1980 Australian Grand Prix

1980 Australian Grand Prix
Final round of the 1980 Australian Drivers' Championship
Race details
Date November 16, 1980
Official name XLV Australian Grand Prix
Location Calder Park Raceway, Melbourne, Victoria
Course Permanent racing facility
Course length 1.609 km (1.000 miles)
Distance 95.000 laps, 152.855 km (95 miles)
Weather Sunny
Pole position
Driver Williams-Ford
Time 0'36.1
Fastest lap
Driver Australia Alan Jones Williams-Ford
Time 0'36.9
Podium
First Williams-Ford
Second Alfa Romeo
Third Elfin-Chevrolet

The 1980 Australian Grand Prix was a motor race held at Calder Park Raceway in Victoria, Australia on 16 November 1980.

It was the forty fifth Australian Grand Prix and it was open to cars complying with Australian Formula 1 regulations, which permitted international Formula One, Formula 5000 and Formula Pacific cars. The race was also the final round of the 1980 Australian Drivers' Championship.

The race was won by newly crowned 1980 World Drivers' Champion, Alan Jones, driving one of his championship winning Williams FW07 cars in front of an enthusiastic home crowd which came to see their new Australian hero. Italian driver Bruno Giacomelli finished second in the only other International Formula One car in the race, an Alfa Romeo 179. Third was French driver Didier Pironi driving an Australian built Elfin MR8 Formula 5000.

By winning the Australian Grand Prix, Alan Jones joined his father Stan Jones to become the first ever father and son to win the race. Stan Jones had won the 1959 Australian Grand Prix at the Longford Circuit in Tasmania driving a Maserati 250F. As of the 2024 race, Alan Jones remains the last Australian driver to have won the Australian Grand Prix.