Cigarette maker John Player Special withdrew from F1 and Olympus moved to Wolf and Lotus landed a new sponsorship package with Martini, Tissot and Essex Petroleum. Pironi later drifted behind Scheckter who then caught and passed Rosberg and profited from Jabouille's retirement with a clutch failure. The 1979 Formula One season was the 33rd season of FIA Formula One motor racing. Andretti however soon retired with a misfire, and so Reutemann was back in third.
The Austrian then went out with an engine failure, matching Piquet's early exit so Scheckter regained the position only to lose it a few laps later to Andretti.
Season review. International Cup for F1 Constructors – final standingsInternational Cup for F1 Constructors – final standingsOfficial records of the 1979 International Cup as published in the 1980 FIA Yearbook refer to Fittipaldi as Copersucar, after the team's main sponsor.Only the best 4 results from the first 7 races and the best 4 results from the last 8 races counted towards the Drivers' Championship. On the last lap Laffite overtook Scheckter to grab third place behind Jones and Villeneuve.
The Brabhams were again not very competitive with Niki Lauda 11th and Nelson Piquet 12th while Jan Lammers did a good job to put his Shadow 14th. The tenth race of the year was held in Germany, and on the ultra-fast, straight dominated Hockenheim circuit near Stuttgart, where the entry was the same as it had been at Silverstone.
The champion was Alain Prost in a close battle. Arnoux caught Villeneuve and on lap 78 he went ahead. Patrick Depailler blew all hopes he had of a successful season by breaking both his legs in a hang-gliding accident and so Ligier asked Jacky Ickx to take over its second car. Also expanding was Renault Sport which hired Rene Arnoux to partner Jean-Pierre Jabouille. Villeneuve finished seventh after running out of fuel on the final lap. 9o Gran Premio Kronenbourg di San Marino April 23rd 1989 San Marino Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari . Pironi got ahead but then spun and found himself behind again. Jones held off intense pressure from Jabouille in the early stages of the race, until the latter tried too hard and spun off giving second to Laffite and third to Regazzoni.
This was using the old flat-12 engines while a new car was being built for the new V12, which was being run by the Brabham team.
The race itself was another battle between Villeneuve and Jones, with the Canadian out in front. As fourth placed Jarier had disappeared with a transmission problem a little earlier Mass found himself third but he was in gearbox trouble and dropped behind Clay Regazzoni's Williams.
At this race, the last race of the season it saw a field of 30 cars fighting for 24 grid positions. Both Ferraris were able to keep going by Regazzoni was out. This proved to be a memorable day for Ferrari- as Jody Scheckter and Gilles Villeneuve made it a Ferrari 1–2 and with this victory, Scheckter won the Drivers' Championship and Ferrari won the Constructors' Championship with a car that proved to have a 100% reliability record thus far; an incredible achievement in 1979. On lap 62 he got ahead, but it wasn't enough to catch Villeneuve and Scheckter, who finished 1-2. As usual the Renaults were slow off the line and so Scheckter grabbed the lead from Arnoux.
The second half of the year started in Britain at the fastest circuit of the year, the airfield Silverstone circuit 40 miles east of At the start Jones went into the lead with Jabouille chasing and the fast-starting Regazzoni third.
Regazzoni was soon past Laffite, and the two Williams cars dominated the rest of race, with Jones getting his first win of the season and Regazzoni completing the 1–2 leaving Laffite to take the final spot on the podium.
Villeneuve had to pit for a new nose cone. Then came Gilles Villeneuve (Ferrari) and Nelson Piquet (Brabham). Team Lotus, aiming to stay one step ahead, was designing the new Lotus 80.
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