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1979 FIA European Formula 3 Championship

Open-wheel motor race series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ16826907 ↗
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The 1979 FIA European Formula 3 Championship was the fifth edition of the FIA European Formula 3 Championship. The championship consisted of 12 rounds across the continent. Future Formula One world champion, Alain Prost took overall victory in five of these rounds which, among other results, made him the drivers champion for 1979, with Michael Bleekemolen finishing in second and Slim Borgudd third.

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“1979 FIA European Formula 3 Championship” enters the record as open-wheel motor race series. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what European, Formula and Championship can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around European, Formula and Championship.
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“1979 FIA European Formula 3 Championship” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, European, Formula and Championship provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16826907. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1979.

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This entry incorporates text from “1979 FIA European Formula 3 Championship” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.