Race · Round 5 of 14 · 4 May 1980

1980 Belgian Grand Prix

Didier Pironi won for Ligier from 2nd on the grid at Circuit Zolder. 12 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship race win for Didier Pironi.

Circuit: Circuit ZolderHeusden-Zolder, Belgium
Winner: Didier PironiLigier
Pole: Alan Jones
Fastest lap: Jacques Laffite
Entries: 2712 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Didier Pironi	Ligier	JS11/15	2	72	Finished	9
2	Alan Jones	Williams	—	1	72	Finished	6
3	Carlos Reutemann	Williams	—	4	72	Finished	4
4	Rene Arnoux	Renault	RE20	6	71	Finished	3
5	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Tyrrell	—	9	71	Finished	2
6	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	312T5	12	71	Finished	1
7	Keke Rosberg	Fittipaldi	—	21	71	Finished	0
8	Jody Scheckter	Ferrari	312T5	14	70	Finished	0
9	Derek Daly	Tyrrell	—	11	70	Finished	0
10	Elio de Angelis	Team Lotus	—	8	69	Spun off	0
11	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	JS11/15	3	68	Finished	0	fastest lap
12	Jan Lammers	ATS	—	15	64	Engine	0
NC	John Watson	McLaren	—	20	61	NC	0
DNF	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	A3	16	58	Spun off	0
DNF	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	—	17	41	Gearbox	0
DNF	Patrick Depailler	Alfa Romeo	179	10	38	Exhaust	0
DNF	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	BT49	7	32	Spun off	0
DNF	Alain Prost	McLaren	—	19	29	Transmission	0
DNF	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	—	24	16	Electrical	0
DNF	Tiff Needell	Ensign	N180	23	12	Engine	0
DNF	Bruno Giacomelli	Alfa Romeo	179	18	11	Suspension	0
DNF	Ricardo Zunino	Brabham	BT49	22	5	Gearbox	0
DNF	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	RE20	5	1	Clutch	0
DNF	Jochen Mass	Arrows	A3	13	1	Spun off	0
DNQ	Geoff Lees	Shadow	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	David Kennedy	Shadow	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Eddie Cheever	Osella	—	—	—	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 zolder-2 · 4.262 km · 15 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
Didier Pironi	2	1	72
Alan Jones	1	2	72
Carlos Reutemann	4	3	72
Rene Arnoux	6	4	71
Jean-Pierre Jarier	9	5	71
Gilles Villeneuve	12	6	71
Keke Rosberg	21	7	71
Jody Scheckter	14	8	70
Derek Daly	11	9	70
Elio de Angelis	8	10	69
Jacques Laffite	3	11	68
Jan Lammers	15	12	64
John Watson	20	NC	61
Riccardo Patrese	16	DNF	58
Mario Andretti	17	DNF	41
Patrick Depailler	10	DNF	38
Nelson Piquet	7	DNF	32
Alain Prost	19	DNF	29
Emerson Fittipaldi	24	DNF	16
Tiff Needell	23	DNF	12
Bruno Giacomelli	18	DNF	11
Ricardo Zunino	22	DNF	5
Jean-Pierre Jabouille	5	DNF	1
Jochen Mass	13	DNF	1

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Alan Jones	Williams	27	1:19.120	—	—
2	Didier Pironi	Ligier	25	1:19.350	+0.230	+0.230
3	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:19.690	+0.570	+0.340
4	Carlos Reutemann	Williams	28	1:19.790	+0.670	+0.100
5	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	15	1:19.890	+0.770	+0.100
6	Rene Arnoux	Renault	16	1:19.890	+0.770	+0.000
7	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	5	1:20.230	+1.110	+0.340
8	Elio de Angelis	Team Lotus	12	1:20.960	+1.840	+0.730
9	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Tyrrell	3	1:21.360	+2.240	+0.400
10	Patrick Depailler	Alfa Romeo	22	1:21.450	+2.330	+0.090
11	Derek Daly	Tyrrell	4	1:21.510	+2.390	+0.060
12	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	2	1:21.540	+2.420	+0.030
13	Jochen Mass	Arrows	30	1:21.550	+2.430	+0.010
14	Jody Scheckter	Ferrari	1	1:21.580	+2.460	+0.030
15	Jan Lammers	ATS	9	1:21.720	+2.600	+0.140
16	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	29	1:21.750	+2.630	+0.030
17	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	11	1:22.070	+2.950	+0.320
18	Bruno Giacomelli	Alfa Romeo	23	1:22.200	+3.080	+0.130
19	Alain Prost	McLaren	8	1:22.260	+3.140	+0.060
20	John Watson	McLaren	7	1:22.570	+3.450	+0.310
21	Keke Rosberg	Fittipaldi	21	1:22.970	+3.850	+0.400
22	Ricardo Zunino	Brabham	6	1:23.180	+4.060	+0.210
23	Tiff Needell	Ensign	14	1:23.500	+4.380	+0.320
24	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	20	1:24.220	+5.100	+0.720
25	Geoff Lees	Shadow	17	1:24.370	+5.250	+0.150
26	David Kennedy	Shadow	18	1:24.640	+5.520	+0.270
27	Eddie Cheever	Osella	31	1:40.060	+20.940	+15.420

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.

Photographs from this race

Filed on Wikimedia Commons under this race's own category, each shown with the photographer and licence its terms require. The filing is the Commons editors' and has not been checked here.

At the 1980 Belgian Grand Prix — Williams27800x532 · No machine-readable author provided. Flyingom assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 3.0

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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

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

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

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

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: 5 of 1980
Grand Prix: Belgian Grand Prix
Dates: 4 May 1980
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Ligier
Entrant: Ligier-Ford
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.