1980 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season

The 1980 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 32nd F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season.

Season summary [edit]

Yamaha's Kenny Roberts claimed his third successive 500cc world championship in a season shortened by the cancellations of the Venezuelan and Austrian rounds.^[1] Randy Mamola took over at Suzuki from Barry Sheene. Kawasaki returned to the 500cc class with a monocoque, four cylinder bike for Kork Ballington.^[1] Honda soldiered on with its exotic four-stroke NR500 but began to realize it was at a disadvantage against its two-stroke opposition.^[1]

There were only six rounds in the 350cc class that saw South Africa's Jon Ekerold, a true privateer, take the championship from the Kawasaki factory-sponsored Anton Mang.^[1] Mang would take the 250cc crown from defending champion Ballington while Pier Paolo Bianchi won the 125cc title.^[1] Eugenio Lazzarini won a tight battle from Swiss Stefan Dörflinger to take the 50cc championship by only 2 points.^[2]

Grands Prix [edit]

Round	Race	Location	50cc winner	125cc winner	250cc winner	350cc winner	500cc winner	Report
1	Nations Grand Prix	Misano	Eugenio Lazzarini	Pier Paolo Bianchi	Anton Mang	Johnny Cecotto	Kenny Roberts	Report
2	Spanish Grand Prix	Jarama	Eugenio Lazzarini	Pier Paolo Bianchi	Kork Ballington		Kenny Roberts	Report
3	French Grand Prix	Paul Ricard		Angel Nieto	Kork Ballington	Jon Ekerold	Kenny Roberts	Report
4	Yugoslavian Grand Prix	Rijeka	Ricardo Tormo	Guy Bertin	Anton Mang			Report
5	Dutch TT	Assen	Ricardo Tormo	Angel Nieto	Carlos Lavado	Jon Ekerold	Jack Middelburg	Report
6	Belgian Grand Prix	Zolder	Stefan Dörflinger	Angel Nieto	Anton Mang		Randy Mamola	Report
7	Finnish Grand Prix	Imatra		Angel Nieto	Kork Ballington		Wil Hartog	Report
8	British Grand Prix	Silverstone		Loris Reggiani	Kork Ballington	Anton Mang	Randy Mamola	Report
9	Czechoslovakian Grand Prix	Brno		Guy Bertin	Anton Mang	Anton Mang		Report
10	German Grand Prix	Nürburgring	Stefan Dörflinger	Guy Bertin	Kork Ballington	Jon Ekerold	Marco Lucchinelli	Report

Final standings [edit]

500cc standings [edit]

Place	Rider	Number	Country	Machine	Points	Wins
1	Kenny Roberts	1	United States	Yamaha	87	3
2	Randy Mamola	10	United States	Suzuki	72	2
3	Marco Lucchinelli	28	Italy	Suzuki	59	1
4	Franco Uncini	5	Italy	Suzuki	50	0
5	Graziano Rossi	22	Italy	Suzuki	38	0
6	Wil Hartog	4	Netherlands	Suzuki	31	1
7	Johnny Cecotto		Venezuela	Yamaha	31	0
8	Graeme Crosby	6	New Zealand	Suzuki	29	0
9	Jack Middelburg	8	Netherlands	Suzuki	20	1
10	Takazumi Katayama	52	Japan	Suzuki	18	0
11	Carlo Perugini				17
12	Kork Ballington				13
13	Philippe Coulon				11
14	Boet Van Dulmen				10
15	Barry Sheene				10
16	Patrick Pons				10
17	Patrick Fernandez				4
18	Michel Rougerie				4
19	Christian Estrosi				3
20	Henk De Vries				2
21	Sadao Asami				2
22	Michel Frutschi				2
23	Raymond Roche				1
24	Gustav Reiner				1
25	Bernard Fau				1
26	Dave Potter				1
27	Sergio Pellandini				1

350cc standings [edit]

Place	Rider	Number	Country	Machine	Points	Wins
1	Jon Ekerold	8	South Africa	Yamaha	63	3
2	Anton Mang	4	West Germany	Kawasaki	60	2
3	Jean-François Baldé		France	Kawasaki	38	0
4	Johnny Cecotto		Venezuela	Yamaha	37	1
5	Jeff Sayle	10	Australia	Yamaha	25	0
6	Eric Saul		France	Yamaha	24	0
7	Jacques Cornu	27	Switzerland	Yamaha	21	0
8	Massimo Matteoni	4	Italy	Yamaha	19	0
9	Walter Villa	4	Italy	Yamaha	16	0
10	Patrick Fernandez	2	France	Yamaha	12	0
11	Carlo Perugini				10
12	Tony Head				9
13	Carlos Lavado				8
14	Roland Freymond				7
15	Gregg Hansford				6
16	Tony Rogers				6
17	Jacques Bolle				6
18	Keith Huewen				6
19	Thierry Espié				6
20	Jean Louis Tournadre				5
21	Loris Reggiani				4
22	Graeme McGregor				4
23	Alan North				2
24	Pekka Nurmi				1
25	Edi Stoellinger				1

250cc standings [edit]

Place	Rider	Number	Country	Machine	Points	Wins
1	Anton Mang	6	West Germany	Kawasaki	128	4
2	Kork Ballington	1	South Africa	Kawasaki	87	5
3	Jean-François Baldé	8	France	Kawasaki	59	0
4	Thierry Espié		France	Yamaha	53	0
5	Roland Freymond	10	Switzerland	Morbidelli	46	0
6	Carlos Lavado		Venezuela	Yamaha	29	1
7	Gianpaolo Marchetti		Italy	Yamaha	28	0
8	Jacques Cornu		Switzerland	Yamaha	26	0
9	Eric Saul		France	Yamaha	24	0
10	Patrick Fernandez	5	France	Yamaha	16	0
11	Edi Stoellinger				16
12	Hans Müller				16
13	Sauro Pazzaglia				12
14	Graeme McGregor				12
15	Pier Luigi Conforti				10
16	Jean-Louis Guignabodet				9
17	Didier de Radiguès				8
18	Eero Hyvärinen				8
19	Clive Horton				7
20	Paolo Ferretti				7
21	Greame Geddes				6
22	R.Sibille				6
23	Steve Tonkin				5
24	Jacques Bolle				5
25	Herbert Hauf				4
26	A.Gouin				4
27	Reinhold Roth				4
28	Walter Villa				4
29	Charlie Williams				2
30	Martin Wimmer				2
31	Marco Papa				1
32	Jean-Louis Tournadre				1
33	Rene Delaby				1
34	F.Marcheggiani				1
35	Tony Rogers				1
36	H.Tomic				1

125cc standings [edit]

Place	Rider	Number	Country	Machine	Points	Wins
1	Pier Paolo Bianchi	10	Italy	MBA	90	2
2	Guy Bertin	6	France	Motobécane	81	3
3	Angel Nieto	1	Spain	Minarelli	78	4
4	Bruno Kneubühler	9	Switzerland	MBA	68	0
5	Hans Müller		Switzerland	MBA	64	0
6	Loris Reggiani		Italy	Minarelli	63	1
7	Iván Palazzese		Venezuela	MBA	28	0
8	Maurizio Massimiani	2	Italy	Minarelli	20	0
9	Peter Looijensteijn		Netherlands	MBA	18	0
10	Barry Smith		Australia	MBA	17	0
11	Harald Bartol				15
12	Ricardo Tormo				13
13	Stefan Dörflinger				13
14	Gianpaolo Marchetti				10
15	August Auinger				9
16	Jose Dubon				8
17	Eugenio Lazzarini				8
18	Rolf Blatter				8
19	Henk Van Kessel				8
20	Gert Bender				6
21	Michel Galbit				6
22	P.Herouard				6
23	Janos Drapal				5
24	Thierry Noblesse				4
25	Matti Kinnunen				4
26	Jhonni Baeckstroem				2
27	S.Janssen				2
28	Jean Claude Selini				2
29	Johnny Wickstroem				1
30	Hugo Vignetti				1
31	Z.Ljeljak				1
32	Anton Straver				1

50cc standings [edit]

Place	Rider	Number	Country	Machine	Points	Wins
1	Eugenio Lazzarini	1	Italy	Iprem[3]	74	2
2	Stefan Dörflinger	10	Switzerland	Kreidler	72	2
3	Hans Hummel		Austria	Kreidler	37	0
4	Ricardo Tormo		Spain	Kreidler	36	2
5	Henk van Kessel	7	Netherlands	Kreidler	31	0
6	Hans Spaan		Netherlands	Kreidler	24	0
7	Theo Timmer		Netherlands	Bultaco	19	0
8	Yves Dupont		France	ABF	18	0
9	Jacques Hutteau	8	France	ABF	18	0
10	Wolfgang Müller		West Germany	Kreidler	15	0
11	Rolf Blatter				14
12	Gerhard Waibel				7
13	Otto Machinek				7
14	Ingo Emmerich				6
15	Giuseppe Ascareggi				4
16	Günter Schirnhofer				4
17	Daniel Mateos				3
18	Claudio Lusuardi				3
19	Enrico Cereda				2
20	Aldo Pero				1
21	G.Boehl				1

References [edit]

• Büla, Maurice & Schertenleib, Jean-Claude (2001). Continental Circus 1949-2000. Chronosports S.A. ISBN 2-940125-32-5
• "The Official MotoGP website". Retrieved 2010-07-06. 

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