1979 Dywa Grand Prix Series season
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Season
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Races
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15
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Start date
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1st April
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Start Event
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Enna-Pergusa
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End date
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23rd September
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End Event
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Monza
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Awards
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Driver's Champion
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TBD
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Constructor's Champion
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TBD
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Seasons
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Previous season
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Next season
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1978
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1980
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The 1979 Dywa Grand Prix Series season was the second series of the Dywa Grand Prix Series. Following the unexpected success of 1978, a number of changes were introduced for the following season. For one, there was a new chassis — the Dywa-002, complete with a brand-new ground-effects system. On the sporting side of things, there were additional changes; the fourteen-team entry limit was scrapped and pre-qualifying implemented, using an atypical system of having the bottom fourteen teams in the standings enter pre-qualifying. Furthermore, the number of races expanded to fifteen, with the addition of a trip behind the Iron Curtain.
Teams and drivers
All teams and drivers raced identical Dywa-002 chassis with Renzo DFV-2 3.0 V8 engines.
Entrant
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No.
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Race Drivers
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Rounds
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Latin Auto Technology Enterprises [?]
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1
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Jacques Clouseau
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1-
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2
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Alphonse Fabron
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1-
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Dickenson-Lightley [?]
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3
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Heywood Jablowme
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1
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Javier Scarpetta
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2-
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4
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George Lightley
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1-
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Reception Carrot Team [?]
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7
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Amada Castellón
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1-
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8
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Jehan Duchamps
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1-3
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Sofia de Haro
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4-
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Scuderia Verona [?]
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9
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"Ouragan"
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1
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Unknown
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2-3
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10
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Leopoldo Faraldo
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1-3
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DYWA HARD [?]
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11
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Johannes Gruber
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1-
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12
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Peter Krieg
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1-
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Motorsports de Boulangerie Cochon Rose [?]
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15
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Aimé Voulescons
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1-
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16
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Giacomo Campatelli
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1-
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Bambini di San Marino [?]
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17
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Giuseppe Gasperoni
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1-3, 7-
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Per Olsen
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4-6
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18
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Nino Pilia
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1-
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Euskadi Lasterketa [?]
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19
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Amalure Arrigorriagakoa
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1-
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20
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Txatxu Etxeberria
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1-
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Macchina Automobili Giorgio Armani [?]
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21
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"Sentenza"
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1-
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22
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Stefano Spaghetti
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1-
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Great Leap Backward [?]
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23
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Hoji Imin
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1-
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24
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Mike Zhen Hong
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1-5
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Lena Troscchi
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6-8, 12-15
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Nicholas Krutzhoff
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9-11
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Vaillante Équipe Dywa [?]
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25
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"Michel Vaillant"
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1-2, 5, 9, 12-13, 15
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Jehan-Jacques Graves
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3-4, 6-8, 10-11, 14
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26
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Paul Pott
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1-3, 7-
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Bern van der Westhouzen
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4-6
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Automotive SuperSport [?]
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27
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Ben Dover
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1-
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28
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Moe Lester
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1-
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Order of Racing [?]
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31
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"Duncan Idaho"
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1-
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32
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Barry McKockiner
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1-
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Racing Team of Friendship Socialist Countries [?]
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33
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Nikolai Zorbin
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1-
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34
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Karl Gustav Schneider
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1-
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Blockton Impact [?]
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35
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Shota Kakhaberidze
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1-
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36
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Max Speed
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1-3
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Diane Ettick
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4-
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Season Calendar
GP
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Date
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Title
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Track
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Pole position
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Fastest lap
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Winning driver
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Winning team
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Drive of the Day
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Reject of the Race
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1
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1st April
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Coppa Renzo Bizzari
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Autodromo di Pergusa, Pergusa, Italy
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Leopoldo Faraldo
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Shota Kakhaberidze
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"Michel Vaillant"
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Vaillante Équipe Dywa
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/ Anyone who finished
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Heywood Jablowme
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2
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8th April
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Dywa Pirelli Gran Premio del Made in Italy e dell'Emilia-Romagna
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Autodromo Dino Ferrari, Imola, Italy
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Leopoldo Faraldo
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Hoji Imin
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"Sentenza"
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Macchina Automobili Giorgio Armani
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"Ouragan"
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Euskadi Lasterketa
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3
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22nd April
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Dywa Grande Épreuve de France
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Circuit de Rouen-Les-Essarts, Orival, France
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Jacques Clouseau
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Nikolai Zorbin
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Jacques Clouseau
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Latin Auto Technology Enterprises
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The Track Medics
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Blockton Impact
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4
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6th May
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The Thruxton Trophy
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Thruxton Circuit, Hampshire, United Kingdom
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5
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13th May
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Interationaler Dywapokal Rheinhessens
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Mainz-Firthen Circuit, Mainz, West Germany
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6
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20th May
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Trofeo Flor Bath
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Mugello Circuit, Scarperia e San Piero, Italy
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7
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3rd June
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Dywa Gran Premio di Sicilia
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Circuito di Siracusa, Syracuse, Italy
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8
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17th June
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Euskal Herriko Dywa Sari Nagusia
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Pau Street Circuit, Pau, France
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9
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8th July
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Utrka za bratstvo i jedinstvo
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Automotodrom Grobnik, Rijeka, SFR Yugoslavia
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10
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22nd July
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Internationales Halle-Saale-Rennen für Frieden und Freundschaft
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Halle-Saale-Schleife, Halle, East Germany
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11
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5th August
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Dywa Velikoye Ispytanie SSSR
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Biķernieku trase, Riga, Soviet Union
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12
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19th August
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Suomen Suurajot
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Keimola Motor Stadium, Vantaa, Finland
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13
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2nd September
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The Castle Cup
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Castle Combe, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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14
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9th September
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Dywa Granda Espròva d'Occitània
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Circuit de Charade, Saint-Genès-Champanelle, France
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15
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23rd September
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Coppa Monguzzi
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Autodromo Internazionale di Monza, Monza, Italy
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Standings
Scoring System
Position
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1st
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2nd
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3rd
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4th
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5th
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6th
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PP
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FLAP
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Points
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9
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6
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4
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3
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2
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1
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1
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1
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Drivers' Championship
All results counted towards the championship.
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Key
Colour |
Result
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Gold |
Winner
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Silver |
2nd place
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Bronze |
3rd place
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Green |
Points finish
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Blue
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Non-points finish
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Non-classified finish (NC)
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Purple |
Did not finish (Ret)
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Orange
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Did not qualify (DNQ)
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Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
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Black |
Disqualified (DSQ)
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Pale Blue
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Withdrawn (WD)
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Blank
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Did Not Enter (No text)
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Excluded (EX)
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Did not Start (DNS)
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Did not Arrive (DNA)
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Event cancelled (C)
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Injured (INJ)
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Bold denotes pole position
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Italics denote fastest lap
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† Classification despite retirement
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‡ Race not run to scheduled distance
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Teams' Championship
All results by each team's cars counted towards the championship.