The 1979 BMW M1 Procar Championship was the inaugural season of the BMW M1 Procar Championship. The series ran as a support category to the European rounds of the 1979 Formula One season.[1]
| No. | Circuit | Dates | Pole Position | Winning Driver | Winning Team | Parent event | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Circuit Zolder | May 12 |  Jacques Laffite |  Elio de Angelis | BMW Italia | Belgian Grand Prix | [3] | |
| 2 |  Circuit de Monaco | May 26 |  Niki Lauda | Niki Lauda |  Project Four Racing | Monaco Grand Prix | [4] | |
| 3 | Dijon-Prenois | June 30 |  Nelson Piquet | Nelson Piquet | BMW Motorsport | French Grand Prix | [5] | |
| 4 | Silverstone Circuit | July 13 |  Alan Jones | Niki Lauda | Project Four Racing | British Grand Prix | [6] | |
| 5 | Hockenheimring | July 28 | Alan Jones | Niki Lauda | Project Four Racing | German Grand Prix | [7] | |
| 6 | Österreichring | August 12 | Alan Jones | Jacques Laffite | BMW Motorsport | Austrian Grand Prix | [8] | |
| 7 | Circuit Zandvoort | August 26 | Alan Jones | Hans-Joachim Stuck | Manfred Cassani | Dutch Grand Prix | [9] | |
| 8 | Autodromo Nazionale di Monza | September 9 | Alan Jones | Hans-Joachim Stuck | Manfred Cassani | Italian Grand Prix | [10] |
| Race Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | 20 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Driver | ZOL | MCO | DIJ | SIL | HOC | ÖST | ZAN | MNZ | Points | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Niki Lauda | Ret | 1 | 8 | 1 | 1 | Ret | Ret | 2 | 78 | |
| 2 | Hans-Joachim Stuck | Ret | Ret | 7 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 73 | |
| 3 | Clay Regazzoni | 3 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | Ret | 61 | |
| 4 | Markus Höttinger | Ret | 6 | 11 | 3 | Ret | 2 | Ret | 3 | 45 | |
| 5 | Toine Hezemans | 2 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 44 | |
| 6 | Nelson Piquet | DNS | 1 | 2 | Ret | Ret | 35 | ||||
| = | Jacques Laffite | Ret | Ret | 1 | 2 | 35 | |||||
| 8 | Didier Pironi | 3 | 4 | 3 | 34 | ||||||
| 9 | Helmut Kelleners | 4 | 10 | Ret | 7 | 6 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 33 | |
| 10 | Alan Jones | 2 | 5 | Ret | Ret | 8 | Ret | 26 | |||
| 11 | Marc Surer | Ret | 4 | 8 | 4 | Ret | 23 | ||||
| 12 | Dieter Quester | 5 | Ret | Ret | 6 | Ret | 11 | 7 | 7 | 22 | |
| 13 | Elio de Angelis | 1 | Ret | Ret | Ret | 20 | |||||
| = | Manfred Winkelhock | Ret | Ret | 5 | 3 | Ret | 20 | ||||
| 15 | Hans-Georg Bürger | 3 | 6 | 18 | |||||||
| 16 | Wolfgang Schutz | Ret | 5 | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | 6 | 14 | |
| 17 | Emerson Fittipaldi | 3 | 12 | ||||||||
| 18 | Jean-Louis Lafosse | 6 | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | 10 | Ret | 7 | ||
| 19 | Jean-Pierre Beltoise | 6 | 6 | ||||||||
| = | Sepp Manhalter | 7 | 11 | Ret | 11 | 13 | 11 | 9 | 6 | ||
| = | Bruno Giacomelli | Ret | Ret | 10 | Ret | 8 | 9 | Ret | 6 | ||
| 22 | Franz Konrad | DNS | 7 | Ret | 13 | Ret | 4 | ||||
| = | Jochen Mass | 7 | DNS | 4 | |||||||
| 24 |  Eddie Cheever | 8 | 3 | ||||||||
| = |  Carlos Reutemann | 8 | 3 | ||||||||
| = | Walter Brun | Ret | Ret | Ret | 11 | Ret | 8 | 3 | |||
| 27 | Jean-Pierre Jarier | 9 | 2 | ||||||||
| = | Tiff Needell | 9 | 2 | ||||||||
| 29 | Markus Hotz | Ret | 10 | Ret | 1 | ||||||
| = | "John Winter" | 10 | 1 | ||||||||
| NC | Frank Styner | 12 | 0 | ||||||||
| = | Mario Andretti | Ret | 0 | ||||||||
| = | Albrecht Krebs | Ret | 0 | ||||||||
| = | Patrick Depailler | Ret | 0 | ||||||||
| = | Michael Bleekemolen | Ret | 0 | ||||||||
| = | Teo Fabi | Ret | 0 | ||||||||
| Driver | ZOL | MCO | DIJ | SIL | HOC | ÖST | ZAN | MNZ | Points |