F1/Seasons/1979/Round 7
1979 · Round 7 of 15

Monaco Grand Prix

May 27, 1979 · Circuit de Monaco · Monte Carlo · Monaco
Scheckter
WINNER
Jody Scheckter · Ferrari · from grid 1
FASTEST LAP
Lap timing starts in 2004. This race has none.
+14
MOST PLACES GAINED
Clay Regazzoni · grid 16 to P2
6 of 20
CLASSIFIED
14 retired

01/Classification

20 cars
Finishing order
PosDriverConstructorGrid+/-LapsTime / statusPtsFastest lap
1Jody ScheckterFerrari10761:55:22.4809
2Clay RegazzoniWilliams16+1476+0.4406
3Carlos ReutemannTeam Lotus11+876+8.5704
4John WatsonMcLaren14+1076+41.3103
5Patrick DepaillerLigier3-275Engine2
6Jochen MassArrows8+269+7 Laps1
RNelson PiquetBrabham-Alfa Romeo1868Transmission0
RJean-Pierre JabouilleRenault2068+8 Laps0
RJacques LaffiteLigier555Gearbox0
RGilles VilleneuveFerrari254Transmission0
RAlan JonesWilliams943Steering0
RJean-Pierre JarierTyrrell634Suspension0
RHans-Joachim StuckATS1230Wheel0
RNiki LaudaBrabham-Alfa Romeo421Accident0
RDidier PironiTyrrell721Accident0
RMario AndrettiTeam Lotus1321Suspension0
REmerson FittipaldiFittipaldi1717Engine0
RRené ArnouxRenault198Accident0
RJames HuntWolf104Transmission0
RRiccardo PatreseArrows154Suspension0

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. 14 of 20 cars here were not classified (14 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

6 of 20 cars
Grid minus finishing position
PLACES GAINED
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
Clay RegazzoniWilliams162+14
John WatsonMcLaren144+10
Carlos ReutemannTeam Lotus113+8
Jochen MassArrows86+2
PLACES LOST
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
Patrick DepaillerLigier35-2

Movement is grid minus finishing position, and it is computed for 6 of the 20 cars entered. It is left blank for the other 14: 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.