Alfa Romeo
The Alfa Romeo 179 is a Formula One car which was used (in different variants) by the Alfa Romeo team from 1979 to 1982. The 179 made its debut at the 1979 Italian Grand Prix, replacing the flat-12 engined Alfa Romeo 177. During its lifespan there were many versions and 179D version was used for the last time at the 1982 South African Grand Prix.
From the Wikipedia article Alfa Romeo 179, CC BY-SA.
Among the 194 Alfa Romeo entries in the MotorJury library, the Alfa Romeo 179 holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
The record does not fix a firm introduction year for the Alfa Romeo 179, which is itself informative: cars without a clean launch date are usually prototypes, coachbuilt specials, or models whose history was written down long after the fact. The catalogue keeps them anyway, because the odd corners of the record are where the interesting machines hide.
The open record carries no verified specification sheet for the Alfa Romeo 179 yet — no engine entry, no quoted output, no kerb weight. That is not unusual: of the seventeen-thousand-plus cars in this library, thousands are concepts, racers and regional models whose numbers were never formally published. MotorJury's nightly harvest re-reads Wikidata and the Wikipedia infoboxes on every build, so the moment a specification is added to the public record it appears here without anyone touching this page.
Within Alfa Romeo's own catalogue the Alfa Romeo 179 sits alongside the A.L.F.A 12 HP, the A.L.F.A 15 HP, the A.L.F.A 15-20 HP, the A.L.F.A 24 HP. The record names the 177 | Successor = 182 | Team = Autodelta (1979, 4 races) / Marlboro Team Alfa Romeo (1980–1982)| Drivers = Bruno Giacomelli / Vittorio Brambilla / Andrea de Cesaris / Patrick Depai as its predecessor and the 182 | Team = Autodelta (1979, 4 races) / Marlboro Team Alfa Romeo (1980–1982)| Drivers = Bruno Giacomelli / Vittorio Brambilla / Andrea de Cesaris / Patrick Depailler / Mario Andre as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Carlo Chiti (Technical Director) / Robert Choulet (Chief Designer) | Predecessor = 177 | Successor = 182 | Team = Autodelta (1979, 4 races) / Marlboro Team Alfa Romeo (1980–1982)| .
The Alfa Romeo 179 also has a competition record: 0| Cons_champ = 0| Drivers_champ = 0| Poles = 1| Fastest_laps = 0 recorded wins from 63| Wins = 0| Cons_champ = 0| Drivers_champ = 0| Poles = 1| Fastest_laps = 0 starts and 0| Drivers_champ = 0| Poles = 1| Fastest_laps = 0 championships. A race history changes how a car should be valued — competition machines appreciate on provenance, not depreciation curves.
This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.
A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the Alfa Romeo 179 was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.
Specifications come from the Wikipedia infobox for this model (CC BY-SA) and the open Wikidata record, and are shown only where a source actually carries them — nothing here is estimated. Figures are manufacturer specifications, not measured results.
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