1979 CART Indianapolis 500
Date
May 27, 1979
Circuit
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Distance
4.025 Km x 200 Laps = 805.00 Km
Pole Position
Rick Mears , 46.455
Fastest Lap
Mike Mosley , 46.580

Race Result

Race Result

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Pos Driver Laps Time/Retire
1 Rick Mears 200 3h08m47.970
2 A.J.Foyt 200 3h09m33.660
3 Mike Mosley 200 3h09m36.000
4 Danny Ongais 199
5 Bobby Unser 199
6 Gordon Johncock 197
7 Howdy Holmes 195
8 Billy Vukovich II 193
9 Tom Bagley 193
10 Spike Gehlhausen 192
11 Steve Krisiloff 192
12 Salt Walther 191
13 Roger McCluskey 191
14 Tom Bigelow 190
16 Joe Saldaña 186
17 Phil Threshie 172
18 Johnny Rutherford 168
DNF Tom Sneva 188 Accident
DNF Larry Rice 142 Accident
DNF Pancho Carter 129 Wheel
DNF Vern Schuppan 111 Transmission
DNF Al Unser 104 Transmission
DNF Eldon Rasmussen 89 Header
DNF Larry Dickson 86 Fuel Pump
DNF John Mahler 66 Fuel Pump
DNF Dick Simon 57 Clutch
DNF Wally Dallenbach 43 Wheel
DNF Sheldon Kinser 40 Piston
DNF Cliff Hucul 22 Valve
DNF Lee Kunzman 18 Scavanger
DNF Johnny Parsons Jr. 16 Piston
DNF Jerry Sneva 16 Piston
DNF George Snider 7 Valve
DNF Janet Guthrie 3 Piston
DNF Jim McElreath 0 Valve

* 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 3.05.82
2 Tom Sneva 3.06.53
3 Al Unser 3.07.01
4 Bobby Unser 3.09.56
5 Gordon Johncock 3.09.72
6 A.J.Foyt 3.09.86
7 Wally Dallenbach 3.11.20
8 Johnny Rutherford 3.11.35
9 Johnny Parsons Jr. 3.11.68
10 Sheldon Kinser 3.12.85
11 Lee Kunzman 3.13.13
12 Mike Mosley 3.13.26
13 Howdy Holmes 3.13.69
14 Janet Guthrie 3.13.84
15 Tom Bagley 3.14.16
16 Salt Walther 3.15.48
17 Pancho Carter 3.13.75
18 Cliff Hucul 3.13.34
19 Jim McElreath 3.13.67
20 Dick Simon 3.14.52
21 Jerry Sneva 3.15.25
22 Vern Schuppan 3.15.29
23 Larry Rice 3.15.42
24 Larry Dickson 3.15.46
25 Roger McCluskey 3.15.75
26 Joe Saldaña 3.10.70
27 Danny Ongais 3.11.48
28 Steve Krisiloff 3.13.25
29 Phil Threshie 3.13.84
30 Tom Bigelow 3.14.44
31 Spike Gehlhausen 3.14.53
32 John Mahler 3.15.31
33 Eldon Rasmussen 3.15.73
34 Billy Vukovich II 3.12.47
35 George Snider 3.14.26

Entry List

Entry List

Lap Chart

Lap Chart

Time Graph

Time Graph

Leaders

Leaders

Driver Entrant Laps
Driver Total

AVG Lap Time

AVG Lap Time

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