Race · Round 13 of 15 · 9 September 1979

1979 Italian Grand Prix

Jody Scheckter won for Ferrari from 3rd on the grid at Autodromo Nazionale Monza. 10 of the starters were not classified.

Dry · High of 24 °C, no rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

ERA5's reanalysis, through Open-Meteo, of the circuit's whole local day and not the race's hours, for the grid cell the circuit sits in and not the track, so a shower can be missing from it. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.

Circuit: Autodromo Nazionale MonzaMonza, Italy
Winner: Jody ScheckterFerrari
Pole: Jean-Pierre Jabouille
Fastest lap: Clay Regazzoni
Entries: 2814 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Jody Scheckter	Ferrari	—	3	50	Finished	9
2	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	—	5	50	Finished	6
3	Clay Regazzoni	Williams	—	6	50	Finished	4	fastest lap
4	Niki Lauda	Brabham	—	9	50	Finished	3
5	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	—	10	50	Finished	2
6	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Tyrrell	009	16	50	Finished	1
7	Carlos Reutemann	Team Lotus	—	13	50	Finished	0
8	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	—	20	49	Finished	0
9	Alan Jones	Williams	—	4	49	Finished	0
10	Didier Pironi	Tyrrell	009	12	49	Finished	0
11	Hans-Joachim Stuck	ATS	—	15	49	Finished	0
12	Vittorio Brambilla	Alfa Romeo	—	22	49	Finished	0
13	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	—	17	47	Finished	0
14	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	—	1	45	Engine	0
DNF	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	JS11	7	41	Engine	0
DNF	Keke Rosberg	Walter Wolf Racing	—	23	41	Engine	0
DNF	Jacky Ickx	Ligier	JS11	11	40	Engine	0
DNF	Elio de Angelis	Shadow	DN9	24	33	Clutch	0
DNF	Bruno Giacomelli	Alfa Romeo	—	18	28	Spun off	0
DNF	John Watson	McLaren	—	19	13	Accident	0
DNF	Rene Arnoux	Renault	—	2	13	Engine	0
DNF	Patrick Tambay	McLaren	—	14	3	Engine	0
DNF	Jochen Mass	Arrows	—	21	3	Suspension	0
DNF	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	—	8	1	Accident	0
DNQ	Jan Lammers	Shadow	DN9	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Marc Surer	Ensign	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Arturo Merzario	Merzario	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Héctor Rebaque	Rebaque	HR100	—	—	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 monza-6 · 5.8 km · 10 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
Jody Scheckter	3	1	50
Gilles Villeneuve	5	2	50
Clay Regazzoni	6	3	50
Niki Lauda	9	4	50
Mario Andretti	10	5	50
Jean-Pierre Jarier	16	6	50
Carlos Reutemann	13	7	50
Emerson Fittipaldi	20	8	49
Alan Jones	4	9	49
Didier Pironi	12	10	49
Hans-Joachim Stuck	15	11	49
Vittorio Brambilla	22	12	49
Riccardo Patrese	17	13	47
Jean-Pierre Jabouille	1	14	45
Jacques Laffite	7	DNF	41
Keke Rosberg	23	DNF	41
Jacky Ickx	11	DNF	40
Elio de Angelis	24	DNF	33
Bruno Giacomelli	18	DNF	28
John Watson	19	DNF	13
Rene Arnoux	2	DNF	13
Patrick Tambay	14	DNF	3
Jochen Mass	21	DNF	3
Nelson Piquet	8	DNF	1

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	15	1:34.580	—	0 m	—
2	Rene Arnoux	Renault	16	1:34.704	+0.124	8 m	+0.124
3	Jody Scheckter	Ferrari	11	1:34.830	+0.250	15 m	+0.126
4	Alan Jones	Williams	27	1:34.914	+0.334	20 m	+0.084
5	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	12	1:34.989	+0.409	25 m	+0.075
6	Clay Regazzoni	Williams	28	1:35.333	+0.753	46 m	+0.344
7	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:35.443	+0.863	53 m	+0.110
8	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	6	1:35.587	+1.007	62 m	+0.144
9	Niki Lauda	Brabham	5	1:36.219	+1.639	101 m	+0.632
10	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	1	1:36.655	+2.075	127 m	+0.436
11	Jacky Ickx	Ligier	25	1:37.114	+2.534	155 m	+0.459
12	Didier Pironi	Tyrrell	3	1:37.181	+2.601	160 m	+0.067
13	Carlos Reutemann	Team Lotus	2	1:37.202	+2.622	161 m	+0.021
14	Patrick Tambay	McLaren	8	1:37.231	+2.651	163 m	+0.029
15	Hans-Joachim Stuck	ATS	9	1:37.297	+2.717	167 m	+0.066
16	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Tyrrell	4	1:37.581	+3.001	184 m	+0.284
17	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	29	1:37.674	+3.094	190 m	+0.093
18	Bruno Giacomelli	Alfa Romeo	35	1:38.053	+3.473	213 m	+0.379
19	John Watson	McLaren	7	1:38.093	+3.513	215 m	+0.040
20	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	14	1:38.136	+3.556	218 m	+0.043
21	Jochen Mass	Arrows	30	1:38.163	+3.583	220 m	+0.027
22	Vittorio Brambilla	Alfa Romeo	36	1:38.601	+4.021	247 m	+0.438
23	Keke Rosberg	Walter Wolf Racing	20	1:38.854	+4.274	262 m	+0.253
24	Elio de Angelis	Shadow	18	1:39.149	+4.569	280 m	+0.295
25	Jan Lammers	Shadow	17	1:39.313	+4.733	290 m	+0.164
26	Marc Surer	Ensign	22	1:40.821	+6.241	383 m	+1.508
27	Arturo Merzario	Merzario	24	1:42.002	+7.422	455 m	+1.181
28	Héctor Rebaque	Rebaque	31	1:42.769	+8.189	502 m	+0.767

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

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.

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: 13 of 1979
Grand Prix: Italian Grand Prix
Dates: 9 Sep 1979
Layout raced: Revised chicanes · 5.8 km
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Ferrari
Entrant: Ferrari
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.