1980 Monaco Grand Prix

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.

1980 Monaco Grand Prix
Race 6 of 14 in the 1980 Formula One season
Race details
Date	18 May 1980
Location	Circuit de Monaco
Course	Street circuit
Course length	3.312 km (2.057 mi)
Distance	76 laps, 251.712 km (156.406 mi)
Weather	Dry at the start, damp in the end
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
Lap leaders

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 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.