Race · Round 9 of 15 · 14 July 1979

1979 British Grand Prix

Clay Regazzoni won for Williams from 4th on the grid at Silverstone Circuit. 10 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship race win for Williams.

Circuit: Silverstone CircuitSilverstone, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom
Winner: Clay RegazzoniWilliams
Pole: Alan Jones
Fastest lap: Clay Regazzoni
Entries: 2614 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Clay Regazzoni	Williams	—	4	68	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Rene Arnoux	Renault	—	5	68	Finished	6
3	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Tyrrell	009	16	67	Finished	4
4	John Watson	McLaren	—	7	67	Finished	3
5	Jody Scheckter	Ferrari	—	11	67	Finished	2
6	Jacky Ickx	Ligier	JS11	17	67	Finished	1
7	Patrick Tambay	McLaren	—	18	66	Out of fuel	0
8	Carlos Reutemann	Team Lotus	—	8	66	Finished	0
9	Héctor Rebaque	Team Lotus	79	24	66	Finished	0
10	Didier Pironi	Tyrrell	009	15	66	Finished	0
11	Jan Lammers	Shadow	DN9	21	65	Finished	0
12	Elio de Angelis	Shadow	DN9	12	65	Finished	0
13	Patrick Gaillard	Ensign	—	23	65	Finished	0
14	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	—	13	63	Fuel system	0
DNF	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	—	19	45	Gearbox	0
DNF	Keke Rosberg	Walter Wolf Racing	—	14	44	Fuel system	0
DNF	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	JS11	10	44	Engine	0
DNF	Alan Jones	Williams	—	1	38	Water pump	0
DNF	Jochen Mass	Arrows	—	20	37	Gearbox	0
DNF	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	—	22	25	Engine	0
DNF	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	—	2	21	Turbo	0
DNF	Niki Lauda	Brabham	—	6	12	Brakes	0
DNF	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	—	9	3	Wheel bearing	0
DNF	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	—	3	1	Spun off	0
DNQ	Hans-Joachim Stuck	ATS	—	—	—	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 silverstone-2 · 4.719 km · 9 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
Clay Regazzoni	4	1	68
Rene Arnoux	5	2	68
Jean-Pierre Jarier	16	3	67
John Watson	7	4	67
Jody Scheckter	11	5	67
Jacky Ickx	17	6	67
Patrick Tambay	18	7	66
Carlos Reutemann	8	8	66
Héctor Rebaque	24	9	66
Didier Pironi	15	10	66
Jan Lammers	21	11	65
Elio de Angelis	12	12	65
Patrick Gaillard	23	13	65
Gilles Villeneuve	13	14	63
Riccardo Patrese	19	DNF	45
Keke Rosberg	14	DNF	44
Jacques Laffite	10	DNF	44
Alan Jones	1	DNF	38
Jochen Mass	20	DNF	37
Emerson Fittipaldi	22	DNF	25
Jean-Pierre Jabouille	2	DNF	21
Niki Lauda	6	DNF	12
Mario Andretti	9	DNF	3
Nelson Piquet	3	DNF	1

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Alan Jones	Williams	27	1:11.880	—	—
2	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	15	1:12.480	+0.600	+0.600
3	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	6	1:12.650	+0.770	+0.170
4	Clay Regazzoni	Williams	28	1:13.110	+1.230	+0.460
5	Rene Arnoux	Renault	16	1:13.290	+1.410	+0.180
6	Niki Lauda	Brabham	5	1:13.440	+1.560	+0.150
7	John Watson	McLaren	7	1:13.570	+1.690	+0.130
8	Carlos Reutemann	Team Lotus	2	1:13.870	+1.990	+0.300
9	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	1	1:14.200	+2.320	+0.330
10	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:14.370	+2.490	+0.170
11	Jody Scheckter	Ferrari	11	1:14.600	+2.720	+0.230
12	Elio de Angelis	Shadow	18	1:14.870	+2.990	+0.270
13	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	12	1:14.900	+3.020	+0.030
14	Keke Rosberg	Walter Wolf Racing	20	1:14.960	+3.080	+0.060
15	Didier Pironi	Tyrrell	3	1:15.280	+3.400	+0.320
16	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Tyrrell	4	1:15.630	+3.750	+0.350
17	Jacky Ickx	Ligier	25	1:15.630	+3.750	+0.000
18	Patrick Tambay	McLaren	8	1:15.670	+3.790	+0.040
19	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	29	1:15.770	+3.890	+0.100
20	Jochen Mass	Arrows	30	1:16.190	+4.310	+0.420
21	Jan Lammers	Shadow	17	1:16.660	+4.780	+0.470
22	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	14	1:16.680	+4.800	+0.020
23	Patrick Gaillard	Ensign	22	1:17.070	+5.190	+0.390
24	Héctor Rebaque	Team Lotus	31	1:17.320	+5.440	+0.250
25	Hans-Joachim Stuck	ATS	9	1:17.440	+5.560	+0.120
26	Arturo Merzario	Merzario	24	1:19.570	+7.690	+2.130

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.

Photographs from this race

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Everything filed under 1979 British Grand Prix on Wikimedia Commons

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: 9 of 1979
Grand Prix: British Grand Prix
Dates: 14 Jul 1979
Layout raced: With Woodcote chicane · 4.719 km
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Williams
Entrant: Williams-Ford
Confidence: reference

The layout raced and its figures are this register’s, from its own sources; the figures under the race’s drawing are F1DB’s, and at some circuits the two disagree.