1979 Formula One standings

1979 season results

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Rank	Driver	Points	Starts	Poles	Wins	Podiums	Avg. Start	Avg. Finish	Races Led	Races Led Most	X Led	Laps Led	Races Led Points	Avg % Led	% Beat	Fastest Laps	Laps	Not Classified
1	Jody Scheckter	51	15	1	3	6	6.13	4.87	4	2	5	170	9	16.73	82.99	0	907	2
2	Gilles Villeneuve	47	15	1	3	7	5.07	5.53	7	5	9	308	2	28.14	80.06	6	914	3
3	Alan Jones	40	15	3	4	5	6.87	8.87	7	4	8	216	0	24.28	65.40	1	812	7
4	Jacques Laffite	36	15	4	2	6	4.80	11.40	3	2	4	95	4	13.22	54.25	2	637	8
5	Clay Regazzoni	29	15	0	1	5	10.07	10.13	1	0	1	30	0	2.94	59.82	2	720	5
6	Patrick Depailler	20	7	0	1	2	2.86	7.43	3	2	4	110	0	22.08	71.34	1	373	2
7	Carlos Reutemann	20	15	0	0	4	9.47	11.20	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	55.13	0	659	6
8	René Arnoux	17	14	2	0	3	9.29	13.93	1	0	1	11	0	1.57	43.08	2	502	9
9	John Watson	15	15	0	0	1	14.27	9.87	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	61.00	0	788	5
10	Didier Pironi	14	15	0	0	2	10.07	10.07	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	60.12	0	767	6
11	Jean-Pierre Jarier	14	12	0	0	2	10.92	9.50	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	62.50	0	616	6
12	Mario Andretti	14	15	0	0	1	9.87	14.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	42.82	0	546	9
13	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	9	14	4	1	1	6.64	15.64	2	0	2	35	0	3.13	35.53	0	446	11
14	Niki Lauda	4	12	0	0	0	8.77	16.23	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	32.88	0	358	10
15	Elio de Angelis	3	14	0	0	0	20.36	13.50	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	45.65	0	631	7
16	Nelson Piquet	3	15	0	0	0	9.13	15.07	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	38.12	1	582	11
17	Jacky Ickx	3	8	0	0	0	17.13	15.13	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	38.59	0	325	6
18	Jochen Mass	3	13	0	0	0	17.85	12.54	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	49.15	0	636	4
19	Riccardo Patrese	2	14	0	0	0	16.21	13.50	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	44.97	0	610	8
20	Hans-Joachim Stuck	2	12	0	0	0	18.25	14.83	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	38.97	0	474	8
21	Emerson Fittipaldi	1	15	0	0	0	17.73	14.20	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	41.94	0	612	7
22	Héctor Rebaque	0	10	0	0	0	22.00	13.80	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	44.35	0	524	7
23	Patrick Tambay	0	13	0	0	0	16.92	16.15	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	34.11	0	429	8
24	Ricardo Zunino	0	2	0	0	0	14.00	11.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	56.52	0	93	1
25	Geoff Lees	0	1	0	0	0	16.00	7.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	73.91	0	44	0
26	Derek Daly	0	6	0	0	0	20.17	11.33	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	55.07	0	292	3
27	James Hunt	0	7	0	0	0	11.86	16.57	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	30.57	0	195	6
28	Jan Lammers	0	12	0	0	0	20.92	14.67	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	40.58	0	535	5
29	Keke Rosberg	0	7	0	0	0	15.57	15.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	39.13	0	261	6
30	Vittorio Brambilla	0	2	0	0	0	20.00	12.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	52.17	0	101	1
31	Patrick Gaillard	0	2	0	0	0	23.50	12.50	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	50.00	0	107	1
32	Bruno Giacomelli	0	4	0	0	0	16.75	19.75	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	18.48	0	124	3
33	Arturo Merzario	0	2	0	0	0	22.00	22.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	8.70	0	13	2
34	Marc Surer	0	1	0	0	0	21.00	13.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	47.83	0	32	1
35	Gianfranco Brancatelli	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0	0	0
36	Alex Ribeiro	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0	0	0