Non-championship race in the 1980 Formula One season
Race details
Date
1 June 1980
Official name
XXVI Gran Premio de Espana
Location
Circuito Permanente del Jarama in Madrid, Spain
Course
Permanent racing facility
Course length
3.314 km (2.059 miles)
Distance
80 laps, 272.320 km (169.200 miles)
Weather
Sunshine[1]
Pole position
Driver
Jacques Laffite
Ligier-Ford
Time
1:12.647
Fastest lap
Driver
Alan Jones
Williams-Ford
Time
1:15.467
Podium
First
Alan Jones
Williams-Ford
Second
Jochen Mass
Arrows-Ford
Third
Elio de Angelis
Lotus-Ford
Motor car race
The 1980 Spanish Grand Prix (formally the XXVI Gran Premio de España) was a Formula One motor race held on 1 June 1980 at Circuito Permanente del Jarama. Originally scheduled to be part of the 1980 World Championship of Drivers, following the running of the race it was announced that World Championship points would not be awarded to the competitors, making it a non-championship race. The winner of the race was Alan Jones, driving for the Williams team. Jochen Mass finished second for Arrows and Elio de Angelis third for Team Lotus.
Owing to disputes as part of the FISA–FOCA war, the race went ahead without the manufacturer teams of Ferrari, Alfa Romeo and Renault, because the Fédération Internationale du Sport Automobile (FISA), then the governing body of Formula One, had declared the race illegal. The other teams drove the race, now sanctioned by the Formula One Constructors Association (FOCA). All teams competing in the race ran Ford engines.
Carlos Reutemann, Nelson Piquet and Didier Pironi all retired from the race whilst in the lead, Reutemann due to a collision and Pironi and Piquet because of mechanical problems. Only six of the twenty-two drivers who took the start of the race made it to the end, and only three were on the lead lap.
^Blunsden, John (1980-06-02). "Jones Must Wait For Confirmation Of Win". The Times. (the race) was held in blazing sunshine with the thermometer hovering around the 100 degrees mark
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