1979 Dywa Grand Prix Series season

1979 Dywa Grand Prix Series season
Season
Races	15
Start date	1st April
Start Event	Enna-Pergusa
End date	23rd September
End Event	Monza
Awards
Driver's Champion	TBD
Constructor's Champion	TBD
Seasons
Previous season	Next season
1978	1980

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	No.	Race Drivers	Rounds
Template:SUI Latin Auto Technology Enterprises [?]	1	Template:FRA Jacques Clouseau	1-
	2	Template:FRA Alphonse Fabron	1-
Template:GBR Dickenson-Lightley [?]	3	Template:GBR Heywood Jablowme	1
		Template:GBR Javier Scarpetta	2-
	4	Template:GBR George Lightley	1-
Reception Carrot Team [?]	7	Amada Castellón	1-
	8	Template:FRA Jehan Duchamps	1-3
		Sofia de Haro	4-
Scuderia Verona [?]	9	Template:FRA "Ouragan"	1
		Unknown	2-3
	10	Leopoldo Faraldo	1-3
Template:AUT DYWA HARD [?]	11	Johannes Gruber	1-
	12	Peter Krieg	1-
Template:FRA Motorsports de Boulangerie Cochon Rose [?]	15	Template:FRA Aimé Voulescons	1-
	16	Giacomo Campatelli	1-
Bambini di San Marino [?]	17	Giuseppe Gasperoni	1-3, 7-
		Per Olsen	4-6
	18	Nino Pilia	1-
Euskadi Lasterketa [?]	19	Amalure Arrigorriagakoa	1-
	20	Txatxu Etxeberria	1-
Macchina Automobili Giorgio Armani [?]	21	"Sentenza"	1-
	22	Stefano Spaghetti	1-
Great Leap Backward [?]	23	Hoji Imin	1-
	24	Mike Zhen Hong	1-5
		Lena Troscchi	6-8, 12-15
		Nicholas Krutzhoff	9-11
Template:FRA Vaillante Équipe Dywa [?]	25	Template:FRA "Michel Vaillant"	1-2, 5, 9, 12-13, 15
		Template:FRA Jehan-Jacques Graves	3-4, 6-8, 10-11, 14
	26	Paul Pott	1-3, 7-
		Bern van der Westhouzen	4-6
Template:GBR Automotive SuperSport [?]	27	Template:ENG Ben Dover	1-
	28	Moe Lester	1-
Order of Racing [?]	31	"Duncan Idaho"	1-
	32	Barry McKockiner	1-
Racing Team of Friendship Socialist Countries [?]	33	Nikolai Zorbin	1-
	34	Karl Gustav Schneider	1-
Template:USA Blockton Impact [?]	35	Shota Kakhaberidze	1-
	36	Template:USA Max Speed	1-3
		Template:USA Diane Ettick	4-

Season Calendar

GP	Date	Title	Track	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Winning team	Drive of the Day	Reject of the Race
1	1st April	Coppa Renzo Bizzari	Autodromo di Pergusa, Pergusa, Italy	Leopoldo Faraldo	Shota Kakhaberidze	Template:FRA "Michel Vaillant"	Template:FRA Vaillante Équipe Dywa	Template:FRA/ Anyone who finished	Template:GBR Heywood Jablowme
2	8th April	Dywa Pirelli Gran Premio del Made in Italy e dell'Emilia-Romagna	Autodromo Dino Ferrari, Imola, Italy	Leopoldo Faraldo	Hoji Imin	"Sentenza"	Macchina Automobili Giorgio Armani	Template:FRA "Ouragan"	Euskadi Lasterketa
3	22nd April	Template:FRA Dywa Grande Épreuve de France	Circuit de Rouen-Les-Essarts, Orival, France	Template:FRA Jacques Clouseau	Nikolai Zorbin	Template:FRA Jacques Clouseau	Template:SUI Latin Auto Technology Enterprises	The Track Medics	Template:USA Blockton Impact
4	6th May	Template:GBR The Thruxton Trophy	Thruxton Circuit, Hampshire, United Kingdom
5	13th May	Interationaler Dywapokal Rheinhessens	Mainz-Firthen Circuit, Mainz, West Germany
6	20th May	Trofeo Flor Bath	Mugello Circuit, Scarperia e San Piero, Italy
7	3rd June	Dywa Gran Premio di Sicilia	Circuito di Siracusa, Syracuse, Italy
8	17th June	Euskal Herriko Dywa Sari Nagusia	Pau Street Circuit, Pau, France
9	8th July	Utrka za bratstvo i jedinstvo	Automotodrom Grobnik, Rijeka, SFR Yugoslavia
10	22nd July	Internationales Halle-Saale-Rennen für Frieden und Freundschaft	Halle-Saale-Schleife, Halle, East Germany
11	5th August	Dywa Velikoye Ispytanie SSSR	Biķernieku trase, Riga, Soviet Union
12	19th August	Suomen Suurajot	Keimola Motor Stadium, Vantaa, Finland
13	2nd September	Template:GBR The Castle Cup	Castle Combe, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
14	9th September	Dywa Granda Espròva d'Occitània	Circuit de Charade, Saint-Genès-Champanelle, France
15	23rd September	Coppa Monguzzi	Autodromo Internazionale di Monza, Monza, Italy

Standings

Scoring System

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	PP	FLAP
Points	9	6	4	3	2	1	1	1

Drivers' Championship

All results counted towards the championship.

Pos Driver PER IMO ROU Template:FRA THR Template:GBR MAI MUG SYR PAU GRO HAL BIK KEI CAS Template:GBR CHA MNZ Pts 1 Template:FRA Jacques Clouseau 10 2 1 16 2 "Sentenza" 13 1 8 9 3 Template:FRA "Michel Vaillant" 1 23 9 4 Nino Pilia DNQ 4 2 9 5 Mike Zhen Hong 2 12 15 6 6 Hoji Imin 8 3 17 5 7 Template:USA Max Speed 3† 9 DNPQ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ 4 8 Johannes Gruber 18 17 3 4 9 Amalure Arrigorriagakoa 5† 15 5† 4 10 Template:FRA Alphonse Fabron 9 22 4 3 11 Paul Pott 4† 7 22 INJ INJ INJ 3 12 Giacomo Campatelli 6† 5 11 3 13 Template:FRA Aimé Voulescons 14 6 6† 2 14 Leopoldo Faraldo 20 14 23 2 15 Nikolai Zorbin 24 DNPQ 7 1 16 Shota Kakhaberidze 15 21 DNPQ 1 17 Peter Krieg 7 25 12 0 18 Template:FRA Jehan Duchamps 16 8 21 INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ 0 19 Barry McKockiner 23 11 10 0 20 Txatxu Etxeberria 11 13 19 0 21 Amada Castellón 12 16 24 0 22 Karl Gustav Schneider 19 DNPQ 13 0 23 Stefano Spaghetti 26 26 14 0 24 "Duncan Idaho" 21 24 16 0 25 Giuseppe Gasperoni 17 20 26 INJ INJ INJ 0 26 Template:GBR Javier Scarpetta 18 18 0 27 Template:GBR George Lightley 22 19 20 0 28 Template:FRA "Ouragan" 25 0 29 Template:FRA Jehan-Jacques Graves 25 0 30 Template:ENG Ben Dover DNPQ DNQ DNQ 0 31 Moe Lester DNPQ DNQ DNQ 0 32 Template:GBR Heywood Jablowme DNQ 0 EX Unknown 10 9 0 (0)

Key Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Did not finish (Ret) Orange Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) Pale Blue Withdrawn (WD) Blank Did Not Enter (No text) Excluded (EX) Did not Start (DNS) Did not Arrive (DNA) Event cancelled (C) Injured (INJ) Bold denotes pole position Italics denote fastest lap † Classification despite retirement ‡ Race not run to scheduled distance

Teams' Championship

All results by each team's cars counted towards the championship.

Pos Team # PER IMO ROU Template:FRA THR Template:GBR MAI MUG SYR PAU GRO HAL BIK KEI CAS Template:GBR CHA MNZ Pts 1 Template:SUI Latin Auto Technology Enterprises 1 10 2 1 19 2 9 22 4 2 Template:FRA Vaillante Équipe Dywa 25 1 23 25 12 26 4† 7 22 3 Great Leap Backward 23 8 3 17 11 24 2 12 15 4 Macchina Automobili Giorgio Armani 21 13 1 8 9 22 26 26 14 5 Bambini di San Marino 17 17 20 26 9 18 DNQ 4 2 6 Template:USA Blockton Impact 35 15 21 DNPQ 5 36 3† 9 DNPQ 7 Template:FRA Motorsports de Boulangerie Cochon Rose 15 14 6 6† 5 16 6† 5 11 8 Template:AUT DYWA-HARD 11 18 17 3 4 12 7 25 12 9 Euskadi Lasterketa 19 5† 15 5† 2 20 11 13 19 10 Racing Team of Friendship Socialist Countries 33 24 DNPQ 7 1 34 19 DNPQ 13 11 Reception Carrot Team 7 12 16 24 0 8 16 8 21 12 Order of Racing 31 21 24 16 0 32 23 11 10 13 Template:GBR Dickenson-Lightley 3 DNQ 18 18 0 4 22 19 20 14 Template:GBR Automotive SuperSport 27 DNPQ DNQ DNQ 0 28 DNPQ DNQ DNQ EX Scuderia Verona 9 25 10 9 0 (2) 10 20 14 23