1979 Indianapolis 500 - Results

Track Indianapolis

City Indianapolis, Indiana

Type Oval

Length 2.500 mi

Trackrecord 0:37.6160

P	Driver	L	Time	GP
1	Rick Mears	200	3:08:47.970
2	A. J. Foyt	200	3:09:33.660 +45.690	+45.690
3	Mike Mosley	200	3:09:36.000 +48.030	+2.340
4	Danny Ongais	199	0:00:00.000 +1 lap	+1 lap
5	Bobby Unser	199	0:00:00.000 +1 lap	+0.000
6	Gordon Johncock	197	0:00:00.000 +3 laps	+2 laps
7	Howdy Holmes	195	0:00:00.000 +5 laps	+2 laps
8	Bill Vukovich Jr.	193	0:00:00.000 +7 laps	+2 laps
9	Tom Bagley	193	0:00:00.000 +7 laps	+0.000
10	Spike Gehlhausen	192	0:00:00.000 +8 laps	+1 lap
11	Steve Krisiloff	192	0:00:00.000 +8 laps	+0.000
12	Salt Walther	191	0:00:00.000 +9 laps	+1 lap
13	Roger McCluskey	191	0:00:00.000 +9 laps	+0.000
14	Tom Bigelow	190	0:00:00.000 +10 laps	+1 lap
15	Tom Sneva	188	0:00:00.000 +12 laps	+2 laps
16	Joe Saldana	186	0:00:00.000 +14 laps	+2 laps
17	Phil Threshie	172	0:00:00.000 +28 laps	+14 laps
18	Johnny Rutherford	168	0:00:00.000 +32 laps	+4 laps
19	Larry Rice	142	0:00:00.000 +58 laps	+26 laps
20	Pancho Carter	129	0:00:00.000 +71 laps	+13 laps
21	Vern Schuppan	111	0:00:00.000 +89 laps	+18 laps
22	Al Unser	104	0:00:00.000 +96 laps	+7 laps
23	Eldon Rasmussen	89	0:00:00.000 +111 laps	+15 laps
24	Larry Dickson	86	0:00:00.000 +114 laps	+3 laps
25	John Mahler	66	0:00:00.000 +134 laps	+20 laps
26	Dick Simon	57	0:00:00.000 +143 laps	+9 laps
27	Wally Dallenbach	43	0:00:00.000 +157 laps	+14 laps
28	Sheldon Kinser	40	0:00:00.000 +160 laps	+3 laps
29	Cliff Hucul	22	0:00:00.000 +178 laps	+18 laps
30	Lee Kunzman	18	0:00:00.000 +182 laps	+4 laps
31	Jerry Sneva	16	0:00:00.000 +184 laps	+2 laps
32	Johnny Parsons Jr.	16	0:00:00.000 +184 laps	+0.000
33	George Snider	7	0:00:00.000 +193 laps	+9 laps
34	Janet Guthrie	3	0:00:00.000 +197 laps	+4 laps
35	Jim McElreath	0	0:00:00.000 +200 laps	+3 laps

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