F1/Seasons/1979/Round 5
1979 · Round 5 of 15

Spanish Grand Prix

April 29, 1979 · Jarama · Madrid · Spain
Depailler
WINNER
Patrick Depailler · Ligier · from grid 2
FASTEST LAP
Lap timing starts in 2004. This race has none.
+12
MOST PLACES GAINED
Jan Lammers · grid 24 to P12
14 of 24
CLASSIFIED
10 retired

01/Classification

24 cars
Finishing order
PosDriverConstructorGrid+/-LapsTime / statusPtsFastest lap
1Patrick DepaillerLigier2+1751:39:11.8409
2Carlos ReutemannTeam Lotus8+675+20.9406
3Mario AndrettiTeam Lotus4+175+27.3104
4Jody ScheckterFerrari5+175+28.6803
5Jean-Pierre JarierTyrrell12+775+30.3902
6Didier PironiTyrrell10+475+48.4301
7Gilles VilleneuveFerrari3-475+52.3100
8Jochen MassArrows17+975+1:14.8400
9René ArnouxRenault11+274+1 Lap0
10Riccardo PatreseArrows16+674+1 Lap0
11Emerson FittipaldiFittipaldi19+874+1 Lap0
12Jan LammersShadow24+1273+2 Laps0
13Patrick TambayMcLaren20+772+3 Laps0
14Hans-Joachim StuckATS21+769+6 Laps0
RNiki LaudaBrabham-Alfa Romeo663Water leak0
RHector RebaqueTeam Lotus2358Engine0
RAlan JonesWilliams1354Gearbox0
RElio de AngelisShadow2252Engine0
RClay RegazzoniWilliams1432Engine0
RJames HuntWolf1526Brakes0
RJean-Pierre JabouilleRenault921Turbo0
RJohn WatsonMcLaren1821Engine0
RJacques LaffiteLigier115Engine0
RNelson PiquetBrabham-Alfa Romeo715Injection0

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. 10 of 24 cars here were not classified (10 retired). 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

14 of 24 cars
Grid minus finishing position
PLACES GAINED
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
Jan LammersShadow2412+12
Jochen MassArrows178+9
Emerson FittipaldiFittipaldi1911+8
Jean-Pierre JarierTyrrell125+7
Patrick TambayMcLaren2013+7
PLACES LOST
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
Gilles VilleneuveFerrari37-4

Movement is grid minus finishing position, and it is computed for 14 of the 24 cars entered. It is left blank for the other 10: a car that was not classified has no finishing position to subtract from, and no car here carries grid 0, the value the source uses for a pit lane start or for no recorded grid slot. 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.