Las Vegas Grand Prix

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Las Vegas Grand Prix

Caesars Palace
Route data
in the racing calendar:	1981-1982
Route length:	3,650 km
Race length:	273.750 km in 75 laps
Records
Lap record:	1: 19,639 (1982, Michele Alboreto , Tyrrell - Ford-Cosworth )
Lap record qualification:	1: 16,356 (1982, Alain Prost , Renault )
Most wins:	Alan Jones , Michele Alboreto (1)
Most Poles:	Carlos Reutemann , Alain Prost (1)

The Grand Prix of Las Vegas (also Caesar's Palace Grand Prix ) was a race for automobiles, which was held in the seasons 1981 and 1982 as Formula 1 and 1983 and 1984 as CART races. The venue for the races was a 3.650 km long temporary street circuit in the parking lot of the Caesars Palace casino .

history

Since the previous Watkins Glen circuit no longer met the current safety standards, the Formula 1 organizers had to find a new, attractive venue for the US Grand Prix . The city of Las Vegas was also looking for an event to shed the mafia image that had established itself in the 1970s . So they came together to the agreement to hold races in the future in the parking lot of the Caesars Palace, the Caesars Palace Grand Prix Circuit . But the race was doomed to failure from the outset. The isolation of Las Vegas had a strong impact on the number of spectators, and drivers and teams also complained about the bumpy slope, the desert sand on the track and the great heat. To this day, the course is considered one of the worst of all time.

The 1981 Formula 1 race was held as the season finale and was marked by the title fight between Carlos Reutemann in Williams and Nelson Piquet in Brabham ; Williams secured the constructors' championship one race earlier . Even Jacques Laffite had six points behind even theoretical chances for the title. Reutemann started the race from pole position, the last pole of his Formula 1 career, one point ahead of Piquet. Before the start, during the warm-up, the Williams FW07C from Reutemann had dropouts, but his team was not able to diagnose or even remedy the source of the error. At the start of the race, Reutemann almost stopped and dropped to fifth place. At this point, Piquet was in eighth place, three behind Reutemann. By the third lap, Reutemann lost three more places and even dropped to ninth place by lap 19. Piquet, however, overtook a few opponents and was now in seventh place. It was Reutemann, plagued by the technical defect of his Williams, no longer possible to drive for the points and lost the world championship to Piquet, who scored exactly the two required points. The winner of the race was Alan Jones ; it was the last Grand Prix victory for the 1980 world champion .

The following year the race was the final again. Keke Rosberg and John Watson still had a chance of winning the world championship, while Didier Pironi , who came second in the world championship, was injured after a serious accident at the German Grand Prix . Even Ferrari was the title with eleven points ahead of McLaren barely take. Alain Prost started the race from pole position, which was changed from the right to the left this year. For Michele Alboreto it would be the first of five Grand Prix victories. For the 1978 world champion, Mario Andretti , this race was the last start in Formula 1.

After 1982 two more races of the CART championship were held as the Las Vegas Grand Prix. Although there have been rumors about a possible Grand Prix in Las Vegas, these have not been confirmed.

Results

Edition	year	route	winner	Second	Third	Pole position	Fastest lap
1	1981	Caesars Palace	Alan Jones ( Williams )	Alain Prost ( Renault )	Bruno Giacomelli ( Alfa Romeo )	Carlos Reutemann ( Williams )	Didier Pironi ( Ferrari )
2	1982	Caesars Palace	Michele Alboreto ( Tyrrell )	John Watson ( McLaren )	Eddie Cheever ( Ligier )	Alain Prost ( Renault )	Michele Alboreto ( Tyrrell )
3	1983	Caesars Palace	Mario Andretti ( Lola )	John paul jr. ( Penske )	Chip Ganassi ( Wildcat )	John paul jr. ( Penske )
4th	1984	Caesars Palace	Tom Sneva ( March )	Mario Andretti ( Lola )	John paul jr. ( March )	Danny Sullivan ( Lola )

Legend
abbreviation	class	comment
F1	formula 1	Formula 1 World Championship from 1950
F2	Formula 2
FL	Formula libre	Vehicle class usually advertised by the organizer
SW	Sports car
TW	Touring car
GP	Grand Prix vehicles
	↓ Solid gray lines indicate when a new course was used in history. ↓
	Entries with a light red background were not runs for the automobile or Formula 1 world championship.
	Entries with a yellow background were runs for the European Championship .

Web links

• Statistics of the race on statsf1.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ f1fanatic.co.uk: Ten worst… F1 tracks
2. ↑ motorsport-total.com: New hope for a US Grand Prix?