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	1-11
		TBC	12-
	2	Template:FRA Alphonse Fabron	1-
Template:GBR Dickenson-Lightley [?]	3	Template:GBR Heywood Jablowme	1
		Template:GBR Javier Scarpetta	2-7
		Template:GBR Earl of Sandwich	8
		Bern van der Westhouzen	9
	4	Template:GBR George Lightley	1-9
Reception Carrot Team [?]	7	Amada Castellón	1-9, 14-15
		Sofia de Haro	10, 13
		Barry McKockiner	11
		Template:FRA Nina Noyer	12
	8	Template:FRA Jehan Duchamps	1-3
		Sofia de Haro	4
		Adán Gabaldon	5-
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	1-8, 12-
		Billy Baker	9-11
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, 9, 12-13, 15
		Template:FRA Jehan-Jacques Graves	3-8, 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-
		Template:GBR "Dave"	5-7
	28	Moe Lester	1-
Order of Racing [?]	31	"Duncan Idaho"	1-7
		Template:USA Nunzio Dunn	8-
	32	Barry McKockiner	1-4
		Template:USA Nunzio Dunn	5-7
		Javier Scarpetta	8-11
		Template:USA Kruger Dunning	12-
Racing Team of Friendship Socialist Countries [?]	33	Nikolai Zorbin	1-10, 14-15
		Dominik Nowak	11-13
	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-
Team Kraguj [?]	37	Leopoldo Faraldo	6-
	38	Ensar Alić	6-

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 for Thruxton, though she would leave the series after just one round, replaced by Adán Gabaldon.
• 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. "Dave" was brought in to replace him.
• Barry McKockiner was fired by Order of Racing after failing to qualify P26 at Thruxton. Nunzio Dunn was hired to replace him.
• Javier Scarpetta was fired by Dickenson-Lightley after he took out his teammate, George Lightley, in a collision at Syracuse. The Earl of Sandwich replaced Scarpetta for the following race at Pau, and Bern van der Westhouzen in the races thereafter.
• Duncan Idaho left Order of Racing following his retirement from the lead at Syracuse. The recently-fired Javier Scarpetta was hired as his replacement.
• Nino Pilia suffered a broken vertebra at Pau and missed the next three races. Jèrrais driver Billy Baker filled in for these races.
• George Lightley was killed in a crash at Grobnik.
• Amada Castellón suffered a broken vertebra at Grobnik and missed the next four races, replaced by a returning Sofia De Haro and later the French driver Nina Noyer (though because she did not get a visa for the USSR, Barry McKockiner was drafted in at very short notice for Bikernieki).
• Nikolai Zorbin sustained an injury at Halle and missed the next three races. Polish driver Dominik Nowak filled in for him during these races.
• Jacques Clouseau suffered a season-ending injury at Bikernieki.
• Javier Scarpetta sustained a near-fatal injury at Bikernieki and missed the rest of the season. American driver Kruger Dunning was brought in to replace him.

Mid-Season Team Changes

• Scuderia Verona was 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.
• Team Kraguj took over the excluded Scuderia Verona's assets and entered the championship from Mugello onwards.
• Dickenson-Lightley was expelled from the championship for bringing the sport into disrepute following the death of their driver George Lightley.

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	Template:FRA Jacques Clouseau	Template:FRA Jacques Clouseau	Template:FRA Jacques Clouseau	Template:SUI Latin Auto Technology Enterprises	Adán Gabeldon	Driving standards
6	20th May	Trofeo Flor Bath	Mugello Circuit, Scarperia e San Piero, Italy	Leopoldo Faraldo	Txatxu Etxeberria	"Sentenza"	Macchina Automobili Giorgio Armani	Sport	Euskadi Lasterketa
7	3rd June	Dywa Granni Premiu di Sicilia	Circuito di Siracusa, Syracuse, Italy	Paul Pott	Nikolai Zorbin	Paul Pott	Template:FRA Vaillante Équipe Dywa	Paul Pott	Euskadi Lasterketa
8	17th June	Euskal Herriko Dywa Sari Nagusia	Pau Street Circuit, Pau, France	Paul Pott	Amalure Arrigorriagakoa	Karl Gustav Schneider	Racing Team of Friendship Socialist Countries	Lena Troscchi	Template:FRA The French Republic
9	8th July	Utrka za bratstvo i jedinstvo	Automotodrom Grobnik, Rijeka, SFR Yugoslavia	Leopoldo Faraldo	Template:FRA "Michel Vaillant"	Hoji Imin	Great Leap Backward	Template:USA Diane Ettick
10	22nd July	Internationales Halle-Saale-Rennen für Frieden und Freundschaft	Halle-Saale-Schleife, Halle, East Germany	"Sentenza"	"Sentenza"	"Sentenza"	Macchina Automobili Giorgio Armani	Billy Baker	Giuseppe Gasperoni
11	5th August	Dywa Velikoe Ispytanie SSSR	Biķernieku trase, Riga, Soviet Union	"Sentenza"	Amalure Arrigorriagakoa	Adán Gabaldón	Reception Carrot Team	Template:USA Diane Ettick	Template:USA Blockton Impact
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 "Sentenza" 13 1 8 5 17 1 10 12 19 1 8 32 2 Template:FRA Jacques Clouseau 10 2 1 4 1 6† DNQ 13 8 16 26 INJ INJ INJ INJ 32 3 Amalure Arrigorriagakoa 5† 15 5† 16 13 7 26 7 10 2 2 19 4 Paul Pott 4† 7 22 INJ INJ INJ 1 20 22 21 3 18 5 Template:FRA "Michel Vaillant" 1 23 2 16 6 Nino Pilia DNQ 4 2 6 5 2 9 24 INJ INJ INJ 16 7 Adán Gabaldon 6 14 18 17 3 9 1 14 8 Hoji Imin 8 3 17 22 20 19 23 18 1 14 20 14 9 Johannes Gruber 18 17 3 13 2 DNPQ 8 DNPQ 26 4 21 13 10 Template:GBR/ Javier Scarpetta 18 18 1 9 22 12 8 5† 18 25 INJ INJ INJ INJ 11 11 Karl Gustav Schneider 19 DNPQ 13 20 11 26 5 1 16 17 13 12 12 Txatxu Etxeberria 11 13 19 2 18 3 20 23 21 20 12 10 13 Template:FRA Aimé Voulescons 14 6 6† 10 4 25 16 26 25 3 10 9 14 Giacomo Campatelli 6† 5 11 23 3 20 6† 19 14 15 23 8 15 Template:FRA Jehan-Jacques Graves 25 3 14 24 4 9 8 17 7 16 Mike Zhen Hong 2 12 15 25 6 17 Template:USA Nunzio Dunn 24 18 22 2 13 11 15 6 18 Stefano Spaghetti 26 26 14 24 DNQ 12 2 21 20 19 7 6 19 Peter Krieg 7 25 12 7 22 DNPQ 3 DNPQ 6† 25 14 5 20 Nikolai Zorbin 24 DNPQ 7 18 16 4 15 22 23 23 INJ INJ INJ 5 21 Template:FRA Alphonse Fabron 9 22 4 DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ 10 DNQ DNQ 4 6 22 Leopoldo Faraldo 20 14 23 13 24 15 11 6 11 5 23 Template:USA Max Speed 3† 9 DNPQ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ 4 24 Lena Troscchi 21 19 3 4 25 Template:USA Diane Ettick 12 7 10 21 6† 4 10 24 4 26 Ensar Alić 17 25 4 17 24 9 3 27 Amada Castellón 12 16 24 8 15 11 11 5† 9 INJ INJ INJ INJ 2 28 Bern van der Westhouzen 17 19 5† 7 2 29 Billy Baker DNQ 5 5 4 30 Shota Kakhaberidze 15 21 DNPQ 15 21 23 14 14 18 22 22 1 31 Barry McKockiner 23 11 10 14 6† 1 32 Sofia de Haro 9 7 0 33 Giuseppe Gasperoni 17 20 26 INJ INJ INJ 7 25 24 DSQ 16 0 34 Template:FRA Jehan Duchamps 16 8 21 INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ 0 35 Template:GBR "Dave" 26 8 DNPQ 0 36 Nicholás Krutzhoff 8 12 12 19 0 37 Per Olsen 11 12 9 0 38 Template:GBR George Lightley 22 19 20 19 10 15 17 16 15 0 39 Template:GBR Earl of Sandwich 11 0 40 "Duncan Idaho" 21 24 16 21 25 16 13 0 41 Moe Lester DNPQ DNQ DNQ DNQ 23 DNQ DNPQ DNQ DNPQ 13 DNQ 0 42 Dominik Nowak 18 0 43 Template:FRA "Ouragan" 25 0 44 Template:ENG Ben Dover DNPQ DNQ DNQ 26 INJ INJ INJ DNQ DNPQ DNQ DNQ 0 45 Template:GBR Heywood Jablowme DNQ 0 46 Template:FRA Nina Noyer DNA 0 EX Unknown 10 9 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:FRA Vaillante Équipe Dywa 25 1 23 25 3 14 24 4 9 2 8 17 43 26 4† 7 22 17 19 5† 1 20 22 21 3 2 Macchina Automobili Giorgio Armani 21 13 1 8 5 17 1 10 12 19 1 8 38 22 26 26 14 24 DNQ 12 2 21 20 19 7 3 Template:SUI Latin Auto Technology Enterprises 1 10 2 1 4 1 6† DNQ 13 8 16 26 38 2 9 22 4 DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ 10 DNQ DNQ 4 4 Euskadi Lasterketa 19 5† 15 5† 16 13 7 26 7 10 2 2 29 20 11 13 19 2 18 3 20 23 21 21 12 5 Great Leap Backward 23 8 3 17 22 20 19 23 18 1 14 20 24 24 2 12 15 25 8 21 19 3 12 12 19 6 Bambini di San Marino 17 17 20 26 11 12 9 7 25 24 DSQ 16 22 18 DNQ 4 2 6 5 2 9 24 DNQ 5 5 7 Template:AUT DYWA-HARD 11 18 17 3 13 2 DNPQ 8 DNPQ 26 4 21 18 12 7 25 12 7 22 DNPQ 3 DNPQ 6† 25 14 8 Reception Carrot Team 7 12 16 24 8 15 11 11 5† 9 7 6† 17 8 16 8 21 9 6 14 18 17 3 9 1 9 Racing Team of Friendship Socialist Countries 33 24 DNPQ 7 18 16 4 15 22 23 23 18 16 34 19 DNPQ 13 20 11 26 5 1 16 17 13 10 Template:FRA Motorsports de Boulangerie Cochon Rose 15 14 6 6† 10 4 25 16 26 25 3 10 13 16 6† 5 11 23 3 20 6† 19 14 15 23 11 Template:USA Blockton Impact 35 15 21 DNPQ 15 21 23 14 14 18 22 22 9 36 3† 9 DNPQ 12 7 10 21 6† 4 10 24 12 Order of Racing 31 21 24 16 21 25 16 13 2 13 11 15 8 32 23 11 10 14 24 18 22 8 5† 18 25 13 Team Kraguj 37 13 24 15 11 6 11 6 38 17 25 4 17 24 9 14 Template:GBR Automotive SuperSport 27 DNPQ DNQ DNQ 26 26 8 DNPQ DNQ DNPQ 13 DNQ 0 28 DNPQ DNQ DNQ DNQ 23 DNQ DNPQ DNQ DNPQ DNQ DNQ EX Template:GBR Dickenson-Lightley 3 DNQ 18 18 1 9 22 12 11 7 0 (9) 4 22 19 20 19 10 15 17 16 15 EX Scuderia Verona 9 25 10 9 0 (2) 10 20 14 23