1980 Canadian Grand Prix
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| Race details | |||
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| Race 13 of 14 in the 1980 Formula One season | |||
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| Date | September 28, 1980 | ||
| Official name | XIX Grand Prix Labatt du Canada | ||
| Location | Circuit Île Notre-Dame, Montreal, Quebec, Canada | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 4.410 km (2.740 mi) | ||
| Distance | 70 laps, 308.700 km (191.817 mi) | ||
| Weather | Cold and dry with temperatures reaching up to 11 °C (52 °F); wind speeds up to 15.9 kilometres per hour (9.9 mph)[1] | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Brabham-Ford | ||
| Time | 1:27.328 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |  Didier Pironi |
Ligier-Ford | |
| Time | 1:28.769 on lap 62 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Williams-Ford | ||
| Second | Williams-Ford | ||
| Third | Ligier-Ford | ||
The 1980 Canadian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on September 28, 1980, at the Circuit Île Notre-Dame in Montreal, 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 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.
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,[2][3] 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.[4] 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 chequer 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.[2]
First and second in the championship were decided with the 1980 United States Grand Prix still to come, but third 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.
Classification
| Pos | No | Driver | Constructor | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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| 1 | 27 |  Alan Jones |
Williams-Ford | 70 | 1:46:45.53 | 2 | 9 |
| 2 | 28 |  Carlos Reutemann |
Williams-Ford | 70 | +15.54 secs | 5 | 6 |
| 3 | 25 | Didier Pironi |
Ligier-Ford | 70 | +19.07 secs | 3 | 4 |
| 4 | 7 |  John Watson |
McLaren-Ford | 70 | +30.98 secs | 7 | 3 |
| 5 | 2 |  Gilles Villeneuve |
Ferrari | 70 | +55.23 secs | 22 | 2 |
| 6 | 6 |  Héctor Rebaque |
Brabham-Ford | 69 | +1 Lap | 10 | 1 |
| 7 | 3 | Jean-Pierre Jarier |
Tyrrell-Ford | 69 | +1 Lap | 15 | |
| 8 | 26 | Jacques Laffite |
Ligier-Ford | 68 | Out of fuel | 9 | |
| 9 | 21 |  Keke Rosberg |
Fittipaldi-Ford | 68 | +2 Laps | 6 | |
| 10 | 12 |  Elio de Angelis |
Lotus-Ford | 68 | +2 Laps | 17 | |
| 11 | 30 |  Jochen Mass |
Arrows-Ford | 67 | +3 Laps | 21 | |
| 12 | 14 |  Jan Lammers |
Ensign-Ford | 66 | +4 Laps | 19 | |
| Ret | 8 | Alain Prost |
McLaren-Ford | 41 | Suspension | 12 | |
| Ret | 16 | René Arnoux |
Renault | 39 | Brakes | 23 | |
| Ret | 15 | Jean-Pierre Jabouille |
Renault | 25 | Suspension/Accident | 13 | |
| Ret | 5 |  Nelson Piquet |
Brabham-Ford | 23 | Engine | 1 | |
| Ret | 11 |  Mario Andretti |
Lotus-Ford | 11 | Engine | 18 | |
| Ret | 22 | Andrea de Cesaris |
Alfa Romeo | 8 | Engine | 8 | |
| Ret | 31 | Eddie Cheever |
Osella-Ford | 8 | Fuel System | 14 | |
| Ret | 20 | Emerson Fittipaldi |
Fittipaldi-Ford | 8 | Gearbox | 16 | |
| Ret | 23 | Bruno Giacomelli |
Alfa Romeo | 7 | Chassis | 4 | |
| Ret | 29 | Riccardo Patrese |
Arrows-Ford | 6 | Accident | 11 | |
| Ret | 4 |  Derek Daly |
Tyrrell-Ford | 0 | Accident | 20 | |
| Ret | 43 |  Mike Thackwell |
Tyrrell-Ford | 0 | Car commandeered by Jarier | 24 | |
| DNQ | 9 |  Marc Surer |
ATS-Ford | ||||
| DNQ | 1 |  Jody Scheckter |
Ferrari | ||||
| DNQ | 50 | Rupert Keegan |
Williams-Ford | ||||
| DNQ | 51 | Kevin Cogan |
Williams-Ford | ||||
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Lap leaders
- Alan Jones 49 laps (1-2 and 24-70)
- Nelson Piquet 21 laps (3-23)
Championship standings after the race
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- 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.
References
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