1981 Monaco Grand Prix
Racing data | ||
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6th of 15 races in the 1981 Formula 1 World Championship | ||
Surname: | XXXIX Grand Prix Automobile de Monaco | |
Date: | May 31, 1981 | |
Place: | Monaco | |
Course: | Circuit de Monaco | |
Length: | 251.712 km in 76 laps of 3.312 km
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Weather: | sunny and warm | |
Spectator: | ~ 90,000 | |
Pole position | ||
Driver: | Nelson Piquet | Brabham |
Time: | 1: 25.710 min | |
Fastest lap | ||
Driver: | Alan Jones | Williams |
Time: | 1: 27.47 min | |
Podium | ||
First: | Gilles Villeneuve | Ferrari |
Second: | Alan Jones | Williams |
Third: | Jacques Laffite | Ligier |
The 1981 Monaco Grand Prix took place on May 31 and was the sixth race of the 1981 Formula 1 World Championship .
Reports
background
For the sixth World Championship round, both McLaren factory drivers were equipped with the new MP4 / 1 . The Lotus team used the new Lotus 87 for the first time . Otherwise there were no changes compared to the Belgian Grand Prix , which had taken place two weeks earlier.
training
Since only 20 starting places were allowed for the race and a maximum of 26 pilots were allowed to participate in regular training, a pre-qualification had to be held for the first time since the 1979 Monaco Grand Prix , in which the five slowest of the nine participating drivers from the teams ATS , Ensign , March , Osella , Theodore and Toleman retired early.
Nelson Piquet completed a fastest time in the first of the two regular qualification training sessions that he could no longer beat. Since none of his competitors managed to do this either, he took pole position in front of Gilles Villeneuve , who came within around seven hundredths of a second to Piquet's best time during the second qualifying session. Nigel Mansell qualified for third place on the grid next to Carlos Reutemann in the new Lotus . Riccardo Patrese and Elio de Angelis formed the third row on the grid.
run
Andrea de Cesaris and Mario Andretti collided in the tight Sainte Devote curve after the start . At the top, the ranking initially remained unchanged compared to the starting grid until Mansell fell back on lap 15 due to a damage to the suspension and Reutemann had to make a pit stop due to transmission problems, which threw him back to the end of the field. This put Alan Jones in third place. On lap 20 he overtook Gilles Villeneuve and from then on put pressure on the leader Nelson Piquet.
On the 53rd lap, Piquet made a mistake while lapping a few stragglers and crashed into the barrier. Jones thereby took the lead. Lying in the lead, he had to pull into the pits on lap 67 due to a problem with the fuel supply. Villeneuve was able to catch up and finally overtake the Australian on lap 72 and thus secure the first Ferrari victory since his success at the 1979 US Grand Prix .
Registration list
Classifications
Qualifying
Item | driver | constructor | Pre-qualification | Qualification training 1 | Qualification training 2 | begin | |||
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time | Ø speed | time | Ø speed | time | Ø speed | ||||
1 | Nelson Piquet | Brabham-Ford | - | - | 1: 25.710 | 139.111 km / h | 1: 28.667 | 134.472 km / h | 1 |
2 | Gilles Villeneuve | Ferrari | - | - | 1: 26.891 | 137.220 km / h | 1: 25.788 | 138.984 km / h | 2 |
3 | Nigel Mansell | Lotus Ford | - | - | 1: 27.174 | 136.775 km / h | 1: 25.815 | 138.941 km / h | 3 |
4th | Carlos Reutemann | Williams-Ford | - | - | 1: 27.643 | 136.043 km / h | 1: 26.010 | 138.626 km / h | 4th |
5 | Riccardo Patrese | Arrows Ford | - | - | 1: 27.447 | 136.348 km / h | 1: 26.040 | 138.577 km / h | 5 |
6th | Elio de Angelis | Lotus Ford | - | - | 1: 28.381 | 134.907 km / h | 1: 26.259 | 138.226 km / h | 6th |
7th | Alan Jones | Williams-Ford | - | - | 1: 26.938 | 137.146 km / h | 1: 26.538 | 137.780 km / h | 7th |
8th | Jacques Laffite | Ligier-Matra | - | - | 1: 27.468 | 136.315 km / h | 1: 26.704 | 137.516 km / h | 8th |
9 | Alain Prost | Renault | - | - | 1: 27.623 | 136.074 km / h | 1: 26.953 | 137.122 km / h | 9 |
10 | John Watson | McLaren-Ford | - | - | 1: 28.137 | 135.280 km / h | 1: 27.058 | 136.957 km / h | 10 |
11 | Andrea de Cesaris | McLaren-Ford | - | - | 1: 28.966 | 134.020 km / h | 1: 27.122 | 136.856 km / h | 11 |
12 | Mario Andretti | Alfa Romeo | - | - | 1: 27.512 | 136.246 km / h | 1: 28.162 | 135.242 km / h | 12 |
13 | René Arnoux | Renault | - | - | 1: 28.613 | 134.554 km / h | 1: 27.513 | 136.245 km / h | 13 |
14th | Siegfried Stohr | Arrows Ford | - | - | 1: 29.789 | 132.791 km / h | 1: 27.564 | 136.166 km / h | 14th |
15th | Eddie Cheever | Tyrrell-Ford | - | - | 1: 29.282 | 133.545 km / h | 1: 27.594 | 136.119 km / h | 15th |
16 | Patrick Tambay | Theodore Ford | 1: 30.492 | 131.760 km / h | 1: 28.897 | 134.124 km / h | 1: 27.939 | 135.585 km / h | 16 |
17th | Didier Pironi | Ferrari | - | - | 1: 29.150 | 133.743 km / h | 1: 28.266 | 135.083 km / h | 17th |
18th | Bruno Giacomelli | Alfa Romeo | - | - | 1: 28.335 | 134.977 km / h | 1: 28.323 | 134.995 km / h | 18th |
19th | Marc Surer | Ensign-Ford | 1: 31.249 | 130.667 km / h | 1: 29.611 | 133.055 km / h | 1: 28.339 | 134.971 km / h | 19th |
20th | Michele Alboreto | Tyrrell-Ford | - | - | 1: 30.699 | 131.459 km / h | 1: 28.358 | 134.942 km / h | 20th |
DNQ | Keke Rosberg | Fittipaldi-Ford | - | - | 1: 29.924 | 132.592 km / h | 1: 28.436 | 134.823 km / h | - |
DNQ | Jean-Pierre Jabouille | Ligier-Matra | - | - | 1: 29.752 | 132.846 km / h | 1: 28.841 | 134.208 km / h | - |
DNQ | Hector Rebaque | Brabham-Ford | - | - | 1: 29.188 | 133.686 km / h | 1: 29.256 | 133.584 km / h | - |
DNQ | Chico Serra | Fittipaldi-Ford | - | - | 1: 32.109 | 129.447 km / h | 1: 29.434 | 133.318 km / h | - |
DNQ | Piercarlo Ghinzani | Osella-Ford | 1: 33.189 | 127.946 km / h | no time | - | 1: 29.649 | 132.999 km / h | - |
DNQ | Beppe Gabbiani | Osella-Ford | 1: 32.704 | 128.616 km / h | 1: 30.983 | 131.049 km / h | 1: 29.795 | 132.782 km / h | - |
DNPQ | Slim Borgudd | ATS Ford | 1: 33.285 | 127.815 km / h | - | - | - | - | - |
DNPQ | Derek Daly | March-Ford | 1: 33.800 | 127.113 km / h | - | - | - | - | - |
DNPQ | Eliseo Salazar | March-Ford | 1: 35.249 | 125.179 km / h | - | - | - | - | - |
DNPQ | Brian Henton | Toleman-Hart | 1: 37.528 | 122.254 km / h | - | - | - | - | - |
DNPQ | Derek Warwick | Toleman-Hart | 1: 41.966 | 116.933 km / h | - | - | - | - | - |
run
Item | driver | constructor | Round | Stops | time | begin | Fastest lap | Failure reason |
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1 | Gilles Villeneuve | Ferrari | 76 | 0 | 1: 54: 23.38 | 1: 25.788 | 1: 29.00 | |
2 | Alan Jones | Williams-Ford | 76 | 1 | + 39.91 | 1: 26.538 | 1: 27.47 | |
3 | Jacques Laffite | Ligier-Matra | 76 | 0 | +1: 29.24 | 1: 26.704 | 1: 29.40 | |
4th | Didier Pironi | Ferrari | 75 | 0 | + 1 lap | 1: 28.266 | 1: 29.61 | |
5 | Eddie Cheever | Tyrrell-Ford | 74 | 0 | + 2 rounds | 1: 27.594 | 1: 30.55 | |
6th | Marc Surer | Ensign-Ford | 74 | 1 | + 2 rounds | 1: 28.339 | 1: 30.77 | |
7th | Patrick Tambay | Theodore Ford | 72 | 0 | + 4 rounds | 1: 27.939 | 1: 30.92 | |
- | Nelson Piquet | Brabham-Ford | 53 | 0 | DNF | 1: 28.667 | 1: 28.04 | accident |
- | John Watson | McLaren-Ford | 53 | 0 | DNF | 1: 27.058 | 1: 29.23 | Engine failure |
- | Michele Alboreto | Tyrrell-Ford | 50 | 0 | DNF | 1: 28.358 | 1: 30.36 | collision |
- | Bruno Giacomelli | Alfa Romeo | 50 | 0 | DNF | 1: 28.323 | 1: 29.82 | collision |
- | Alain Prost | Renault | 45 | 0 | DNF | 1: 26.953 | 1: 29.90 | Engine failure |
- | Carlos Reutemann | Williams-Ford | 34 | 1 | DNF | 1: 26.010 | 1: 28.76 | Gearbox damage |
- | Elio de Angelis | Lotus Ford | 32 | 0 | DNF | 1: 26.259 | 1: 29.52 | Engine failure |
- | René Arnoux | Renault | 32 | 0 | DNF | 1: 27.513 | 1: 29.74 | accident |
- | Riccardo Patrese | Arrows Ford | 29 | 0 | DNF | 1: 26.040 | 1: 29.01 | Engine failure |
- | Nigel Mansell | Lotus Ford | 16 | 1 | DNF | 1: 25.815 | 1: 29.52 | Suspension damage |
- | Siegfried Stohr | Arrows Ford | 15th | 4th | DNF | 1: 27.564 | 1: 31.72 | defective injection pump |
- | Andrea de Cesaris | McLaren-Ford | 0 | 0 | DNF | 1: 27.122 | - | collision |
- | Mario Andretti | Alfa Romeo | 0 | 0 | DNF | 1: 28.162 | - | collision |
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
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Constructors' championship
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Individual evidence
- ↑ "Training" ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 October 14, 2012)
- ^ "Report" (accessed on October 14, 2012)
- ↑ "World Cup stands" ( Memento of the original from August 4, 2008 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 October 14, 2012)