1979 SCCA/CART Indy Car Series 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	DNFs
1	Rick Mears	4060	14	2	3	9	4.29	3.07	7	1	16	142	11	8.24	89.45	0	1455	1
2	Bobby Unser	3820	14	6	6	9	3.64	3.79	14	8	28	582	0	40.49	85.82	0	1416	1
3	Gordon Johncock	2211	14	1	2	5	5.29	6.14	7	3	10	158	1	14.07	73.82	0	1236	4
4	Johnny Rutherford	2163	14	1	2	5	6.21	7.14	5	1	13	129	2	11.24	68.73	0	1269	4
5	Al Unser	2085	14	1	1	4	5.14	6.93	5	1	12	327	0	16.63	69.82	0	1317	3
6	Danny Ongais	1473	13	0	0	0	8.92	10.54	1	0	1	33	0	1.69	52.31	0	1012	7
7	Tom Sneva	1360	14	0	0	4	6.93	9.21	4	0	5	38	0	2.67	58.18	0	1148	6
8	Tom Bagley	1208	13	0	0	0	10.23	8.85	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	60.77	0	1138	1
9	Wally Dallenbach	1149	14	0	0	1	7.36	9.86	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	54.91	0	1056	6
10	Mike Mosley	1126	12	0	0	2	9.08	13.50	2	0	2	2	0	0.24	38.78	1	756	8
11	Mario Andretti	700	1	0	0	1	4.00	3.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	94.12	0	200	0
12	Lee Kunzman	490	8	0	0	1	11.13	14.13	2	0	2	30	0	4.80	41.99	0	518	4
13	Pancho Carter	452	13	0	0	0	12.69	13.15	1	0	1	5	0	0.57	39.23	0	800	6
14	Vern Schuppan	449	8	0	0	0	17.50	13.75	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	42.70	0	656	6
15	Bill Alsup	400	13	0	0	0	14.39	12.00	1	0	1	1	0	0.00	40.66	0	918	5
16	Joe Saldana	368	13	0	0	0	16.92	13.92	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	35.38	0	814	6
17	Spike Gehlhausen	343	14	0	0	0	14.29	16.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	23.64	0	599	12
18	Salt Walther	314	8	0	0	0	13.25	11.38	1	0	1	13	0	1.98	53.63	0	717	2
19	Steve Krisiloff	279	10	0	0	0	13.00	14.80	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	34.60	0	593	7
20	Tom Frantz	236	7	0	0	0	18.14	12.29	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	44.76	0	517	3
21	Jerry Sneva	155	2	0	0	0	23.00	20.50	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	42.65	0	186	2
22	Tim Richmond	112	5	0	0	0	15.00	16.80	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	24.76	0	226	4
23	Larry Rice	105	5	0	0	0	18.00	13.80	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	37.86	0	415	2
24	Herm Johnson	98	2	0	0	0	14.50	10.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	43.75	0	220	0
25	John Mahler	74	6	0	0	0	17.17	15.50	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	32.03	0	281	3
26	Al Loquasto	70	3	0	0	0	22.67	16.67	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	38.16	0	130	2
27	Larry Cannon	56	4	0	0	0	18.20	14.25	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	34.57	0	243	4
28	Dick Ferguson	35	3	0	0	0	16.00	16.67	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	38.16	0	171	2
29	Billy Scott	20	1	0	0	0	32.00	19.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	47.06	0	74	1
30	Phil Caliva	10	1	0	0	0	28.00	27.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	23.53	0	23	1
31	A.J. Foyt	0	1	0	0	1	6.00	2.00	1	0	1	1	0	0.50	97.06	0	200	0
32	Howdy Holmes	0	1	0	0	0	13.00	7.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	82.35	0	195	0
33	Bill Vukovich, Jr.	0	1	0	0	0	34.00	8.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	79.41	0	193	0
34	Don Whittington	0	1	0	0	0	29.00	8.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	79.41	0	190	0
35	Frank Weiss	0	1	0	0	0	13.00	9.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	46.67	0	86	0
36	Bill Whittington	0	1	0	0	0	24.00	12.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	67.65	0	139	1
37	Roger McCluskey	0	1	0	0	0	25.00	13.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	64.71	0	191	0
38	Roger Mears	0	1	0	0	0	17.00	13.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	64.71	0	135	1
39	Tom Bigelow	0	1	0	0	0	30.00	14.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	61.76	0	190	0
40	Phil Threshie	0	1	0	0	0	29.00	17.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	52.94	0	172	0
41	John Martin	0	1	0	0	0	23.00	18.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	50.00	0	107	1
42	Eldon Rasmussen	0	1	0	0	0	33.00	23.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	35.29	0	89	1
43	Larry Dickson	0	1	0	0	0	24.00	24.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	32.35	0	86	1
44	Dick Simon	0	1	0	0	0	20.00	26.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	26.47	0	57	1
45	Sheldon Kinser	0	1	0	0	0	10.00	28.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	20.59	0	40	1
46	Bob Harkey	0	1	0	0	0	26.00	29.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	17.65	0	17	1
47	Dennis Firestone	0	1	0	0	0	21.00	31.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	11.76	0	10	1
48	Cliff Hucul	0	2	0	0	0	26.00	32.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	8.82	0	24	2
49	Johnny Parsons	0	2	0	0	0	7.50	32.50	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	7.35	0	20	2
50	George Snider	0	1	0	0	0	35.00	33.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	5.88	0	7	1
51	Janet Guthrie	0	1	0	0	0	14.00	34.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	2.94	0	3	1
52	Jim McElreath	0	1	0	0	0	19.00	35.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0	0	1