1980 Argentine Grand Prix

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1980 Argentine Grand Prix
Race 1 of 14 in the 1980 Formula One season
Autodromo Oscar y Juan Galvez Circuito Ndeg 15.svg
Race details
Date13 January 1980
Official name XVI Gran Premio de la Republica Argentina
Location Autodromo Municipal Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Course Permanent racing facility
Course length 5.81 km (3.61 miles)
Distance 53 laps, 307.93 km (191.33 miles)
Weather Sunny, Very hot, Dry
Pole position
Driver Williams-Ford
Time 1:44.17
Fastest lap
Driver Flag of Australia (converted).svg Alan Jones Williams-Ford
Time 1:50.45 on lap 5
Podium
First Williams-Ford
Second Brabham-Ford
Third Fittipaldi-Ford
Lap leaders
  • 1980 Argentine Grand Prix

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-kilometre (3.61 mi) circuit for a total race distance of 308 kilometres (191 mi).

Contents

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 [1] and a battle between Gilles Villeneuve (Ferrari 312T5), Alan Jones, Jacques Laffite (Ligier JS11/15) and Nelson Piquet, made 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.

Argentine driver Carlos Reutemann crying after leaving the race prematurely Reutemann llorando 1980.jpg
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 Argentinean 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. [2]

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

PosNo.DriverConstructorTimeGap
127 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Alan Jones Williams-Ford 1:44.17-
226 Flag of France.svg Jacques Laffite Ligier-Ford 1:44.44+ 0.27
325 Flag of France.svg Didier Pironi Ligier-Ford 1:44.64+ 0.47
45 Flag of Brazil (1968-1992).svg Nelson Piquet Brabham-Ford 1:45.02+ 0.85
512 Flag of Italy.svg Elio de Angelis Lotus-Ford 1:45.46+ 1.29
611 Flag of the United States.svg Mario Andretti Lotus-Ford 1:45.78+ 1.61
729 Flag of Italy.svg Riccardo Patrese Arrows-Ford 1:46.01+ 1.84
82 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Gilles Villeneuve Ferrari 1:46.07+ 1.90
915 Flag of France.svg Jean-Pierre Jabouille Renault 1:46.15+ 1.98
1028 Flag of Argentina.svg Carlos Reutemann Williams-Ford 1:46.19+ 2.02
111 Flag of South Africa (1928-1994).svg Jody Scheckter Ferrari 1:46.28+ 2.11
128 Flag of France.svg Alain Prost McLaren-Ford 1:46.75+ 2.58
1321 Flag of Finland.svg Keke Rosberg Fittipaldi-Ford 1:46.97+ 2.80
1430 Flag of Germany.svg Jochen Mass Arrows-Ford 1:47.05+ 2.88
1514 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Clay Regazzoni Ensign-Ford 1:47.18+ 3.01
166 Flag of Argentina.svg Ricardo Zunino Brabham-Ford 1:47.41+ 3.24
177 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg John Watson McLaren-Ford 1:47.70+ 3.53
183 Flag of France.svg Jean-Pierre Jarier Tyrrell-Ford 1:47.83+ 3.66
1916 Flag of France.svg René Arnoux Renault 1:48.24+ 4.07
2023 Flag of Italy.svg Bruno Giacomelli Alfa Romeo 1:48.44+ 4.27
219 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Marc Surer ATS-Ford 1:48.86+ 4.69
224 Flag of Ireland.svg Derek Daly Tyrrell-Ford 1:48.95+ 4.78
2322 Flag of France.svg Patrick Depailler Alfa Romeo 1:49.20+ 5.03
2420 Flag of Brazil (1968-1992).svg Emerson Fittipaldi Fittipaldi-Ford 1:49.42+ 5.25
2518 Flag of Ireland.svg David Kennedy Shadow-Ford 1:50.25+ 6.08
2610 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Jan Lammers ATS-Ford 1:51.39+ 7.21
2717 Flag of Sweden.svg Stefan Johansson Shadow-Ford 1:51.57+ 7.40
2831 Flag of the United States.svg Eddie Cheever Osella-Ford 1:54.21+ 10.04
Source: [3]

Race

PosNoDriverConstructorTyreLapsTime/RetiredGridPoints
127 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Alan Jones Williams-Ford G 531:43:24.3819
25 Flag of Brazil (1968-1992).svg Nelson Piquet Brabham-Ford G 53+ 24.5946
321 Flag of Finland.svg Keke Rosberg Fittipaldi-Ford G 53+ 1:18.64134
44 Flag of Ireland.svg Derek Daly Tyrrell-Ford G 53+ 1:23.48223
523 Flag of Italy.svg Bruno Giacomelli Alfa Romeo G 52+ 1 Lap202
68 Flag of France.svg Alain Prost McLaren-Ford G 52+ 1 Lap121
76 Flag of Argentina.svg Ricardo Zunino Brabham-Ford G 51+ 2 Laps16
Ret22 Flag of France.svg Patrick Depailler Alfa Romeo G 46Engine23
Ret1 Flag of South Africa (1928-1994).svg Jody Scheckter Ferrari M 45Engine11
NC14 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Clay Regazzoni Ensign-Ford G 44+ 9 Laps15
NC20 Flag of Brazil (1968-1992).svg Emerson Fittipaldi Fittipaldi-Ford G 37+ 16 Laps24
Ret2 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Gilles Villeneuve Ferrari M 36Suspension8
Ret26 Flag of France.svg Jacques Laffite Ligier-Ford G 30Engine2
Ret29 Flag of Italy.svg Riccardo Patrese Arrows-Ford G 27Engine7
Ret9 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Marc Surer ATS-Ford G 27Fire21
Ret11 Flag of the United States.svg Mario Andretti Lotus-Ford G 20Fuel System6
Ret30 Flag of Germany.svg Jochen Mass Arrows-Ford G 20Gearbox14
Ret28 Flag of Argentina.svg Carlos Reutemann Williams-Ford G 12Engine10
Ret12 Flag of Italy.svg Elio de Angelis Lotus-Ford G 7Suspension5
Ret7 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg John Watson McLaren-Ford G 5Gearbox17
Ret15 Flag of France.svg Jean-Pierre Jabouille Renault M 3Gearbox9
Ret16 Flag of France.svg René Arnoux Renault M 2Suspension19
Ret25 Flag of France.svg Didier Pironi Ligier-Ford G 1Engine3
Ret3 Flag of France.svg Jean-Pierre Jarier Tyrrell-Ford G 1Collision18
DNQ18 Flag of Ireland.svg David Kennedy Shadow-Ford G
DNQ17 Flag of Sweden.svg Stefan Johansson Shadow-Ford G
DNQ10 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Jan Lammers ATS-Ford G
DNQ31 Flag of the United States.svg Eddie Cheever Osella-Ford G
Source: [4] [5]

Championship standings after the race

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