1980 Formula One season
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The 1980 Formula One season was the 34th season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It featured the 1980 World Championship of Drivers and the 1980 International Cup for F1 Constructors, which were conte
Australian driver Alan Jones won the Drivers' Championship, driving for the Williams team.
Brazilian Nelson Piquet, driving for Brabham, finished runner-up to Jones.
Jones' Williams teammate, Argentine Carlos Reutemann, placed third.
Reigning champion Jody Scheckter of Ferrari had a terrible title defence with only two points. He retired at the end of the season.
Alan Jones (racing driver)
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Alan Stanley Jones is an Australian former racing driver and broadcaster, who competed in Formula One between 1975 and 1986. Jones won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1980 with Williams
1980 Formula One season
…concurrently from 13 January to 5 October over a fourteen-race series. The season also included one non-championship race, the Spanish Grand Prix. Alan Jones, driving a Williams-Ford, became the first Australian to win the World Championship since Jack Brabham in 1966. The season saw a major change of guard…
Jones in 2007
1980 championship winning car Williams FW07
Jones during practice for the 1985 European Grand Prix