1979 USAC Mini-Indy Series season

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

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

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

v t e Indy NXT seasons
USAC Mini-Indy Series	1977 1978 1979 1980
CART American Racing Series	1986 1987 1988 1989 1990
CART Firestone/Dayton Indy Lights	1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001
IRL Infiniti/Indy Pro Series	2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Firestone Indy Lights Series	2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Indy Lights Series presented by Cooper Tire	2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 ~~2020~~ 2021 2022
Firestone Indy NXT Series	2023 2024 2025 2026

Final standings