F1/Seasons/1979/Round 14
1979 · Round 14 of 15

Canadian Grand Prix

September 30, 1979 · Circuit Gilles Villeneuve · Montreal · Canada
Jones
WINNER
Alan Jones · Williams · from grid 1
FASTEST LAP
Lap timing starts in 2004. This race has none.
+12
MOST PLACES GAINED
Jan Lammers · grid 21 to P9
10 of 25
CLASSIFIED
14 retired · 1 withdrew

01/Classification

25 cars
Finishing order
PosDriverConstructorGrid+/-LapsTime / statusPtsFastest lap
1Alan JonesWilliams10721:52:06.8929
2Gilles VilleneuveFerrari2072+1.0806
3Clay RegazzoniWilliams3072+1:13.6564
4Jody ScheckterFerrari9+571+1 Lap3
5Didier PironiTyrrell6+171+1 Lap2
6John WatsonMcLaren17+1170+2 Laps1
7Ricardo ZuninoBrabham-Ford17+1068+4 Laps0
8Emerson FittipaldiFittipaldi15+767+5 Laps0
9Jan LammersShadow21+1267+5 Laps0
10Mario AndrettiTeam Lotus10066Out of fuel0
RNelson PiquetBrabham-Ford461Gearbox0
RVittorio BrambillaAlfa Romeo1852Fuel system0
RJacky IckxLigier1647Gearbox0
RJean-Pierre JarierTyrrell1333Engine0
RDerek DalyTyrrell2428Engine0
RHector RebaqueRebaque2226Chassis0
RJean-Pierre JabouilleRenault724Brakes0
RElio de AngelisShadow2324Ignition0
RCarlos ReutemannTeam Lotus1123Suspension0
RRiccardo PatreseArrows1420Spun off0
RPatrick TambayMcLaren2019Engine0
RRené ArnouxRenault814Accident0
RHans-Joachim StuckATS1214Accident0
RJacques LaffiteLigier510Engine0
WNiki LaudaBrabham-FordPIT0Withdrew0

Ordered on the source’s position column and printed from position_text. Those two disagree on purpose: position is a sort key that is never null, and position_text is what happened to the car. 15 of 25 cars here were not classified (14 retired, 1 withdrew). Across the archive that is 9,612 of 26,048 result rows, so a page that printed the sort key would tell more than a third of every field it finished.


02/Grid to finish

10 of 25 cars
Grid minus finishing position
PLACES GAINED
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
Jan LammersShadow219+12
John WatsonMcLaren176+11
Ricardo ZuninoBrabham-Ford177+10
Emerson FittipaldiFittipaldi158+7
Jody ScheckterFerrari94+5
PLACES LOST

No classified car finished behind its grid slot.

Movement is grid minus finishing position, and it is computed for 10 of the 25 cars entered. It is left blank for the other 15: a car that was not classified has no finishing position to subtract from, and 1 car here carry grid 0, which the source uses for a pit lane start or for no recorded grid slot and this page prints as PIT, and neither has a grid position to subtract. Scoring a grid of 0 as a gain of every place on the grid is the arithmetic this rule exists to stop; 266 of 26,048 rows across the archive are grid 0, and 40 of those were classified.


03/The 1979 season

15 rounds
JAN 21 to OCT 7
RdDateGrand PrixCircuitWinnerConstructorCars
1JAN 21Argentine Grand PrixAutódromo Juan y Oscar GálvezJacques LaffiteLigier26
2FEB 4Brazilian Grand PrixAutódromo José Carlos PaceJacques LaffiteLigier24
3MAR 3South African Grand PrixKyalamiGilles VilleneuveFerrari24
4APR 8United States Grand Prix WestLong BeachGilles VilleneuveFerrari26
5APR 29Spanish Grand PrixJaramaPatrick DepaillerLigier24
6MAY 13Belgian Grand PrixZolderJody ScheckterFerrari24
7MAY 27Monaco Grand PrixCircuit de MonacoJody ScheckterFerrari20
8JUL 1French Grand PrixDijon-PrenoisJean-Pierre JabouilleRenault25
9JUL 14British Grand PrixSilverstone CircuitClay RegazzoniWilliams24
10JUL 29German Grand PrixHockenheimringAlan JonesWilliams24
11AUG 12Austrian Grand PrixRed Bull RingAlan JonesWilliams24
12AUG 26Dutch Grand PrixCircuit Park ZandvoortAlan JonesWilliams24
13SEP 9Italian Grand PrixAutodromo Nazionale di MonzaJody ScheckterFerrari24
14SEP 30Canadian Grand PrixCircuit Gilles VilleneuveAlan JonesWilliams25
15OCT 7United States Grand PrixWatkins GlenGilles VilleneuveFerrari24

Every figure here is one race, read from f1_results and f1_races. The finishing order is the source’s position column; the printed position is position_text, which is a letter on 9,612 of 26,048 rows across the archive (R retired 9,089, W withdrew 364, D disqualified 159). Grid 0 is a pit lane start and prints as PIT, not as a place ahead of pole; 266 of 26,048 rows are grid 0. Time is a total for the winner and a gap to the car ahead for everyone else, and it is present on 8,508 of 26,048 rows only, so most of the archive shows the status instead; where both exist and the status is not “Finished” the status is printed beside the time, because 8,335 of 16,436 classified rows finished lapped or otherwise not cleanly. The fastest lap column is empty before 2004: the source carries lap timing on 8,977 of 26,048 rows and a ranked fastest lap in 447 of 1,161 races, and speed on 8,238 of those, none after 2024. Points are printed as the source stores them and are never rounded to a whole number: 38 of 26,048 rows are fractional (0.5, 1.33, 3.14), which is half points for a shortened race and a split score for a shared car, and every one of them is real. Three races (1951 French, 1956 Argentine, 1957 British) print two cars as first, because two drivers shared one car and the record books credit both; in those three the source hangs the race points on other rows, which is why 5 of 1,164 winning rows across the archive print zero points. Constructors carry no logo in any f1_* table, so none is drawn and none is invented. The 1979 season is complete at 15 rounds.