1980 Monaco Grand Prix
The Monaco Grand Prix 1980 was held on 18 May and was the sixth race of the Formula 1 season 1980.
- 3.1 qualifying
- 3.2 race
- 4.1 Drivers' Championship
- 4.2 Constructors' Championship
Reports
Background
Before the sixth World Cup race of the year in Monaco, there were no changes in the rider line. Since only 20 participants were registered for the race, left the seven slowest after the training.
Training
Since the first qualifying session took place in the rain on Thursday, all pilots achieved their relevance to the starting line-up lap times on Saturday.
Didier Pironi, who had won the Belgian Grand Prix two weeks earlier, the pole position secured before the two Williams of Carlos Reutemann and Alan Jones. Nelson Piquet followed on the fourth place in front of Jacques Laffite and Gilles Villeneuve. The two Alfa Romeo works driver Patrick Depailler and Bruno Giacomelli formed the fourth row.
The Renault driver Jean -Pierre Jabouille and René Arnoux qualified with positions 16 and 20 unusually far back in the field, as well as the reigning world champion Jody Scheckter in the second Ferrari 312T5, which only reached the 17th starting position. With John Watson and Ricardo Zunino included two former world champion driver team to the seven drivers who failed to qualify.
Race
While Pironi took the lead before Reutemann, Jones, Laffite, Depailler and Piquet, a violent collision between Derek Daly, Bruno Giacomelli, Alain Prost and Jean -Pierre Jarier occurred in the midfield in the first corner, out of the resignation of all four pilots involved resulted. Daly had hit into Giacomelli's tail, which his car was hurled through the air. The other two cars were damaged in the course of which. Jan Lammers collided shortly thereafter easily with one of the cars standing on the track, the race but was able to continue. No one was injured.
Already during the first round Reutemann was overtaken by Jones. This retired on lap 24 due to a differential from damage, which Reutemann regained second place.
In the second half of the race it started to rain. Pironi, who led by a wide margin, had an accident in the 55th round in the casino curve. A gearbox failure was preceded by the accident. Reutemann took over by the tip and defended it to the finish. Laffite was followed with a clear gap to second place before the unchallenged Piquet third. All other pilots who were still in the race, there were already back at least one lap. Jochen Mass took fourth place ahead of Gilles Villeneuve and Emerson Fittipaldi.
Message list
Classifications
Qualifying
Race
WM stands after the race
The first six of the race were 9, 6, 4, 3, 2 and 1 point (s).