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| 1980 Canadian Grand Prix | |||
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| Race 13 of 14 in the1980 Formula One season | |||
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| Race details | |||
| Date | September 28, 1980 | ||
| Official name | XIXGrand Prix Labatt du Canada | ||
| Location | Circuit Île Notre-Dame,Montreal,Quebec,Canada | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 4.410 km (2.740 miles) | ||
| Distance | 70 laps, 308.700 km (191.817 miles) | ||
| 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 | ||
Lap leaders | |||
The1980 Canadian Grand Prix was aFormula One motor race held on 28 September 1980, at theCircuit Île Notre-Dame inMontreal, Quebec, Canada.[2] It was the thirteenth and penultimate race of the1980 Formula One season. The race was the 19thCanadian 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 driverAlan Jones, driving aWilliams FW07B, won his second consecutive Canadian Grand Prix, and coupled with the retirement of theBrabham BT49 of Brazilian driverNelson Piquet due to the failure of itsCosworth 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 byJack Brabham in1966. It was also the first World Drivers' Championship forWilliams Grand Prix Engineering, adding to their first Constructors' Championship, achieved two weeks earlier at theItalian 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 ofVittorio Brambilla had come to an end with the Italian veteran retiring from Formula One.Alfa Romeo replaced him with someone younger andAndrea de Cesaris made his Grand Prix debut, as did teenage New ZealanderMike Thackwell. Thackwell stepped aboard a thirdTyrrell 010 breaking the record as the youngest ever driver to start a Grand Prix, a record held for 19 years by the late Mexican teenagerRicardo Rodríguez. The record would stand for 29 years until broken byJaime Alguersuari in 2009.
First and second in the championship were decided with the1980 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 ChampionJody Scheckter failed to qualify hisFerrari 312T5 for the event.
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,[4][5] triggering a multi-car pile-up. The collision involvedJean-Pierre Jarier (Tyrrell 010),Derek Daly (Tyrrell 010),Emerson Fittipaldi (Fittipaldi F8),Keke Rosberg (Fittipaldi F8),Mario Andretti (Lotus 81),Gilles Villeneuve (Ferrari 312T5) andJochen 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.[6] Two laps later andJean-Pierre Jabouille crashed hisRenault 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 hisMcLaren M30 crash. Watson was ahead of Reutemann as well when he spun and finished fourth in his McLaren. Local hero Villeneuve claimed fifth forFerrari on a dismal weekend that saw outgoing World ChampionJody Scheckter fail to qualify his Ferrari 312T5. The final point was claimed byHéctor Rebaque in his Brabham BT49 asJacques Laffite ran out of fuel in his Ligier JS11/15 in the closing stages.[4]
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