1984 Portuguese Grand Prix

 1984 Portuguese Grand Prix

Racing data
16th of 16 races in the 1984 Formula 1 World Championship
Surname:	XIII Grande Premio de Portugal
Date:	October 21, 1984
Place:	Estoril
Course:	Autódromo Fernanda Pires da Silvaist
Length:	304.5 km in 70 laps of 4.35 km
Weather:	cloudy but dry
Pole position
Driver:	Nelson Piquet	Brabham
Time:	1: 21.703 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Niki Lauda	McLaren
Time:	1: 22.996 min
Podium
First:	Alain Prost	McLaren
Second:	Niki Lauda	McLaren
Third:	Ayrton Senna	Toleman

The 1984 Portuguese Grand Prix took place on October 21 at the Autódromo Fernanda Pires da Silvaist near Estoril as the 16th and last race of the 1984 Formula 1 World Championship .

Reports

background

For the first time since 1960 a Grand Prix of Portugal took place again . For this purpose, the Estoril racetrack, built in 1972, was modernized and adapted to the then current Formula 1 safety standards. The work required for this was only completed shortly before the race weekend.

The field of participants consisted of 27 drivers, as the Renault team gave its French test driver Philippe Streiff the opportunity to make his Grand Prix debut at the wheel of a third works car.

Teo Fabi , whose father died a few days before the race, did not take part in the season finale. He was represented at Brabham by Manfred Winkelhock .

training

Since it was raining during the first qualifying session on Friday, all the pilots achieved their respective best times on Saturday.

For the third time in a row, the front row consisted of the reigning world champion Nelson Piquet and Alain Prost , the runner-up in the then current World Championship standings. Ayrton Senna qualified for third place on the grid, ahead of Keke Rosberg and the two Lotus drivers Elio de Angelis and Nigel Mansell .

Niki Lauda , who was 3.5 points ahead of Prost in the World Championship ranking , finished eleventh on the grid.

run

Shortly after the start, Prost passed the relatively poorly started Piquet, but had to admit defeat to Rosberg and Mansell before the first corner. During the second lap, however, he regained second place. In the ninth lap he finally passed Rosberg and took the lead. Meanwhile, Lauda fought his way through the field of pursuit. His race to catch up brought him up to seventh place by lap 18.

Rosberg had meanwhile dropped to fourth place behind Mansell and Senna. Between the 26th and 33rd lap, Lauda made up another four positions and caught up with second-placed Mansell. When he spun on lap 51 due to a brake defect, Lauda took second place, which was enough for him to win the title despite the victory of his teammate. Ayrton Senna was third ahead of Michele Alboreto , Elio de Angelis and Nelson Piquet.

Niki Lauda secured his third world title with the narrowest lead in Formula 1 history of half a point over his team-mate Alain Prost.

The McLaren team , which by then had been the Constructors' World Champion in 1984 for several weeks, ended the season with the fourth one-two of the year. At the end of the season, the team had more than twice as many championship points to book as the second-placed Scuderia Ferrari .

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
MRD International	1	Nelson Piquet	Brabham BT53	BMW M12 / 13 1.5 L4 t	M.
	2	Manfred Winkelhock
Williams Grand Prix Engineering	5	Jacques Laffite	Williams FW09B	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	Gerhard Berger	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
	33	Philippe Streiff
Barclay Nordica Arrows BMW	17th	Marc Surer	Arrows A7	BMW M12 / 13 1.5 L4 t	G
	18th	Thierry Boutsen
Toleman Group Motorsport	19th	Ayrton Senna	Toleman TG184	Hart 415T 1.5 L4 t	M.
	20th	Stefan Johansson
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
	30th	Jo Gartner
Ligier Loto	25th	François Hesnault	Ligier JS23	Renault EF4 1.5 V6 t	M.
	26th	Andrea de Cesaris	Ligier JS23B
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	Nelson Piquet	Brabham-BMW	1: 30.889	172.298 km / h	1: 21.703	191.670 km / h	01
02	Alain Prost	McLaren TAG Porsche	1: 28.276	177.398 km / h	1: 21.774	191.503 km / h	02
03	Ayrton Senna	Toleman-Hart	1: 30.077	173.851 km / h	1: 21.936	191.125 km / h	03
04th	Keke Rosberg	Williams-Honda	1: 32.269	169.721 km / h	1: 22.049	190.862 km / h	04th
05	Elio de Angelis	Lotus Renault	1: 28.428	177.093 km / h	1: 22.291	190.300 km / h	05
06th	Nigel Mansell	Lotus Renault	1: 32.986	168.412 km / h	1: 22.319	190.236 km / h	06th
07th	Patrick Tambay	Renault	1: 29.409	175.150 km / h	1: 22.583	189.627 km / h	07th
08th	Michele Alboreto	Ferrari	1: 31.192	171.726 km / h	1: 22.686	189.391 km / h	08th
09	Derek Warwick	Renault	1: 35.913	163.273 km / h	1: 22.801	189.128 km / h	09
10	Stefan Johansson	Toleman-Hart	1: 28.891	176.171 km / h	1: 22.942	188.807 km / h	10
11	Niki Lauda	McLaren TAG Porsche	1: 28.837	176.278 km / h	1: 23.183	188.260 km / h	11
12	Riccardo Patrese	Alfa Romeo	1: 37.154	161.187 km / h	1: 24.048	186.322 km / h	12
13	Philippe Streiff	Renault	1: 37.280	160.979 km / h	1: 24.089	186.231 km / h	13
14th	Eddie Cheever	Alfa Romeo	1: 34.809	165.174 km / h	1: 24.235	185.908 km / h	14th
15th	Jacques Laffite	Williams-Honda	1: 39.696	157.078 km / h	1: 24.437	185.464 km / h	15th
16	Marc Surer	Arrows BMW	1: 34.003	166.590 km / h	1: 24.688	184.914 km / h	16
17th	René Arnoux	Ferrari	1: 36.634	162.055 km / h	1: 24.848	184.565 km / h	17th
18th	Thierry Boutsen	Arrows BMW	1: 32.530	169.242 km / h	1: 25.115	183.986 km / h	18th
19th	Manfred Winkelhock	Brabham-BMW	no time	-	1: 25.289	183.611 km / h	19th
20th	Andrea de Cesaris	Ligier-Renault	1: 33.398	167.670 km / h	1: 26.082	181.920 km / h	20th
21st	François Hesnault	Ligier-Renault	1: 34.233	166.184 km / h	1: 26.701	180.621 km / h	21st
22nd	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Osella-Alfa Romeo	1: 31.336	171.455 km / h	1: 26.840	180.332 km / h	22nd
23	Gerhard Berger	ATS-BMW	1: 44.966	149.191 km / h	1: 28.106	177.740 km / h	23
24	Jo Gartner	Osella-Alfa Romeo	1: 33.540	167.415 km / h	1: 28.229	177.493 km / h	24
25th	Mauro Baldi	Spirit-Hart	1: 36.483	162.308 km / h	1: 29.001	175.953 km / h	25th
26th	Jonathan Palmer	RAM hard	1: 40.344	156.063 km / h	1: 29.397	175.174 km / h	26th
27	Philippe Alliot	RAM hard	1: 34.839	165.122 km / h	1: 30.406	173.219 km / h	27

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	Alain Prost	McLaren TAG Porsche	70	0	1: 41: 11.753	02	1: 23.452
02	Niki Lauda	McLaren TAG Porsche	70	0	+ 13.425	11	1: 22.996
03	Ayrton Senna	Toleman-Hart	70	0	+ 20.042	03	1: 24.373
04th	Michele Alboreto	Ferrari	70	0	+ 20.317	08th	1: 24.148
05	Elio de Angelis	Lotus Renault	70	0	+1: 32.169	05	1: 25.680
06th	Nelson Piquet	Brabham-BMW	69	1	+ 1 lap	01	1: 24.275
07th	Patrick Tambay	Renault	69	0	+ 1 lap	07th	1: 25.506
08th	Riccardo Patrese	Alfa Romeo	69	0	+ 1 lap	12	1: 26.173
09	René Arnoux	Ferrari	69	0	+ 1 lap	17th	1: 25.711
10	Manfred Winkelhock	Brabham-BMW	69	0	+ 1 lap	19th	1: 26.404
11	Stefan Johansson	Toleman-Hart	69	1	+ 1 lap	10	1: 24.053
12	Andrea de Cesaris	Ligier-Renault	69	0	+ 1 lap	20th	1: 26.806
13	Gerhard Berger	ATS-BMW	68	0	+ 2 rounds	23	1: 26.601
14th	Jacques Laffite	Williams-Honda	67	2	+ 3 rounds	15th	1: 24.507
15th	Mauro Baldi	Spirit-Hart	66	0	+ 4 rounds	25th	1: 27.772
16	Jo Gartner	Osella-Alfa Romeo	65	0	DNF	24	1: 27.169	Lack of fuel
17th	Eddie Cheever	Alfa Romeo	64	1	+ 6 rounds	14th	1: 26.020
-	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Osella-Alfa Romeo	60	0	DNF	22nd	1: 28.410	Engine failure
-	Nigel Mansell	Lotus Renault	52	0	DNF	06th	1: 24.267	Brake defect
-	Derek Warwick	Renault	51	1	DNF	09	1: 25.309	Gearbox damage
-	Philippe Streiff	Renault	48	1	DNF	13	1: 26.874	broken drive shaft
-	Keke Rosberg	Williams-Honda	39	0	DNF	04th	1: 25.667	Engine failure
-	François Hesnault	Ligier-Renault	31	0	DNF	21st	1: 29.219	Electrical damage
-	Thierry Boutsen	Arrows BMW	24	0	DNF	18th	1: 27.725	broken drive shaft
-	Jonathan Palmer	RAM hard	19th	1	DNF	26th	1: 30.711	Gearbox damage
-	Marc Surer	Arrows BMW	08th	0	DNF	16	1: 28.635	Electrical damage
-	Philippe Alliot	RAM hard	02	0	DNF	27	1: 35.542	Engine failure

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  Niki Lauda McLaren 72.0 02  Alain Prost McLaren 71.5 03  Elio de Angelis lotus 34.0 04th  Michele Alboreto Ferrari 30.5 05  Nelson Piquet Brabham 29.0 06th  René Arnoux Ferrari 27.0 07th  Derek Warwick Renault 23.0 08th  Keke Rosberg Williams 20.5 09  Ayrton Senna Toleman 13.0 10  Nigel Mansell lotus 13.0

Item driver constructor Points 11  Patrick Tambay Renault 11.0 12  Teo Fabi Brabham 9.0 13  Riccardo Patrese Alfa Romeo 8.0 14th  Jacques Laffite Williams 5.0 15th  Thierry Boutsen Arrows 5.0 16  Eddie Cheever Alfa Romeo 3.0 17th  Andrea de Cesaris Ligier 3.0 18th  Stefan Johansson Toleman 3.0 19th  Piercarlo Ghinzani Osella 2.0 20th  Marc Surer Arrows 1.0

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  McLaren 143.5 02  Ferrari 57.5 03  lotus 47.0 04th  Brabham 38.0 05  Renault 34.0 06th  Williams 25.5

Item constructor Points 07th  Toleman 16.0 08th  Alfa Romeo 11.0 09  Arrows 6.0 10  Ligier 3.0 11  Osella 2.0

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Training" ( Memento of the original from March 30, 2007 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 February 12, 2013)  
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Web links

• Race result on the official Formula 1 website