1980 Argentine Grand Prix

February 2021 October 2009 F1 Argentina Argentine 13 January 1980 1 14 Autódromo Oscar y Juan Gálvez Circuito N° 15.svg XVI Gran Premio de la Republica Argentina Autodromo Municipal Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina Permanent racing facility 3.61 5.81 53 191.33 307.93 Sunny, Very hot, Dry Alan Jones Australia Williams-Ford 1:44.17 Alan Jones Williams-Ford 1:50.45 5 Australia Alan Jones Australia Williams-Ford Nelson Piquet Brazil 1968 Brabham-Ford Keke Rosberg Finland Fittipaldi-Ford ARG The 1980 Argentine Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 13 January 1980 at the Autodromo Municipal Ciudad de Buenos Aires in Argentina. It was the opening round of the 1980 Formula One season. The race was the 16th Argentine Grand Prix and the sixth to be held on the #15 variation of the Buenos Aires circuit. The race was held over 53 laps of the 5.81 km mi on circuit for a total race distance of 308 km mi. The race was won by Australian driver Alan Jones driving a Williams FW07. It was Jones' sixth World Championship victory. Jones won by 24 seconds over Brazilian driver Nelson Piquet driving a Brabham BT49. It was a prelude of the season to come, as Jones and Piquet would fight out the 1980 season. Another future world champion, Finnish driver Keke Rosberg, finished third driving a Fittipaldi F7. Summary This race was additionally notable for the drivers threatening to boycott the event because of the appalling state of the track, which was breaking up in many spots in the infield thanks to the intense heat of a Buenos Aires summer. The immense grip of the aerodynamic suction created by the ground effect technology and the cars' tyres http://en.espnf1.com/onthisday/motorsport/story/2242.html January 13 down the years: Local joy, local despair in Argentina ESPN F1 ESPN EMEA Ltd. 3 April 2012 and a battle between Gilles Villeneuve (Ferrari 312T5), Alan Jones, Jacques Laffite (Ligier JS11/15) and Nelson Piquet, made it even more exciting due to the break-up of the track surface. Piquet finished second, Laffite retired with a blown engine and Villeneuve crashed going through the fast Tobogán complex due to a front suspension failure, although this was most likely exacerbated by a number of times he went off the very slippery track onto the sometimes bumpy and grassy run off area and consistently riding up the apex curbs of the Buenos Aires Autodrome. thumb|left|250px|Argentine driver Carlos Reutemann crying after leaving the race prematurely The grass took out home favorite Carlos Reutemann (who had jumped into 5th at the start from 10th) in his first drive with Williams, who attempted to pass Piquet going into the Ascari chicane after the two mile flat out section. Reutemann slid off the track trying to pass Piquet on the outside of the Ascari chicane onto the grass run-off area. The two radiators in Reutemann's Williams FW07 sucked in grass and were both blocked, and the engines (already running at higher temperatures than normal) were even more prone to blowing up there in Buenos Aires because of the hot weather- a common problem at the Argentine Grand Prix. Multiple drivers spun off the track in the infield section, including Reutemann's teammate Jones, who had a short pitstop to clean his air intakes, but quickly returned to the battle. Reutemann also went into the pits to clean out his air intakes, but the damage was done and he retired with a blown engine soon after. Unsure if he would race again after 1980, the Argentinian was in fact so disconsolate that he sat motionless in his car for a few minutes, then got out of his car, sat on the track next to his car and burst into tears; the patriotic Reutemann had never won his home Grand Prix and would never do so.http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/rr329.html Grand Prix Results: Argentine GP, 1980 Grandprix.com Inside F1, Inc. 3 April 2012 The rate of attrition allowed Jody Scheckter into third place, but with just a handful of laps left suffered an engine failure in the Ferrari. This allowed Keke Rosberg to score his first ever podium in the same race as Piquet's first, and another future world champion Alain Prost (McLaren M29) scored a point on his Formula One début. It was a famous race of attrition on a terrible surface, where unusually the winner spun off twice and the runner-up once, and lap times were considerably slower than the previous year. Classification Qualifying Pos No. Driver Constructor Time Gap 1 27 Australia Alan Jones Williams-Ford 1:44.17 - 2 26 France Jacques Laffite Ligier-Ford 1:44.44 + 0.27 3 25 France Didier Pironi Ligier-Ford 1:44.64 + 0.47 4 5 Brazil 1968 Nelson Piquet Brabham-Ford 1:45.02 + 0.85 5 12 Italy Elio de Angelis Lotus-Ford 1:45.46 + 1.29 6 11 USA Mario Andretti Lotus-Ford 1:45.78 + 1.61 7 29 Italy Riccardo Patrese Arrows-Ford 1:46.01 + 1.84 8 2 Canada Gilles Villeneuve Ferrari 1:46.07 + 1.90 9 15 France Jean-Pierre Jabouille Renault 1:46.15 + 1.98 10 28 Argentina Carlos Reutemann Williams-Ford 1:46.19 + 2.02 11 1 South Africa 1928 Jody Scheckter Ferrari 1:46.28 + 2.11 12 8 France Alain Prost McLaren-Ford 1:46.75 + 2.58 13 21 Finland Keke Rosberg Fittipaldi-Ford 1:46.97 + 2.80 14 30 FRG Jochen Mass Arrows-Ford 1:47.05 + 2.88 15 14 SWI Clay Regazzoni Ensign-Ford 1:47.18 + 3.01 16 6 Argentina Ricardo Zunino Brabham-Ford 1:47.41 + 3.24 17 7 United Kingdom John Watson McLaren-Ford 1:47.70 + 3.53 18 3 France Jean-Pierre Jarier Tyrrell-Ford 1:47.83 + 3.66 19 16 France René Arnoux Renault 1:48.24 + 4.07 20 23 Italy Bruno Giacomelli Alfa Romeo 1:48.44 + 4.27 21 9 Switzerland Marc Surer ATS-Ford 1:48.86 + 4.69 22 4 Ireland Derek Daly Tyrrell-Ford 1:48.95 + 4.78 23 22 France Patrick Depailler Alfa Romeo 1:49.20 + 5.03 24 20 Brazil 1968 Emerson Fittipaldi Fittipaldi-Ford 1:49.42 + 5.25 25 18 Ireland David Kennedy Shadow-Ford 1:50.25 + 6.08 26 10 Netherlands Jan Lammers ATS-Ford 1:51.39 + 7.21 27 17 Sweden Stefan Johansson Shadow-Ford 1:51.57 + 7.40 28 31 USA Eddie Cheever Osella-Ford 1:54.21 + 10.04Source:https://www.racing-reference.info/getqualify/1980-01/F 01/13/1980 race: Grand Prix of Argentina (F1) qualifying results - Racing-Reference.info www.racing-reference.info 14 September 2018 Race Pos No Driver Constructor Tyre Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 27 Australia Alan Jones Williams-Ford Goodyear 53 1:43:24.38 1 9 2 5 Brazil 1968 Nelson Piquet Brabham-Ford Goodyear 53 + 24.59 4 6 3 21 Finland Keke Rosberg Fittipaldi-Ford Goodyear 53 + 1:18.64 13 4 4 4 Ireland Derek Daly Tyrrell-Ford Goodyear 53 + 1:23.48 22 3 5 23 Italy Bruno Giacomelli Alfa Romeo Goodyear 52 + 1 Lap 20 2 6 8 France Alain Prost McLaren-Ford Goodyear 52 + 1 Lap 12 1 7 6 Argentina Ricardo Zunino Brabham-Ford Goodyear 51 + 2 Laps 16 Ret Retired 22 France Patrick Depailler Alfa Romeo Goodyear 46 Engine 23 Ret Retired 1 South Africa 1928 Jody Scheckter Ferrari Michelin 45 Engine 11 NC Not classified 14 Switzerland Clay Regazzoni Ensign-Ford Goodyear 44 + 9 Laps 15 NC Not classified 20 Brazil 1968 Emerson Fittipaldi Fittipaldi-Ford Goodyear 37 + 16 Laps 24 Ret Retired 2 Canada Gilles Villeneuve Ferrari Michelin 36 Suspension 8 Ret Retired 26 France Jacques Laffite Ligier-Ford Goodyear 30 Engine 2 Ret Retired 29 Italy Riccardo Patrese Arrows-Ford Goodyear 27 Engine 7 Ret Retired 9 Switzerland Marc Surer ATS-Ford Goodyear 27 Fire 21 Ret Retired 11 United States Mario Andretti Lotus-Ford Goodyear 20 Fuel System 6 Ret Retired 30 West Germany Jochen Mass Arrows-Ford Goodyear 20 Gearbox 14 Ret Retired 28 Argentina Carlos Reutemann Williams-Ford Goodyear 12 Engine 10 Ret Retired 12 Italy Elio de Angelis Lotus-Ford Goodyear 7 Suspension 5 Ret Retired 7 United Kingdom John Watson McLaren-Ford Goodyear 5 Gearbox 17 Ret Retired 15 France Jean-Pierre Jabouille Renault Michelin 3 Gearbox 9 Ret Retired 16 France René Arnoux Renault Michelin 2 Suspension 19 Ret Retired 25 France Didier Pironi Ligier-Ford Goodyear 1 Engine 3 Ret Retired 3 France Jean-Pierre Jarier Tyrrell-Ford Goodyear 1 Collision 18 DNQ Did not qualify 18 Ireland David Kennedy Shadow-Ford Goodyear DNQ Did not qualify 17 Sweden Stefan Johansson Shadow-Ford Goodyear DNQ Did not qualify 10 Netherlands Jan Lammers ATS-Ford Goodyear DNQ Did not qualify 31 United States Eddie Cheever Osella-Ford GoodyearSource:http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1980/373/ 1980 Argentine Grand Prix formula1.com 23 December 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20140218111945/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1980/373/ 18 February 2014https://gparchive.com/formula-1/1980-argentine-grand-prix/ 1980 Argentine Grand Prix - Race Results & History - GP Archive GPArchive.com 13 January 1980 1 November 2021 Notes This was the Formula One World Championship debut for Swedish driver Stefan Johansson, Irish driver David Kennedy and French driver and future World Champion Alain Prost. This was the 5th Grand Slam for an Australian driver. This was the 1st podium finish for a Finnish driver. This was the Formula One World Championship debut for Italian constructor Osella. Championship standings after the race Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 AUS Alan Jones 9 2 BRA 1968 Nelson Piquet 6 3 FIN Keke Rosberg 4 4 Ireland Derek Daly 3 5 ITA Bruno Giacomelli 2Source:https://www.statsf1.com/en/1980/argentine/championnat.aspx Argentina 1980 - Championship • STATS F1 www.statsf1.com 6 March 2019 Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 1 UK Williams-Ford 9 2 UK Brabham-Ford 6 3 BRA 1968 Fittipaldi-Ford 4 4 UK Tyrrell-Ford 3 5 ITA Alfa Romeo 2Source: Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. 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