1979 USAC Mini-Indy Series season

1979 USAC Mini Indy Series season

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The 1979 USAC Mini Indy Series season was the third and final full season of the USAC sanctioned Formula Super Vee championship.

Race calendar and results

Round	Circuit	Location	Date	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winner
1	Texas World Speedway	College Station, Texas	8 April	Geoff Brabham		Dennis Firestone
2	Indianapolis Raceway Park	Brownsburg, Indiana	27 May	Geoff Brabham		Ken Nichols
3	The Milwaukee Mile	West Allis, Wisconsin	10 June	Dennis Firestone		Dennis Firestone
4	Pocono International Raceway	Long Pond, Pennsylvania	24 June	Gary Bettenhausen		Ronn Gregg
5	Texas World Speedway	College Station, Texas	29 July	Mike Chandler		Mike Chandler
6	The Milwaukee Mile	West Allis, Wisconsin	20 August	Dennis Firestone		Dennis Firestone
7	Minnesota State Fair	St. Paul, Minnesota	25 August	Tom Klausler		Dennis Firestone
8			27 August	Geoff Brabham		Dennis Firestone

Final standings

Color	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	2nd place
Bronze	3rd place
Green	4th & 5th place
Light Blue	6th–10th place
Dark Blue	11th place or lower
Purple	Did not finish
Red	Did not qualify (DNQ)
Brown	Withdrawn (Wth)
Black	Disqualified (DSQ)
White	Did not start (DNS)
Blank	Did not participate (DNP)
	Driver replacement (Rpl)
	Injured (Inj)
	No race held (NH)

Pos.	Driver	TEX1	IRP	MIL1	POC	TEX2	MIL2	MIN1	MIN2	Points
1	Dennis Firestone	1	2	1	2	2	1	1	1	1480
2	Mike Chandler	3	4	6	7	1	3	2	22	903
3	Geoff Brabham	19	3	3	4	5	2	6	6	824
4	Pete Halsmer	4	9	8	8	12	5	4	2	650
5	Ken Nichols		1	5	18		23	7	3	507
6	Ronn Gregg		7	20	1	9	16	9	20	358
7	Gary Bettenhausen	10	2		3					330
8	Jim Harvey	7		11		4	7	16	8	315
9	Dave McMillan					3	4	18	9	304
10	Harry MacDonald	18	5	9	6	7				284
11	Johnny Parsons			4	19		22	21	4	250
12	Tom Klausler	20	16	15	12		11	5	5	244
13	Rich Vogler	2	6		26					242
14	Dale Whittington					6	12	3	21	233
15	Barry Hartzell	5	14	10	9	14				180
16	Doug Clark	11	10	19	25	8	19			110
17	Rich Maier	8	8	21	13					108
18	Bob Cicconi	13	17	7	11	13	17	20	13	107
19	Bill Cruse				5			17		104
20	Dan Park		11				9	15	10	95
21	Joe Gimpel, Jr.	16		22	14		6			93
22	Roger Rager							10	7	90
23	John Kalagian	9		17			10		12	84
24	Bryan Johnson	6								80
25	Richard Shirey						8	24		53
26	Denny Moothart							8		50
27	Roy Kischell	17	12	23	24	11	20		24	47
28	Jim Giffin					10	21	12		43
29	Stuart Moore				10					30
30	Herm Johnson							19	11	24
30	Tommy Thomas							11	18	24
32	Tom D'Eath	12	13							15
33	Steve Lotshaw		18	12						14
34	John Sisk	22	19		17					11
35	Lou Gigliotti							13	16	10
35	Mark Glembin			16			13			10
35	Mike Martz		15	13						10
35	Bill Henderson							14	14	10
39	Dave Estep						14		17	9
40	Dana Carter				21		15			8
40	Rich Pfeiffer				23	15				8
40	Gary Pratt							23	15	8
43	Giovanni Angelo			18			24			7
44	Richard Messier							22	23	6
45	Jim McElean			14						5
45	Dave Manzolini				15					5
45	J.D. Moffatt	15								5
45	Dominick Billera				16					5
49	Tim LaWarre						18			4
49	Benny Scott								19	4
49	Mark Abel				20					4
52	Bill Noble	21								3
52	Roger McCluskey				22					3
52	Dennis Blackwell	23								3
52	Jan Slesinski		DNS	24						3
	Tom Hessert				DNS