Race · Round 3 of 14 · 1 March 1980

1980 South African Grand Prix

Rene Arnoux won for Renault from 2nd on the grid at Kyalami. 11 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: KyalamiMidrand, South Africa
Winner: Rene ArnouxRenault
Pole: Jean-Pierre Jabouille
Fastest lap: Rene Arnoux
Entries: 2813 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Rene Arnoux	Renault	RE20	2	78	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	JS11/15	4	78	Finished	6
3	Didier Pironi	Ligier	JS11/15	5	78	Finished	4
4	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	BT49	3	78	Finished	3
5	Carlos Reutemann	Williams	—	6	77	Finished	2
6	Jochen Mass	Arrows	A3	19	77	Finished	1
7	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Tyrrell	—	13	77	Finished	0
8	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	—	18	77	Finished	0
9	Clay Regazzoni	Ensign	N180	20	77	Finished	0
10	Ricardo Zunino	Brabham	BT49	17	77	Finished	0
11	John Watson	McLaren	—	21	76	Finished	0
12	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	—	15	76	Finished	0
13	Geoff Lees	Shadow	—	24	70	Suspension	0
DNF	Bruno Giacomelli	Alfa Romeo	179	12	69	Engine	0
DNF	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	RE20	1	61	Puncture	0
DNF	Derek Daly	Tyrrell	—	16	61	Puncture	0
DNF	Keke Rosberg	Fittipaldi	—	23	58	Accident	0
NC	Patrick Depailler	Alfa Romeo	179	7	53	NC	0
DNF	Alan Jones	Williams	—	8	34	Gearbox	0
DNF	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	312T5	10	31	Transmission	0
DNF	Jody Scheckter	Ferrari	312T5	9	14	Engine	0
DNF	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	A3	11	10	Spun off	0
DNF	Eddie Cheever	Osella	—	22	8	Spun off	0
DNF	Elio de Angelis	Team Lotus	—	14	1	Spun off	0
DNS	Alain Prost	McLaren	—	—	—	Accident	0
DNS	Marc Surer	ATS	—	—	—	Accident	0
DNQ	David Kennedy	Shadow	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Jan Lammers	ATS	—	—	—	DNQ	0

A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.

F1DB layout kyalami-1 · 4.094 km · 9 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Rene Arnoux	2	1	78
Jacques Laffite	4	2	78
Didier Pironi	5	3	78
Nelson Piquet	3	4	78
Carlos Reutemann	6	5	77
Jochen Mass	19	6	77
Jean-Pierre Jarier	13	7	77
Emerson Fittipaldi	18	8	77
Clay Regazzoni	20	9	77
Ricardo Zunino	17	10	77
John Watson	21	11	76
Mario Andretti	15	12	76
Geoff Lees	24	13	70
Bruno Giacomelli	12	DNF	69
Jean-Pierre Jabouille	1	DNF	61
Derek Daly	16	DNF	61
Keke Rosberg	23	DNF	58
Patrick Depailler	7	NC	53
Alan Jones	8	DNF	34
Gilles Villeneuve	10	DNF	31
Jody Scheckter	9	DNF	14
Riccardo Patrese	11	DNF	10
Eddie Cheever	22	DNF	8
Elio de Angelis	14	DNF	1

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	15	1:10.000	—	—
2	Rene Arnoux	Renault	16	1:10.210	+0.210	+0.210
3	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	5	1:11.870	+1.870	+1.660
4	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:11.880	+1.880	+0.010
5	Didier Pironi	Ligier	25	1:12.110	+2.110	+0.230
6	Carlos Reutemann	Williams	28	1:12.150	+2.150	+0.040
7	Patrick Depailler	Alfa Romeo	22	1:12.160	+2.160	+0.010
8	Alan Jones	Williams	27	1:12.230	+2.230	+0.070
9	Jody Scheckter	Ferrari	1	1:12.320	+2.320	+0.090
10	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	2	1:12.380	+2.380	+0.060
11	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	29	1:12.500	+2.500	+0.120
12	Bruno Giacomelli	Alfa Romeo	23	1:12.510	+2.510	+0.010
13	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Tyrrell	3	1:12.700	+2.700	+0.190
14	Elio de Angelis	Team Lotus	12	1:12.740	+2.740	+0.040
15	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	11	1:12.930	+2.930	+0.190
16	Derek Daly	Tyrrell	4	1:13.040	+3.040	+0.110
17	Ricardo Zunino	Brabham	6	1:13.050	+3.050	+0.010
18	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	20	1:13.230	+3.230	+0.180
19	Jochen Mass	Arrows	30	1:13.250	+3.250	+0.020
20	Clay Regazzoni	Ensign	14	1:13.250	+3.250	+0.000
21	John Watson	McLaren	7	1:13.610	+3.610	+0.360
22	Alain Prost	McLaren	8	1:13.760	+3.760	+0.150
23	Eddie Cheever	Osella	31	1:13.830	+3.830	+0.070
24	Keke Rosberg	Fittipaldi	21	1:13.840	+3.840	+0.010
25	Geoff Lees	Shadow	17	1:14.460	+4.460	+0.620
26	Marc Surer	ATS	9	1:14.540	+4.540	+0.080
27	David Kennedy	Shadow	18	1:15.230	+5.230	+0.690
28	Jan Lammers	ATS	9	1:15.290	+5.290	+0.060

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

Pit stops

Pit stops are recorded from 1994. F1DB, the source of every stop here, holds none before then, so this race has no stints to draw.

The cars in this race

The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.

Renault RE20
Model Réduit arnouxRE20 · Gladiator95190 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · unchecked

Brabham BT49
Piquetmonaco · Eric Verplanken · CC BY-SA 3.0 · unchecked

Alfa Romeo 179
Alfa Romeo 179D (8372467256) · Motor74 · CC BY 2.0

Ferrari 312T
LaudaNiki19760731Ferrari312T2 · Lothar Spurzem · CC BY-SA 2.0 de

A photograph marked unchecked has a file name that does not name the car it is shown for. Most are still the right car, filed under the driver rather than the machine — but nobody has confirmed these one by one.

Where this comes from

Round: 3 of 1980
Grand Prix: South African Grand Prix
Dates: 1 Mar 1980
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Renault
Entrant: Renault
Confidence: reference

No layout is recorded for this round: this register has no layout timeline for the circuit, and a blank here is better than a guess.