1980 British Grand Prix

  1980 British Grand Prix

Race details
Race 8 of 14 in the 1980 Formula One season
Date	13 July 1980
Official name	XXXIII Marlboro British Grand Prix
Location	Brands Hatch, Kent, Great Britain
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.207 km (2.614 mi)
Distance	76 laps, 319.732 km (198.672 mi)
Pole position
Driver	Didier Pironi	Ligier-Ford
Time	1:11.004
Fastest lap
Driver	Didier Pironi	Ligier-Ford
Time	1:12.368 on lap 54
Podium
First	Alan Jones	Williams-Ford
Second	Nelson Piquet	Brabham-Ford
Third	Carlos Reutemann	Williams-Ford

The 1980 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 the 35th British Grand Prix and the ninth to be held at Brands Hatch. The race was held over 76 laps of the 4.207-kilometre circuit for a total race distance of 320 kilometres.

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 team mate, Argentinian driver Carlos Reutemann. The race had been dominated in the early running by French Equipe Ligier drivers Didier Pironi and Jacques Laffite who between them led the first thirty laps of the race. Tyre troubles caused by cracking rims caught both cars, Pironi pitted for new rubber, charging back to fifth before getting another puncture. Laffite never made it back to the pits after his puncture.

The Tyrrell 010s of Irish driver Derek Daly and French driver Jean-Pierre Jarier finished fourth and fifth with Alain Prost (McLaren M29) completing the points finishers. Brabham has sacked Ricardo Zunino and new driver Hector Rebaque finished seventh in his first start with the team.

After the disappearance of the Shadow team, numbers were unaffected as leading British Formula One Series team RAM Racing entered with their Williams FW07s, although only Rupert Keegan qualified, Desiré Wilson missing out. This race proved to be winner of the 1978 Monaco Grand Prix and the 1979 Spanish Grand Prix, Patrick Depailler's final Grand Prix. He was killed weeks later testing his Alfa Romeo 179 at Hockenheim.

Jones expanded his lead out to six points over Piquet but more significantly 14 points ahead of René Arnoux and Pironi. For all their impressive speed, Renault were fading as the year progressed. Williams was now an impressive 18 points ahead of Ligier. Piquet's lone-hand performance at Brabham kept them in third place in the constructors' tally. After eight races, Scuderia Ferrari had scored only five points between both its drivers in what was fast becoming the worst championship defence in Formula One history.

Classification

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	27	Alan Jones	Williams-Ford	76	1:34:49.228	3	9
2	5	Nelson Piquet	Brabham-Ford	76	+11.007 secs	5	6
3	28	Carlos Reutemann	Williams-Ford	76	+13.285 secs	4	4
4	4	Derek Daly	Tyrrell-Ford	75	+1 Lap	10	3
5	3	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Tyrrell-Ford	75	+1 Lap	11	2
6	8	Alain Prost	McLaren-Ford	75	+1 Lap	7	1
7	6	Hector Rebaque	Brabham-Ford	74	+2 Laps	17
8	7	John Watson	McLaren-Ford	74	Engine	12
9	29	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows-Ford	73	+3 Laps	21
10	1	Jody Scheckter	Ferrari	73	+3 Laps	23
11	50	Rupert Keegan	Williams*-Ford	73	+3 Laps	18
12	20	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi-Ford	72	+4 Laps	22
13	30	Jochen Mass	Arrows-Ford	69	+7 Laps	24
NC	16	René Arnoux	Renault	67	Not Classified	16
Ret	25	Didier Pironi	Ligier-Ford	63	Tyre	1
Ret	9	Marc Surer	ATS-Ford	59	Engine	15
Ret	11	Mario Andretti	Lotus-Ford	57	Gearbox	9
Ret	23	Bruno Giacomelli	Alfa Romeo	42	Spun Off	6
Ret	2	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	35	Engine	19
Ret	26	Jacques Laffite	Ligier-Ford	30	Tyre	2
Ret	22	Patrick Depailler	Alfa Romeo	27	Engine	8
Ret	31	Eddie Cheever	Osella-Ford	17	Suspension	20
Ret	12	Elio de Angelis	Lotus-Ford	16	Suspension	14
Ret	15	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	4	Engine	13
DNQ	14	Jan Lammers	Ensign-Ford
DNQ	21	Keke Rosberg	Fittipaldi-Ford
DNQ	43	Desiré Wilson	Williams*-Ford

* Non-works Williams FW07 prepared by race team Brands Hatch Racing, potentially also known as RAM Racing

Standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 Alan Jones 37 2 Nelson Piquet 31 3= René Arnoux 23 3= Didier Pironi 23 5 Carlos Reutemann 20

Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 1 Williams-Ford 57 2 Ligier-Ford 39 3 Brabham-Ford 31 4 Renault 23 5 Arrows-Ford 11

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

References

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