1982 French Grand Prix

 1982 French Grand Prix

Racing data
11th of 16 races in the 1982 Formula 1 World Championship
Surname:	LXVIII Grand Prix de France
Date:	July 25, 1982
Place:	Le Castellet
Course:	Circuit Paul Ricard
Length:	313.74 km in 54 laps of 5.81 km
Weather:	hot
Spectator:	~ 80,000
Pole position
Driver:	René Arnoux	Renault
Time:	1: 34.406 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Riccardo Patrese	Brabham
Time:	1: 40.075 min
Podium
First:	René Arnoux	Renault
Second:	Alain Prost	Renault
Third:	Didier Pironi	Ferrari

The 1982 French Grand Prix took place on July 25th at the Paul Ricard Circuit in Le Castellet and was the eleventh race of the 1982 Formula 1 World Championship .

Reports

background

Nigel Mansell , who discovered during the British Grand Prix that his injury from a collision with Bruno Giacomelli during the Canadian Grand Prix had not completely healed, decided not to take part in just one Week after the British Grand Prix race in France. Geoff Lees took over his representation in the Lotus team . This mission later turned out to be his last Grand Prix participation.

training

The two Renault drivers René Arnoux and Alain Prost have qualified together for the fourth time in the current season for the front row. On the eleventh Grand Prix weekend of the year, a Renault driver was on pole position for the eighth time. Didier Pironi completed a French trio in the first three starting positions in front of a home crowd in a Ferrari 126C2 . Another French rider , Patrick Tambay, followed in fifth place behind Riccardo Patrese . The first drivers who did not have a turbo engine were the two Alfa Romeo drivers Andrea de Cesaris and Bruno Giacomelli , who qualified behind reigning world champion Nelson Piquet for positions seven and eight.

run

While the two Renault drivers were able to defend their top positions at first, the first laps were characterized by the Brabham duo rapidly catching up . This dominance was attributed by observers to the team's new and at the time unusual strategy of starting the race with soft tires and a half-full tank and accordingly planning a fixed pit stop for refueling and changing tires halfway through the race. The fact that both of them completed the fastest laps of the race by a wide margin supported this assumption. Patrese took over the lead on the third lap, which he had to hand over to his team-mate Piquet on the eighth lap due to an engine failure.

On the eleventh lap, Jochen Mass collided with Mauro Baldi . His March crashed into the guardrails, rolled over them, landed upside down in a spectator area and caught fire. Although he was injured, Mass was able to get out of the vehicle in time. Some of the spectators suffered minor injuries.

When Piquet was eliminated on the 24th lap due to an engine failure, he left four French at the front with the two Renault drivers Arnoux and Prost and the two Ferrari drivers Pironi and Tambay. This then achieved a French quadruple victory in front of Keke Rosberg and Michele Alboreto .

However, there was a dispute within the Renault team because, according to the stable order , Arnoux should have let his teammate Prost win, as he had the better chance of winning the world championship title. However, he had refused to implement the order, which caused particular resentment at Prost.

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Parmalat Racing Team	1	Nelson Piquet	Brabham BT50	BMW M12 / 13 1.5 L4 t	G
	2	Riccardo Patrese
Team Tyrrell	3	Michele Alboreto	Tyrrell 011	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	G
	4th	Brian Henton
TAG Williams team	5	Derek Daly	Williams FW08		G
	6th	Keke Rosberg
Marlboro McLaren International	7th	John Watson	McLaren MP4 / 1B		M.
	8th	Niki Lauda
Team ATS	9	Manfred Winkelhock	ATS D5		G
	10	Eliseo Salazar
John Player Team Lotus	11	Elio de Angelis	Lotus 91		G
	12	Geoff Lees
Ensign Racing	14th	Roberto Guerrero	Ensign N181		P
Equipe Renault Elf	15th	Alain Prost	Renault RE30B	Renault EF1 1.5 V6 t	M.
	16	René Arnoux
Rothmans March Grand Prix Team	17th	Jochen Mass	March 821	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	A.
	18th	Raul Boesel
Fittipaldi Automotive	20th	Chico Serra	Fittipaldi F9		P
Marlboro Team Alfa Romeo	22nd	Andrea de Cesaris	Alfa Romeo 182	Alfa Romeo 1260 3.0 V12	M.
	23	Bruno Giacomelli
Equipe Talbot Gitanes	25th	Eddie Cheever	Ligier JS19	Matra MS81 3.0 V12	M.
	26th	Jacques Laffite
Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC	27	Patrick Tambay	Ferrari 126C2	Ferrari 021 1.5 V6 t	G
	28	Didier Pironi
Arrows Racing Team	29	Marc Surer	Arrows A4	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	P
	30th	Mauro Baldi
Osella Squadra Corse	31	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Osella FA1C		P
Theodore Racing Team	33	Jan Lammers	Theodore TY02		G
Toleman Group Motorsport	35	Derek Warwick	Toleman TG181C	Hart 415T 1.5 L4 t	P
	36	Teo Fabi

Classifications

Qualifying

Item	driver	constructor	Qualification training 1		Qualification training 2		begin
			time	Ø speed	time	Ø speed
01	René Arnoux	Renault	1: 36.548	216.638 km / h	1: 34.406	221.554 km / h	01
02	Alain Prost	Renault	1: 35.802	218.325 km / h	1: 34.688	220.894 km / h	02
03	Didier Pironi	Ferrari	1: 36.477	216.798 km / h	1: 35.790	218.353 km / h	03
04th	Riccardo Patrese	Brabham-BMW	1: 38.541	212.257 km / h	1: 35.811	218,305 km / h	04th
05	Patrick Tambay	Ferrari	1: 38.745	211.818 km / h	1: 35.905	218.091 km / h	05
06th	Nelson Piquet	Brabham-BMW	1: 37.162	215.269 km / h	1: 36.359	217.063 km / h	06th
07th	Andrea de Cesaris	Alfa Romeo	1: 38.996	211.281 km / h	1: 37.573	214.363 km / h	07th
08th	Bruno Giacomelli	Alfa Romeo	1: 38.997	211.279 km / h	1: 37.705	214.073 km / h	08th
09	Niki Lauda	McLaren-Ford	1: 37.778	213.913 km / h	1: 38.034	213.355 km / h	09
10	Keke Rosberg	Williams-Ford	1: 37.780	213.909 km / h	1: 38.865	211.561 km / h	10
11	Derek Daly	Williams-Ford	1: 38.767	211.771 km / h	1: 39.641	209.914 km / h	11
12	John Watson	McLaren-Ford	1: 38.944	211.392 km / h	1: 39.150	210.953 km / h	12
13	Elio de Angelis	Lotus Ford	1: 40.569	207.977 km / h	1: 39.118	211.021 km / h	13
14th	Derek Warwick	Toleman-Hart	1: 41.266	206.545 km / h	1: 39.306	210.622 km / h	14th
15th	Michele Alboreto	Tyrrell-Ford	1: 39.823	209.531 km / h	1: 39.330	210.571 km / h	15th
16	Jacques Laffite	Ligier-Matra	1: 40.326	208.480 km / h	1: 39.605	209.989 km / h	16
17th	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Osella-Ford	1: 40.370	208.389 km / h	1: 39.909	209.351 km / h	17th
18th	Manfred Winkelhock	ATS Ford	1: 39.917	209.334 km / h	1: 39.942	209.281 km / h	18th
19th	Eddie Cheever	Ligier-Matra	1: 41.518	206.032 km / h	1: 40.187	208.770 km / h	19th
20th	Marc Surer	Arrows Ford	1: 42.603	203.854 km / h	1: 40.335	208.462 km / h	20th
21st	Teo Fabi	Toleman-Hart	9: 57.645	34.997 km / h	1: 40.421	208.283 km / h	21st
22nd	Eliseo Salazar	ATS Ford	1: 42.822	203.420 km / h	1: 40.673	207.762 km / h	22nd
23	Brian Henton	Tyrrell-Ford	1: 41.109	206.866 km / h	1: 40.852	207.393 km / h	23
24	Geoff Lees	Lotus Ford	1: 45.647	197.980 km / h	1: 40.974	207.142 km / h	24
25th	Mauro Baldi	Arrows Ford	1: 42.162	204.734 km / h	1: 40.997	207.095 km / h	25th
26th	Jochen Mass	March-Ford	1: 41.973	205.113 km / h	1: 41.579	205.909 km / h	26th
DNQ	Jan Lammers	Theodore Ford	1: 41.921	205.218 km / h	1: 41.714	205.635 km / h	-
DNQ	Roberto Guerrero	Ensign-Ford	1: 42.270	204.517 km / h	1: 42.532	203.995 km / h	-
DNQ	Chico Serra	Fittipaldi-Ford	1: 43.562	201.966 km / h	1: 42.414	204.230 km / h	-
DNQ	Raul Boesel	March-Ford	1: 43.515	202.058 km / h	1: 43.099	202.873 km / h	-

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	René Arnoux	Renault	54	0	1: 33: 33,217	01	1: 41.858
02	Alain Prost	Renault	54	0	+ 17.308	02	1: 42.579
03	Didier Pironi	Ferrari	54	0	+ 42.128	03	1: 42.915
04th	Patrick Tambay	Ferrari	54	0	+1: 16.241	05	1: 43.469
05	Keke Rosberg	Williams-Ford	54	0	+1: 30.994	10	1: 44.323
06th	Michele Alboreto	Tyrrell-Ford	54	0	+1: 32.339	15th	1: 44.306
07th	Derek Daly	Williams-Ford	53	1	+ 1 lap	11	1: 44.310
08th	Niki Lauda	McLaren-Ford	53	2	+ 1 lap	09	1: 43.866
09	Bruno Giacomelli	Alfa Romeo	53	1	+ 1 lap	08th	1: 44.464
10	Brian Henton	Tyrrell-Ford	53	0	+ 1 lap	23	1: 46.008
11	Manfred Winkelhock	ATS Ford	52	0	+ 2 rounds	18th	1: 46.923
12	Geoff Lees	Lotus Ford	52	1	+ 2 rounds	24	1: 45.321
13	Marc Surer	Arrows Ford	52	0	+ 2 rounds	20th	1: 47.588
14th	Jacques Laffite	Ligier-Matra	51	2	+ 3 rounds	16	1: 44.753
15th	Derek Warwick	Toleman-Hart	50	1	+ 4 rounds	14th	1: 47.267
16	Eddie Cheever	Ligier-Matra	49	2	+ 5 rounds	19th	1: 45.462
-	Andrea de Cesaris	Alfa Romeo	25th	1	DNF	07th	1: 44.844	accident
-	Nelson Piquet	Brabham-BMW	23	0	DNF	06th	1: 40.940	Engine failure
-	Elio de Angelis	Lotus Ford	17th	0	DNF	13	1: 45.902	Fuel pressure drop
-	John Watson	McLaren-Ford	13	0	DNF	12	1: 45.013	broken battery cable
-	Jochen Mass	March-Ford	10	0	DNF	26th	1: 46.965	collision
-	Mauro Baldi	Arrows Ford	10	0	DNF	25th	1: 47.389	collision
-	Riccardo Patrese	Brabham-BMW	08th	0	DNF	04th	1: 40.075	Engine failure
-	Eliseo Salazar	ATS Ford	02	0	DNF	22nd	1: 47.394	accident
-	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Osella-Ford	00	0	DNF	17th	-	broken semi-axis
-	Teo Fabi	Toleman-Hart	00	0	DNF	21st	-	Electrical damage

World Cup stands after the race

The first six of the race got 9, 6, 4, 3, 2 and 1 point (s) respectively.

Driver ranking

Item driver constructor Points 01  Didier Pironi Ferrari 39 02  John Watson McLaren 30th 03  Alain Prost Renault 25th 04th  Niki Lauda McLaren 24 05  Keke Rosberg Williams 23 06th  Riccardo Patrese Brabham 19th 07th  Nelson Piquet Brabham 17th 08th  René Arnoux Renault 13 09  Elio de Angelis lotus 13 10  Michele Alboreto Tyrrell 11 11  Eddie Cheever Ligier 10 12  Derek Daly Williams 7th

Item driver constructor Points 13  Nigel Mansell lotus 7th 14th  Patrick Tambay Ferrari 7th 15th  Carlos Reutemann Williams 6th 16  Gilles Villeneuve Ferrari 6th 17th  Andrea de Cesaris Alfa Romeo 5 18th  Jean-Pierre Jarier Osella 3 19th  Manfred Winkelhock ATS 2 20th  Marc Surer Arrows 2 21st  Eliseo Salazar ATS 2 22nd  Mauro Baldi Arrows 1 23  Jacques Laffite Ligier 1 24  Chico Serra Fittipaldi 1

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  McLaren 54 02  Ferrari 52 03  Renault 38 04th  Brabham 36 05  Williams 36 06th  lotus 20th 07th  Ligier 11

Item constructor Points 08th  Tyrrell 11 09  Alfa Romeo 5 10  ATS 4th 11  Osella 3 12  Arrows 3 13  Fittipaldi 1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Training" ( memento of the original from October 31, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Motorsportarchiv.de; accessed on November 15, 2012)  
2. ^ "Report" (accessed on November 15, 2012)
3. ↑ "World Cup stands" ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Motorsportarchiv.de; accessed on November 15, 2012)  

Web links

• Race result on the official Formula 1 website