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5th place Light Blue 6th–10th place Dark Blue 11th place or lower Purple Did not finish Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Brown Withdrawn (Wth) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Blank Did not participate (DNP) Driver replacement (Rpl) Injured (Inj) No race held (NH) Pos.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
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