1979

Pos	Driver	Nat	Car	Pts	Wins	Share of the leader
1	Jody Scheckter	South African	Ferrari	51	3
2	GVGilles Villeneuve	Canadian	Ferrari	47	3
3	AJAlan Jones	Australian	Williams	40	4
4	Jacques Laffite	French	Ligier	36	2
5	Clay Regazzoni	Swiss	Williams	29	1
6	Patrick Depailler	French	Ligier	20	1
7	Carlos Reutemann	Argentine	Team Lotus	20	0
8	René Arnoux	French	Renault	17	0
9	John Watson	British	McLaren	15	0
10	Didier Pironi	French	Tyrrell	14	0
11	Jean-Pierre Jarier	French	Tyrrell	14	0
12	Mario Andretti	American	Team Lotus	14	0
13	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	French	Renault	9	1
14	Niki Lauda	Austrian	Brabham-Alfa Romeo / Brabham-Ford	4	0
15	Elio de Angelis	Italian	Shadow	3	0
16	Nelson Piquet	Brazilian	Brabham-Alfa Romeo / Brabham-Ford	3	0
17	Jacky Ickx	Belgian	Ligier	3	0
18	Jochen Mass	German	Arrows	3	0
19	HSHans-Joachim Stuck	German	ATS	2	0
20	Riccardo Patrese	Italian	Arrows	2	0
21	Emerson Fittipaldi	Brazilian	Fittipaldi	1	0
—	Vittorio Brambilla	Italian	Alfa Romeo	0	0
—	Derek Daly	Irish	Ensign / Tyrrell	0	0
—	PGPatrick Gaillard	French	Ensign	0	0
—	BGBruno Giacomelli	Italian	Alfa Romeo	0	0
—	James Hunt	British	Wolf	0	0
—	Jan Lammers	Dutch	Shadow	0	0
—	GLGeoff Lees	British	Tyrrell	0	0
—	Arturo Merzario	Italian	Merzario	0	0
—	HRHector Rebaque	Mexican	Rebaque / Team Lotus	0	0
—	Keke Rosberg	Finnish	Wolf	0	0
—	Marc Surer	Swiss	Ensign	0	0
—	Patrick Tambay	French	McLaren	0	0
—	Ricardo Zunino	Argentine	Brabham-Ford	0	0

Read from the season’s final standings row, never summed from the race results. 13 of 34 entries in this table carry no championship position and are ruled below the placed field, ordered by points.

Read from the season’s final constructor standings row. A constructor scores through both of its cars, so these totals are not the sum of any one driver’s line above.

Both championship tables on this page are read from the season’s standings rows at round 15, the last round loaded, and neither is derived by adding up the race results. That distinction is the whole point: for most of the sport’s history only a driver’s best few results counted toward the title, a race stopped short paid half points, and a driver could be excluded from a championship he had scored in, so a table built by summing the results column would disagree with the championship as it was actually awarded. Positions are the source’s own; where it recorded none, the row prints a dash and sits below the placed field rather than being given a place it never held or dropped from the page. A points total is printed as it is stored, to two decimals where it needs them, because the sport has awarded half points and split shared drives since the 1950s and those fractions are real. The calendar is every round in the archive for 1979, in round order, with the winner taken from the classification code the source prints rather than from its sort key; three of the 1,161 races loaded were won by a shared car, and for those the calendar names one driver while the race classification credits both. The Cars column counts the rows in each race’s classification, which includes cars that retired, so it is entries with a recorded result rather than a count of cars that took the start. The drivers and constructors counted in the masthead are those that appear in a race result for 1979, not those that entered. The constructors’ championship has been awarded since 1958, so both tables exist for this season. 1979 is complete: all 15 rounds are loaded and both tables are final.