1979 BMW M1 Procar Championship
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The 1979 BMW M1 Procar Championship was the inaugural season of the BMW M1 Procar Championship. The series ran as a support category to the European rounds of the 1979 Formula One season.[1]
Teams and drivers
Calendar and results
No. | Circuit | Dates | Pole Position | Winning Driver | Winning Team | Parent event | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Circuit Zolder | May 12 | Jacques Laffite | Elio de Angelis | BMW Italia | Belgian Grand Prix | [3] |
2 | Circuit de Monaco | May 26 | Niki Lauda | Niki Lauda | Project Four Racing | Monaco Grand Prix | [4] |
3 | Dijon-Prenois | June 30 | Nelson Piquet | Nelson Piquet | BMW Motorsport | French Grand Prix | [5] |
4 | Silverstone Circuit | July 13 | Alan Jones | Niki Lauda | Project Four Racing | British Grand Prix | [6] |
5 | Hockenheimring | July 28 | Alan Jones | Niki Lauda | Project Four Racing | German Grand Prix | [7] |
6 | Österreichring | August 12 | Alan Jones | Jacques Laffite | BMW Motorsport | Austrian Grand Prix | [8] |
7 | Circuit Zandvoort | August 26 | Alan Jones | Hans-Joachim Stuck | Manfred Cassani | Dutch Grand Prix | [9] |
8 | Autodromo Nazionale di Monza | September 9 | Alan Jones | Hans-Joachim Stuck | Manfred Cassani | Italian Grand Prix | [10] |
Championship standings
- Points system
Race Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Points | 20 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
- Standings
Pos. | Driver | ZOL |
MCO |
DIJ |
SIL |
HOC |
ÖST |
ZAN |
MNZ |
Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Niki Lauda | Ret | 1 | 8 | 1 | 1 | Ret | Ret | 2 | 78 |
2 | Hans-Joachim Stuck | Ret | Ret | 7 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 73 |
3 | Clay Regazzoni | 3 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | Ret | 61 |
4 | Markus Höttinger | Ret | 6 | 11 | 3 | Ret | 2 | Ret | 3 | 45 |
5 | Toine Hezemans | 2 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 44 |
6 | Nelson Piquet | DNS | 1 | 2 | Ret | Ret | 35 | |||
= | Jacques Laffite | Ret | Ret | 1 | 2 | 35 | ||||
8 | Didier Pironi | 3 | 4 | 3 | 34 | |||||
9 | Helmut Kelleners | 4 | 10 | Ret | 7 | 6 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 33 |
10 | Alan Jones | 2 | 5 | Ret | Ret | 8 | Ret | 26 | ||
11 | Marc Surer | Ret | 4 | 8 | 4 | Ret | 23 | |||
12 | Dieter Quester | 5 | Ret | Ret | 6 | Ret | 11 | 7 | 7 | 22 |
13 | Elio de Angelis | 1 | Ret | Ret | Ret | 20 | ||||
= | Manfred Winkelhock | Ret | Ret | 5 | 3 | Ret | 20 | |||
15 | Hans-Georg Bürger | 3 | 6 | 18 | ||||||
16 | Wolfgang Schutz | Ret | 5 | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | 6 | 14 |
17 | Emerson Fittipaldi | 3 | 12 | |||||||
18 | Jean-Louis Lafosse | 6 | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | 10 | Ret | 7 | |
19 | Jean-Pierre Beltoise | 6 | 6 | |||||||
= | Sepp Manhalter | 7 | 11 | Ret | 11 | 13 | 11 | 9 | 6 | |
= | Bruno Giacomelli | Ret | Ret | 10 | Ret | 8 | 9 | Ret | 6 | |
22 | Franz Konrad | DNS | 7 | Ret | 13 | Ret | 4 | |||
= | Jochen Mass | 7 | DNS | 4 | ||||||
24 | Eddie Cheever | 8 | 3 | |||||||
= | Carlos Reutemann | 8 | 3 | |||||||
= | Walter Brun | Ret | Ret | Ret | 11 | Ret | 8 | 3 | ||
27 | Jean-Pierre Jarier | 9 | 2 | |||||||
= | Tiff Needell | 9 | 2 | |||||||
29 | Markus Hotz | Ret | 10 | Ret | 1 | |||||
= | "John Winter" | 10 | 1 | |||||||
NC | Frank Styner | 12 | 0 | |||||||
= | Mario Andretti | Ret | 0 | |||||||
= | Albrecht Krebs | Ret | 0 | |||||||
= | Patrick Depailler | Ret | 0 | |||||||
= | Michael Bleekemolen | Ret | 0 | |||||||
= | Teo Fabi | Ret | 0 | |||||||
Pos. | Driver | ZOL |
MCO |
DIJ |
SIL |
HOC |
ÖST |
ZAN |
MNZ |
Points |
References
- ^ "1979 BMW M1 PROCAR". Motorsport Magazine. 18 February 2020.
- ^ "Schnitzer • Team History & Info | Motorsport Database".
- ^ "1979 ZOLDER BMW PROCAR". Motorsport Magazine. 18 February 2020.
- ^ "1979 MONACO BMW PROCAR". Motorsport Magazine. 18 February 2020.
- ^ "1979 DIJON BMW PROCAR". Motorsport Magazine. 18 February 2020.
- ^ "1979 SILVERSTONE BMW PROCAR". Motorsport Magazine. 18 February 2020.
- ^ "1979 HOCKENHEIM BMW PROCAR". Motorsport Magazine. 18 February 2020.
- ^ "1979 OSTERREICHRING BMW PROCAR". Motorsport Magazine. 18 February 2020.
- ^ "1979 ZANDVOORT BMW PROCAR". Motorsport Magazine. 18 February 2020.
- ^ "1979 MONZA BMW PROCAR". Motorsport Magazine. 18 February 2020.