1984 Monaco Grand Prix

 1984 Monaco Grand Prix

Racing data
6th of 16 races in the 1984 Formula 1 World Championship
Surname:	XLII Grand Prix Automobile de Monaco
Date:	3rd June 1984
Place:	Monaco
Course:	Circuit de Monaco
Length:	102.672 km in 31 laps of 3.312 km
Planned:	255.024 km in 77 laps of 3.312 km
Weather:	wet and cold
Spectator:	~ 140,000
Pole position
Driver:	Alain Prost	McLaren
Time:	1: 22.661 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Ayrton Senna	Toleman
Time:	1: 54.334 min
Podium
First:	Alain Prost	McLaren
Second:	Ayrton Senna	Toleman
Third:	René Arnoux	Ferrari

The 1984 Monaco Grand Prix took place on June 3rd and was the sixth race of the 1984 Formula 1 World Championship .

Reports

background

The only change in the field of participants compared to the French Grand Prix two weeks earlier was the participation of Corrado Fabi instead of his brother Teo Fabi in the second Brabham alongside the reigning world champion Nelson Piquet .

training

McLaren driver Alain Prost , who has been leading the World Championship ranking since the season opener in Brazil, qualified for pole position ahead of Nigel Mansell in a Lotus and the two Ferrari 126C4s driven by René Arnoux and Michele Alboreto . The two Renault drivers Derek Warwick and Patrick Tambay formed the third row in front of Andrea de Cesaris and Niki Lauda .

Martin Brundle had a serious accident with his Tyrrell 012 in the area of ​​the Tabac curve, but was uninjured.

For safety reasons, only 20 starters were allowed to race on the narrow street course. This inevitably resulted in seven pilots failing to qualify.

run

Since it was raining persistently on the morning of the race day, it was decided to postpone the start by 45 minutes in the hope that the weather would improve. Although this did not occur, the race was finally started. The two Renault drivers collided in the first corner and retired. Tambay also suffered a broken leg. Meanwhile, Prost had defended his top position against Mansell and was leading the race.

Niki Lauda, ​​who started from eighth place, overtook both Ferraris by the sixth lap and thus took third place. On the eleventh lap, Mansell passed Prost and took the lead. However, when he was eliminated five laps later due to an accident, there was a McLaren one-two lead for the second time this season. At Toleman , the tire outfitter's change from Pirelli to Michelin made itself felt. With favorable Michelin rain tires, Ayrton Senna , who started from 13th place, moved up to third place by lap 16. On the 19th lap he overtook second-placed Lauda and from then on steadily reduced the lead of the leading Prost, who had braking problems. When Lauda had an accident on lap 24 in the casino curve, at least a second place for the Brazilian in the defeated Toleman seemed certain.

Stefan Bellof also caused a stir , whose team Tyrrell was one of the few who still used naturally aspirated engines and was therefore not one of the favorites. The German, who started the race from last place, fought his way up to fourth place by the 24th lap. On lap 27 he overtook Arnoux and was thus in third place behind Prost and Senna. Elio de Angelis and Keke Rosberg followed in fifth and sixth .

On lap 31 the race was stopped with the red flag. Racing director Jacky Ickx , who at the time was under contract as a works driver at Porsche , justified this decision solely with the unfavorable weather conditions. In fact, these had deteriorated several times during the race, but also improved briefly in the meantime. Ickx was accused of abandoning the race due to the fact that Senna and Bellof were catching up on Prost, thereby jeopardizing the victory of a Porsche-powered driver.

Since less than half of the planned race distance had been completed, the World Championship points to be awarded were halved. When the Tyrrell team was excluded from the World Championship towards the end of the season, all the pilots who had reached the finish line after Stefan Bellof moved up one place. Thus Michele Alboreto subsequently received half a world championship point.

Ironically, it turned out at the end of the season that Ickx 'decision had ultimately harmed Alain Prost rather than good: Prost received 4.5 points for winning a shortened race. For a likely second place (behind Senna) in a full race, however, Prost would have received 6 points. At the end of the season Prost was only 0.5 points behind Niki Lauda and without the decision to abandon the race would have surpassed Lauda with a second place.

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
MRD International	1	Nelson Piquet	Brabham BT53	BMW M12 / 13 1.5 L4 t	M.
	2	Corrado Fabi
Tyrrell Racing Organization	3	Martin Brundle	Tyrrell 012	Ford Cosworth DFY 3.0 V8	G
	4th	Stefan Bellof
Williams Grand Prix Engineering	5	Jacques Laffite	Williams FW09	Honda RA163-E 1.5 V6 t	G
	6th	Keke Rosberg
Marlboro McLaren International	7th	Alain Prost	McLaren MP4 / 2	TAG / Porsche TTE PO1 1.5 V6 t	M.
	8th	Niki Lauda
Skoal Bandit Formula 1 Team	9	Philippe Alliot	RAM 02	Hart 415T 1.5 L4 t	P
	10	Jonathan Palmer
John Player Team Lotus	11	Elio de Angelis	Lotus 95T	Renault EF4 1.5 V6 t	G
	12	Nigel Mansell
Team ATS	14th	Manfred Winkelhock	ATS D7	BMW M12 / 13 1.5 L4 t	P
Equipe Renault Elf	15th	Patrick Tambay	Renault RE50	Renault EF4 1.5 V6 t	M.
	16	Derek Warwick
Barclay Nordica Arrows BMW	17th	Marc Surer	Arrows A6	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	G
	18th	Thierry Boutsen	Arrows A7	BMW M12 / 13 1.5 L4 t
Toleman Group Motorsport	19th	Ayrton Senna	Toleman TG184	Hart 415T 1.5 L4 t	M.
	20th	Johnny Cecotto
Spirit Racing	21st	Mauro Baldi	Spirit 101B		P
Benetton Team Alfa Romeo	22nd	Riccardo Patrese	Alfa Romeo 184T	Alfa Romeo 890T 1.5 V8 t	G
	23	Eddie Cheever
Osella Squadra Corse	24	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Osella FA1F		P
Ligier Loto	25th	François Hesnault	Ligier JS23	Renault EF4 1.5 V6 t	M.
	26th	Andrea de Cesaris
Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC	27	Michele Alboreto	Ferrari 126C4	Ferrari 031 1.5 V6 t	G
	28	René Arnoux

Classifications

Qualifying

Item	driver	constructor	Qualification training 1		Qualification training 2		begin
			time	Ø speed	time	Ø speed
01	Alain Prost	McLaren TAG Porsche	1: 23.944	142.038 km / h	1: 22.661	144.242 km / h	01
02	Nigel Mansell	Lotus Renault	1: 24.927	140.394 km / h	1: 22.752	144.084 km / h	02
03	René Arnoux	Ferrari	1: 24.661	140.835 km / h	1: 22.935	143.766 km / h	03
04th	Michele Alboreto	Ferrari	1: 23.581	142.654 km / h	1: 22.937	143.762 km / h	04th
05	Derek Warwick	Renault	1: 23.726	142.407 km / h	1: 23.237	143.244 km / h	05
06th	Patrick Tambay	Renault	1: 24.828	140.557 km / h	1: 23.414	142.940 km / h	06th
07th	Andrea de Cesaris	Ligier-Renault	1: 25.939	138.740 km / h	1: 23.578	142.660 km / h	07th
08th	Niki Lauda	McLaren TAG Porsche	1: 24.508	141.090 km / h	1: 23.886	142.136 km / h	08th
09	Nelson Piquet	Brabham-BMW	1: 24.139	141.708 km / h	1: 23.918	142.082 km / h	09
10	Keke Rosberg	Williams-Honda	1: 26.017	138.614 km / h	1: 24.151	141.688 km / h	10
11	Elio de Angelis	Lotus Renault	1: 25.602	139.286 km / h	1: 24.426	141.227 km / h	11
12	Manfred Winkelhock	ATS-BMW	1: 52.889	105.619 km / h	1: 24.473	141.148 km / h	12
13	Ayrton Senna	Toleman-Hart	1: 27.865	135.699 km / h	1: 25.009	140.258 km / h	13
14th	Riccardo Patrese	Alfa Romeo	1: 28.072	135.380 km / h	1: 25.101	140.106 km / h	14th
15th	Corrado Fabi	Brabham-BMW	1: 31.618	130.140 km / h	1: 25.290	139.796 km / h	15th
16	Jacques Laffite	Williams-Honda	1: 27.356	136.490 km / h	1: 25.719	139.096 km / h	16
17th	François Hesnault	Ligier-Renault	1: 27.678	135.989 km / h	1: 25.815	138.941 km / h	17th
18th	Johnny Cecotto	Toleman-Hart	1: 28.241	135.121 km / h	1: 25.872	138.849 km / h	18th
19th	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Osella-Alfa Romeo	1: 27.723	135.919 km / h	1: 25.877	138.840 km / h	19th
20th	Stefan Bellof	Tyrrell-Ford	1: 27.836	135.744 km / h	1: 26.117	138.453 km / h	20th
DNQ	Marc Surer	Arrows Ford	1: 27.919	135.616 km / h	1: 26.273	138.203 km / h	-
DNQ	Martin Brundle	Tyrrell-Ford	1: 27.891	135.659 km / h	1: 26.373	138.043 km / h	-
DNQ	Eddie Cheever	Alfa Romeo	1: 28.961	134.027 km / h	1: 26.471	137.887 km / h	-
DNQ	Thierry Boutsen	Arrows BMW	1: 28,000	135.491 km / h	1: 26.514	137.818 km / h	-
DNQ	Jonathan Palmer	RAM hard	1: 29.778	132.808 km / h	1: 27.458	136.331 km / h	-
DNQ	Mauro Baldi	Spirit-Hart	1: 28.360	134.939 km / h	1: 30.146	132.265 km / h	-
DNQ	Philippe Alliot	RAM hard	1: 29.637	133.016 km / h	1: 29.576	133.107 km / h	-

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	Alain Prost	McLaren TAG Porsche	31	0	1: 01: 07.740	01	1: 55.596
02	Ayrton Senna	Toleman-Hart	31	0	+ 7.446	13	1: 54.334
-	Stefan Bellof	Tyrrell-Ford 1	31	0	DSQ	20th	1: 54.978	disqualified
04 (3)	René Arnoux	Ferrari	31	0	+ 29,077	03	1: 55.541
05 (4)	Keke Rosberg	Williams-Honda	31	0	+ 35.246	10	1: 55.775
06 (5)	Elio de Angelis	Lotus Renault	31	0	+ 44.439	11	1: 55.026
07 (6)	Michele Alboreto	Ferrari	30th	0	+ 1 lap	04th	1: 55.437
08 (7)	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Osella-Alfa Romeo	30th	1	+ 1 lap	19th	1: 57.439
09 (8)	Jacques Laffite	Williams-Honda	30th	1	+ 1 lap	16	1: 56.946
-	Riccardo Patrese	Alfa Romeo	24	0	DNF	14th	1: 58.527	defective steering
-	Niki Lauda	McLaren TAG Porsche	23	0	DNF	08th	1: 56.996	Lathe operator
-	Manfred Winkelhock	ATS-BMW	22nd	0	DNF	12	1: 55.712	collision
-	Nigel Mansell	Lotus Renault	15th	0	DNF	02	1: 55.112	accident
-	Nelson Piquet	Brabham-BMW	14th	0	DNF	09	1: 58.897	Electrical damage
-	François Hesnault	Ligier-Renault	12	0	DNF	17th	1: 59.644	Lathe operator
-	Corrado Fabi	Brabham-BMW	09	0	DNF	15th	2: 04.465	Lathe operator
-	Johnny Cecotto	Toleman-Hart	01	0	DNF	18th	2: 35.136	Engine failure
-	Derek Warwick	Renault	00	0	DNF	05	-	collision
-	Patrick Tambay	Renault	00	0	DNF	06th	-	collision
-	Andrea de Cesaris	Ligier-Renault	00	0	DNF	07th	-	collision

¹ Due to violations of the regulations, the Tyrrell team and the drivers Martin Brundle and Stefan Bellof were retroactively disqualified for the entire 1984 season in September 1984. In addition, the team was banned from participating in the last three races of the year.

World Cup stands after the race

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

(Results after disqualification of Team Tyrrell )

Driver ranking

Item driver constructor Points 01  Alain Prost McLaren 28.5 02  Niki Lauda McLaren 18.0 03  René Arnoux Ferrari 15.0 04th  Elio de Angelis lotus 13.0 05  Derek Warwick Renault 13.0 06th  Keke Rosberg Williams 11.5 07th  Michele Alboreto Ferrari 9.5

Item driver constructor Points 08th  Patrick Tambay Renault 8.0 09  Ayrton Senna Toleman 5.0 10  Nigel Mansell lotus 4.0 11  Eddie Cheever Alfa Romeo 3.0 12  Riccardo Patrese Alfa Romeo 3.0 13  Andrea de Cesaris Ligier 3.0 14th  Thierry Boutsen Arrows 3.0

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  McLaren 45.5 02  Ferrari 24.5 03  Renault 21.0 04th  lotus 17.0 05  Williams 11.5

Item constructor Points 06th  Alfa Romeo 6.0 07th  Toleman 5.0 08th  Arrows 3.0 09  Ligier 3.0

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Overview" ( Memento of the original from March 30, 2007 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 January 12, 2013)  
2. ^ When Ayrton Senna Became a Star. New York Times, May 21, 2015, accessed October 28, 2015 . 
3. ^ "Report" (accessed on January 12, 2013)
4. ↑ Fight at the limit. The Formula 1 Chronicle 1950–2000 , ed. v. Willy Knupp, RTL book edition: Zeitgeist Verlag: Düsseldorf / Gütersloh 2000, ISBN 3-89748-277-0 , p. 244
5. ^ "World Cup stands" ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2007 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 January 12, 2013)  

Web links

• Race result on the official Formula 1 website