Brands Hatch 6 Hours 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 | ||
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1 | Size 5 | 19th |
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Lancia Beta Montecarlo Turbo | 147 | ||
2 | Size 5 | 20th |
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Lancia Beta Montecarlo Turbo | 146 | ||
3 | S + 2.0 | 8th |
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De Cadenet Lola LM | 145 | ||
4th | Size 5 | 21st |
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Lancia Beta Montecarlo Turbo | 143 | ||
5 | Size 5 | 11 |
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Porsche 935K3 | 139 | ||
6th | Size 5 | 7th |
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Porsche 911 SC | 135 | ||
7th | Size 5 | 15th |
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Porsche 935 / 77A | 135 | ||
8th | GT | 26th |
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Porsche 934 | 135 | ||
9 | S 2000 | 33 |
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Lola T492 | 134 | ||
10 | S + 2.0 | 2 |
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Porsche 908/3 | 133 | ||
11 | S 2000 | 30th |
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Tiga SC80 | 133 | ||
12 | Size 5 | 14th |
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Porsche 911 Carrera RSR | 133 | ||
13 | GT | 29 |
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Porsche 911 SC | 130 | ||
14th | S 2000 | 31 |
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Tiga SC79 | 129 | ||
15th | S 2000 | 38 |
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Lola T492 | 128 | ||
16 | GT | 41 |
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Porsche 934 | 128 | ||
17th | S 2000 | 37 |
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Lola T492 | 125 | ||
18th | ser.GT | 40 |
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Porsche 911 SC | 118 | ||
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19th | Size 5 | 10 |
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Porsche 935 | 130 | ||
20th | Size 5 | 18th |
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Porsche 935LI | 129 | ||
21st | GT | 28 |
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Morgan Plus 8 | 118 | ||
22nd | S 2.0 | 6th |
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Vogue SP2 | 101 | ||
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23 | S 2.0 | 4th |
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Lola T297 | 29 | ||
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24 | S + 2.0 | 1 |
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Porsche 908/3 Turbo | 111 | ||
25th | S 2.0 | 3 |
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Chevron B36 | 103 | ||
26th | S + 2.0 | 16 |
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March-BMW M1 | 98 | ||
27 | Size 5 | 12 |
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Porsche 911 Carrera RSR | 96 | ||
28 | Size 5 | 23 |
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BMW 320i Turbo | 90 | ||
29 | GT | 27 |
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Porsche 934 | 90 | ||
30th | S 2.0 | 5 |
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Osella PA8 | 82 | ||
31 | Size 5 | 9 |
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Porsche 935K3 | 72 | ||
32 | Size 5 | 22nd |
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Fiat X1 / 9 | 6th | ||
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33 | Size 5 | 20T |
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Lancia Beta Montecarlo Turbo | 1 |
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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 |
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34 | GT | 25th |
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Porsche 934 |
35 | S 2000 | 31 |
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Tiga SC80 |
36 | S 2000 | 32 |
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Tiga SC80 |
37 | S 2000 | 34 |
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Tiga SC78 |
38 | S 2000 | 35 |
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Lola T590 |
39 | S 2000 | 36 |
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40 | GT | 40 |
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Porsche 934 |
41 | GT | 50 |
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Lotus Esprit S1 |
Class winner
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
Individual evidence
Previous race 24 Hours of Daytona 1980 |
Sports car world championship |
Successor to the Sebring 12-hour race in 1980 |