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	1-4
		Lena Troscchi	6-8, 12-15
		Nicholas Krutzhoff	5, 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	1-4, 8-
		TBA	5-7
	28	Moe Lester	1-
Order of Racing [?]	31	"Duncan Idaho"	1-
	32	Barry McKockiner	1-4
		TBA	5-
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-

Driver Changes

• Heywood Jablowme was fired by Dickenson-Lightley for failing to qualify at Enna-Pergusa and replaced by Javier Scarpetta.
• Ouragan suffered fatal injuries as a result of a collision with Amalure Arrigorriagakoa at Enna-Pergusa, but this was covered up by the team and hidden from the rest of the paddock. An unknown driver drove in Ouragan's place for the following two races.
• Max Speed fell into a coma following a severe crash during pre-qualifying at Rouen, rendering him out for the season. He was replaced by Diane Ettick.
• Giuseppe Gasperoni suffered a broken ankle after a crash at Rouen. Norwegian Per Olsen filled in for him in the subsequent three races.
• Paul Pott sustained a concussion and some broken ribs after being T-boned by Leopoldo Faraldo at Rouen. South West African driver Bern van der Westhouzen replaced him for the next three races.
• Jehan Duchamps was ruled out for the rest of the season after sustaining massive internal trauma in a crash at Rouen. Sofia de Haro was brought in to replace him.
• Mike Zhen Hong was fatally injured in a crash at Thruxton. Nicholas Krutzhoff would replace him at Mainz-Firthen, and drive the car in the Eastern Bloc rounds, while a recovered Lena Troscchi would make her return to racing at Mugello.
• Ben Dover suffered a broken ankle in the same crash as Zhen Hong at Thruxton, and missed the following three races.
• Barry McKockiner was fired by Order of Racing after failing to qualify P26 at Thruxton.

Mid-Season Team Changes

• Scuderia Verona were excluded from the championship after Rouen when it transpired that they had covered up Ouragan's death and had an unknown ringer racing under Ouragan's pseudonym in his stead for the subsequent two races.

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	Unknown	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	Amalure Arrigorriagakoa	Template:FRA Jacques Clouseau	Template:GBR Javier Scarpetta	Template:GBR Dickenson-Lightley	Txatxu Etxeberria	Nino Pilia
5	13th May	Interationaler Dywapokal Rheinhessens	Mainz-Finthen 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 4 20 2 "Sentenza" 13 1 8 5 11 3 Nino Pilia DNQ 4 2 6 10 4 Template:GBR Javier Scarpetta 18 18 1 9 5 Template:FRA "Michel Vaillant" 1 23 9 6 Txatxu Etxeberria 11 13 19 2 6 7 Mike Zhen Hong 2 12 15 25 6 8 Hoji Imin 8 3 17 22 5 9 Amalure Arrigorriagakoa 5† 15 5† 16 5 10 Template:USA Max Speed 3† 9 DNPQ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ 4 11 Johannes Gruber 18 17 3 13 4 12 Template:FRA Jehan-Jacques Graves 25 3 4 13 Template:FRA Alphonse Fabron 9 22 4 DNQ 3 14 Paul Pott 4† 7 22 INJ INJ INJ 3 15 Giacomo Campatelli 6† 5 11 23 3 16 Template:FRA Aimé Voulescons 14 6 6† 10 2 17 Leopoldo Faraldo 20 14 23 2 18 Nikolai Zorbin 24 DNPQ 7 18 1 19 Shota Kakhaberidze 15 21 DNPQ 15 1 20 Peter Krieg 7 25 12 7 0 21 Amada Castellón 12 16 24 8 0 22 Template:FRA Jehan Duchamps 16 8 21 INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ 0 23 Sofia De Haro 9 0 24 Barry McKockiner 23 11 10 14 0 25 Per Olsen 11 0 26 Karl Gustav Schneider 19 DNPQ 13 20 0 27 Template:USA Diane Ettick 12 0 28 Stefano Spaghetti 26 26 14 24 0 29 "Duncan Idaho" 21 24 16 21 0 30 Giuseppe Gasperoni 17 20 26 INJ INJ INJ 0 31 Bern van der Westhouzen 17 0 32 Template:GBR George Lightley 22 19 20 19 0 33 Template:FRA "Ouragan" 25 0 34 Template:ENG Ben Dover DNPQ DNQ DNQ 26 INJ INJ INJ 0 35 Moe Lester DNPQ DNQ DNQ DNQ 0 36 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 4 23 2 9 22 4 DNQ 2 Template:FRA Vaillante Équipe Dywa 25 1 23 25 3 16 26 4† 7 22 17 3 Macchina Automobili Giorgio Armani 21 13 1 8 5 11 22 26 26 14 24 4 Great Leap Backward 23 8 3 17 22 11 24 2 12 15 25 5 Bambini di San Marino 17 17 20 26 11 10 18 DNQ 4 2 6 6 Template:GBR Dickenson-Lightley 3 DNQ 18 18 1 9 4 22 19 20 19 7 Euskadi Lasterketa 19 5† 15 5† 16 9 20 11 13 19 2 8 Template:USA Blockton Impact 35 15 21 DNPQ 15 5 36 3† 9 DNPQ 12 9 Template:FRA Motorsports de Boulangerie Cochon Rose 15 14 6 6† 10 5 16 6† 5 11 23 10 Template:AUT DYWA-HARD 11 18 17 3 13 4 12 7 25 12 7 11 Racing Team of Friendship Socialist Countries 33 24 DNPQ 7 18 1 34 19 DNPQ 13 20 12 Reception Carrot Team 7 12 16 24 8 0 8 16 8 21 9 13 Order of Racing 31 21 24 16 21 0 32 23 11 10 14 14 Template:GBR Automotive SuperSport 27 DNPQ DNQ DNQ 26 0 28 DNPQ DNQ DNQ DNQ EX Scuderia Verona 9 25 10 9 0 (2) 10 20 14 23