1982 French Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 11 of 16 in the 1982 Formula One season | |||
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| Date | July 25, 1982 | ||
| Location | Paul Ricard Circuit | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 5.809 km (3.61 mi) | ||
| Distance | 54 laps, 313.686 km (194.94 mi) | ||
| Weather | Dry | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Renault | ||
| Time | 1:34.406 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Riccardo Patrese | Brabham-BMW | |
| Time | 1:40.075 on lap 4 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Renault | ||
| Second | Renault | ||
| Third | Ferrari | ||
The 1982 French Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Paul Ricard on July 25, 1982. Six turbo-charged cars completed the first 6 grid positions, and 4 turbo-charged cars driven by 4 French drivers finished in the top 4 places, and the French Renault team finished 1-2 with René Arnoux winning and Alain Prost finishing second, but under sour circumstances- as Arnoux violated a pre-race agreement that if he and Prost were 1st and 2nd, Arnoux would let Prost by to help his better championship standing.
Jochen Mass and Mauro Baldi collided at Signes and Mass's car went through the catch fencing into the tyre walls, catapulted itself into the crowd and caught fire. No one was hurt, apart from Mass, who had burns on his hands. The West German driver retired from Formula One immediately after this crash.
Classification
| Pos | No | Driver | Constructor | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 |  René Arnoux |
Renault | 54 | 1:33:33.217 | 1 | 9 |
| 2 | 15 | Alain Prost |
Renault | 54 | + 17.308 | 2 | 6 |
| 3 | 28 | Didier Pironi |
Ferrari | 54 | + 42.128 | 3 | 4 |
| 4 | 27 | Patrick Tambay |
Ferrari | 54 | + 1:16.241 | 5 | 3 |
| 5 | 6 |  Keke Rosberg |
Williams-Ford | 54 | + 1:30.994 | 10 | 2 |
| 6 | 3 | Michele Alboreto |
Tyrrell-Ford | 54 | + 1:32.339 | 15 | 1 |
| 7 | 5 |  Derek Daly |
Williams-Ford | 53 | + 1 Lap | 11 | |
| 8 | 8 |  Niki Lauda |
McLaren-Ford | 53 | + 1 lap | 9 | |
| 9 | 23 | Bruno Giacomelli |
Alfa Romeo | 53 | + 1 Lap | 8 | |
| 10 | 4 |  Brian Henton |
Tyrrell-Ford | 53 | + 1 Lap | 23 | |
| 11 | 9 |  Manfred Winkelhock |
ATS-Ford | 52 | + 2 Laps | 18 | |
| 12 | 12 | Geoff Lees |
Lotus-Ford | 52 | + 2 Laps | 24 | |
| 13 | 29 |  Marc Surer |
Arrows-Ford | 52 | + 2 Laps | 20 | |
| 14 | 26 | Jacques Laffite |
Ligier-Matra | 51 | + 3 Laps | 16 | |
| 15 | 35 | Derek Warwick |
Toleman-Hart | 50 | + 4 Laps | 14 | |
| 16 | 25 |  Eddie Cheever |
Ligier-Matra | 49 | + 5 Laps | 19 | |
| Ret | 22 | Andrea de Cesaris |
Alfa Romeo | 25 | Spun Off | 7 | |
| Ret | 1 |  Nelson Piquet |
Brabham-BMW | 23 | Engine | 6 | |
| Ret | 11 | Elio de Angelis |
Lotus-Ford | 17 | Fuel System | 13 | |
| Ret | 7 | John Watson |
McLaren-Ford | 13 | Electrical | 12 | |
| Ret | 17 | Jochen Mass |
March-Ford | 10 | Collision | 26 | |
| Ret | 30 | Mauro Baldi |
Arrows-Ford | 10 | Collision | 25 | |
| Ret | 2 | Riccardo Patrese |
Brabham-BMW | 8 | Engine | 4 | |
| Ret | 10 |  Eliseo Salazar |
ATS-Ford | 2 | Spun Off | 22 | |
| Ret | 31 | Jean-Pierre Jarier |
Osella-Ford | 0 | Halfshaft | 17 | |
| Ret | 36 | Teo Fabi |
Toleman-Hart | 0 | Electrical | 21 | |
| DNQ | 33 |  Jan Lammers |
Theodore-Ford | ||||
| DNQ | 14 |  Roberto Guerrero |
Ensign-Ford | ||||
| DNQ | 20 | Chico Serra |
Fittipaldi-Ford | ||||
| DNQ | 18 | Raul Boesel |
March-Ford | ||||
Source:[1] | |||||||
Championship standings after the race
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- Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
References
- ↑ "1982 French Grand Prix". formula1.com. Archived from the original on 4 November 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
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