Argentine Grand Prix

Date
Sun 13th January 1980 (UTC)
Sun 13th January 1980 (Local)

Timestamp
1980-01-13T00:00:00

Time

00:00:00 UTC (00:00:00 Local)

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League
Formula 1

Season
1980

Round
1

Status

Location
Autódromo Juan y Oscar Gálvez

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Description

The 1980 Argentine Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 13 January 1980 at the Autodromo Municipal Ciudad de Buenos Aires in Argentina. It was the opening round of the 1980 Formula One season. The race was the 16th Argentine Grand Prix and the sixth to be held on the #15 variation of the Buenos Aires circuit. The race was held over 53 laps of the 5.81-kilometre (3.61 mi) circuit for a total race distance of 308 kilometres (191 mi).
The race was won by Australian driver Alan Jones driving a Williams FW07. It was Jones' sixth World Championship victory. Jones won by 24 seconds over Brazilian driver Nelson Piquet driving a Brabham BT49. It was a prelude of the season to come, as Jones and Piquet would fight out the 1980 season. Another future world champion, Finnish driver Keke Rosberg, finished third driving a Fittipaldi F7.

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Result List

01	Alan Jones	1:43:24.38
02	Nelson Piquet	+0:24.59
03	Keke Rosberg	+1:18.64
04	Derek Daly	+1:23.48
05	Bruno Giacomelli	+1 Lap
06	Alain Prost	+1 Lap
07	Ricardo Zunino	+2 Laps
08	Patrick Depailler	DNF
09	Jody Scheckter	DNF
10	Clay Regazzoni	DNF
11	Emerson Fittipaldi	DNF
12	Gilles Villeneuve	DNF
13	Jacques Laffite	DNF
14	Riccardo Patrese	DNF
15	Marc Surer	DNF
16	Mario Andretti	DNF
17	Jochen Mass	DNF
18	Carlos Reutemann	DNF
19	Elio de Angelis	DNF
20	John Watson	DNF
21	Jean-Christophe Boullion	DNF
22	René Arnoux	DNF
23	Didier Pironi	DNF
24	Jean-Christophe Boullion	DNF
25	Dave Kennedy	Did not qualify
26	Stefan Johansson	Did not qualify
27	Jan Lammers	Did not qualify
28	Eddie Cheever	Did not qualify