1980

Pos	Driver	Nat	Car	Pts	Wins	Share of the leader
1	AJAlan Jones	Australian	Williams	67	5
2	Nelson Piquet	Brazilian	Brabham	54	3
3	Carlos Reutemann	Argentine	Williams	42	1
4	Jacques Laffite	French	Ligier	34	1
5	Didier Pironi	French	Ligier	32	1
6	René Arnoux	French	Renault	29	2
7	Elio de Angelis	Italian	Team Lotus	13	0
8	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	French	Renault	9	1
9	Riccardo Patrese	Italian	Arrows	7	0
10	Keke Rosberg	Finnish	Fittipaldi	6	0
11	John Watson	British	McLaren	6	0
12	Derek Daly	Irish	Tyrrell	6	0
13	Jean-Pierre Jarier	French	Tyrrell	6	0
14	GVGilles Villeneuve	Canadian	Ferrari	6	0
15	Emerson Fittipaldi	Brazilian	Fittipaldi	5	0
16	Alain Prost	French	McLaren	5	0
17	Jochen Mass	German	Arrows	4	0
18	BGBruno Giacomelli	Italian	Alfa Romeo	4	0
19	Jody Scheckter	South African	Ferrari	2	0
20	Mario Andretti	American	Team Lotus	1	0
21	HRHector Rebaque	Mexican	Brabham	1	0
—	Vittorio Brambilla	Italian	Alfa Romeo	0	0
—	Eddie Cheever	American	Osella	0	0
—	Patrick Depailler	French	Alfa Romeo	0	0
—	Rupert Keegan	British	Williams	0	0
—	Jan Lammers	Dutch	ATS / Ensign	0	0
—	GLGeoff Lees	British	Ensign / Shadow	0	0
—	Nigel Mansell	British	Team Lotus	0	0
—	Tiff Needell	British	Ensign	0	0
—	Clay Regazzoni	Swiss	Ensign	0	0
—	Marc Surer	Swiss	ATS	0	0
—	MTMike Thackwell	New Zealander	Tyrrell	0	0
—	Ricardo Zunino	Argentine	Brabham	0	0
—	Andrea de Cesaris	Italian	Alfa Romeo	0	0

Read from the season’s final standings row, never summed from the race results. 13 of 34 entries in this table carry no championship position and are ruled below the placed field, ordered by points.

Read from the season’s final constructor standings row. A constructor scores through both of its cars, so these totals are not the sum of any one driver’s line above.

Both championship tables on this page are read from the season’s standings rows at round 14, the last round loaded, and neither is derived by adding up the race results. That distinction is the whole point: for most of the sport’s history only a driver’s best few results counted toward the title, a race stopped short paid half points, and a driver could be excluded from a championship he had scored in, so a table built by summing the results column would disagree with the championship as it was actually awarded. Positions are the source’s own; where it recorded none, the row prints a dash and sits below the placed field rather than being given a place it never held or dropped from the page. A points total is printed as it is stored, to two decimals where it needs them, because the sport has awarded half points and split shared drives since the 1950s and those fractions are real. The calendar is every round in the archive for 1980, in round order, with the winner taken from the classification code the source prints rather than from its sort key; three of the 1,161 races loaded were won by a shared car, and for those the calendar names one driver while the race classification credits both. The Cars column counts the rows in each race’s classification, which includes cars that retired, so it is entries with a recorded result rather than a count of cars that took the start. The drivers and constructors counted in the masthead are those that appear in a race result for 1980, not those that entered. The constructors’ championship has been awarded since 1958, so both tables exist for this season. 1980 is complete: all 14 rounds are loaded and both tables are final.