Quote Originally Posted by theugsquirrel
Off the top of my head there were still very memorable moments from 1979, at Watkins Glen Villeneuve grabbed pole position by 9 seconds!
I have no idea where you got that from. In his whole career, JV got two pole positions: at Long Beach 79, by 0.061 seconds; and at Imola 81, by .706. Curiously, in both cases 2nd in the grid was Reutemann.

At Watkins Glen 79, JV started 3rd.