Race · Round 7 of 14 · 29 June 1980

1980 French Grand Prix

Alan Jones won for Williams from 4th on the grid at Circuit Paul Ricard. 10 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: Circuit Paul RicardLe Castellet, France
Winner: Alan JonesWilliams
Pole: Jacques Laffite
Fastest lap: Alan Jones
Entries: 2714 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Alan Jones	Williams	—	4	54	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Didier Pironi	Ligier	JS11/15	3	54	Finished	6
3	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	JS11/15	1	54	Finished	4
4	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	BT49	8	54	Finished	3
5	Rene Arnoux	Renault	RE20	2	54	Finished	2
6	Carlos Reutemann	Williams	—	5	54	Finished	1
7	John Watson	McLaren	—	13	53	Finished	0
8	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	312T5	17	53	Finished	0
9	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	A3	18	53	Finished	0
10	Jochen Mass	Arrows	A3	15	53	Finished	0
11	Derek Daly	Tyrrell	—	20	52	Finished	0
12	Jody Scheckter	Ferrari	312T5	19	52	Finished	0
13	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	—	24	50	Engine	0
14	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Tyrrell	—	16	50	Finished	0
DNF	Eddie Cheever	Osella	—	21	43	Engine	0
DNF	Marc Surer	ATS	—	11	26	Gearbox	0
DNF	Patrick Depailler	Alfa Romeo	179	10	25	Handling	0
DNF	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	—	12	18	Gearbox	0
DNF	Keke Rosberg	Fittipaldi	—	23	8	Spun off	0
DNF	Bruno Giacomelli	Alfa Romeo	179	9	8	Handling	0
DNF	Alain Prost	McLaren	—	7	6	Transmission	0
DNF	Elio de Angelis	Team Lotus	—	14	3	Clutch	0
DNF	Ricardo Zunino	Brabham	BT49	22	0	Clutch	0
DNF	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	RE20	6	0	Transmission	0
DNQ	Geoff Lees	Shadow	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Jan Lammers	Ensign	N180	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	David Kennedy	Shadow	—	—	—	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 paul-ricard-1 · 5.809 km · 14 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
Alan Jones	4	1	54
Didier Pironi	3	2	54
Jacques Laffite	1	3	54
Nelson Piquet	8	4	54
Rene Arnoux	2	5	54
Carlos Reutemann	5	6	54
John Watson	13	7	53
Gilles Villeneuve	17	8	53
Riccardo Patrese	18	9	53
Jochen Mass	15	10	53
Derek Daly	20	11	52
Jody Scheckter	19	12	52
Emerson Fittipaldi	24	13	50
Jean-Pierre Jarier	16	14	50
Eddie Cheever	21	DNF	43
Marc Surer	11	DNF	26
Patrick Depailler	10	DNF	25
Mario Andretti	12	DNF	18
Keke Rosberg	23	DNF	8
Bruno Giacomelli	9	DNF	8
Alain Prost	7	DNF	6
Elio de Angelis	14	DNF	3
Ricardo Zunino	22	DNF	0
Jean-Pierre Jabouille	6	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:38.880	—	—
2	Rene Arnoux	Renault	16	1:39.490	+0.610	+0.610
3	Didier Pironi	Ligier	25	1:39.490	+0.610	+0.000
4	Alan Jones	Williams	27	1:39.500	+0.620	+0.010
5	Carlos Reutemann	Williams	28	1:39.600	+0.720	+0.100
6	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	15	1:40.180	+1.300	+0.580
7	Alain Prost	McLaren	8	1:40.630	+1.750	+0.450
8	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	5	1:40.670	+1.790	+0.040
9	Bruno Giacomelli	Alfa Romeo	23	1:40.850	+1.970	+0.180
10	Patrick Depailler	Alfa Romeo	22	1:40.890	+2.010	+0.040
11	Marc Surer	ATS	9	1:41.030	+2.150	+0.140
12	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	11	1:41.560	+2.680	+0.530
13	John Watson	McLaren	7	1:41.630	+2.750	+0.070
14	Elio de Angelis	Team Lotus	12	1:41.660	+2.780	+0.030
15	Jochen Mass	Arrows	30	1:41.710	+2.830	+0.050
16	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Tyrrell	3	1:41.780	+2.900	+0.070
17	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	2	1:41.990	+3.110	+0.210
18	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	29	1:42.070	+3.190	+0.080
19	Jody Scheckter	Ferrari	1	1:42.380	+3.500	+0.310
20	Derek Daly	Tyrrell	4	1:42.770	+3.890	+0.390
21	Eddie Cheever	Osella	31	1:42.850	+3.970	+0.080
22	Ricardo Zunino	Brabham	6	1:43.140	+4.260	+0.290
23	Keke Rosberg	Fittipaldi	21	1:43.160	+4.280	+0.020
24	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	20	1:43.210	+4.330	+0.050
25	Geoff Lees	Shadow	17	1:44.280	+5.400	+1.070
26	Jan Lammers	Ensign	14	1:44.330	+5.450	+0.050
27	David Kennedy	Shadow	18	1:44.560	+5.680	+0.230

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.

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

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

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: 7 of 1980
Grand Prix: French Grand Prix
Dates: 29 Jun 1980
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Williams
Entrant: Williams-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.