1980 Argentine Grand Prix

 1980 Argentine Grand Prix

Racing data
1st of 14 races in the 1980 World Automobile Championship
Surname:	XVI Gran Premio de la Republica Argentina
Date:	January 13, 1980
Place:	Buenos Aires
Course:	Autódromo Municipal Ciudad de Buenos Aires
Length:	316.304 km in 53 laps of 5.968 km
Weather:	sunny and hot
Spectator:	~ 120,000
Pole position
Driver:	Alan Jones	Williams
Time:	1: 44.17 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Alan Jones	Williams
Time:	1: 50.45 min
Podium
First:	Alan Jones	Williams
Second:	Nelson Piquet	Brabham
Third:	Keke Rosberg	Fittipaldi

The 1980 Argentina Grand Prix took place on January 13th at the Autódromo Municipal Ciudad de Buenos Aires and was the first race of the 1980 World Automobile Championship .

Reports

background

Already in the second half of the 1979 season there were signs that Team Williams with the FW07 would be among the favorites for the new season. The reigning world championship team Ferrari then had Mauro Forghieri develop the Ferrari 312T5 , which should be available in Argentina at the start of the season in mid-January. This vehicle should compensate for the aerodynamic weaknesses of the previous model 312T4 as well as possible. However, Ferrari still faced the problem that due to the large twelve-cylinder engine with a 180 ° angle, a perfect wing car could not be realized. This was one of the reasons why work was carried out on the design of a more compact, turbocharged engine . Another reason for this was that, based on the prestigious successes of the Renault team in the previous year, it was recognized that turbo technology was becoming increasingly important in Formula 1.

Carlos Reutemann , who was dissatisfied with Team Lotus , switched to Williams and took the place of Clay Regazzoni alongside Alan Jones . He switched to Ensign Racing , where a newly developed racing car was available due to financial support from the new main sponsor Unipart .

Patrick Depailler switched to Alfa Romeo and became the second works driver alongside Bruno Giacomelli . His compatriot Didier Pironi took his place at Ligier , who in turn was replaced by Derek Daly at Tyrrell .

The Lotus team's new car, named Lotus 81 , was painted in the colors of the new main sponsor Essex . Mario Andretti's new team mate became the Italian Elio de Angelis after Reutemann's departure . However, he had to buy himself out of his existing shadow contract first. The financially troubled team then constructed the DN11 and hired the two debutants Stefan Johansson and Dave Kennedy .

The McLaren team, which went through a year of crisis in 1979, stuck to John Watson , but replaced the second works driver Patrick Tambay with the promising newcomer Alain Prost .

Walter Wolf withdrew his team from the competition and sold the remaining stock to Emerson Fittipaldi , who integrated them into his own team and also took over the driver Keke Rosberg . Supported by the new main sponsor Skol , Fittipaldi decided to contest the entire season with two cars.

After Hans-Joachim Stuck left Formula 1 , Marc Surer and Jan Lammers became the new regular drivers at ATS .

Ferrari, Renault, Brabham and Arrows each retained the driver pairing with which they ended the 1979 season.

The teams Merzario and Rebaque no longer competed. Instead, there was a new team with Osella , who signed up for the season with the American Eddie Cheever as the only driver.

In Formula 1, which was originally very British, John Watson was the only British driver at the beginning of the 1980 season.

training

Alan Jones opened the season with a pole position alongside Jacques Laffite and ahead of Didier Pironi and Nelson Piquet. The two Lotus drivers Elio de Angelis and Mario Andretti formed the third row on the grid.

The four drivers who did not qualify for one of the 24 starting positions were Eddie Cheever and Jan Lammers as well as both Shadow pilots.

run

Race course

Jones took the lead ahead of Piquet, Laffite, Reutemann and Pironi. The two compatriots de Angelis and Patrese collided and fell far behind. Pironi and Jabouille were eliminated early due to technical problems.

A plastic bag caught in one of its radiators caused Jones' engine to overheat, necessitating a pit stop. The Australian had to give up the lead to Laffite on the 18th lap and came back on track in fourth place behind Piquet and Villeneuve. By the 30th lap he fought his way back to the top.

After Laffite and Villeneuve were eliminated due to technical defects, Jones won ahead of Piquet and Rosberg. For the latter two, this was the first podium finish in their Formula 1 careers. Daly finished fourth ahead of Giacomelli and the debutant Prost.

The first World Cup points of the year were distributed among the maximum possible number of six different teams.

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC	1	Jody Scheckter	Ferrari 312T5	Ferrari 015 3.0 F12	M.
	2	Gilles Villeneuve
Candy Tyrrell team	3	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Tyrrell 009	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	G
	4th	Derek Daly
Parmalat Racing Team	5	Nelson Piquet	Brabham BT49		G
	6th	Ricardo Zunino
Marlboro Team McLaren	7th	John Watson	McLaren M29		G
	8th	Alain Prost
Team ATS	9	Marc Surer	ATS D3		G
	10	Jan Lammers
Team Essex Lotus	11	Mario Andretti	Lotus 81		G
	12	Elio de Angelis
Unipart Racing Team	14th	Clay Regazzoni	Ensign N180		G
Equipe Renault Elf	15th	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault RE20	Renault EF1 1.5 V6 t	M.
	16	René Arnoux
Shadow cars	17th	Stefan Johansson	Shadow DN11	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	G
	18th	Dave Kennedy
Skol Fittipaldi team	20th	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi F7		G
	21st	Keke Rosberg
Marlboro Team Alfa Romeo	22nd	Patrick Depailler	Alfa Romeo 179	Alfa Romeo 1260 3.0 V12	G
	23	Bruno Giacomelli
Équipe Ligier Gitanes	25th	Didier Pironi	Ligier JS11 / 15	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	G
	26th	Jacques Laffite
Albilad-Williams Racing Team	27	Alan Jones	Williams FW07		G
	28	Carlos Reutemann	Williams FW07B
Warsteiner Arrows Racing Team	29	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows A3		G
	30th	Jochen Mass
Osella Squadra Corse	31	Eddie Cheever	Osella FA1		G

Classifications

Qualifying

Item	driver	constructor	Qualification training 1		Qualification training 2		begin
			time	Ø speed	time	Ø speed
01	Alan Jones	Williams-Ford	1: 44.17	206.247 km / h	1: 44.83	204.949 km / h	01
02	Jacques Laffite	Ligier-Ford	1: 44.44	205.714 km / h	13: 02.48	27.457 km / h	02
03	Didier Pironi	Ligier-Ford	1: 44.64	205.321 km / h	1: 46.15	202.400 km / h	03
04th	Nelson Piquet	Brabham-Ford	1: 46.04	202.610 km / h	1: 45.02	204.578 km / h	04th
05	Elio de Angelis	Lotus Ford	1: 47.30	200.231 km / h	1: 45.46	203.725 km / h	05
06th	Mario Andretti	Lotus Ford	1: 45.78	203.108 km / h	1: 47.94	199.044 km / h	06th
07th	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows Ford	1: 46.01	202.668 km / h	1: 48.03	198.878 km / h	07th
08th	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	1: 46.35	202.020 km / h	1: 46.07	202.553 km / h	08th
09	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	1: 46.15	202.400 km / h	1: 47.16	200.493 km / h	09
10	Carlos Reutemann	Williams-Ford	1: 46.19	202.324 km / h	1: 46.36	202.001 km / h	10
11	Jody Scheckter	Ferrari	1: 47.06	200.680 km / h	1: 46.28	202.153 km / h	11
12	Alain Prost	McLaren-Ford	1: 46.75	201.263 km / h	1: 46.81	201.150 km / h	12
13	Keke Rosberg	Fittipaldi-Ford	1: 46.97	200.849 km / h	1: 47.22	200.381 km / h	13
14th	Jochen Mass	Arrows Ford	1: 47.85	199.210 km / h	1: 47.05	200.699 km / h	14th
15th	Clay Regazzoni	Ensign-Ford	1: 47.18	200.455 km / h	1: 50.97	193.609 km / h	15th
16	Ricardo Zunino	Brabham-Ford	1: 47.51	199.840 km / h	1: 47.41	200.026 km / h	16
17th	John Watson	McLaren-Ford	1: 47.70	199.487 km / h	1: 48.06	198.823 km / h	17th
18th	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Tyrrell-Ford	1: 47.83	199.247 km / h	1: 48.06	198.823 km / h	18th
19th	René Arnoux	Renault	1: 49.42	196.352 km / h	1: 48.24	198.492 km / h	19th
20th	Bruno Giacomelli	Alfa Romeo	1: 48.44	198.126 km / h	1: 50.78	193.941 km / h	20th
21st	Marc Surer	ATS Ford	1: 49.50	196.208 km / h	1: 48.86	197.362 km / h	21st
22nd	Derek Daly	Tyrrell-Ford	1: 48.95	197.199 km / h	1: 49.23	196.693 km / h	22nd
23	Patrick Depailler	Alfa Romeo	1: 49.39	196.406 km / h	1: 49.20	196.747 km / h	23
24	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi-Ford	1: 49.42	196.352 km / h	1: 49.56	196.101 km / h	24
DNQ	Dave Kennedy	Shadow Ford	1: 53.45	189.377 km / h	1: 50.25	194.873 km / h	-
DNQ	Jan Lammers	ATS Ford	1: 52.16	191.555 km / h	1: 51.39	192.879 km / h	-
DNQ	Stefan Johansson	Shadow Ford	1: 55.15	186.581 km / h	1: 51.57	192.568 km / h	-
DNQ	Eddie Cheever	Osella-Ford	1: 54.12	188.265 km / h	2: 04.62	172.403 km / h	-

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	Alan Jones	Williams-Ford	53	1	1: 43: 24.38	01	1: 50.45
02	Nelson Piquet	Brabham-Ford	53	0	+ 24.59	04th	1: 51.59
03	Keke Rosberg	Fittipaldi-Ford	53	1	+1: 18.64	13	1: 52.30
04th	Derek Daly	Tyrrell-Ford	53	0	+1: 23.48	22nd	1: 54.01
05	Bruno Giacomelli	Alfa Romeo	52	0	+ 1 lap	20th	1: 55.04
06th	Alain Prost	McLaren-Ford	52	0	+ 1 lap	12	1: 54.13
07th	Ricardo Zunino	Brabham-Ford	51	0	+ 2 rounds	16	1: 56.12
-	Patrick Depailler	Alfa Romeo	46	0	DNF	23	1: 55.90	Engine failure
-	Jody Scheckter	Ferrari	45	0	DNF	11	1: 52.06	Engine failure
-	Clay Regazzoni	Ensign-Ford	44	2	NC	15th	1: 55.46	Unrated
-	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi-Ford	37	3	NC	24	1: 55.27	Unrated
-	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	36	0	DNF	08th	1: 52.15	Suspension damage
-	Jacques Laffite	Ligier-Ford	30th	0	DNF	02	1: 51.38	Engine failure
-	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows Ford	27	0	DNF	07th	1: 52.76	Engine failure
-	Marc Surer	ATS Ford	27	1	DNF	21st	1: 55.38	overheated engine
-	Mario Andretti	Lotus Ford	20th	1	DNF	06th	1: 55.79	Engine failure
-	Jochen Mass	Arrows Ford	20th	1	DNF	14th	1: 52.10	Gearbox damage
-	Carlos Reutemann	Williams-Ford	12	1	DNF	10	1: 51.69	overheated engine
-	Elio de Angelis	Lotus Ford	07th	0	DNF	05	1: 53.05	defective shock absorber
-	John Watson	McLaren-Ford	05	0	DNF	17th	1: 54.06	Gearbox damage
-	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	03	0	DNF	09	2: 31.57	Clutch damage
-	René Arnoux	Renault	02	0	DNF	19th	1: 57.49	broken suspension
-	Didier Pironi	Ligier-Ford	01	0	DNF	03	1: 59.53	Engine failure
-	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Tyrrell-Ford	01	0	DNF	18th	2: 41.18	Collision damage

World Cup stands after the race

The first six of the race got 9, 6, 4, 3, 2 and 1 point (s) respectively.

Driver ranking

Item driver constructor Points 01  Alan Jones Williams 9 02  Nelson Piquet Brabham 6th 03  Keke Rosberg Fittipaldi 4th

Item driver constructor Points 04th  Derek Daly Tyrrell 3 05  Bruno Giacomelli Alfa Romeo 2 06th  Alain Prost McLaren 1

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  Williams 9 02  Brabham 6th 03  Fittipaldi 4th

Item constructor Points 04th  Tyrrell 3 05  Alfa Romeo 2 06th  McLaren 1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fight at the limit. The Formula 1 Chronicle 1950–2000 , ed. v. Willy Knupp, RTL book edition: Zeitgeist Verlag: Düsseldorf / Gütersloh 2000, ISBN 3-89748-277-0 , p. 219
2. ↑ "Background" (accessed on September 16, 2012)
3. ↑ Fight at the limit. The Formula 1 Chronicle 1950–2000 , ed. v. Willy Knupp, RTL book edition: Zeitgeist Publisher: Düsseldorf / Gütersloh 2000, ISBN 3-89748-277-0 , pp. 216-218
4. ↑ "Training"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Motorsportarchiv.de; accessed on September 16, 2012)  
5. ^ "Report" (accessed on September 16, 2012)
6. ↑ "World Cup stands"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Motorsportarchiv.de; accessed on September 16, 2012)  

Web links

• Race result on the official Formula 1 website