Race · Round 8 of 15 · 1 July 1979

1979 French Grand Prix

Jean-Pierre Jabouille won for Renault from pole at Dijon-Prenois. 6 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship race win for Jean-Pierre Jabouille and for Renault, and the first championship podium for Rene Arnoux.

Dry · High of 15 °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: Dijon-PrenoisDijon, France
Winner: Jean-Pierre JabouilleRenault
Pole: Jean-Pierre Jabouille
Fastest lap: Rene Arnoux
Entries: 2718 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	—	1	80	Finished	9
2	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	—	3	80	Finished	6
3	Rene Arnoux	Renault	—	2	80	Finished	4	fastest lap
4	Alan Jones	Williams	—	7	80	Finished	3
5	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Tyrrell	009	10	80	Finished	2
6	Clay Regazzoni	Williams	—	9	80	Finished	1
7	Jody Scheckter	Ferrari	—	5	79	Finished	0
8	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	JS11	8	79	Finished	0
9	Keke Rosberg	Walter Wolf Racing	—	16	79	Finished	0
10	Patrick Tambay	McLaren	—	20	78	Finished	0
11	John Watson	McLaren	—	15	78	Finished	0
12	Héctor Rebaque	Team Lotus	79	23	78	Finished	0
13	Carlos Reutemann	Team Lotus	—	13	77	Finished	0
14	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	—	19	77	Finished	0
15	Jochen Mass	Arrows	—	22	75	Finished	0
16	Elio de Angelis	Shadow	DN9	24	75	Finished	0
17	Bruno Giacomelli	Alfa Romeo	—	17	75	Finished	0
18	Jan Lammers	Shadow	DN9	21	73	Finished	0
DNF	Didier Pironi	Tyrrell	009	11	71	Suspension	0
DNF	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	—	18	53	Engine	0
DNF	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	—	4	52	Accident	0
DNF	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	—	12	51	Brakes	0
DNF	Jacky Ickx	Ligier	JS11	14	45	Engine	0
DNF	Niki Lauda	Brabham	—	6	23	Spun off	0
DNS	Hans-Joachim Stuck	ATS	—	—	—	Tyre dispute	0
DNQ	Patrick Gaillard	Ensign	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Arturo Merzario	Merzario	—	—	—	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 dijon-2 · 3.801 km · 12 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
Jean-Pierre Jabouille	1	1	80
Gilles Villeneuve	3	2	80
Rene Arnoux	2	3	80
Alan Jones	7	4	80
Jean-Pierre Jarier	10	5	80
Clay Regazzoni	9	6	80
Jody Scheckter	5	7	79
Jacques Laffite	8	8	79
Keke Rosberg	16	9	79
Patrick Tambay	20	10	78
John Watson	15	11	78
Héctor Rebaque	23	12	78
Carlos Reutemann	13	13	77
Riccardo Patrese	19	14	77
Jochen Mass	22	15	75
Elio de Angelis	24	16	75
Bruno Giacomelli	17	17	75
Jan Lammers	21	18	73
Didier Pironi	11	DNF	71
Emerson Fittipaldi	18	DNF	53
Nelson Piquet	4	DNF	52
Mario Andretti	12	DNF	51
Jacky Ickx	14	DNF	45
Niki Lauda	6	DNF	23

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	15	1:07.190	—	0 m	—
2	Rene Arnoux	Renault	16	1:07.450	+0.260	15 m	+0.260
3	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	12	1:07.650	+0.460	26 m	+0.200
4	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	6	1:08.130	+0.940	53 m	+0.480
5	Jody Scheckter	Ferrari	11	1:08.150	+0.960	54 m	+0.020
6	Niki Lauda	Brabham	5	1:08.200	+1.010	57 m	+0.050
7	Alan Jones	Williams	27	1:08.230	+1.040	59 m	+0.030
8	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:08.550	+1.360	77 m	+0.320
9	Clay Regazzoni	Williams	28	1:08.650	+1.460	83 m	+0.100
10	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Tyrrell	4	1:08.800	+1.610	91 m	+0.150
11	Didier Pironi	Tyrrell	3	1:08.950	+1.760	100 m	+0.150
12	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	1	1:09.350	+2.160	122 m	+0.400
13	Carlos Reutemann	Team Lotus	2	1:09.360	+2.170	123 m	+0.010
14	Jacky Ickx	Ligier	25	1:09.680	+2.490	141 m	+0.320
15	John Watson	McLaren	7	1:09.970	+2.780	157 m	+0.290
16	Keke Rosberg	Walter Wolf Racing	20	1:10.150	+2.960	167 m	+0.180
17	Bruno Giacomelli	Alfa Romeo	35	1:10.590	+3.400	192 m	+0.440
18	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	14	1:10.610	+3.420	193 m	+0.020
19	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	29	1:10.700	+3.510	199 m	+0.090
20	Patrick Tambay	McLaren	8	1:10.920	+3.730	211 m	+0.220
21	Jan Lammers	Shadow	17	1:11.140	+3.950	223 m	+0.220
22	Jochen Mass	Arrows	30	1:11.140	+3.950	223 m	+0.000
23	Hans-Joachim Stuck	ATS	9	1:11.750	+4.560	258 m	+0.610
24	Héctor Rebaque	Team Lotus	31	1:11.970	+4.780	270 m	+0.220
25	Elio de Angelis	Shadow	18	1:12.230	+5.040	285 m	+0.260
26	Patrick Gaillard	Ensign	22	1:13.000	+5.810	329 m	+0.770
27	Arturo Merzario	Merzario	24	1:14.950	+7.760	439 m	+1.950

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: 8 of 1979
Grand Prix: French Grand Prix
Dates: 1 Jul 1979
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Renault
Entrant: Renault
Confidence: reference

No layout is recorded for this round: this register has no layout timeline for the circuit, and a blank here is better than a guess.