1980 Formula One season explained

The 1980 Formula One season was the 34th season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It featured the 1980 World Championship of Drivers and the 1980 International Cup for F1 Constructors,[1] which were contested concurrently from 13 January to 5 October over a fourteen-race series.[2] The season also included one non-championship race, the Spanish Grand Prix.[3]

Alan Jones, driving a Williams-Ford, became the first Australian to win the World Championship since Jack Brabham in . The season saw a major change of guard in Formula One with the Williams team's first Drivers' and Constructors' titles, the emergence of Nelson Piquet as a championship contender and the debut of future World Champions Alain Prost and Nigel Mansell, while reigning champions Jody Scheckter and Ferrari suffered a terrible season that resulted in Scheckter retiring from the sport at the end of the year. In addition, Frenchman Patrick Depailler lost his life while testing at Hockenheim.

Drivers and constructors

The following drivers and constructors contested the 1980 World Championship of Drivers and the 1980 International Cup for F1 Constructors.

EntrantConstructorChassisEngineTyresNoDriverRounds
Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFACFerrari312T5Ferrari 015 3.0 F121 Jody ScheckterAll
2 Gilles VilleneuveAll
Candy Tyrrell TeamTyrrell-Ford009
010
Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V83 Jean-Pierre JarierAll
4 Derek DalyAll
43 Mike Thackwell13–14
Parmalat RacingBrabham-FordBT49Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V85 Nelson PiquetAll
6 Ricardo Zunino1–7
Héctor Rebaque8–14
Marlboro Team McLarenMcLaren-FordM29B
M29C
M30
Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V87 John WatsonAll
8 Alain Prost1–3, 5–14
Stephen South4
Team ATSATS-FordD3
D4
Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V89 Marc Surer1–3, 7–14
Jan Lammers4–6
101–3
Harald Ertl9
Team Essex LotusLotus-Ford81
81B
Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V811 Mario AndrettiAll
12 Elio de AngelisAll
43 Nigel Mansell10–12
Unipart Racing TeamEnsign-FordN180Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V814 Clay Regazzoni1–4
Tiff Needell5–6
Jan Lammers7–14
41 Geoff Lees11–12
Équipe Renault ElfRenaultRE20Renault-Gordini EF1 1.5 V6 t15 Jean-Pierre Jabouille1–13
16 René ArnouxAll
Shadow Cars
Theodore Shadow
Shadow-FordDN11
DN12
Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V817 Stefan Johansson1–2
Geoff Lees3–7
18 David Kennedy1–7
Skol Fittipaldi TeamFittipaldi-FordF7
F8
Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V820 Emerson FittipaldiAll
21 Keke RosbergAll
Marlboro Team Alfa RomeoAlfa Romeo179Alfa Romeo 1260 3.0 V1222 Patrick Depailler1–8
Vittorio Brambilla11–12
Andrea de Cesaris13–14
23 Bruno GiacomelliAll
Équipe Ligier GitanesLigier-FordJS11/15Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V825 Didier PironiAll
26 Jacques LaffiteAll
Albilad Williams Racing TeamWilliams-FordFW07
FW07B
Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V827 Alan JonesAll
28 Carlos ReutemannAll
Warsteiner Arrows Racing Team
Warsteiner Arrows Racing with Penthouse Rizla+.
Arrows-FordA3Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V829 Riccardo PatreseAll
30 Jochen Mass1–10, 13–14
Mike Thackwell11
Manfred Winkelhock12
Osella Racing TeamOsella-FordFA1
FA1B
Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V831 Eddie CheeverAll
Brands Hatch RacingWilliams-FordFW07Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V843 Desiré Wilson8
RAM – Penthouse Rizla+. Racing
RAM – Rainbow Jeans/Theodore Racing
RAM – Williams Grand Prix Engineering
Williams-FordFW07Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V850 Rupert Keegan8–14
51 Kevin Cogan13
Geoff Lees14

Team and driver changes

Mid-season changes

Calendar

RoundGrand PrixCircuitDate
1 Argentine Grand PrixAutódromo de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires13 January
2 Brazilian Grand PrixAutodromo de Interlagos, São Paulo27 January
3 South African Grand PrixKyalami Grand Prix Circuit, Midrand1 March
4 United States Grand Prix WestLong Beach Street Circuit, California30 March
5 Belgian Grand PrixZolder, Heusden-Zolder4 May
6 Monaco Grand PrixCircuit de Monaco, Monte Carlo18 May
7 French Grand PrixPaul Ricard Circuit, Le Castellet29 June
8 British Grand PrixBrands Hatch, Kent13 July
9 German Grand PrixHockenheimring, Hockenheim10 August
10 Austrian Grand PrixÖsterreichring, Spielberg17 August
11 Dutch Grand PrixCircuit Zandvoort, Zandvoort31 August
12 Italian Grand PrixAutodromo Dino Ferrari, Imola14 September
13 Canadian Grand PrixÎle Notre-Dame Circuit, Montréal28 September
14 United States Grand PrixWatkins Glen Grand Prix Course, New York State5 October

Calendar changes

Provisional calendar

Originally, 1980 was to be an eighteen-race championship, but three Grands Prix were cancelled before the season began:

Season report

Round 1: Argentina

The 1980 Formula One season started in Argentina in January. This event, held at the Buenos Aires Municipal Autodrome located in the sprawling Argentine capital started off badly. After Friday's practice, due to the heat and the suction these ground-effect cars were creating, the track began to break up, and the drivers found conditions difficult and even dangerous. Led by Emerson Fittipaldi, the drivers staged a semi-unsuccessful protest – the organizers did actually fix the track, but not successfully – come race day, the track was still in a dreadful condition. The race went ahead anyway, and the Buenos Aires circuit, being one of the most varied and challenging circuits on the calendar, provided an ultra-exciting race, where many drivers were caught-out by the disintegration of the twisty arena infield section of the No.15 variant of the racing facility. After going off twice and dropping back to 4th after making a pit-stop to clean grass out of his car's radiators, Australian and title favorite Alan Jones took victory in his Williams-Ford/Cosworth. Brazilian Nelson Piquet, who also went off a few times finished 2nd, and Finn Keke Rosberg scored an excellent 3rd in his Fittipaldi. French rookie Alain Prost, in his first ever F1 race, finished 6th and scored his first ever World Championship point. Gilles Villeneuve, competitive throughout in his Ferrari, crashed heavily at the Toboggan left-right sequence of corners after his front suspension failed after possible damage caused to it after a number of off-track excursions the Canadian had during the race.

Round 2: Brazil

The other half of the South American January tour took place in Brazil. This meeting was also met with pre-race difficulties. The safety conditions of the very difficult, demanding and confined 5-mile Interlagos circuit located in the steel-making metropolis of São Paulo had been heavily protested by the drivers for some time, led by South African Ferrari driver Jody Scheckter. The original arrangement was that this Grand Prix was originally supposed to be held at the Jacarepaguá circuit in Rio de Janeiro, and then the drivers would return to Interlagos for 1981 after it would go through a complete resurfacing; but the Jacarepaguá circuit had problems with the tarmac sinking into the ground, so the only option was to return to São Paulo. The drivers protested that the Interlagos track's surface (already notorious for being very rough) was so bad that it was actually dangerous to race on. Also, the barriers and catch-fence arrangements were not adequate enough to protect the cars from the embankments and very rough and uneven-surface of the limited run-off areas there, even though the track was very wide in most places. But the race went ahead anyway, and the Renault of Frenchman Jean-Pierre Jabouille took pole and led for 25 of 40 laps. The Renaults proved to be dominant at Interlagos, which was 2,840 ft (850 m) above sea level, giving the turbocharged Renault engines a considerable horsepower advantage. But he retired with turbo failure and his teammate Rene Arnoux took the lead and won, followed by Italian new-boy Elio de Angelis in a Lotus and Jones in his Williams.

Round 3: South Africa

The F1 teams arrived in South Africa in March, at the fast Kyalami circuit between Johannesburg and Pretoria in the midst of an African summer. Alain Prost crashed his McLaren at the Esses and broke his wrist; he would miss this and the next race in Long Beach; while Marc Surer had it worse – he crashed heavily at Crowthorne and broke his leg; he missed the next 3 races. Like Interlagos before, the even higher altitude of Kyalami helped the Renaults even more so than in Brazil, and this proved to be an invaluable advantage, and the yellow French cars dominated the race. And as in São Paulo, Jabouille led for a while and retired, and Arnoux took the lead from 2nd place and won the race. However, this race effectively brought the FISA–FOCA war into the spotlight. FISA, the governing body of international motorsports (and the organization that the 3 big constructors – Renault, Ferrari and Alfa Romeo – were aligned to) led by Jean-Marie Balestre, argued that the ground effect cars of the time were too fast through corners, and FOCA (Formula One Constructors' Association, representing the mostly British independent constructors) led by Bernie Ecclestone and Max Mosley, argued that the superior road-holding of the independent teams' cars equalized their cars to the power advantages that particularly the Renaults had.

Round 4: United States West

A stop-over in Long Beach, California right next to the Hollywood-dominated landscape of Los Angeles happened 4 weeks after the South African race. The typically pleasant and sunny weather there gave for a relaxed atmosphere at this tight, twisty and rough street circuit (1 of 2 on the calendar – the other being Monaco) which was in contrast to the previous 3 quick Southern Hemisphere circuits used thus far in the season. With its tight, slow layout being lined with unforgiving concrete walls, Long Beach was known then to be the toughest and most punishing race of the season on the car and driver. Nelson Piquet effectively dominated this race in his Brabham-Ford/Cosworth – he took pole, set fastest lap, led from start to finish and took his first of 23 race victories. But the race itself was littered with accidents – there was a pile-up at the Le Gasomet hairpin caused by Alfa Romeo driver Bruno Giacomelli and the 40-year-old Swiss Clay Regazzoni crashed appallingly at the end of the long, flat-out Shoreline Drive when the brakes on his Ensign failed and he crashed head on at 180 mph into Ricardo Zunino's parked Brabham, then through some tires and into a concrete wall. The Swiss was critically injured, but survived; he would be paralyzed from the waist down for the rest of his life.

Round 5: Belgium

The cancellation of the Mexican Grand Prix, supposed to have taken place 2 weeks after Long Beach created a 5-week gap between Long Beach and the Belgian Grand Prix. The F1 circus started its 4-month long European tour at Zolder, where Frenchman Didier Pironi took his first ever victory in his Ligier-Ford/Cosworth ahead of Alan Jones and his Argentine teammate Carlos Reutemann.

Round 6: Monaco

The classic street race in Monaco provided some excitement: there was a big pile-up at the start, where Derek Daly went flying twice over a number of cars at the first corner. He took out Prost in a McLaren, his teammate Jean-Pierre Jarier and Bruno Giacomelli in an Alfa. Didier Pironi led and crashed, and Carlos Reutemann took the lead and won from Frenchman Jacques Laffite in a Ligier-Ford/Cosworth and Piquet in a Brabham.

Non-championship race: Spain

The Spanish Grand Prix at the tight and twisty Jarama circuit near Madrid ended up losing its championship status after Jean-Marie Balestre announced on morning of Friday's practice (in an attempt to put FOCA in their place after drivers driving for FOCA-aligned teams did not show up to drivers' meetings at the previous 2 Grands Prix) that the 1980 Spanish GP would not count as a championship round. Balestre also stripped the drivers of their racing licenses. The FISA-supported manufacturer teams – Renault, Ferrari, and Alfa – all pulled out, and the FOCA-supported independent constructors stayed to race. The race was won by Alan Jones, who had also taken pole. The race's loss of championship status hurt the event quite badly; as it was only to be hosted once more at Jarama during the following year, which saw reduced crowds and a date even further into the year in one of the hottest parts of Europe.

Round 7: France

The abrupt non-championship status of the Spanish Grand Prix and the cancellation of the Swedish Grand Prix at the Anderstorp circuit meant there was a 6-week gap between the Monaco and French Grands Prix. The French Grand Prix took place while the Spanish Grand Prix debacle was still raging on 4 weeks afterwards. With their racing licenses given back to them, the drivers got on with their jobs, and at the Paul Ricard circuit on the southern French riviera near Marseille, Williams driver Jones beat the Ligiers of Jacques Laffite and Didier Pironi on home soil. Jones won the race by 4.52 seconds from a charging Pironi after he had been held up by teammate Laffite for a number of laps.

Round 8: Great Britain

The British Grand Prix in 1980 was at Brands Hatch, just outside London. This race on the challenging and bumpy southern English circuit saw the Ligiers of Pironi and Laffite lead and fall out; Pironi retired after a puncture and Laffite crashed at Hawthorn's. Alan Jones took advantage of the Ligier's problems and Jones managed to hold off a quick Nelson Piquet to win yet again in a Williams, the English team's second consecutive British GP win.

Round 9: West Germany

The German Grand Prix at the ultra-fast Hockenheimring was marred by the fatal pre-race testing accident of Patrick Depailler at the ultra-high speed, top gear, flat out Ost-Kurve 9 days before the race. Suspension failure on his Alfa caused him to crash massively after his car overturned and vaulted the barriers, causing fatal head injuries. Alan Jones took pole from Renault driver Jabouille by mere hundredths of a second, and he led the race until he had to come in with a puncture on the straight before the stadium. Laffite and Reutemann passed Jones, who finished 3rd. Laffite went on to win for Ligier, followed by the Williams duo of Reutemann and Jones.

Round 10: Austria

The European high-speed circuit tour kept coming, and the fastest circuit of the seasonthe spectacular Österreichring in the Styrian mountainsenabled Jabouille to win by mere seconds from Alan Jones. Renault driver Jabouille, who had retired from every race he had participated in so far in the season, finally finished a race. His development work with Renault over the past 4 seasons gave him his 2nd and last F1 victory of his career.

Round 11: The Netherlands

The beach-side Zandvoort circuit near Amsterdam, modified from the previous year saw Brazilian Nelson Piquet win from Frenchmen Arnoux and Laffite. The Renaults dominated qualifying, although Jabouille retired and Jones went out after accident damage.

Round 12: Italy

The European tour concluded with the Italian Grand Prix being held at the Autodromo Dino Ferrari near the town of Imola, rather than Monza. The Dino Ferrari circuit, located near the Ferrari factory and just outside Bologna had signed a deal to alternate the Italian GP with Monza, on the condition Monza improve its track safety and facilities. Although the Monza track owners had already made safety upgrades a year before, the deal had been signed before Monza made changes; so for the first time since 1948 the Italian GP was not held at Monza. The Renaults dominated qualifying at this fast Italian circuit, although they fell out with mechanical problems; and Piquet won yet again and overtook Jones in the championship, who finished 2nd in front of his teammate Carlos Reutemann.

Round 13: Canada

The final leg of the 1980 Formula One season was a 2-part tour in North America, starting in Canada, at the Ile-Notre Dame circuit in Montreal. This race had to be restarted after a multiple pile-up involving Piquet and Jones at the start, when Jones shut the door at the very first corner after the start. Piquet jumped into the spare car, which had a short-lasting qualifying Ford/Cosworth engine in it – and although Piquet was clearly faster than anyone else, the engine in his Brabham blew up early on, and Jones won the race, which effectively gave the gritty Australian his only ever Formula One Drivers' Championship, and Williams's first ever Constructors' Championship. Unfortunately, Jabouille's weekend was much worse than Piquet's: he crashed head on into a tire-wall and broke both his legs.

Round 14: United States East

The other half of the North American visit and the last round of the 1980 Formula One season was the second round in the United States at the fast, dauntingly challenging Watkins Glen circuit in New York State, four hours from New York City and only 5 hours from Montreal. This race had been in doubt for almost the whole season, but on this quick, bumpy, demanding and elevated circuit located in the rolling vineyard hills above Seneca Lake, it did go ahead after a loan was given by FOCA to the organizers. French rising star Alain Prost crashed heavily on Saturday morning practice due to suspension failure at the very fast left-handed Turn 10, the second-to-last corner on the track. Prost received a concussion after hitting his head on his car's steering wheel; he had to miss the race but was at the circuit on race day; he felt he could not trust the car's mechanical strength after a season's worth of component failures on his car, which often led to accidents; this happened to Prost a week earlier in Montreal.[5] Bruno Giacomelli took pole in his Alfa, the first time an Alfa Romeo had been on pole since 1951. Giacomelli made a perfect start and led for most of this exciting race up until Lap 32, when the electrics in his Alfa failed in the Boot section of the course. Jones, however, produced a storming drive, when he went off at the first corner at the start and dropped to 16th; he stormed through and took 2nd from his Argentine teammate Carlos Reutemann, and then inherited the lead from Giacomelli after the Italian retired. The Australian Jones won his 5th race of the year (6 if Spain is counted) ahead of Reutemann and Didier Pironi in a Ligier. 1978 champion Mario Andretti scored his only point of the 1980 season at Watkins Glen, close to his adoptive town in Nazareth, Pennsylvania (he born in 1940 in current city of Motovun, Croatia, at the time called Montona and being part of the Kingdom of Italy, and emigrated to Nazareth with his family in 1955). Unfortunately, this was to be the last championship Formula One race at the rather isolated Watkins Glen circuit. The corporation running the circuit was heavily in debt and went bankrupt after it could not meet Bernie Ecclestone and FOCA's increased demands, and the circuit was struck from the 1981 season calendar in May of that year and although there were other Grands Prix that would be run in the United States during the 1980s aside from Long Beach, the United States Grand Prix would not be run again until 1989 on a street circuit in Phoenix, Arizona- and not one of those venues saw the success and longevity that this event had at Watkins Glen.

A third American race, the Caesars Palace Grand Prix in Las Vegas was supposed to be the final event of the season 4 weeks after Watkins Glen but this event was cancelled.

Results and standings

Grands Prix

RoundGrand PrixPole positionFastest lapWinning driverWinning constructor
1 Argentine Grand Prix Alan Jones Alan Jones Alan Jones Williams-FordReport
2 Brazilian Grand Prix Jean-Pierre Jabouille René Arnoux René Arnoux RenaultReport
3 South African Grand Prixnowrap Jean-Pierre Jabouille René Arnoux René Arnoux RenaultReport
4nowrap United States Grand Prix West Nelson Piquetnowrap Nelson Piquetnowrap Nelson Piquetnowrap Brabham-FordReport
5 Belgian Grand Prix Alan Jones Jacques Laffite Didier Pironi Ligier-FordReport
6 Monaco Grand Prix Didier Pironinowrap Carlos Reutemann Carlos Reutemann Williams-FordReport
7 French Grand Prix Jacques Laffite Alan Jones Alan Jones Williams-FordReport
8 British Grand Prix Didier Pironi Didier Pironi Alan Jones Williams-FordReport
9 German Grand Prix Alan Jones Alan Jones Jacques Laffite Ligier-FordReport
10 Austrian Grand Prix René Arnoux René Arnouxnowrap Jean-Pierre Jabouille RenaultReport
11 Dutch Grand Prix René Arnoux René Arnoux Nelson Piquet Brabham-FordReport
12 Italian Grand Prix René Arnoux Alan Jones Nelson Piquet Brabham-FordReport
13 Canadian Grand Prix Nelson Piquet Didier Pironi Alan Jones Williams-FordReport
14 United States Grand Prix Bruno Giacomelli Alan Jones Alan Jones Williams-FordReport

Scoring system

Points were awarded to the top six classified finishers. The International Cup for F1 Constructors counted the points of all drivers for a constructor. For the Championship, the best five results from rounds 1-7 and the best five results from rounds 8-14 were counted, while, for the Cup, all rounds were counted.

Numbers without parentheses are championship points; numbers in parentheses are total points scored. Points were awarded in the following system:

World Drivers' Championship standings

PosDriverARG
BRA
RSA
USW
BEL
MON
FRA
GBR
GER
AUT
NED
ITA
CAN
USA
Pts[7]
1 Alan Jones13RetRet2Ret11(3)21121167 (71)
2 Nelson Piquet2Ret41Ret3424511RetRet54
3 Carlos ReutemannRetRet5Ret316323(4)(3)2242 (49)
4 Jacques LaffiteRetRet2Ret1123Ret14398534
5 Didier PironiRet4361Ret2RetRetRetRet63332
6 René ArnouxRet1194Ret5NCRet9210Ret729
7 Elio de AngelisRet2RetRet109RetRet166Ret410413
8 Jean-Pierre JabouilleRetRetRet10RetRetRetRetRet1RetRetRet9
9 Riccardo PatreseRet6Ret2Ret899914RetRetRetRet7
10 Keke Rosberg39RetRet7DNQRetDNQRet16DNQ59106
11 John WatsonRet11114NCDNQ78RetRetRetRet4NC6
12 Derek Daly414Ret89Ret11410RetRetRetRetRet6
13 Jean-Pierre JarierRet127Ret5RetRet515Ret5137NC6
14 Gilles VilleneuveRet16RetRet658Ret687Ret5Ret6
15 Emerson FittipaldiNC1583Ret6Ret12Ret11RetRetRetRet5
16 Alain Prost65DNSRetRetRet611767RetDNS5
17 Jochen MassRet1067Ret410138DNQ11Ret4
18 Bruno Giacomelli513RetRetRetRetRetRet5RetRetRetRetRet4
19 Jody ScheckterRetRetRet58Ret1210131398DNQ112
20 Mario AndrettiRetRet12RetRet7RetRet7Ret8RetRet61
21 Héctor Rebaque7Ret10RetRet6Ret1
Marc SurerRet7DNSRetRet121210RetDNQ80
Ricardo Zunino7810RetRetDNQRet0
Rupert Keegan11DNQ15DNQ11DNQ90
Clay RegazzoniNCRet9Ret0
Jan LammersDNQDNQDNQRet12NCDNQDNQ14DNQDNQDNQ12Ret0
Eddie CheeverDNQDNQRetRetDNQDNQRetRetRetRetRet12RetRet0
Geoff Lees13DNQDNQDNQDNQRetDNQDNQ0
Patrick DepaillerRetRetNCRetRetRetRetRet0
Nigel MansellRetRetDNQ0
Vittorio BrambillaRetRet0
Andrea de CesarisRetRet0
Mike ThackwellDNQRetDNQ0
Tiff NeedellRetDNQ0
David KennedyDNQDNQDNQDNQDNQDNQDNQ0
Stefan JohanssonDNQDNQ0
Stephen SouthDNQ0
Desiré WilsonDNQ0
Harald ErtlDNQ0
Manfred WinkelhockDNQ0
Kevin CoganDNQ0
PosDriverARG
BRA
RSA
USW
BEL
MON
FRA
GBR
GER
AUT
NED
ITA
CAN
USA
Pts

International Cup for F1 Constructors standings

PosConstructorCar
no.
ARG
BRA
RSA
USW
BEL
MON
FRA
GBR
GER
AUT
NED
ITA
CAN
USA
Pts
1 Williams-Ford2713RetRet2Ret113211211120
28RetRet5Ret3163234322
43DNQ
5011DNQ15DNQ11DNQ9
51DNQDNQ
2 Ligier-Ford25Ret4361Ret2RetRetRetRet63366
26RetRet2Ret1123Ret143985
3 Brabham-Ford52Ret41Ret3424511RetRet55
67810RetRetDNQRet7Ret10RetRet6Ret
4 Renault15RetRetRet10RetRetRetRetRet1RetRetRet38
16Ret1194Ret5NCRet9210Ret7
5 Lotus-Ford11RetRet12RetRet7RetRet7Ret8RetRet614
12Ret2RetRet109RetRet166Ret4104
43RetRetDNQ
6 Tyrrell-Ford3Ret127Ret5RetRet515Ret5137NC12
4414Ret89Ret11410RetRetRetRetRet
43RetDNQ
7 Arrows-Ford29Ret6Ret2Ret899914RetRetRetRet11
30Ret1067Ret410138DNQDNQDNQ11Ret
8 Fittipaldi-Ford20NC1583Ret6Ret12Ret11RetRetRetRet11
2139RetRet7DNQRetDNQRet16DNQ5910
9 McLaren-Ford7Ret11114NCDNQ78RetRetRetRet4NC11
865DNSDNQRetRetRet611767RetDNS
10 Ferrari1RetRetRet58Ret1210131398DNQ118
2Ret16RetRet658Ret687Ret5Ret
11 Alfa Romeo22RetRetNCRetRetRetRetRetRetRetRetRet4
23513RetRetRetRetRetRet5RetRetRetRetRet
ATS-Ford9Ret7DNSRet12NCRetRet121210RetDNQ80
10DNQDNQDNQDNQ
Ensign-Ford14NCRet9RetRetDNQDNQDNQ14DNQDNQDNQ12Ret0
41RetDNQ
Osella-Ford31DNQDNQRetRetDNQDNQRetRetRetRetRet12RetRet0
Shadow-Ford17DNQDNQ13DNQDNQDNQDNQ0
18DNQDNQDNQDNQDNQDNQDNQ
PosConstructorCar
no.
ARG
BRA
RSA
USW
BEL
MON
FRA
GBR
GER
AUT
NED
ITA
CAN
USA
Pts

Non-championship race

The 1980 Formula One season also included one non-championship race.[3]

External links

Notes and References

  1. 1980 FIA Yearbook, page 11
  2. Motor Sport, January 1981, page 44
  3. Motor Sport, January 1981, page 45
  4. David Hayhoe, Formula 1: The Knowledge – 2nd Edition, 2021, page 35.
  5. Web site: The US Grand Prix . Motor Sport Magazine Archive. 23 January 2016.
  6. Web site: 18 January 2019 . World Championship points systems . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20190924032459/http://8w.forix.com/6thgear/points.html . 24 September 2019 . 21 December 2020 . 8W . Forix.
  7. Only the best 5 results from the first 7 races and the best 5 results from the last 7 races counted towards the Drivers' Championship. If different from championship points, total points scored are shown in parentheses.