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1980 Canadian Grand Prix

FieldValue
TypeF1
CountryCanada
Grand PrixCanadian
DateSeptember 28
Year1980
ImageGilles Villeneuve Circuit Montreal (78-86).svg
Race_No13
Season_No14
Official nameXIX Grand Prix Labatt du Canada
LocationCircuit Île Notre-Dame, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
CoursePermanent racing facility
Course_mi2.740
Course_km4.410
Distance_laps70
Distance_mi191.817
Distance_km308.700
WeatherCold and dry with temperatures reaching up to 11 C; wind speeds up to 15.9 km/h
Pole_DriverNelson Piquet
Pole_TeamBrabham-Ford
Pole_Time1:27.328
Pole_CountryBrazil
pole_flag_suffix1968
Fast_DriverDidier Pironi
Fast_TeamLigier-Ford
Fast_Time1:28.769
Fast_Lap62
Fast_CountryFrance
First_DriverAlan Jones
First_TeamWilliams-Ford
First_CountryAustralia
Second_DriverCarlos Reutemann
Second_TeamWilliams-Ford
Second_CountryArgentina
Third_DriverDidier Pironi
Third_TeamLigier-Ford
Third_CountryFrance
Lapchart

The 1980 Canadian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 28 September 1980, at the Circuit Île Notre-Dame in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was the thirteenth and penultimate race of the 1980 Formula One season. The race was the 19th Canadian Grand Prix and the third to be held in Montreal. The race was held over 70 laps of the 4.41-kilometre circuit for a total race distance of 309 kilometres.

Australian driver Alan Jones, driving a Williams FW07B, won his second consecutive Canadian Grand Prix, and coupled with the retirement of the Brabham BT49 of Brazilian driver Nelson Piquet due to the failure of its Cosworth DFV engine, this allowed Jones to secure the 1980 World Drivers' Championship. Jones became only the second Australian to claim the world championship, a title last won by Jack Brabham in 1966. It was also the first World Drivers' Championship for Williams Grand Prix Engineering, adding to their first Constructors' Championship, achieved two weeks earlier at the Italian Grand Prix. The race featured a controversial first start where Piquet and Jones raced side by side to the first corner and touched, causing Piquet to hit the wall, sparking off other accidents behind. Piquet was forced to restart in his more fragile qualifying car, which ultimately led to his retirement and the end of the title battle. Some commentators thought Jones had forced Piquet into the wall, but the Brazilian shrugged it off as a racing incident.

The brief comeback of Vittorio Brambilla had come to an end with the Italian veteran retiring from Formula One. Alfa Romeo replaced him with someone younger and Andrea de Cesaris made his Grand Prix debut, as did teenage New Zealander Mike Thackwell. Thackwell stepped aboard a third Tyrrell 010 breaking the record as the youngest ever driver to start a Grand Prix, a record held for 19 years by the late Mexican teenager Ricardo Rodríguez. The record would stand for 29 years until broken by Jaime Alguersuari in 2009.

First and second in the championship were decided with the 1980 United States Grand Prix still to come. Jones led Piquet by 8 points but Piquet had already had five points-scoring finishes in the second half of the season. If Piquet won at Watkins Glen he would have to drop the two points from his fifth-place finish in Austria, leaving him one point behind Jones even if Jones failed to finish. Third place in the championship was theoretically open with Laffite eight points behind Reutemann. Second place in the constructors' championship was still open with Brabham just five points behind Ligier. The race weekend is also notable because the outgoing World Champion Jody Scheckter failed to qualify his Ferrari 312T5 for the event.

Qualifying

Qualifying classification

PosNo.DriverTeamTimeGap12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728Source:
5Brazil Nelson PiquetBrabham-Ford1:27.328-
27Australia Alan JonesWilliams-Ford1:28.164+ 0.836
25France Didier PironiLigier-Ford1:28.322+ 0.994
23Italy Bruno GiacomelliAlfa Romeo1:28.575+ 1.247
28Argentina Carlos ReutemannWilliams-Ford1:28.663+ 1.335
21Finland Keke RosbergFittipaldi-Ford1:28.702+ 1.374
7United Kingdom John WatsonMcLaren-Ford1:28.755+ 1.427
22Italy Andrea de CesarisAlfa Romeo1:29.026+ 1.698
26France Jacques LaffiteLigier-Ford1:29.130+ 1.802
6Mexico Héctor RebaqueBrabham-Ford1:29.377+ 2.049
29Italy Riccardo PatreseArrows-Ford1:29.400+ 2.072
8France Alain ProstMcLaren-Ford1:29.804+ 2.476
15France Jean-Pierre JabouilleRenault1:29.932+ 2.604
31USA Eddie CheeverOsella-Ford1:29.937+ 2.609
3France Jean-Pierre JarierTyrrell-Ford1:30.070+ 2.742
20Brazil Emerson FittipaldiFittipaldi-Ford1:30.294+ 2.966
12Italy Elio de AngelisLotus-Ford1:30.316+ 2.988
11USA Mario AndrettiLotus-Ford1:30.559+ 3.231
14Netherlands Jan LammersEnsign-Ford1:30.668+ 3.340
4Ireland Derek DalyTyrrell-Ford1:30.791+ 3.463
30FRG Jochen MassArrows-Ford1:30.831+ 3.503
2Canada Gilles VilleneuveFerrari1:30.855+ 3.527
16France René ArnouxRenault1:30.912+ 3.584
43New Zealand Mike ThackwellTyrrell-Ford1:31.036+ 3.708
9Switzerland Marc SurerATS-Ford1:31.169+ 3.841
1South Africa Jody ScheckterFerrari1:31.688+ 4.360
50United Kingdom Rupert KeeganWilliams-Ford1:32.638+ 5.310
51USA Kevin CoganWilliams-Ford1:32.745+ 5.417

Race

Piquet qualified on pole from Jones but used a car in fragile qualifying specification to do it. At the start Jones outlaunched Piquet but the pair refused to compromise at the first turn and the two touched, triggering a multi-car pile-up. The collision involved Jean-Pierre Jarier (Tyrrell 010), Derek Daly (Tyrrell 010), Emerson Fittipaldi (Fittipaldi F8), Keke Rosberg (Fittipaldi F8), Mario Andretti (Lotus 81), Gilles Villeneuve (Ferrari 312T5) and Jochen Mass (Arrows A3). Piquet, Fittipaldi, Villeneuve, Andretti and Mass restarted in spare cars, in Piquet's case his fragile qualifying car and Rosberg had his car repaired. Daly was out as was Thackwell as Jarier commandeered his Tyrrell 010. At the restart Jones led before a storming Piquet took the lead until his qualifying specification Cosworth DFV inevitably failed. Two laps later and Jean-Pierre Jabouille crashed his Renault RE20 heavily, seriously injuring his legs. Jabouille had to be cut from the car.

Jones took up the lead again until Pironi forced his way into a lead which was clouded over a jumped start for which he was eventually assigned a 60-second penalty. Pironi took the chequered flag first but would be classified third behind Jones and Reutemann. Alain Prost could have been third or even second until a suspension failure saw his McLaren M30 crash. Watson was ahead of Reutemann as well when he spun and finished fourth in his McLaren. Local hero Villeneuve claimed fifth for Ferrari on a dismal weekend that saw outgoing World Champion Jody Scheckter fail to qualify his Ferrari 312T5. The final point was claimed by Héctor Rebaque in his Brabham BT49 as Jacques Laffite ran out of fuel in his Ligier JS11/15 in the closing stages.

Race classification

PosNoDriverConstructorTyreLapsTime/RetiredGridPoints123456789101112RetRetRetRetRetRetRetRetRetRetRetRetDNQDNQDNQDNQ
27Australia **Alan Jones****Williams-Ford**701:46:45.532**9**
28Argentina **Carlos Reutemann****Williams-Ford**70+15.54 secs5**6**
25France **Didier Pironi****Ligier-Ford**70+19.07 secs3**4**
7United Kingdom **John Watson****McLaren-Ford**70+30.98 secs7**3**
2Canada **Gilles Villeneuve****Ferrari**70+55.23 secs22**2**
6Mexico **Héctor Rebaque****Brabham-Ford**69+1 Lap10**1**
3France Jean-Pierre JarierTyrrell-Ford69+1 Lap15
26France Jacques LaffiteLigier-Ford68Out of fuel9
21Finland Keke RosbergFittipaldi-Ford68+2 Laps6
12Italy Elio de AngelisLotus-Ford68+2 Laps17
30West Germany Jochen MassArrows-Ford67+3 Laps21
14Netherlands Jan LammersEnsign-Ford66+4 Laps19
8France Alain ProstMcLaren-Ford41Suspension12
16France René ArnouxRenault39Brakes23
15France Jean-Pierre JabouilleRenault25Suspension/Accident13
5Brazil Nelson PiquetBrabham-Ford23Engine1
11United States Mario AndrettiLotus-Ford11Engine18
22Italy Andrea de CesarisAlfa Romeo8Engine8
31United States Eddie CheeverOsella-Ford8Fuel system14
20Brazil Emerson FittipaldiFittipaldi-Ford8Gearbox16
23Italy Bruno GiacomelliAlfa Romeo7Chassis4
29Italy Riccardo PatreseArrows-Ford6Accident11
4Ireland Derek DalyTyrrell-Ford0Accident20
43New Zealand Mike ThackwellTyrrell-Ford0Car commandeered by Jarier24
9Switzerland Marc SurerATS-Ford
1South Africa Jody ScheckterFerrari
50United Kingdom Rupert KeeganWilliams-Ford
51United States Kevin CoganWilliams-Ford

Notes

  • This was the Formula One World Championship debut for New Zealand driver Mike Thackwell, Italian driver Andrea de Cesaris and American driver Kevin Cogan.
  • This was the 10th Grand Prix win for Williams.
  • This was the 10th Canadian Grand Prix win for a Ford-powered car.

Championship standings after the race

;Drivers' Championship standings

PosDriverPointsSource:
[[File:1rightarrow_blue.svg10px]]1AUS **Alan Jones**62
[[File:1rightarrow_blue.svg10px]]2BRA Nelson Piquet54
[[File:1rightarrow_blue.svg10px]]3ARG Carlos Reutemann40 (43)
[[File:1rightarrow_blue.svg10px]]4FRA Jacques Laffite32
[[File:1rightarrow_blue.svg10px]]5FRA René Arnoux29

;Constructors' Championship standings

PosConstructorPointsSource:
[[File:1rightarrow_blue.svg10px]]1UK **Williams-Ford**105
[[File:1rightarrow_blue.svg10px]]2FRA Ligier-Ford60
[[File:1rightarrow_blue.svg10px]]3UK Brabham-Ford55
[[File:1rightarrow_blue.svg10px]]4FRA Renault38
[[File:1rightarrow_blue.svg10px]]5UK Tyrrell-Ford12
  • Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. 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 to Championship points, total points scored are shown in parentheses.
  • Bold text indicates the 1980 World Champions.

References

Name_of_race = Canadian Grand Prix | Year_of_race = 1980 | Previous_race_in_season = 1980 Italian Grand Prix | Next_race_in_season = 1980 United States Grand Prix | Previous_year's_race = 1979 Canadian Grand Prix | Next_year's_race = 1981 Canadian Grand Prix

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