F1/Seasons/1980/Round 4
1980 · Round 4 of 14

United States Grand Prix West

March 30, 1980 · Long Beach · California · USA
Piquet
WINNER
Nelson Piquet · Brabham · from grid 1
FASTEST LAP
Lap timing starts in 2004. This race has none.
+21
MOST PLACES GAINED
Emerson Fittipaldi · grid 24 to P3
10 of 24
CLASSIFIED
14 retired

01/Classification

24 cars
Finishing order
PosDriverConstructorGrid+/-LapsTime / statusPtsFastest lap
1Nelson PiquetBrabham10801:50:19.4009
2Riccardo PatreseArrows8+680+49.2126
3Emerson FittipaldiFittipaldi24+2180+1:18.5634
4John WatsonMcLaren21+1779+1 Lap3
5Jody ScheckterFerrari16+1179+1 Lap2
6Didier PironiLigier9+379+1 Lap1
7Jochen MassArrows17+1079+1 Lap0
8Derek DalyTyrrell14+679+1 Lap0
9René ArnouxRenault2-778+2 Laps0
10Jean-Pierre JabouilleRenault11+171+9 Laps0
RKeke RosbergFittipaldi2258Overheating0
RClay RegazzoniEnsign2350Accident0
RBruno GiacomelliAlfa Romeo649Accident0
RAlan JonesWilliams547Accident0
RGilles VilleneuveFerrari1046Transmission0
RPatrick DepaillerAlfa Romeo340Suspension0
RJacques LaffiteLigier1336Puncture0
REddie CheeverOsella1911Transmission0
RCarlos ReutemannWilliams73Transmission0
RJean-Pierre JarierTyrrell123Accident0
RElio de AngelisTeam Lotus203Accident0
RJan LammersATS40Transmission0
RMario AndrettiTeam Lotus150Accident0
RRicardo ZuninoBrabham180Accident0

Ordered on the source’s position column and printed from position_text. Those two disagree on purpose: position is a sort key that is never null, and position_text is what happened to the car. 14 of 24 cars here were not classified (14 retired). Across the archive that is 9,612 of 26,048 result rows, so a page that printed the sort key would tell more than a third of every field it finished.


02/Grid to finish

10 of 24 cars
Grid minus finishing position
PLACES GAINED
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
Emerson FittipaldiFittipaldi243+21
John WatsonMcLaren214+17
Jody ScheckterFerrari165+11
Jochen MassArrows177+10
Riccardo PatreseArrows82+6
PLACES LOST
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
René ArnouxRenault29-7

Movement is grid minus finishing position, and it is computed for 10 of the 24 cars entered. It is left blank for the other 14: a car that was not classified has no finishing position to subtract from, and no car here carries grid 0, the value the source uses for a pit lane start or for no recorded grid slot. Scoring a grid of 0 as a gain of every place on the grid is the arithmetic this rule exists to stop; 266 of 26,048 rows across the archive are grid 0, and 40 of those were classified.


03/The 1980 season

14 rounds
JAN 13 to OCT 5
RdDateGrand PrixCircuitWinnerConstructorCars
1JAN 13Argentine Grand PrixAutódromo Juan y Oscar GálvezAlan JonesWilliams24
2JAN 27Brazilian Grand PrixAutódromo José Carlos PaceRené ArnouxRenault24
3MAR 1South African Grand PrixKyalamiRené ArnouxRenault26
4MAR 30United States Grand Prix WestLong BeachNelson PiquetBrabham24
5MAY 4Belgian Grand PrixZolderDidier PironiLigier24
6MAY 18Monaco Grand PrixCircuit de MonacoCarlos ReutemannWilliams20
7JUN 29French Grand PrixCircuit Paul RicardAlan JonesWilliams24
8JUL 13British Grand PrixBrands HatchAlan JonesWilliams24
9AUG 10German Grand PrixHockenheimringJacques LaffiteLigier24
10AUG 17Austrian Grand PrixRed Bull RingJean-Pierre JabouilleRenault24
11AUG 31Dutch Grand PrixCircuit Park ZandvoortNelson PiquetBrabham25
12SEP 14Italian Grand PrixAutodromo Enzo e Dino FerrariNelson PiquetBrabham24
13SEP 28Canadian Grand PrixCircuit Gilles VilleneuveAlan JonesWilliams24
14OCT 5United States Grand PrixWatkins GlenAlan JonesWilliams25

Every figure here is one race, read from f1_results and f1_races. The finishing order is the source’s position column; the printed position is position_text, which is a letter on 9,612 of 26,048 rows across the archive (R retired 9,089, W withdrew 364, D disqualified 159). Grid 0 is a pit lane start and prints as PIT, not as a place ahead of pole; 266 of 26,048 rows are grid 0. Time is a total for the winner and a gap to the car ahead for everyone else, and it is present on 8,508 of 26,048 rows only, so most of the archive shows the status instead; where both exist and the status is not “Finished” the status is printed beside the time, because 8,335 of 16,436 classified rows finished lapped or otherwise not cleanly. The fastest lap column is empty before 2004: the source carries lap timing on 8,977 of 26,048 rows and a ranked fastest lap in 447 of 1,161 races, and speed on 8,238 of those, none after 2024. Points are printed as the source stores them and are never rounded to a whole number: 38 of 26,048 rows are fractional (0.5, 1.33, 3.14), which is half points for a shortened race and a split score for a shared car, and every one of them is real. Three races (1951 French, 1956 Argentine, 1957 British) print two cars as first, because two drivers shared one car and the record books credit both; in those three the source hangs the race points on other rows, which is why 5 of 1,164 winning rows across the archive print zero points. Constructors carry no logo in any f1_* table, so none is drawn and none is invented. The 1980 season is complete at 14 rounds.