1982 FORMULA ONE SEASON

The '1982 Formula One season' was the 33rd FIA Formula One World Championship season. It commenced on January 23, 1982, and ended on September 25 after sixteen races. For the first time since the inception of Formula One, there were no non-Championship races run during 1982. This situation would become permanent from onward.

Contents

Season summary

Season review

1982 Constructors Championship final standings

1982 Drivers Championship final standings

External links

Season summary

1982 was a season of tension. Swedish born Finn Keke Rosberg won the championship, but only won one race. The season featured tremendous on-track action and was extremely competitive, as Keke Rosberg (driving for Williams), René Arnoux and Alain Prost (Renault), Patrick Tambay and Didier Pironi (Ferrari), John Watson and Niki Lauda (McLaren), Nelson Piquet and Riccardo Patrese (Brabham), Elio de Angelis (Lotus), and Michele Alboreto (Tyrrell) all won races. However, the season was marred by the deaths of drivers Riccardo Paletti and Gilles Villeneuve.
The controversies began even before the first race of the season in South Africa. Two-time champion Niki Lauda, who was returning to F1 after a 3-year break, took exception to FISA's new super-license, and led a drivers' strike. The strike was resolved before the race, and Alain Prost's Renault won. Prost also won the second round in Brazil, but only after the top two finishers (Nelson Piquet and Keke Rosberg) were disqualified for running an illegal water-cooled brakes system. Lauda won the next race in Long Beach, USA for McLaren.
At this point, off-track struggles for control of the sport took center stage as the FISA-FOCA War broke out again. Angered by the Piquet and Rosberg's disqualification in Brazil, the FOCA teams boycotted the San Marino Grand Prix, leaving Renault and Ferrari as the only front-running teams in that race. Tyrrell was also forced to compete due to sponsorship obligations. In the race, both Renault cars broke down, leaving the Ferraris running alone in front, with Gilles Villeneuve ahead of Didier Pironi. Near the end of the race, the Ferrari team ordered the drivers to slow down to conserve fuel and reduce the risk of mechanical failure. Villeneuve thought this meant that Pironi was supposed to stay in second place, but Pironi didn't see it this way and passed Villeneuve on the last lap for the win. Villeneuve was irate, and swore he would never speak to Pironi again. This promise was fulfilled, as in the next race, in Belgium, Villeneuve was killed in qualifying. He was on his hot lap, with Jochen Mass cooling down in front of him. Mass moved to the inside to let Villeneuve through at the first half of Terlamen, just as Villeneuve moved to the inside to pass. Villeneuve' Ferrari struck Jochen Mass's car, throwing the Ferrari into the air. Villeneuve was catapulted out of the wreck in midair, across the top of the corner, ejecting him right into the fencing, without his helmet, which flew off his head due to the immense G-Forces of the impact. Villeneuve didn't stand a chance. Ferrari withdrew from the race, and John Watson won for McLaren after Rosberg spun off the track in the final laps.
The next race in Monaco was an instant classic. The Renaults led from the start, with Arnoux ahead of Prost. Arnoux spun out of the race at about half distance, leaving Prost with a dominating lead. However, in the final laps rain began to fall on the track, leading to absolute chaos. Keke Rosberg, Michele Alboreto, Alain Prost, and Derek Daly (Williams) all crashed while in potential race-winning positions in the final laps. Patrese spun and stalled the lead away, while Pironi, Andrea de Cesaris (Alfa Romeo), and Daly (who managed to keep running despite his crash) all had their cars stop with mechanical failures while leading on the last lap. Amid the chaos, Patrese managed to bump-start his car by coasting down a hill and finish his last lap to take his first career win.
Watson won again at Detroit, before tragedy struck again in Canada. Pironi qualified on pole, but stalled at the start. His stationary car was hit by the Osella of young Italian Riccardo Paletti, who was killed in the impact, and resultant fire. Piquet won the re-started race. Pironi came back to take a dominant victory in Holland, where Arnoux was lucky to escape uninjured from a massive crash after his Renault's throttle stuck open.
Lauda won in Britain, but the real star of the race was Derek Warwick, who hustled the unfancied Toleman into second place late in the race and was closing on Lauda before the car broke down. The next race in Le Castellet's Circuit Paul Ricard saw Frenchman Arnoux take victory in his French Renault, which was popular with the crowd but not with the team, as Arnoux was supposed to give the win to teammate Prost to help the latter's championship cause. As it was, Pironi seemed poised to run away with the title, but his quest was ended prematurely at the next race in Germany. During a wet qualifying session, Pironi plowed into the back of Prost's Renault. The Ferrari was launched into the air in an eerily similar accident to the one that killed Villeneuve. Fortunately, Pironi was not thrown from the car, but he suffered career-ending leg injuries. Ferrari chose to compete in the next day's race, and Patrick Tambay (who Ferrari had picked to replace Villeneuve) took a somber win after Piquet crashed out of the lead while lapping Eliseo Salazar (Piquet famously punched Salazar for his trouble).
Elio De Angelis scored his first win in Austria, as Rosberg's last-lap lunge for the win came up 0.050 seconds short. However, Rosberg was not to be denied at the next race, a second French round in Dijon-Prenois named the 'Grand Prix of Switzerland' (motor racing was prohibited in Switzerland at the time; many Swiss automobile clubs race in Dijon). After toiling in the mid-field for the first half of the race, the Finn went on a charge, and was on Prost's tail on what should have been the penultimate lap. The French clerk of the course attempted to end the race a lap early (with the Frenchman Prost in the lead), but was physically restrained by a Williams team member. Rosberg passed Prost on the subsequent lap, and held the lead for an extra lap as the clerk let the race run one lap beyond its scheduled distance.
Suddenly, Rosberg (who had scored zero points the previous season) was leading the championship. He duly held onto that lead in Italy (where Arnoux beat the two Ferraris) and in the final round at Las Vegas (where Alboreto took an unlikely win) to become the first Finnish World Champion.

Season review

Round	Race	Date	Location	Winning driver	Constructor	Report
1	South African Grand Prix	January 23	Kyalami	Alain Prost	Renault	Report
2	Brazilian Grand Prix	March 21	Jacarepaguá	Alain Prost	Renault	Report
3	United States Grand Prix West	April 4	Long Beach	Niki Lauda	McLaren-Ford	Report
4	San Marino Grand Prix	April 25	Imola	Didier Pironi	Ferrari	Report
5	Belgian Grand Prix	May 9	Zolder	John Watson	McLaren-Ford	Report
6	Monaco Grand Prix	May 23	Monaco	Riccardo Patrese	Brabham-Ford	Report
7	United States Grand Prix East	June 6	Detroit	John Watson	McLaren-Ford	Report
8	Canadian Grand Prix	June 13	Circuit Gilles Villeneuve	Nelson Piquet	Brabham-BMW	Report
9	Dutch Grand Prix	July 3	Zandvoort	Didier Pironi	Ferrari	Report
10	British Grand Prix	July 18	Brands Hatch	Niki Lauda	McLaren-Ford	Report
11	French Grand Prix	July 25	Paul Ricard	René Arnoux	Renault	Report
12	German Grand Prix	August 8	Hockenheimring	Patrick Tambay	Ferrari	Report
13	Austrian Grand Prix	August 15	Österreichring	Elio de Angelis	Lotus-Ford	Report
14	Swiss Grand Prix	August 29	Dijon	Keke Rosberg	Williams-Ford	Report
15	Italian Grand Prix	September 12	Monza	René Arnoux	Renault	Report
16	22x20px Las Vegas Grand Prix	September 25	Las Vegas	Michele Alboreto	Tyrrell-Ford	Report

1982 Constructors Championship final standings

Place	Constructor	Chassis	Engine	Tyre	Points	Wins	Podiums	Poles
1	Ferrari	126C2	Ferrari 021		74	3	11	3
2	McLaren-Ford	MP4/1B	Ford Cosworth DFV		69	4	8
3	Renault	RE30B	Renault-Gordini EF1		62	4	8	10
4	Williams-Ford	FW07D FW08	Ford Cosworth DFV		58	1	7	1
5	Lotus-Ford	87B 91	Ford Cosworth DFV		30	1	2
6	Tyrrell-Ford	011	Ford Cosworth DFV		25	1	2
7	Brabham-BMW	BT50	BMW M12/13		22	1	2	1
8	Ligier-Matra	JS17 JS17B JS19	Matra MS81		20		4
9	Brabham-Ford	BT49D	Ford Cosworth DFV		19	1	3
10	Alfa Romeo	179D 182 182B	Alfa Romeo 1260		7		1	1
11	Arrows-Ford	A3 A4 A5	Ford Cosworth DFV		5
12	ATS-Ford	D5	Ford Cosworth DFV		4
13	Osella-Ford	FA1C FA1D	Ford Cosworth DFV		3
14	Fittipaldi-Ford	F8D F9	Ford Cosworth DFV		1
15	March-Ford	821	Ford Cosworth DFV
16	Theodore-Ford	TY01 TY02	Ford Cosworth DFV
17	Toleman-Hart	TG181C TG183	Hart 415T
18	Ensign-Ford	N180B N181	Ford Cosworth DFV

1982 Drivers Championship final standings

Pos Driver RSA BRA USW SMR BEL MON USE CAN NED GBR FRA GER AUT SUI ITA LVS 22x20px Points 1 Keke Rosberg 5 DSQ 2 2 Ret 4 Ret 3 Ret 5 3 2 1 8 5 '44' 2 Didier Pironi 18 6 Ret 1 WD 2 3 9 1 2 3 DNS '39' 3 John Watson 6 2 6 1 Ret 1 3 9 Ret Ret Ret 9 13 4 2 '39' 4 Alain Prost 1 1 Ret Ret Ret 7 NC Ret Ret 6 2 Ret 8 2 Ret 4 '34' 5 Niki Lauda 4 Ret 1 DSQ Ret Ret Ret 4 1 8 5 3 Ret Ret '30' 6 René Arnoux 3 Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret 10 Ret Ret Ret 1 2 Ret 16 1 Ret '28' 7 Patrick Tambay 8 3 4 1 4 Ret 2 DNS '25' 8 Michele Alboreto 7 4 4 3 Ret 10 Ret Ret 7 Ret 6 4 Ret 7 5 1 '25' 9 Elio de Angelis 8 Ret 5 4 5 Ret 4 Ret 4 Ret Ret 1 6 Ret Ret '23' 10 Riccardo Patrese Ret Ret 3 Ret 1 Ret 2 15 Ret Ret Ret Ret 5 Ret Ret '21' 11 Nelson Piquet Ret DSQ Ret 5 Ret DNQ 1 2 Ret Ret Ret Ret 4 Ret Ret '20' 12 Eddie Cheever Ret Ret Ret 3 Ret 2 10 DNQ Ret 16 Ret Ret Ret 6 3 '15' 13 Derek Daly 14 Ret Ret Ret 6 5 7 5 5 7 Ret Ret 9 Ret 6 '8' 14 Nigel Mansell Ret 3 7 Ret 4 Ret Ret Ret 9 Ret 8 7 Ret '7' 15 Gilles Villeneuve Ret Ret DSQ 2 DNS '6' 16 Carlos Reutemann 2 Ret '6' 17 Andrea de Cesaris 13 Ret Ret Ret Ret 3 Ret 6 Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret 10 10 9 '5' 18 Jacques Laffite Ret Ret Ret 9 Ret 6 Ret Ret Ret 14 Ret 3 Ret Ret Ret '5' 19 Mario Andretti Ret 3 Ret '4' 20 Jean-Pierre Jarier Ret 9 Ret 4 Ret DNQ Ret WD 14 Ret Ret Ret DNQ Ret Ret DNS '3' 21 Marc Surer 7 9 8 5 10 Ret 13 6 Ret 15 Ret 7 '3' 22 Bruno Giacomelli 11 Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret 11 7 9 5 Ret 12 Ret 10 '2' 23 Eliseo Salazar 9 Ret Ret 5 Ret Ret Ret Ret 13 DNQ Ret Ret DNQ 14 9 DNQ '2' 24 Manfred Winkelhock 10 5 Ret DSQ Ret Ret Ret DNQ 12 DNQ 11 Ret Ret Ret DNQ NC '2' 25 Mauro Baldi DNQ 10 DNQ Ret DNQ Ret 8 6 9 Ret Ret 6 DNQ 12 11 '2' 26 Chico Serra 17 Ret DNQ 6 DNPQ 11 DNQ Ret Ret 11 7 DNQ 11 DNQ '1' 27 Brian Henton DNQ DNQ Ret Ret Ret 8 9 NC Ret 8 10 7 Ret 11 Ret 8 '0' 28 Jochen Mass 12 8 8 Ret DNQ 7 11 Ret 10 Ret '0' 29 Slim Borgudd 16 7 10 '0' 30 Raul Boesel 15 Ret 9 8 DNPQ Ret Ret Ret DNQ DNQ Ret DNQ Ret DNQ 13 '0' 31 Roberto Guerrero DNQ DNQ Ret DNQ DNQ Ret Ret DNQ Ret DNQ 8 Ret Ret NC DNS '0' 32 Derek Warwick Ret DNQ DNQ Ret Ret DNQ Ret Ret 15 10 Ret Ret Ret Ret '0' 33 Rupert Keegan DNQ Ret Ret DNQ 12 '0' 34 Geoff Lees Ret 12 '0' — Teo Fabi DNQ DNQ DNQ NC Ret DNPQ DNQ Ret Ret DNQ Ret Ret Ret DNQ '0' — Riccardo Paletti DNQ DNQ DNQ Ret DNPQ DNPQ Ret Ret '0' — Tommy Byrne DNQ Ret DNQ DNQ Ret '0' — Jan Lammers DNQ DNQ DNQ Ret DNQ DNQ '0' — Emilio de Villota DNPQ DNPQ DNQ DNQ DNPQ '0' — Roberto Moreno DNQ '0' Pos Driver RSA BRA USW SMR BEL MON USE CAN NED GBR FRA GER AUT SUI ITA LVS 22x20px Points

Place	Driver	Number	Country	Points	Wins	Podiums	Poles
1	Keke Rosberg	6	Finland	44	1	6	1
2	Didier Pironi	28	France	39	2	6	2
3	John Watson	7	Britain	39	2	5
4	Alain Prost	15	France	34	2	4	5
5	Niki Lauda	8	Austria	30	2	3
6	René Arnoux	16	France	28	2	4	5
7	Patrick Tambay	27	France	25	1	3
8	Michele Alboreto	3	Italy	25	1	2
9	Elio de Angelis	11	Italy	23	1	1
10	Riccardo Patrese	2	Italy	21	1	3
11	Nelson Piquet	1	Brazil	20	1	2	1
12	Eddie Cheever	25	USA	15		3
13	Derek Daly	5	Ireland	8
14	Nigel Mansell	12	Britain	7		1
15	Gilles Villeneuve	27	Canada	6		1
16	Carlos Reutemann	5	Argentina	6		1
17	Andrea de Cesaris	22	Italy	5		1	1
18	Jacques Laffite	26	France	5		1
19	Mario Andretti	28	USA	4		1	1
20	Jean-Pierre Jarier	31	France	3
21	Marc Surer	29	Switzerland	3
22	Bruno Giacomelli	23	Italy	2
23	Eliseo Salazar	10	Chile	2
24	Manfred Winkelhock	9	Germany	2
25	Mauro Baldi	30	Italy	2
26	Chico Serra	20	Brazil	1
27	Brian Henton	4	Britain	0
28	Jochen Mass	17	Germany	0
29	Slim Borgudd	4	Sweden	0
30	Raul Boesel	18	Brazil	0
31	Roberto Guerrero	14	Colombia	0
32	Derek Warwick	35	Britain	0
33	Rupert Keegan	17	USA	0
34	Geoff Lees	12	Britain	0
—	Teo Fabi	36	Italy	0
—	Riccardo Paletti	32	Italy	0
—	Tommy Byrne	33	Ireland	0
—	Jan Lammers	33	Netherlands	0
—	Emilio de Villota	19	Spain	0
—	Roberto Moreno	12	Brazil	0

External links

★ 1982 Formula 1 review