Drivers' Champion: Jody Scheckter Constructors' Champion: Ferrari
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South African Jody Scheckter won the Drivers' Championship, driving for Ferrari.Canadian Gilles Villeneuve finished runner-up in the Drivers' Championship, 4 points behind Ferrari teammate Scheckter.Australian Alan Jones (pictured in 1980) finished third in the Drivers' Championship, driving for Williams.
The 1979 Formula One season was the 33rd season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It featured the 1979 World Championship of F1 Drivers[1] and the 1979 International Cup for F1 Constructors[2] which were contested concurrently over a fifteen-round series which commenced on 21 January 1979, and ended on 7 October. The season also included three non-championship Formula One races.
Jody Scheckter won the Drivers' Championship and, with teammate Gilles Villeneuve in second place, Scuderia Ferrari won the Constructors' Championship. This was the team's fourth Constructors' Championship in five years, and more would follow, but it would be their last Drivers' Championship for the next 20 years.
^FIA Yearbook 1980, Grey Section, page 84
^FIA Yearbook 1980, Grey Section, page 85
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