Formula One standings for 1979Click on the Driver to see 1979 race-level statistics for that driver. Previous year Next year |
| Driver | Races | Win | Podium | Pole | Laps | Led | Earnings | AvSt | AvFn | Raf | Km | LLF | Points | Diff | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Jody Scheckter | 15 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 907 | 170 | 0 | 6.1 | 4.9 | 13 | 4,116.32 | 9 | 51 | |
| 2 |  Gilles Villeneuve | 15 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 914 | 308 | 0 | 5.1 | 5.5 | 11 | 4,258.11 | 8 | 47 | -4 |
| 3 |  Alan Jones | 15 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 812 | 216 | 0 | 6.9 | 8.9 | 8 | 3,799.32 | 6 | 40 | -11 |
| 4 |  Jacques Laffite | 15 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 637 | 95 | 0 | 4.8 | 11.4 | 7 | 3,122.88 | 6 | 36 | -15 |
| 5 |  Clay Regazzoni | 15 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 720 | 30 | 0 | 10.1 | 10.1 | 10 | 3,452.83 | 7 | 29 | -22 |
| 6 | Patrick Depailler | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 373 | 110 | 0 | 2.9 | 7.4 | 4 | 1,607.51 | 4 | 20 | -31 |
| 7 |  Carlos Reutemann | 15 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 659 | 0 | 0 | 9.5 | 11.2 | 9 | 2,994.83 | 7 | 20 | -31 |
| 8 | Rene Arnoux | 15 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 502 | 11 | 0 | 10.3 | 14.7 | 5 | 2,366.35 | 3 | 17 | -34 |
| 9 |  John Watson | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 788 | 0 | 0 | 14.3 | 9.9 | 10 | 3,722.14 | 4 | 15 | -36 |
| 10 | Didier Pironi | 15 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 767 | 0 | 0 | 10.1 | 10.1 | 9 | 3,603.22 | 4 | 14 | -37 |
| 11 | Jean-Pierre Jarier | 13 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 616 | 0 | 0 | 11.2 | 10.6 | 7 | 2,557.98 | 4 | 14 | -37 |
| 12 |  Mario Andretti | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 546 | 0 | 0 | 9.9 | 14.0 | 5 | 2,368.84 | 4 | 14 | -37 |
| 13 | Jean-Pierre Jabouille | 15 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 446 | 35 | 0 | 7.9 | 16.3 | 3 | 2,094.45 | 1 | 9 | -42 |
| 14 |  Niki Lauda | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 358 | 0 | 0 | 9.9 | 16.9 | 2 | 1,686.78 | 1 | 4 | -47 |
| 15 |  Nelson Piquet | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 582 | 0 | 0 | 9.1 | 15.1 | 3 | 2,536.45 | 0 | 3 | -48 |
| 15 |  Elio de Angelis | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 631 | 0 | 0 | 20.4 | 13.5 | 7 | 3,075.81 | 1 | 3 | -48 |
| 17 |  Jacky Ickx | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 325 | 0 | 0 | 17.1 | 15.1 | 2 | 1,567.47 | 0 | 3 | -48 |
| 18 |  Jochen Mass | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 636 | 0 | 0 | 17.8 | 12.5 | 9 | 2,815.17 | 1 | 3 | -48 |
| 19 | Riccardo Patrese | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 610 | 0 | 0 | 16.0 | 14.3 | 6 | 2,875.74 | 1 | 2 | -49 |
| 19 | Hans-Joachim Stuck | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 474 | 0 | 0 | 19.3 | 16.4 | 4 | 2,178.91 | 1 | 2 | -49 |
| 21 | Emerson Fittipaldi | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 612 | 0 | 0 | 17.7 | 14.2 | 8 | 2,898.18 | 0 | 1 | -50 |
| Patrick Tambay | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 429 | 0 | 0 | 16.9 | 16.2 | 4 | 1,969.70 | 0 | |||
 Jan Lammers | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 535 | 0 | 0 | 20.9 | 14.7 | 7 | 2,503.91 | 0 | |||
 Hector Rebaque | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 524 | 0 | 0 | 22.0 | 13.8 | 3 | 2,229.94 | 0 | |||
 Keke Rosberg | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 261 | 0 | 0 | 15.6 | 15.0 | 1 | 1,279.81 | 0 | |||
| James Hunt | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 195 | 0 | 0 | 11.9 | 16.6 | 1 | 888.05 | 0 | |||
 Derek Daly | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 292 | 0 | 0 | 20.2 | 11.3 | 3 | 1,556.80 | 0 | |||
| Bruno Giacomelli | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 124 | 0 | 0 | 16.8 | 19.8 | 1 | 536.90 | 0 | |||
| Ricardo Zunino | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 93 | 0 | 0 | 14.0 | 11.0 | 1 | 435.76 | 0 | |||
| Vittorio Brambilla | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 101 | 0 | 0 | 20.0 | 12.0 | 1 | 513.52 | 0 | |||
| Patrick Gaillard | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 107 | 0 | 0 | 23.5 | 12.5 | 1 | 556.30 | 0 | |||
| Arturo Merzario | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 22.0 | 22.0 | 0 | 42.26 | 0 | |||
| Geoff Lees | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 16.0 | 7.0 | 1 | 298.72 | 0 | |||
| Marc Surer | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 21.0 | 13.0 | 0 | 173.92 | 0 |