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Motor car race
The
1980 Monaco Grand Prix
was a
Formula One
motor race
held at
Monaco
on 18 May 1980. It was the sixth round of the
1980 Formula One season
. The race was the 38th
Monaco Grand Prix
. The race was held over 76 laps of the 3.34-kilometre circuit for a total race distance of 254 kilometres.
It was won by
Carlos Reutemann
driving a
Williams FW07B
. The win was the Argentine Reutemann's tenth Formula One victory and his first since the
1978 United States Grand Prix
. He also became the fifth winner in six races of the 1980 season. Reutemann won by 1 minute and 13 seconds over French driver
Jacques Laffite
driving
Ligier JS11/15
. Third was Brazilian driver
Nelson Piquet
driving a
Brabham BT49
. Piquet's third place moved him past
Rene Arnoux
and
Alan Jones
into the lead of the world championship for the first time.
The race however is remembered for a memorable and spectacular crash at the start of the race when
Derek Daly
collided with
Bruno Giacomelli
's
Alfa Romeo 179
, which sent Daly's
Tyrrell 010
flying over Giacomelli and landing between teammate
Jean-Pierre Jarier
and
Alain Prost
's
McLaren M29
. All four drivers were out on the spot, but none suffered any serious injury.
Jan Lammers
also collected damage in his
ATS D4
but was able to continue. The accident was particularly disappointing for McLaren after
John Watson
failed to qualify for Monaco's shortened 20 car grid.
Fourth was West German driver
Jochen Mass
driving an
Arrows A3
one lap down on Reutemann ahead of Canadian
Gilles Villeneuve
in a
Ferrari 312T5
. A further lap down in sixth was dual-World Champion
Emerson Fittipaldi
in a
Fittipaldi F7
. For Mass and Fittipaldi it would be last world championship points they would collect.
Reutemann's win put
Williams
in the lead of the constructor's points race by five points over Ligier.
Qualifying classification
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Race classification
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Championship standings after the race
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- Drivers' Championship standings
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- Constructors' Championship standings
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- Note
: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
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