1979 Monaco Grand Prix
The Monaco Grand Prix 1979 took place on May 27th and was the seventh race of the Formula 1 season 1979.
- 3.1 Start -up
- 3.2 race
- 4.1 Drivers' Championship
- 4.2 Constructors' Championship
Reports
Background
The Willi Kauhsen Racing Team had declared after two unsuccessful Grand Prix weekends its Formula 1 involvement ended. Its driver Gianfranco Brancatelli then moved to the team Merzario, in order to represent the injured team founder Arturo Merzario. Also absent were the Alfa Romeo factory team Autodelta and private team Rebaque.
Training
Since only 20 starters were admitted to the race, a decision was needed to participate in the implementation of a pre-qualification on Thursday morning, at the Hans -Joachim Stuck, Jochen Mass and Gianfranco Brancatelli. For the latter this meant the end of his short Formula 1 career.
Four other non-participants were identified during regular training. Among them was the second consecutive year, the McLaren driver Patrick Tambay.
The two Ferrari drivers Jody Scheckter and strain Gilles Villeneuve qualified this time for the first row in front of Patrick Depailler, who had gone in the Ligier in the current season four times from second place on the grid. His team mate, Jacques Laffite, who had each occupied the pole position in these four cases, followed behind Niki Lauda fifth. The two Tyrrell - pilot Jean -Pierre Jarier and Didier Pironi qualified with identical lap time for the start positions six and seven. Jochen Mass Arrows left behind in the eighth, a strong impression.
Unusual far behind the Lotus pilots found again. Carlos Reutemann reached with the Lotus 79 ranked eleventh, his teammate Mario Andretti who dared make another attempt with the new, controversial Lotus 80, qualified for the 13th place.
Race
In the top group Lauda managed the best start that brought him before the Sainte Devote to second place behind Scheckter and Villeneuve before and Depailler. In the third round Villeneuve regained second place from Lauda and then sought on his lying at the head of teammate Scheckter. Meanwhile Lauda came under pressure through Depailler, Laffite, Pironi and Jones.
In the 16th round Pironi crashed in Laffites tail, which was a repair stop necessary for the Ligier - pilot. Three laps later Pironi collided in the narrow Loews hairpin, with the second Ligier of Depailler. For this, the race was thus completed. As Pironi in the 22nd round finally wanted to overtake Lauda, there was another collision. This time, resigned from both participating pilots.
Alan Jones, who benefited from the collisions in front of him was from now until the 43rd round in third place. Then, however, he dropped out due to a defective steering. The result in the meantime third-placed Jochen Mass retired on lap 49 due to a technical problem also back and had to leave by Clay Regazzoni third.
As Villeneuve was eliminated in the 54th round due to a gearbox failure, Scheckter was initially unchallenged at the top. Since, however, it also disabled a gearbox problem, Regazzoni was able to significantly catch up in the closing stages. Extremely just put Scheckter at the end of his second win of the season safely. Since Depailler retired just before the end with engine failure, John Watson scored the fourth place behind Carlos Reutemann. Depailler was considered a fifth due to its distance traveled. Jochen Mass was charged with seven laps behind the winner in sixth and was the last championship point of the day. In addition to the six points was placed Jean -Pierre Jabouille the only one who reached the goal. However, he was not considered due to its large residue.
Message list
Classifications
Line-up
Race
WM stands after the race
The first six of the race were 9, 6, 4, 3, 2 and 1 point (s).