| 1980 F.I.M. Grand Prix motorcycle racing season | |
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The 1980 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 32nd F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season.
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Yamaha's Kenny Roberts claimed his third successive 500cc world championship in a season shortened by the cancellations of the Venezuelan and Austrian rounds. Randy Mamola took over at Suzuki from Barry Sheene. Kawasaki returned to the 500cc class with a monocoque, four cylinder bike for Kork Ballington. Honda soldiered on with its exotic four-stroke NR500 but began to realize it was at a disadvantage against its two-stroke opposition.
There were only six rounds in the 350cc class that saw South Africa's Jon Ekerold, a true privateer, take the championship from the Kawasaki factory-sponsored Anton Mang. Mang would take the 250cc crown from defending champion Ballington while Pier Paolo Bianchi won the 125cc title. Eugenio Lazzarini won a tight battle from Swiss Stefan Dörflinger to take the 50cc championship by only 2 points.[1]
| Place | Rider | Number | Country | Machine | Points | Wins |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenny Roberts | 1 | United States | Yamaha | 87 | 3 |
| 2 | Randy Mamola | 8 | United States | Suzuki | 72 | 2 |
| 3 | Marco Lucchinelli | 28 | Italy | Suzuki | 59 | 1 |
| 4 | Franco Uncini | 5 | Italy | Suzuki | 50 | 0 |
| 5 | Graziano Rossi | 22 | Italy | Suzuki | 38 | 0 |
| 6 | Wil Hartog | 4 | Netherlands | Suzuki | 31 | 1 |
| 7 | Johnny Cecotto | Venezuela | Yamaha | 31 | 0 | |
| 8 | Graeme Crosby | 6 | New Zealand | Suzuki | 29 | 0 |
| 9 | Jack Middelburg | 7 | Netherlands | Suzuki | 20 | 1 |
| 10 | Takazumi Katayama | 10 | Japan | Suzuki | 18 | 0 |
| Place | Rider | Number | Country | Machine | Points | Wins |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jon Ekerold | 8 | South Africa | Yamaha | 63 | 3 |
| 2 | Anton Mang | 4 | West Germany | Kawasaki | 60 | 2 |
| 3 | Jean-François Baldé | France | Kawasaki | 38 | 0 | |
| 4 | Johnny Cecotto | Venezuela | Yamaha | 37 | 1 | |
| 5 | Jeff Sayle | 10 | Australia | Yamaha | 25 | 0 |
| 6 | Eric Saul | France | Yamaha | 24 | 0 | |
| 7 | Jacques Cornu | 27 | Switzerland | Yamaha | 21 | 0 |
| 8 | Massimo Matteoni | 4 | Italy | Yamaha | 19 | 0 |
| 9 | Walter Villa | 4 | Italy | Yamaha | 16 | 0 |
| 10 | Patrick Fernandez | 2 | France | Yamaha | 12 | 0 |
| Place | Rider | Number | Country | Machine | Points | Wins |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anton Mang | 6 | West Germany | Kawasaki | 128 | 4 |
| 2 | Kork Ballington | 1 | South Africa | Kawasaki | 87 | 5 |
| 3 | Jean-François Baldé | 8 | France | Kawasaki | 59 | 0 |
| 4 | Thierry Espié | France | Yamaha | 53 | 0 | |
| 5 | Roland Freymond | 10 | Switzerland | Morbidelli | 46 | 0 |
| 6 | Carlos Lavado | Venezuela | Yamaha | 29 | 1 | |
| 7 | Gianpaolo Marchetti | Italy | Yamaha | 28 | 0 | |
| 8 | Jacques Cornu | Switzerland | Yamaha | 26 | 0 | |
| 9 | Eric Saul | France | Yamaha | 24 | 0 | |
| 10 | Patrick Fernandez | 5 | France | Yamaha | 16 | 0 |
| Place | Rider | Number | Country | Machine | Points | Wins |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pier Paolo Bianchi | 10 | Italy | MBA | 90 | 2 |
| 2 | Guy Bertin | 6 | France | Motobécane | 81 | 3 |
| 3 | Angel Nieto | 1 | Spain | Minarelli | 78 | 4 |
| 4 | Bruno Kneubühler | 9 | Switzerland | MBA | 68 | 0 |
| 5 | Hans Müller | Switzerland | MBA | 64 | 0 | |
| 6 | Loris Reggiani | Italy | Minarelli | 63 | 1 | |
| 7 | Ivan Palazzese | Venezuela | MBA | 28 | 0 | |
| 8 | Maurizio Massimiani | 2 | Italy | Minarelli | 20 | 0 |
| 9 | Peter Looijesteyn | Netherlands | MBA | 18 | 0 | |
| 10 | Barry Smith | Australia | MBA | 17 | 0 |
| Place | Rider | Number | Country | Machine | Points | Wins |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eugenio Lazzarini | 1 | Italy | Iprem[2] | 74 | 2 |
| 2 | Stefan Dörflinger | 10 | Switzerland | Kreidler | 72 | 2 |
| 3 | Hans Hummel | Austria | Kreidler | 37 | 0 | |
| 4 | Ricardo Tormo | Spain | Kreidler | 36 | 2 | |
| 5 | Henk van Kessel | 7 | Netherlands | Kreidler | 31 | 0 |
| 6 | Hans Spaan | Netherlands | Kreidler | 24 | 0 | |
| 7 | Theo Timmer | Netherlands | Bultaco | 19 | 0 | |
| 8 | Yves Dupont | France | ABF | 18 | 0 | |
| 9 | Jacques Hutteau | 8 | France | ABF | 18 | 0 |
| 10 | Wolfgang Müller | West Germany | Kreidler | 15 | 0 |
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