1980 British Grand Prix

December 2024 August 2022 F1 Great Britain British XXXIII Marlboro British Grand Prix 13 July 1980 File:Brands Hatch 1976-1987.svg 8 14 Brands Hatch, Kent, Great Britain Permanent racing facility 2.614 4.207 76 198.672 319.732 Didier Pironi Ligier-Ford 1:11.004 France Didier Pironi Ligier-Ford 1:12.368 54 France Alan Jones Williams-Ford Australia Nelson Piquet Brabham-Ford Brazil 1968 Carlos Reutemann Williams-Ford Argentina GBR The 1980 British Grand Prix (formally the XXXIII Marlboro British Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held at Brands Hatch on 13 July 1980. It was the eighth round of the 1980 Formula One season. The race was held over 76 laps of the 4.207-km (2.614-mile) circuit for a total race distance of 319.73 km (198.67 miles). The race was won by Australian driver, Alan Jones driving a Williams FW07B. The win was Jones' eighth Formula One Grand Prix victory and his fourth of the year. Including the non-championship Spanish Grand Prix it was Jones' third victory in a row as he built his charge towards becoming the 1980 World Drivers' Champion. Jones won by eleven seconds over the man becoming his arch-rival, Brazilian driver Nelson Piquet driving a Brabham BT49. Third, and the only other car to finish on the lead lap, was Jones' Williams Grand Prix Engineering teammate, Argentine driver Carlos Reutemann. Report Background In the two weeks between the French and British Grands Prix, Brabham decided to replace Ricardo Zunino with Mexican driver Héctor Rebaque, while the Shadow team closed down. There were still 27 cars on the entry list, as RAM Racing entered year-old Williams FW07s for Rupert Keegan and South African female racer Desiré Wilson.http://f1rejects.com/drivers/wilson/biography.html Desiré Wilson – Biography Formula One Rejects dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110604181750/http://f1rejects.com/drivers/wilson/biography.html 4 June 2011 19 January 2016 Qualifying For the third consecutive race, a Ligier driver took pole position, Didier Pironi setting a time some 5.8 seconds faster than the pole time set by Ronnie Peterson at the previous Grand Prix at Brands Hatch two years before. Pironi's teammate Jacques Laffite was alongside on the front row, while the works Williams filled the second row with championship leader Alan Jones ahead of Carlos Reutemann. On the third row were Nelson Piquet in the Brabham and Bruno Giacomelli in the Alfa Romeo, and on the fourth were Alain Prost in the McLaren and Patrick Depailler in the second Alfa Romeo. Mario Andretti in the Lotus and Derek Daly in the Tyrrell completed the top ten. The Renaults and Ferraris had issues with their Michelin tyres,http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/rr336.html Grand Prix Results: British GP, 1980 Grandprix.com 30 October 2013 and Jean-Pierre Jabouille and René Arnoux could only manage 13th and 16th respectively for the French team, while Gilles Villeneuve and reigning champion Jody Scheckter struggled to 19th and 23rd respectively for the Italian outfit, and were both out-qualified by Keegan's private Williams. Wilson failed to qualify in the other private Williams. Race At the start, Pironi led with Laffite holding off Jones and Piquet passing Reutemann for fourth. Pironi held a comfortable lead until lap 19, when he suffered a deflating front tyre followed by a long pit stop to replace it. Laffite led until he too suffered a deflating tyre, causing him to spin off into catch fencing at Hawthorn Bend on lap 31. Thereafter, Jones retained a comfortable advantage over Piquet and Reutemann, while Pironi made a charge from the back of the field, reaching fifth before suffering another tyre failure on lap 64. It was later established that the Ligiers' problems were caused by their wheel rims cracking. Jones eventually took the chequered flag 11 seconds ahead of Piquet, for his fourth victory of the season and his third in succession (including the Spanish Grand Prix, which was subsequently stripped of its World Championship status). Reutemann, the last man on the lead lap, finished 2.2 seconds behind Piquet, with the minor points going to Daly, his Tyrrell teammate Jean-Pierre Jarier, and Prost. In the Drivers' Championship, Jones doubled his lead over Piquet to six points, while in the Constructors' Championship Williams moved 18 points clear of Ligier. This race turned out to be the last for Depailler, who died three weeks later while testing at Hockenheim ahead of the German Grand Prix. Classification Qualifying Pos No. Driver Constructor Time Gap 1 25 France Didier Pironi Ligier-Ford 1:11.004 - 2 26 France Jacques Laffite Ligier-Ford 1:11.395 + 0.391 3 27 Australia Alan Jones Williams-Ford 1:11.609 + 0.605 4 28 Argentina Carlos Reutemann Williams-Ford 1:11.629 + 0.625 5 5 Brazil 1968 Nelson Piquet Brabham-Ford 1:11.634 + 0.630 6 23 Italy Bruno Giacomelli Alfa Romeo 1:12.128 + 1.124 7 8 France Alain Prost McLaren-Ford 1:12.634 + 1.630 8 22 France Patrick Depailler Alfa Romeo 1:13.189 + 2.185 9 11 USA Mario Andretti Lotus-Ford 1:13.400 + 2.396 10 4 Ireland Derek Daly Tyrrell-Ford 1:13.469 + 2.465 11 3 France Jean-Pierre Jarier Tyrrell-Ford 1:13.666 + 2.662 12 7 United Kingdom John Watson McLaren-Ford 1:13.717 + 2.713 13 15 France Jean-Pierre Jabouille Renault 1:13.749 + 2.745 14 12 Italy Elio de Angelis Lotus-Ford 1:13.859 + 2.855 15 9 Switzerland Marc Surer ATS-Ford 1:13.953 + 2.949 16 16 France René Arnoux Renault 1:13.967 + 2.963 17 6 Mexico Héctor Rebaque Brabham-Ford 1:14.226 + 3.222 18 50 United Kingdom Rupert Keegan Williams-Ford 1:14.236 + 3.232 19 2 Canada Gilles Villeneuve Ferrari 1:14.296 + 3.292 20 31 USA Eddie Cheever Osella-Ford 1:14.517 + 3.513 21 29 Italy Riccardo Patrese Arrows-Ford 1:14.560 + 3.556 22 20 Brazil 1968 Emerson Fittipaldi Fittipaldi-Ford 1:14.580 + 3.576 23 1 South Africa 1928 Jody Scheckter Ferrari 1:15.370 + 4.366 24 30 FRG Jochen Mass Arrows-Ford 1:15.423 + 4.419 25 14 Netherlands Jan Lammers Ensign-Ford 1:15.596 + 4.592 26 21 Finland Keke Rosberg Fittipaldi-Ford 1:15.845 + 4.841 27 43 South Africa 1928 Desiré Wilson Williams-Ford 1:16.315 + 5.311Source:https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/database/races/1980-british-grand-prix 1980 British Grand Prix Motor Sport Magazine Database 2017-06-12 Motor Sport Magazine 2018-10-05 en Race Pos No Driver Constructor Tyre Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 27 Australia Alan Jones Williams-Ford Goodyear 76 1:34:49.228 3 9 2 5 Brazil 1968 Nelson Piquet Brabham-Ford Goodyear 76 + 11.007 5 6 3 28 Argentina Carlos Reutemann Williams-Ford Goodyear 76 + 13.285 4 4 4 4 Ireland Derek Daly Tyrrell-Ford Goodyear 75 + 1 lap 10 3 5 3 France Jean-Pierre Jarier Tyrrell-Ford Goodyear 75 + 1 lap 11 2 6 8 France Alain Prost McLaren-Ford Goodyear 75 + 1 lap 7 1 7 6 Mexico Héctor Rebaque Brabham-Ford Goodyear 74 + 2 laps 17 8 7 United Kingdom John Watson McLaren-Ford Goodyear 74 Engine 12 9 29 Italy Riccardo Patrese Arrows-Ford Goodyear 73 + 3 laps 21 10 1 South Africa 1928 Jody Scheckter Ferrari Michelin 73 + 3 laps 23 11 50 United Kingdom Rupert Keegan Williams-Ford Goodyear 73 + 3 laps 18 12 20 Brazil 1968 Emerson Fittipaldi Fittipaldi-Ford Goodyear 72 + 4 laps 22 13 30 West Germany Jochen Mass Arrows-Ford Goodyear 69 + 7 laps 24 NC Not classified 16 France René Arnoux Renault Michelin 67 + 9 laps 16 Ret Retired 25 France Didier Pironi Ligier-Ford Goodyear 63 Tyre 1 Ret Retired 9 Switzerland Marc Surer ATS-Ford Goodyear 59 Engine 15 Ret Retired 11 United States Mario Andretti Lotus-Ford Goodyear 57 Gearbox 9 Ret Retired 23 Italy Bruno Giacomelli Alfa Romeo Goodyear 42 Spun off 6 Ret Retired 2 Canada Gilles Villeneuve Ferrari Michelin 35 Engine 19 Ret Retired 26 France Jacques Laffite Ligier-Ford Goodyear 30 Tyre 2 Ret Retired 22 France Patrick Depailler Alfa Romeo Goodyear 27 Engine 8 Ret Retired 31 United States Eddie Cheever Osella-Ford Goodyear 17 Suspension 20 Ret Retired 12 Italy Elio de Angelis Lotus-Ford Goodyear 16 Suspension 14 Ret Retired 15 France Jean-Pierre Jabouille Renault Michelin 4 Engine 13 DNQ Did not qualify 14 Netherlands Jan Lammers Ensign-Ford Goodyear DNQ Did not qualify 21 Finland Keke Rosberg Fittipaldi-Ford Goodyear DNQ Did not qualify 43 South Africa 1928 Desiré Wilson Williams-Ford Goodyear Source:http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1980/387/ 1980 British Grand Prix formula1.com 23 December 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20140219103448/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1980/387/ 19 February 2014https://gparchive.com/formula-1/1980-british-grand-prix/ 1980 British Grand Prix – Race Results & History – GP Archive GPArchive.com 13 July 1980 2 November 2021 Notes This was the Formula One World Championship debut for South African driver Desiré Wilson - the fourth woman to enter into Formula One after Maria Teresa de Filippis, Lella Lombardi and Divina Galica. Championship standings after the race Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 10px 1 AUS Alan Jones 37 10px 2 BRA 1968 Nelson Piquet 31 10px 3 FRA René Arnoux 23 10px 4 FRA Didier Pironi 23 10px 5 ARG Carlos Reutemann 20Source:https://www.statsf1.com/en/1980/grande-bretagne/championnat.aspx Britain 1980 – Championship • STATS F1 statsf1.com 13 March 2019 Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 10px 1 UK Williams-Ford 57 10px 2 FRA Ligier-Ford 39 10px 3 UK Brabham-Ford 31 10px 4 FRA Renault 23 10px 5 UK Arrows-Ford 11Source: Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. References British Grand Prix 1980 1980 French Grand Prix 1980 German Grand Prix 1979 British Grand Prix 1981 British Grand Prix British Grand Prix Category:British Grand Prix Grand Prix British Grand Prix Category:Sport in Kent