Race · Round 9 of 14 · 10 August 1980

1980 German Grand Prix

Jacques Laffite won for Ligier from 5th on the grid at Hockenheimring. 8 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: HockenheimringHockenheim, Germany
Winner: Jacques LaffiteLigier
Pole: Alan Jones
Fastest lap: Alan Jones
Entries: 2616 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	JS11/15	5	45	Finished	9
2	Carlos Reutemann	Williams	—	4	45	Finished	6
3	Alan Jones	Williams	—	1	45	Finished	4	fastest lap
4	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	BT49	6	45	Finished	3
5	Bruno Giacomelli	Alfa Romeo	179	19	45	Finished	2
6	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	312T5	16	45	Finished	1
7	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	—	9	45	Finished	0
8	Jochen Mass	Arrows	A3	17	45	Finished	0
9	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	A3	10	44	Finished	0
10	Derek Daly	Tyrrell	—	22	44	Finished	0
11	Alain Prost	McLaren	—	14	44	Finished	0
12	Marc Surer	ATS	—	13	44	Finished	0
13	Jody Scheckter	Ferrari	312T5	21	44	Finished	0
14	Jan Lammers	Ensign	N180	24	44	Finished	0
15	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Tyrrell	—	23	44	Finished	0
16	Elio de Angelis	Team Lotus	—	11	43	Wheel bearing	0
DNF	John Watson	McLaren	—	20	39	Engine	0
DNF	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	RE20	2	27	Engine	0
DNF	Rene Arnoux	Renault	RE20	3	26	Engine	0
DNF	Eddie Cheever	Osella	—	18	23	Gearbox	0
DNF	Didier Pironi	Ligier	JS11/15	7	18	Transmission	0
DNF	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	—	12	18	Brakes	0
DNF	Keke Rosberg	Fittipaldi	—	8	8	Wheel bearing	0
DNF	Héctor Rebaque	Brabham	BT49	15	4	Gearbox	0
DNQ	Rupert Keegan	Williams	FW07	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Harald Ertl	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 hockenheimring-1 · 6.79 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
Jacques Laffite	5	1	45
Carlos Reutemann	4	2	45
Alan Jones	1	3	45
Nelson Piquet	6	4	45
Bruno Giacomelli	19	5	45
Gilles Villeneuve	16	6	45
Mario Andretti	9	7	45
Jochen Mass	17	8	45
Riccardo Patrese	10	9	44
Derek Daly	22	10	44
Alain Prost	14	11	44
Marc Surer	13	12	44
Jody Scheckter	21	13	44
Jan Lammers	24	14	44
Jean-Pierre Jarier	23	15	44
Elio de Angelis	11	16	43
John Watson	20	DNF	39
Jean-Pierre Jabouille	2	DNF	27
Rene Arnoux	3	DNF	26
Eddie Cheever	18	DNF	23
Didier Pironi	7	DNF	18
Emerson Fittipaldi	12	DNF	18
Keke Rosberg	8	DNF	8
Héctor Rebaque	15	DNF	4

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Alan Jones	Williams	27	1:45.850	—	—
2	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	15	1:45.890	+0.040	+0.040
3	Rene Arnoux	Renault	16	1:46.000	+0.150	+0.110
4	Carlos Reutemann	Williams	28	1:46.140	+0.290	+0.140
5	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:46.780	+0.930	+0.640
6	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	5	1:46.900	+1.050	+0.120
7	Didier Pironi	Ligier	25	1:47.200	+1.350	+0.300
8	Keke Rosberg	Fittipaldi	21	1:47.640	+1.790	+0.440
9	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	11	1:48.450	+2.600	+0.810
10	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	29	1:48.580	+2.730	+0.130
11	Elio de Angelis	Team Lotus	12	1:48.590	+2.740	+0.010
12	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	20	1:48.700	+2.850	+0.110
13	Marc Surer	ATS	9	1:48.720	+2.870	+0.020
14	Alain Prost	McLaren	8	1:48.750	+2.900	+0.030
15	Héctor Rebaque	Brabham	6	1:48.780	+2.930	+0.030
16	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	2	1:48.860	+3.010	+0.080
17	Jochen Mass	Arrows	30	1:48.930	+3.080	+0.070
18	Eddie Cheever	Osella	31	1:49.060	+3.210	+0.130
19	Bruno Giacomelli	Alfa Romeo	23	1:49.110	+3.260	+0.050
20	John Watson	McLaren	7	1:49.260	+3.410	+0.150
21	Jody Scheckter	Ferrari	1	1:49.350	+3.500	+0.090
22	Derek Daly	Tyrrell	4	1:49.510	+3.660	+0.160
23	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Tyrrell	3	1:49.520	+3.670	+0.010
24	Jan Lammers	Ensign	14	1:50.300	+4.450	+0.780
25	Rupert Keegan	Williams	50	1:50.750	+4.900	+0.450
26	Harald Ertl	ATS	10	1:53.130	+7.280	+2.380

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

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

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

Renault RE20
Model Réduit arnouxRE20 · Gladiator95190 · 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.

1 more photograph

Where this comes from

Round: 9 of 1980
Grand Prix: German Grand Prix
Dates: 10 Aug 1980
Layout raced: Forest circuit · 6.79 km · 14 turns
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Ligier
Entrant: Ligier-Ford
Confidence: reference

The layout raced and its figures are this register’s, from its own sources; the figures under the race’s drawing are F1DB’s, and at some circuits the two disagree.