1980 European Formula Two Championship
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The 1980 European Formula Two season was contested over 12 rounds. Toleman driver Brian Henton clinched the championship title.
Calendar
Championship
Notes
- Race 2 was originally scheduled for 30 laps, but abandoned due to Markus Höttinger's fatal crash.
- Hans-Georg Bürger was fatally injured in the warm-up for Race 9.
Non-championship
An additional Formula Two race was held in which did not count towards the championship.
| Official name | Track | Date | Laps | Distance | Time | Speed | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gran Premio di Monza | Italy Monza | 7 September | 35 | 3.603=203 km | 1'01:03.01 | 199.487 km/h | United Kingdom Derek Warwick |
Results
Drivers' Championship
| Pos | Driver | Car(s) | THR United Kingdom | HOC West Germany | NUR West Germany | VAL Italy | PAU France | SIL United Kingdom | ZOL Belgium | MUG Italy | ZAN Netherlands | PER Italy | MIS Italy | HOC West Germany | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pos Driver Car(s) THR United Kingdom HOC West Germany NUR West Germany VAL Italy PAU France SIL United Kingdom ZOL Belgium MUG Italy ZAN Netherlands PER Italy MIS Italy HOC West Germany Pts 1 United Kingdom Brian Henton Toleman TG280-Hart 1 2 2 1 3 61 Toleman TG280B-Hart NC 2 1 12 2 2 2 United Kingdom Derek Warwick Toleman TG280-Hart 2 Ret 3 3 Ret 1 4 42 Toleman TG280B-Hart 2 2 11 3 3 Italy Teo Fabi March 802-BMW 7 1 1 Ret Ret 4 Ret 3 3 8 Ret 1 38 4 Italy Siegfried Stohr Toleman TG280-Hart 4 5 2 18 3 6 Ret 1 13 3 29 5 Italy Andrea de Cesaris March 802-BMW 3 Ret Ret 2 Ret 2 Ret 5 Ret 6 1 28 6 France Richard Dallest AGS JH17-BMW Ret 10 Ret 9 1 DNS 8 7 1 Ret 4 23 AGS JH15-BMW 5 7 Netherlands Huub Rothengatter Toleman TG280-Hart 6 5 6 7 Ret 5 1 Ret 7 4 4 13 21 8 New Zealand Mike Thackwell March 802-BMW Ret Ret 10 4 4 3 6 18 Ret 9 Ret 11 9 Argentina Miguel Ángel Guerra Minardi GM75-BMW Ret 7 8 8 5 6 5 4 9 Ret 5 10 10 Italy Alberto Colombo March 782-BMW Ret 3 9 6 6 17 14 9 Ret 9 Toleman TG280-Hart 8 6 5 11 Brazil Chico Serra March 802-BMW 4 4 Ret Ret Ret 8 Ret Ret 4 Ret Ret Ret 9 12 United Kingdom Nigel Mansell Ralt RH6-Honda 11 Ret 5 2 8 13 West Germany Manfred Winkelhock March 802-BMW Ret Ret Ret 10 8 9 7 10 10 3 9 7 4 14 Italy Oscar Pedersoli March 782-BMW 5 6 Ret 11 Ret Ret Ret 13 Ret 3 15 West Germany Jochen Dauer Chevron B48-BMW 11 5 2 16 Switzerland Fredy Schnarwiler March 802-BMW Ret Ret 7 12 7 Ret Ret 17 Ret 10 10 6 1 17 Italy Beppe Gabbiani Minardi G75-BMW 14 1 Maurer MM80-BMW Ret 11 6 Ret 7 Ret 18 Switzerland Jürg Lienhard March 802-BMW Ret 7 Ret 9 0 19 Austria Jo Gartner March 782-BMW 13 7 12 11 Ret 0 20 West Germany Helmut Henzler Maurer MM80-BMW Ret 10 Ret 8 13 Ret Ret Ret 0 21 Switzerland Eugen Strähl March 802-BMW 8 12 0 22 Italy Riccardo Paletti March 802-BMW Ret 14 8 Ret 0 23 West Germany Hans-Georg Bürger Tiga F280-BMW 8 Ret Ret Ret Ret DNS 0 24 Italy Gianfranco Trombetti March 782-BMW Ret DNQ 8 0 25 Republic of Ireland Bernard Devaney March 802-BMW 9 Ret 12 Ret 0 26 Venezuela Johnny Cecotto March 802-BMW Ret 9 0 Minardi GM75-BMW 15 27 Italy Arturo Merzario Merzario M1-BMW Ret Ret Ret 9 Ret 16 17 DNS Ret 0 28 South Africa Rad Dougall Ralt RT4-BMW DNS 9 Ret 16 0 29 United Kingdom Warren Booth Chevron B48-Hart 10 15 DNQ 0 30 United Kingdom Jim Crawford Chevron B45-Ford Ret 10 0 31 Italy Carlo Rossi Toleman TG280-Hart 10 0 32 Italy Guido Daccò Merzario M1-BMW 11 Ret 0 March 792-BMW Ret 12 DNQ 11 33 Switzerland Patrick Studer March 802-BMW 11 14 Ret 0 34 Italy Maurizio Flammini Ralt RT2-Hart Ret Ret 11 0 35 Italy Piero Necchi Merzario M1-BMW Ret Ret 12 Ret Ret Ret Ret DNQ 12 0 36 Switzerland Walter Baltisser March 802-BMW 12 16 0 37 United States Tom Gloy Ralt RH6-Honda Ret 12 0 38 Italy Bruno Corradi Minardi GM75-BMW 13 Ret Ret 0 39 United Kingdom Kim Mather March 802-Hart DNS 13 0 40 Italy Danilo Tesini Chevron B48-BMW 13 DNQ DNQ 0 41 Belgium Pierre Dieudonné March 802-Hart 13 0 42 West Germany Helmut Bross March 792-Hart 14 Ret 0 43 Italy Marco Rocca Osella FA2-BMW 15 0 March 782-BMW Ret Sweden Eje Elgh Maurer MM80-BMW Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret 0 Austria Markus Höttinger Maurer MM80-BMW Ret Ret 0 United Kingdom Divina Galica March 792-Hart Ret Ret 0 France Patrick Gaillard Maurer MM80-BMW Ret Ret 0 United Kingdom Roy Baker Chevron B48-Hart Ret DNQ 0 Austria Franz Konrad March 792-BMW DNQ Ret 0 United Kingdom Paul Smith March 782-Hart DNQ Ret 0 West Germany Wolfgang Locher March 782-Hart Ret 0 West Germany Harald Grohs March 792-Hart Ret 0 West Germany Helmut Kalenborn Chevron B42-BMW Ret 0 Switzerland Bruno Eichmann March 802-BMW Ret 0 Belgium Patrick Nève March 802-BMW Ret 0 Netherlands Jan Lammers March 802-BMW Ret 0 Italy Enzo Coloni March 782-BMW Ret 0 Austria Willi Siller Chevron B48-BMW Ret 0 West Germany Michael Korten March 802-BMW Ret 0 Switzerland Ami Guichard March 782-BMW Ret 0 United Kingdom Geoff Lees Ralt RH6-Honda Ret 0 Sweden Stefan Johansson March 802-BMW DNS 0 Italy Sergio Mingotti Mirage M1-BMW DNQ 0 Pos Driver Car(s) THR United Kingdom HOC West Germany NUR West Germany VAL Italy PAU France SIL United Kingdom ZOL Belgium MUG Italy ZAN Netherlands PER Italy MIS Italy HOC West Germany Pts | Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points classification Blue Non-points classification Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired, not classified (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX) | ||||||||||||||
| 1 | United Kingdom Brian Henton | Toleman TG280-Hart | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 61 | |||||||
| Toleman TG280B-Hart | NC | 2 | 1 | 12 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| 2 | United Kingdom Derek Warwick | Toleman TG280-Hart | 2 | Ret | 3 | 3 | Ret | 1 | 4 | 42 | |||||
| Toleman TG280B-Hart | 2 | 2 | 11 | 3 | |||||||||||
| 3 | Italy Teo Fabi | March 802-BMW | 7 | 1 | 1 | Ret | Ret | 4 | Ret | 3 | 3 | 8 | Ret | 1 | 38 |
| 4 | Italy Siegfried Stohr | Toleman TG280-Hart | 4 | 5 | 2 | 18 | 3 | 6 | Ret | 1 | 13 | 3 | 29 | ||
| 5 | Italy Andrea de Cesaris | March 802-BMW | 3 | Ret | Ret | 2 | Ret | 2 | Ret | 5 | Ret | 6 | 1 | 28 | |
| 6 | France Richard Dallest | AGS JH17-BMW | Ret | 10 | Ret | 9 | 1 | DNS | 8 | 7 | 1 | Ret | 4 | 23 | |
| AGS JH15-BMW | 5 | ||||||||||||||
| 7 | Netherlands Huub Rothengatter | Toleman TG280-Hart | 6 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Ret | 5 | 1 | Ret | 7 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 21 |
| 8 | New Zealand Mike Thackwell | March 802-BMW | Ret | Ret | 10 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 18 | Ret | 9 | Ret | 11 | |
| 9 | Argentina Miguel Ángel Guerra | Minardi GM75-BMW | Ret | 7 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 9 | Ret | 5 | 10 | |
| 10 | Italy Alberto Colombo | March 782-BMW | Ret | 3 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 17 | 14 | 9 | Ret | 9 | |||
| Toleman TG280-Hart | 8 | 6 | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 11 | Brazil Chico Serra | March 802-BMW | 4 | 4 | Ret | Ret | Ret | 8 | Ret | Ret | 4 | Ret | Ret | Ret | 9 |
| 12 | United Kingdom Nigel Mansell | Ralt RH6-Honda | 11 | Ret | 5 | 2 | 8 | ||||||||
| 13 | West Germany Manfred Winkelhock | March 802-BMW | Ret | Ret | Ret | 10 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 4 |
| 14 | Italy Oscar Pedersoli | March 782-BMW | 5 | 6 | Ret | 11 | Ret | Ret | Ret | 13 | Ret | 3 | |||
| 15 | West Germany Jochen Dauer | Chevron B48-BMW | 11 | 5 | 2 | ||||||||||
| 16 | Switzerland Fredy Schnarwiler | March 802-BMW | Ret | Ret | 7 | 12 | 7 | Ret | Ret | 17 | Ret | 10 | 10 | 6 | 1 |
| 17 | Italy Beppe Gabbiani | Minardi G75-BMW | 14 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Maurer MM80-BMW | Ret | 11 | 6 | Ret | 7 | Ret | |||||||||
| 18 | Switzerland Jürg Lienhard | March 802-BMW | Ret | 7 | Ret | 9 | 0 | ||||||||
| 19 | Austria Jo Gartner | March 782-BMW | 13 | 7 | 12 | 11 | Ret | 0 | |||||||
| 20 | West Germany Helmut Henzler | Maurer MM80-BMW | Ret | 10 | Ret | 8 | 13 | Ret | Ret | Ret | 0 | ||||
| 21 | Switzerland Eugen Strähl | March 802-BMW | 8 | 12 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 22 | Italy Riccardo Paletti | March 802-BMW | Ret | 14 | 8 | Ret | 0 | ||||||||
| 23 | West Germany Hans-Georg Bürger | Tiga F280-BMW | 8 | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | DNS | 0 | ||||||
| 24 | Italy Gianfranco Trombetti | March 782-BMW | Ret | DNQ | 8 | 0 | |||||||||
| 25 | Republic of Ireland Bernard Devaney | March 802-BMW | 9 | Ret | 12 | Ret | 0 | ||||||||
| 26 | Venezuela Johnny Cecotto | March 802-BMW | Ret | 9 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Minardi GM75-BMW | 15 | ||||||||||||||
| 27 | Italy Arturo Merzario | Merzario M1-BMW | Ret | Ret | Ret | 9 | Ret | 16 | 17 | DNS | Ret | 0 | |||
| 28 | South Africa Rad Dougall | Ralt RT4-BMW | DNS | 9 | Ret | 16 | 0 | ||||||||
| 29 | United Kingdom Warren Booth | Chevron B48-Hart | 10 | 15 | DNQ | 0 | |||||||||
| 30 | United Kingdom Jim Crawford | Chevron B45-Ford | Ret | 10 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 31 | Italy Carlo Rossi | Toleman TG280-Hart | 10 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 32 | Italy Guido Daccò | Merzario M1-BMW | 11 | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||
| March 792-BMW | Ret | 12 | DNQ | 11 | |||||||||||
| 33 | Switzerland Patrick Studer | March 802-BMW | 11 | 14 | Ret | 0 | |||||||||
| 34 | Italy Maurizio Flammini | Ralt RT2-Hart | Ret | Ret | 11 | 0 | |||||||||
| 35 | Italy Piero Necchi | Merzario M1-BMW | Ret | Ret | 12 | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | DNQ | 12 | 0 | |||
| 36 | Switzerland Walter Baltisser | March 802-BMW | 12 | 16 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 37 | United States Tom Gloy | Ralt RH6-Honda | Ret | 12 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 38 | Italy Bruno Corradi | Minardi GM75-BMW | 13 | Ret | Ret | 0 | |||||||||
| 39 | United Kingdom Kim Mather | March 802-Hart | DNS | 13 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 40 | Italy Danilo Tesini | Chevron B48-BMW | 13 | DNQ | DNQ | 0 | |||||||||
| 41 | Belgium Pierre Dieudonné | March 802-Hart | 13 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 42 | West Germany Helmut Bross | March 792-Hart | 14 | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||
| 43 | Italy Marco Rocca | Osella FA2-BMW | 15 | 0 | |||||||||||
| March 782-BMW | Ret | ||||||||||||||
| Sweden Eje Elgh | Maurer MM80-BMW | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | 0 | ||||||||
| Austria Markus Höttinger | Maurer MM80-BMW | Ret | Ret | 0 | |||||||||||
| United Kingdom Divina Galica | March 792-Hart | Ret | Ret | 0 | |||||||||||
| France Patrick Gaillard | Maurer MM80-BMW | Ret | Ret | 0 | |||||||||||
| United Kingdom Roy Baker | Chevron B48-Hart | Ret | DNQ | 0 | |||||||||||
| Austria Franz Konrad | March 792-BMW | DNQ | Ret | 0 | |||||||||||
| United Kingdom Paul Smith | March 782-Hart | DNQ | Ret | 0 | |||||||||||
| West Germany Wolfgang Locher | March 782-Hart | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||
| West Germany Harald Grohs | March 792-Hart | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||
| West Germany Helmut Kalenborn | Chevron B42-BMW | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Switzerland Bruno Eichmann | March 802-BMW | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Belgium Patrick Nève | March 802-BMW | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Netherlands Jan Lammers | March 802-BMW | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Italy Enzo Coloni | March 782-BMW | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Austria Willi Siller | Chevron B48-BMW | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||
| West Germany Michael Korten | March 802-BMW | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Switzerland Ami Guichard | March 782-BMW | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||
| United Kingdom Geoff Lees | Ralt RH6-Honda | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Sweden Stefan Johansson | March 802-BMW | DNS | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Italy Sergio Mingotti | Mirage M1-BMW | DNQ | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Pos | Driver | Car(s) | THR United Kingdom | HOC West Germany | NUR West Germany | VAL Italy | PAU France | SIL United Kingdom | ZOL Belgium | MUG Italy | ZAN Netherlands | PER Italy | MIS Italy | HOC West Germany | Pts |
| Colour | Result | ||||||||||||||
| Gold | Winner | ||||||||||||||
| Silver | Second place | ||||||||||||||
| Bronze | Third place | ||||||||||||||
| Green | Points classification | ||||||||||||||
| Blue | Non-points classification | ||||||||||||||
| Non-classified finish (NC) | |||||||||||||||
| Purple | Retired, not classified (Ret) | ||||||||||||||
| Red | Did not qualify (DNQ) | ||||||||||||||
| Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) | |||||||||||||||
| Black | Disqualified (DSQ) | ||||||||||||||
| White | Did not start (DNS) | ||||||||||||||
| Withdrew (WD) | |||||||||||||||
| Race cancelled (C) | |||||||||||||||
| Blank | Did not practice (DNP) | ||||||||||||||
| Did not arrive (DNA) | |||||||||||||||
| Excluded (EX) |
- Results in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap.
- Points system: 9-6-4-3-2-1 for first six finishers. Each driver's best nine results counted towards the championship.
- Phillips, Ian (1980). "Formula 2: Henton and Toleman; undisputed champions". Autocourse 1980-81. Hazleton Publishing. pp. 220–221. ISBN 0-905138-12-0.
- Taylor, John (1980). "1980 results: A detailed summary of the season - Formula 2". Autocourse 1980-81. Hazleton Publishing. pp. 227–228. ISBN 0-905138-12-0.