1984 South African Grand Prix

 1984 South African Grand Prix

Racing data
2nd of 16 races in the 1984 Formula 1 World Championship
Surname:	XVIII Grand Prix of South Africa
Date:	April 7, 1984
Place:	Midrand
Course:	Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit
Length:	307.8 km in 75 laps of 4.104 km
Weather:	sunny and warm
Spectator:	~ 50,000
Pole position
Driver:	Nelson Piquet	Brabham
Time:	1: 04.871 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Patrick Tambay	Renault
Time:	1: 08.877 min
Podium
First:	Niki Lauda	McLaren
Second:	Alain Prost	McLaren
Third:	Derek Warwick	Renault

The 1984 South African Grand Prix took place on April 7th at the Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit and was the second race of the 1984 Formula 1 World Championship .

Reports

background

After less than six months, a South African Grand Prix was held again, as the 1983 race had taken place at the end of the season for once . The field of participants was unchanged compared to the Brazilian Grand Prix two weeks earlier.

training

Nelson Piquet secured pole position from Keke Rosberg , Nigel Mansell and Patrick Tambay . Alain Prost shared the third row with Teo Fabi . It was followed by Elio de Angelis and Niki Lauda .

A serious accident occurred during the warm-up before the race. Piercarlo Ghinzani got off the track with his Osella FA1F . The impact on the guardrails was so severe that the car was torn in two. These hurled back onto the track, where the leaking gasoline ignited. Ghinzani suffered minor burns to his hands, but was otherwise uninjured. Since he had to forego taking part in the race, Thierry Boutsen , who was not actually qualified, was able to move up onto the grid.

run

When Prost's car did not start on the grid, the French ran into the pit lane, got into the T-car and illegally started the race too early. At the end of the lap he headed for the pit lane again because the start had been canceled due to an engine problem on Nigel Mansell's car . On the second attempt to start, Prost started the race regularly from the pit lane.

Mansell got the best start so that he could take the lead from Piquet. However, since he had to struggle with technical problems again after a few meters, he was overtaken by the entire field. Rosberg then took over the top position, but lost it to Piquet on the second lap.

In the third lap, Fabi passed Rosberg. This followed before Niki Lauda, Derek Warwick and Patrick Tambay. Ayrton Senna , who was 16th at the time , lost part of his front fairing and the wing attached to it, but this did not prevent him from continuing the race almost unimpressed.

On lap four, Lauda took third place from Rosberg. Warwick also caught up quickly on the Finn, but was unable to overtake the long start-finish straight due to his lower engine power.

Shortly after Lauda had overtaken Fabi, who had been second to date, on lap 10, he headed for the pit to have new tires fitted. Piquet did the same on lap 21, giving Lauda the lead. From fourth place, to which Piquet had dropped after his pit stop, he fought his way back up to second position within four laps, but retired on lap 29 due to a turbocharger damage.

After all the pilots at the front had made their pit stops, Niki Lauda was still in the lead. He was followed by Alain Prost, followed by Jacques Laffite , Michele Alboreto and Patrick Tambay. Laffite retired on lap 60, after which Tambay, who had previously overtaken Alboreto, took third place. Since Tambay had to retire due to a lack of fuel, similar to two weeks earlier in Brazil, his team-mate Warwick ultimately took third place behind the two McLaren drivers. Behind Riccardo Patrese and Andrea de Cesaris , Ayrton Senna scored his first World Championship point despite the defective front wing.

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
MRD International	1	Nelson Piquet	Brabham BT53	BMW M12 / 13 1.5 L4 t	M.
	2	Teo 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	RAM 01
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
Toleman Group Motorsport	19th	Ayrton Senna	Toleman TG183B	Hart 415T 1.5 L4 t	P
	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	Nelson Piquet	Brabham-BMW	1: 05.280	226.324 km / h	1: 04.871	227.750 km / h	01
02	Keke Rosberg	Williams-Honda	1: 05.127	226.855 km / h	1: 05.058	227.096 km / h	02
03	Nigel Mansell	Lotus Renault	1: 05.792	224.562 km / h	1: 05.125	226.862 km / h	03
04th	Patrick Tambay	Renault	1: 05.588	225.261 km / h	1: 05.339	226.119 km / h	04th
05	Alain Prost	McLaren TAG Porsche	1: 06.576	221.918 km / h	1: 05.354	226.067 km / h	05
06th	Teo Fabi	Brabham-BMW	1: 05.923	224.116 km / h	1: 07.236	219.739 km / h	06th
07th	Elio de Angelis	Lotus Renault	1: 06,305	222.825 km / h	1: 05.953	224.014 km / h	07th
08th	Niki Lauda	McLaren TAG Porsche	1: 06.238	223.050 km / h	1: 06.043	223.709 km / h	08th
09	Derek Warwick	Renault	1: 06.056	223.665 km / h	1: 06.491	222.202 km / h	09
10	Michele Alboreto	Ferrari	1: 07,404	219.192 km / h	1: 06.323	222.764 km / h	10
11	Jacques Laffite	Williams-Honda	1: 07.142	220.047 km / h	1: 06.762	221.300 km / h	11
12	Manfred Winkelhock	ATS-BMW	1: 06.974	220.599 km / h	1: 07.417	219.149 km / h	12
13	Ayrton Senna	Toleman-Hart	1: 07.657	218.372 km / h	1: 06.981	220.576 km / h	13
14th	Andrea de Cesaris	Ligier-Renault	1: 09.132	213.713 km / h	1: 07.245	219.710 km / h	14th
15th	René Arnoux	Ferrari	1: 07.514	218.835 km / h	1: 07.345	219.384 km / h	15th
16	Eddie Cheever	Alfa Romeo	1: 07.704	218.220 km / h	1: 07.993	217.293 km / h	16
17th	François Hesnault	Ligier-Renault	1: 09.909	211.338 km / h	1: 07.787	217.953 km / h	17th
18th	Riccardo Patrese	Alfa Romeo	1: 08.399	216.003 km / h	1: 08.042	217.136 km / h	18th
19th	Johnny Cecotto	Toleman-Hart	1: 09.892	211.389 km / h	1: 08.298	216.323 km / h	19th
20th	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Osella-Alfa Romeo	1: 10.829	208.593 km / h	1: 09.609	212.248 km / h	DNS
21st	Mauro Baldi	Spirit-Hart	1: 10.450	209.715 km / h	1: 09.923	211.295 km / h	20th
22nd	Jonathan Palmer	RAM hard	no time	-	1: 10.383	209.914 km / h	21st
23	Philippe Alliot	RAM hard	no time	-	1: 10.619	209.213 km / h	22nd
24	Marc Surer	Arrows Ford	1: 12.227	204.555 km / h	1: 11.808	205.749 km / h	23
25th	Stefan Bellof	Tyrrell-Ford	1: 12.322	204.286 km / h	1: 12.022	205.137 km / h	24
26th	Martin Brundle	Tyrrell-Ford	1: 12.233	204.538 km / h	1: 12.453	203.917 km / h	25th
27	Thierry Boutsen	Arrows Ford	1: 12.326	204.275 km / h	1: 12.274	204.422 km / h	26th

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	Niki Lauda	McLaren TAG Porsche	75	1	1: 29: 23.430	08th	1: 09.666
02	Alain Prost	McLaren TAG Porsche	75	1	+1: 05.950	05	1: 08.961
03	Derek Warwick	Renault	74	2	+ 1 lap	09	1: 09.526
04th	Riccardo Patrese	Alfa Romeo	73	1	+ 2 rounds	18th	1: 11.385
05	Andrea de Cesaris	Ligier-Renault	73	1	+ 2 rounds	14th	1: 12.510
06th	Ayrton Senna	Toleman-Hart	72	0	+ 3 rounds	13	1: 12,124
07th	Elio de Angelis	Lotus Renault	71	2	+ 4 rounds	07th	1: 10.150
08th	Mauro Baldi	Spirit-Hart	71	0	+ 4 rounds	20th	1: 13.267
09	Marc Surer	Arrows Ford	71	1	+ 4 rounds	23	1: 14.090
10	François Hesnault	Ligier-Renault	71	0	+ 4 rounds	17th	1: 13.054
-	Martin Brundle	Tyrrell-Ford 1	71	0	+ 4 rounds	25th	1: 13.578	disqualified
12 (11)	Michele Alboreto	Ferrari	70	0	DNF	10	1: 11.828	Engine misfire
13 (12)	Thierry Boutsen	Arrows Ford	70	0	+ 5 rounds	26th	1: 14.906
-	Patrick Tambay	Renault	66	2	DNF	04th	1: 08.877	Lack of fuel
-	Jacques Laffite	Williams-Honda	60	0	DNF	11	1: 11.790	lost wheel
-	Stefan Bellof	Tyrrell-Ford 1	59	0	DSQ	24	1: 12.421	disqualified
-	Manfred Winkelhock	ATS-BMW	53	3	DNF	12	1: 12.527	Turbocharger damage
-	Keke Rosberg	Williams-Honda	51	1	DNF	02	1: 10,600	defective power transmission
-	Nigel Mansell	Lotus Renault	51	0	DNF	03	1: 11.825	Loss of boost pressure
-	René Arnoux	Ferrari	40	0	DNF	15th	1: 11.421	defective fuel supply
-	Nelson Piquet	Brabham-BMW	29	1	DNF	01	1: 10.132	Turbocharger damage
-	Johnny Cecotto	Toleman-Hart	26th	0	DNF	19th	1: 12.523	Suspension damage
-	Philippe Alliot	RAM hard	24	0	DNF	22nd	1: 14.943	Engine failure
-	Jonathan Palmer	RAM hard	22nd	0	DNF	21st	1: 14.927	Engine failure
-	Teo Fabi	Brabham-BMW	18th	1	DNF	06th	1: 10.345	Turbocharger damage
-	Eddie Cheever	Alfa Romeo	04th	0	DNF	16	1: 14.046	defective water cooler

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 15th 02  Niki Lauda McLaren 9 03  Keke Rosberg Williams 6th 04th  Elio de Angelis lotus 4th 05  Derek Warwick Renault 4th 06th  Eddie Cheever Alfa Romeo 3

Item driver constructor Points 07th  Riccardo Patrese Alfa Romeo 3 08th  Patrick Tambay Renault 2 09  Andrea de Cesaris Ligier 2 10  Ayrton Senna Toleman 1 11  Thierry Boutsen Arrows 1

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  McLaren 24 02  Renault 6th 03  Williams 6th 04th  Alfa Romeo 6th

Item constructor Points 05  lotus 4th 06th  Ligier 2 07th  Toleman 1 08th  Arrows 1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Overview" ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2018 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 December 30, 2012)  
2. ^ "Report" (accessed December 30, 2012)
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Web links

• Race result on the official Formula 1 website