French Grand Prix

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Date & Time
Sun 29th June 1980 12:00am Local
Sun 29th June 1980 12:00am UTC

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League
Formula 1

Season
1980

Round
Round 7

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Circuit Paul Ricard

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The 1980 French Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Paul Ricard on 29 June 1980. It was the seventh round of the 1980 Formula One season. The race was the 58th French Grand Prix, or the 66th Grand Prix de l'ACF and the sixth to be held at Paul Ricard. The race was held over 54 laps of the 5.809-kilometre circuit for a total race distance of 314 kilometres.
The race was won by Alan Jones driving a Williams FW07B. The win was Jones' seventh Formula One Grand Prix victory and his third of the year. Jones was entering a period of good form having won the Spanish Grand Prix four weeks earlier. Jones won by four seconds over French driver Didier Pironi driving a Ligier JS11/15. Third was Pironi's French teammate Jacques Laffite. Laffite had led for much of the race until his tyres lost condition. The large French contingent had dominated proceedings with the all-French teams Renault and Ligier taking up four of the top six grid positions with only Jones and his Williams teammate Carlos Reutemann intervening. Jean-Pierre Jabouille's Renault RE20 broke its transmission at the start and Jones picked his way past Pironi then the second Renault of René Arnoux before finally catching Laffite on lap 34.

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Result List

01	Alan Jones	Williams Racing	1:32:43.4
02	Didier Pironi	Ligier	+0:04.52
03	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	+0:30.26
04	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	+1:14.88
05	René Arnoux	Renault F1 Team	+1:16.15
06	Carlos Reutemann	Williams Racing	+1:16.74
07	John Watson	McLaren Formula 1 Team	+1 Lap
08	Gilles Villeneuve	Scuderia Ferrari HP	+1 Lap
09	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows Grand Prix International	+1 Lap
10	Jochen Mass	Arrows Grand Prix International	+1 Lap
11	Derek Daly	Tyrrell Racing	+2 Laps
12	Jody Scheckter	Scuderia Ferrari HP	+2 Laps
13	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi Automotive	DNF
14	Jean-Christophe Boullion	Tyrrell Racing	+4 Laps
15	Eddie Cheever	Osella	DNF
16	Marc Surer	ATS	DNF
17	Patrick Depailler	Alfa Romeo S.p.A.	DNF
18	Mario Andretti	Lotus F1	DNF
19	Keke Rosberg	Fittipaldi Automotive	DNF
20	Bruno Giacomelli	Alfa Romeo S.p.A.	DNF
21	Alain Prost	McLaren Formula 1 Team	DNF
22	Elio de Angelis	Lotus F1	DNF
23	Jean-Christophe Boullion	Renault F1 Team	DNF
24	Ricardo Zunino	Brabham	DNF
25	Geoff Lees	Shadow	Did not qualify
26	Jan Lammers	Ensign Racing	Did not qualify
27	Dave Kennedy	Shadow	Did not qualify