	Shadow	18	1:28.700	+2.250	+0.020
22	Patrick Tambay	McLaren	8	1:29.530	+3.080	+0.830
23	Jan Lammers	Shadow	17	1:29.990	+3.540	+0.460
24	Derek Daly	Ensign	22	1:30.180	+3.730	+0.190
25	Gianfranco Brancatelli	Merzario	24	—	—	—

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.

Practice sessions Pre-qualifying

Pre-qualifying

Pre-qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	Interval	Laps
1	Hans-Joachim Stuck	ATS	9	1:33.190	—	—	—
2	Jochen Mass	Arrows	30	1:34.300	+1.110	+1.110	—
3	Gianfranco Brancatelli	Merzario	24	1:38.150	+4.960	+3.850	—

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

Photographs from this race

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6 more photographs

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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: 7 of 1979
Grand Prix: Monaco Grand Prix
Dates: 27 May 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.