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Revision as of 11:59, 5 February 2022
1979 Dywa Grand Prix Series season | |
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Season | |
Races | 15 |
Start date | 1st April |
Start Event | ![]() |
End date | 23rd September |
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Awards | |
Driver's Champion | ![]() |
Constructor's Champion | ![]() |
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.
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 |
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1 | 1st April | ![]() |
Autodromo di Pergusa, Pergusa, Italy | ![]() |
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Template:FRA "Michel Vaillant" | Template:FRA Vaillante Équipe Dywa | Template:FRA/![]() |
Template:GBR Heywood Jablowme |
2 | 8th April | ![]() |
Autodromo Dino Ferrari, Imola, Italy | ![]() |
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3 | 22nd April | Template:FRA Dywa Grande Épreuve de France | Circuit de Rouen-Les-Essarts, Orival, France | Template:FRA Jacques Clouseau | ![]() |
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 | ![]() |
Template:FRA Jacques Clouseau | Template:GBR Javier Scarpetta | Template:GBR Dickenson-Lightley | ![]() |
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5 | 13th May | ![]() |
Mainz-Finthen Circuit, Mainz, West Germany | ||||||
6 | 20th May | ![]() |
Mugello Circuit, Scarperia e San Piero, Italy | ||||||
7 | 3rd June | ![]() |
Circuito di Siracusa, Syracuse, Italy | ||||||
8 | 17th June | ![]() |
Pau Street Circuit, Pau, France | ||||||
9 | 8th July | ![]() |
Automotodrom Grobnik, Rijeka, SFR Yugoslavia | ||||||
10 | 22nd July | ![]() |
Halle-Saale-Schleife, Halle, East Germany | ||||||
11 | 5th August | ![]() |
Biķernieku trase, Riga, Soviet Union | ||||||
12 | 19th August | ![]() |
Keimola Motor Stadium, Vantaa, Finland | ||||||
13 | 2nd September | Template:GBR The Castle Cup | Castle Combe, Wiltshire, United Kingdom | ||||||
14 | 9th September | ![]() |
Circuit de Charade, Saint-Genès-Champanelle, France | ||||||
15 | 23rd September | ![]() |
Autodromo Internazionale di Monza, Monza, Italy |
Standings
Scoring System
Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | PP | FLAP |
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Points | 9 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Drivers' Championship
All results counted towards the championship.
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Teams' Championship
All results by each team's cars counted towards the championship.
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