1980 Monaco Grand Prix

Coordinates: 43°44′4.74″N 7°25′16.8″E / 43.7346500°N 7.421333°E / 43.7346500; 7.421333

  1980 Monaco Grand Prix

Race details
Race 6 of 14 in the 1980 Formula One season
Date	May 18, 1980
Location	Circuit de Monaco
Course	Street circuit 3.34 km (2.08 mi)
Distance	76 laps, 253.84 km (158.08 mi)
Weather	Wet
Pole position
Driver	Didier Pironi	Ligier-Ford
Time	1:24.813
Fastest lap
Driver	Carlos Reutemann	Williams-Ford
Time	1:27.418 on lap 40
Podium
First	Carlos Reutemann	Williams-Ford
Second	Jacques Laffite	Ligier-Ford
Third	Nelson Piquet	Brabham-Ford

The 1980 Monaco Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Monaco on May 18, 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 Reutermann'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 René 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.

Classification

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	28	Carlos Reutemann	Williams-Ford	76	1:55:34.365	2	9
2	26	Jacques Laffite	Ligier-Ford	76	+1:13.629	5	6
3	5	Nelson Piquet	Brabham-Ford	76	+1:17.726	4	4
4	30	Jochen Mass	Arrows-Ford	75	+1 Lap	15	3
5	2	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	75	+1 Lap	6	2
6	20	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi-Ford	74	+2 Laps	18	1
7	11	Mario Andretti	Lotus-Ford	73	+3 Laps	19
8	29	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows-Ford	73	+3 Laps	11
9	12	Elio de Angelis	Lotus-Ford	68	Accident	14
NC	9	Jan Lammers	ATS-Ford	64	Not Classified	13
Ret	25	Didier Pironi	Ligier-Ford	54	Accident	1
Ret	16	René Arnoux	Renault	53	Accident	20
Ret	22	Patrick Depailler	Alfa Romeo	50	Engine	7
Ret	1	Jody Scheckter	Ferrari	27	Handling	17
Ret	15	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	25	Gearbox	16
Ret	27	Alan Jones	Williams-Ford	24	Differential	3
Ret	23	Bruno Giacomelli	Alfa Romeo	0	Collision	8
Ret	3	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Tyrrell-Ford	0	Collision	9
Ret	8	Alain Prost	McLaren-Ford	0	Collision	10
Ret	4	Derek Daly	Tyrrell-Ford	0	Collision	12
DNQ	7	John Watson	McLaren-Ford
DNQ	31	Eddie Cheever	Osella-Ford
DNQ	17	Geoff Lees	Shadow-Ford
DNQ	21	Keke Rosberg	Fittipaldi-Ford
DNQ	6	Ricardo Zunino	Brabham-Ford
DNQ	14	Tiff Needell	Ensign-Ford
DNQ	18	Dave Kennedy	Shadow-Ford

Standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 Nelson Piquet 22 2 René Arnoux 21 3 Alan Jones 19 4 Didier Pironi 17 5 Carlos Reutemann 15

Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 1 Williams-Ford 34 2 Ligier-Ford 29 3 Brabham-Ford 22 4 Renault 21 5 Arrows-Ford 11

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.