Brands Hatch 6 Hours 1980

Track layout 1980

The 1980 Brands Hatch 6-hour race , also known as the World Championship 6 Hours, Brands Hatch , took place on March 16 at Brands Hatch and was the second round of the sports car world championship of that year.

The race

The 6-hour race at Brands Hatch ended with a surprising double victory for the two factories - Lancia Beta Montecarlo Turbo . It was not only the first Lancia victory in the world championship since the Mille Miglia 1954 ( Alberto Ascari in the Lancia D24 ), but also the first success of a Group 5 car with an engine under 2 liters. The race was overshadowed by the fatal accident of the British racing driver Martin Raymond .

Reinhold Joest was fastest in qualifying in his Porsche 908 with a 2.1-liter six-cylinder turbo engine. On his fastest lap, he needed a time of 1: 25.420 minutes for the 4.207-kilometer circuit. Behind the Porsche were the two works Lancia from Walter Röhrl / Riccardo Patrese and Eddie Cheever / Michele Alboreto with 1.4-liter four-cylinder turbo engines. A racing car veteran started the race from fourth on the grid. The German dentist and amateur racing driver Siegfried Brunn drove an eight-year-old Porsche 908/3, which was already a works replacement car for the 1972 Targa Florio . His teammate was the Swiss Albert Obrist .

The race quickly developed into a three-way battle between the two works Lancia and the Joest-Porsche, which Volkert Merl was also driving alongside the team owner . By the middle of the race, the lead had changed several times when the fatal accident occurred. On its 103 lap, Martin Raymond's Chevron B36 spun between the Westfield and Dingle Dell sections. An investigation after the race assumed that the reason for the spinning of the well-placed chevron was a blocking gear. Since the car was on the road, which pushed him marshals in a run-off area , where Raymond got out against the instructions of the pickets and began to work on the car. Although the posts with yellow flags pointing to the danger, it came a little later in the same place after a misunderstanding while lapping to a collision between the Osella PA8 of Marco Rocca and the Porsche 911 Carrera RSR by Paul Edwards . The two cars hit the parked Chevron and ran over Raymond, who died at the scene of the accident. Paul Edwards broke his hand in the accident and Rocca broke an ankle.

The race was stopped on the 111th lap and interrupted for 75 minutes. In order to get full World Championship points for the participants, it was started again for a racing hour. After the Joest-Porsche rolled out with Merl at the wheel on the first lap after restarting with a defective gear linkage, the works Lancia achieved a double victory.

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	Size 5	19th	Lancia Corsa Italy	Riccardo Patrese Walter Röhrl	Lancia Beta Montecarlo Turbo	147
2	Size 5	20th	Lancia Corsa Italy	Eddie Cheever Michele Alboreto	Lancia Beta Montecarlo Turbo	146
3	S + 2.0	8th	Alain de Cadenet	Alain de Cadenet Desiré Wilson	De Cadenet Lola LM	145
4th	Size 5	21st	Jolly Club	Carlo Facetti Martino Finotto	Lancia Beta Montecarlo Turbo	143
5	Size 5	11	Charles Ivey Engineering	John Cooper Pete Lovett Dudley Wood	Porsche 935K3	139
6th	Size 5	7th	Malaya Garage Ltd.	Barrie Williams Adrian Yates-Smith	Porsche 911 SC	135
7th	Size 5	15th	Vegla Racing Team Aachen	Dieter Schornstein Harald Grohs	Porsche 935 / 77A	135
8th	GT	26th	Lubrifilm Racing Team	Angelo Pallavicini Herbert Müller	Porsche 934	135
9	S 2000	33	Bell & Colvill	John Sheldon John Brindley Juliette Slaughter	Lola T492	134
10	S + 2.0	2	Siegfried Brunn	Siegfried Brunn Albert Obrist	Porsche 908/3	133
11	S 2000	30th	Brands Hatch Racing	Divina Galica Mark Thatcher	Tiga SC80	133
12	Size 5	14th	Simon Phillips	Ray Mallock Richard Jones Simon Phillips	Porsche 911 Carrera RSR	133
13	GT	29	Thierry Perrier	Thierry Perrier Roger Carmillet	Porsche 911 SC	130
14th	S 2000	31	Ian Taylor Racing Ltd.	Ian Taylor Neil Crang Mario Hytten	Tiga SC79	129
15th	S 2000	38	Robert Parker	Robert Parker Nick Faure Jorge Koechlin	Lola T492	128
16	GT	41	Jacques Guérin	Jacques Guérin Marcel Gastaretti Jean-Louis Schlesser	Porsche 934	128
17th	S 2000	37	TDC Trailers and Rigids Ltd.	Syd Fox Mike Ford	Lola T492	125
18th	ser.GT	40	Alain-Michel Bernard	Georges Bourdillat Roland Ennequin	Porsche 911 SC	118
Not classified
19th	Size 5	10	Christian Bussi	Christian Bussi Bernard Salam	Porsche 935	130
20th	Size 5	18th	Tuff-Kote Dinol Racing	Jan Lundgardh Kurt Simonsen Preben Kristoffersen	Porsche 935LI	129
21st	GT	28	Morris Stapleton London's Morgan Agents	William Wykeham Bruce Stapleton Brian Classic	Morgan Plus 8	118
22nd	S 2.0	6th	David Mercer	David Mercer Richard Jenvey	Vogue SP2	101
Disqualified
23	S 2.0	4th	Dorset Racing Associates	Leon Walger Peter Clark	Lola T297	29
Failed
24	S + 2.0	1	Liqui Moly Equipe	Reinhold Joest Volkert Merl	Porsche 908/3 Turbo	111
25th	S 2.0	3	Mogil Motors Ltd.	Martin Raymond Tony Charnell	Chevron B36	103
26th	S + 2.0	16	March Racing	Patrick Nève Michael Korten	March-BMW M1	98
27	Size 5	12	Paul Edwards	Paul Edwards Barry Robinson	Porsche 911 Carrera RSR	96
28	Size 5	23	Real Estate Reiss team	Albrecht Krebs Gerd Reiss	BMW 320i Turbo	90
29	GT	27	Auto Farm Ltd.	Tony Dron Richard Cleare	Porsche 934	90
30th	S 2.0	5	Lella Lombardi Torino Corse	Lella Lombardi Marco Rocca	Osella PA8	82
31	Size 5	9	Weralit Elora Racing Team	Edgar Dören Jürgen Lässig Gerhard Holup	Porsche 935K3	72
32	Size 5	22nd	Giuseppe Piazzi	Renzo Zorzi Giuseppe Piazzi	Fiat X1 / 9	6th
Not started
33	Size 5	20T	Lancia Corsa Italy	Michele Alboreto	Lancia Beta Montecarlo Turbo	1

¹ training car

Only in the entry list

Here you will find teams, drivers and vehicles that were originally registered for the race but did not take part for a variety of reasons.

Item	class	No.	team	driver	chassis
34	GT	25th	Hahn Sportwagen GmbH	Armin Jahn Klaus Utz	Porsche 934
35	S 2000	31	Ian Taylor Racing Ltd.	Ian Taylor Neil Crang Mario Hytten	Tiga SC80
36	S 2000	32	Kimpton Marketing / Ron Imports Ltd.	Mike Kimpton Nick Whiting	Tiga SC80
37	S 2000	34	Jac Nelleman	Kurt Thiim Peter Elgaard Jac Nelleman	Tiga SC78
38	S 2000	35	Wilkinson Sword	Alan Humberstone Nick Cole Mike Blanchet	Lola T590
39	S 2000	36	Link Systems	Frank Sytner John Bury	link
40	GT	40	Alain-Michel Bernard	Alain-Michel Bernard Georges Bourdillat Roland Ennequin	Porsche 934
41	GT	50	Frox Clothing	Martin Birrane	Lotus Esprit S1

Class winner

class	driver	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
S + 2.0	Alain de Cadenet	Desiré Wilson		De Cadenet Lola LM	Rank 3
S 2.0	no participant in the finish
S 2000	John Sheldon	John Brindley	Juliette Slaughter	Lola T492	Rank 9
Size 5	Riccardo Patrese	Walter Röhrl		Lancia Beta Montecarlo Turbo	Overall victory
GT	Angelo Pallavicini	Herbert Mueller		Porsche 934	Rank 8
ser.GT	Georges Bourdillat	Roland Ennequin		Porsche 911 SC	Rank 18

Racing data

• Registered: 41
• Started: 32
• Valued: 18
• Race classes: 6
• Spectator: unknown
• Race day weather: warm and dry
• Route length: 4.207 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 3: 51: 47,000 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 147
• Total distance of the winning team: 618.429 km
• Winner's average: 159.940 km / h
• Pole position: Reinhold Joest - Porsche 908/3 Turbo (# 1) - 1: 25.420
• Fastest race lap: unknown
• Racing series: 2nd round of the 1980 sports car world championship

literature

• Peter Higham: The Guinness Guide to International Motor Racing. A complete Reference from Formula 1 to Touring Car. Guinness Publishing Ltd., London 1995, ISBN 0-85112-642-1 .

Web links

• Race results at wspr

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Martin Raymond's accident at Motorsport Memorial

Previous race 24 Hours of Daytona 1980

Sports car world championship

Successor to the Sebring 12-hour race in 1980