1979 CART California 500
Date
September 2, 1979
Circuit
Ontario Motor Speedway
Distance
4.025 Km x 200 Laps = 805.00 Km
Pole Position
Rick Mears , 44.320
Fastest Lap
No Info

Race Result

Race Result

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Pos Driver Laps Time/Retire
1 Bobby Unser 200 3h24m22.000
2 Rick Mears 200
3 Mario Andretti 200
4 Johnny Rutherford 199
5 Al Unser 197
6 Danny Ongais 196
7 Vern Schuppan 192
8 Don Whittington 190
9 Lee Kunzman 188
10 Jerry Sneva 170 Engine
11 Tom Frantz 152
DNF Bill Whittington 139 Manifold
DNF Roger Rager 135 Engine
DNF Larry Cannon 128 Piston
DNF Gordon Johncock 119 Fuel Pump
DNF Dick Ferguson 118 Valve
DNF Tom Sneva 108 Oil Pump
DNF John Martin 107 Engine
DNF Billy Scott 74 Engine
DNF Al Loquasto 69 Piston
DNF Salt Walther 69 Transmission
DNF Bill Alsup 59 Cylinder
DNF Steve Krisiloff 47 Valve
DNF Wally Dallenbach 46 Engine
DNF Spike Gehlhausen 46 Halfshaft
DNF Tim Richmond 39 Transmission
DNF Phil Caliva 23 Oil Leak
DNF Pancho Carter 21 Camshaft
DNF Bob Harkey 17 Accident
DNF Joe Saldaña 14 Oil Pump
DNF Dennis Firestone 10 Oil Leak
DNF Tom Bagley 7 Accident
DNF Johnny Parsons Jr. 4 Valve
DNF Mike Mosley 2 Engine
DNF Cliff Hucul 2 Transmission

* For this race, except for disqualified and non-starting drivers, all participating drivers are classified. DNFs are only included for ranking purposes.

Qualifying Result

Qualifying Result

Qualifying Result

Qualifying uploaded by AdminRY
Pos Driver Time
1 Rick Mears 0.44.32
2 Al Unser 0.44.51
3 Bobby Unser 0.44.69
4 Mario Andretti 0.44.91
5 Tom Sneva 0.45.39
6 Johnny Parsons Jr. 0.45.49
7 Steve Krisiloff 0.45.52
8 Danny Ongais 0.45.73
9 Tom Bagley 0.45.85
10 Spike Gehlhausen 0.46.17
11 Mike Mosley 0.46.29
12 Gordon Johncock 0.46.40
13 Johnny Rutherford 0.46.42
14 Lee Kunzman 0.46.56
15 Dick Ferguson 0.46.61
16 Wally Dallenbach 0.46.84
18 Tim Richmond 0.47.00
19 Pancho Carter 0.47.35
20 Salt Walther 0.47.84
21 Dennis Firestone 0.47.98
22 Bill Alsup 0.48.24
23 John Martin 0.48.67
24 Bill Whittington 0.49.21
25 Jerry Sneva 0.49.29
26 Bob Harkey 0.49.31
27 Al Loquasto 0.49.83
28 Phil Caliva 0.50.09
29 Don Whittington 0.50.30
30 Vern Schuppan 0.50.51
31 Tom Frantz 0.50.94
32 Billy Scott 0.51.02
33 Joe Saldaña 0.47.67
34 Cliff Hucul 0.49.32
35 Larry Cannon 0.50.47

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Entry List

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