Race · Round 7 of 16 · 6 June 1982

1982 Detroit Grand Prix

John Watson won for McLaren from 17th on the grid at Detroit Street Circuit. 14 of the starters were not classified.

Dry · High of 23 °C, no rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

ERA5's reanalysis, through Open-Meteo, of the circuit's whole local day and not the race's hours, for the grid cell the circuit sits in and not the track, so a shower can be missing from it. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.

Circuit: Detroit Street CircuitDetroit, Michigan, United States of America
Winner: John WatsonMcLaren
Pole: Alain Prost
Fastest lap: Alain Prost
Entries: 2911 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	John Watson	McLaren	MP4/1B	17	62	Finished	9
2	Eddie Cheever	Ligier	—	9	62	Finished	6
3	Didier Pironi	Ferrari	126C2	4	62	Finished	4
4	Keke Rosberg	Williams	—	3	62	Finished	3
5	Derek Daly	Williams	—	12	62	Finished	2
6	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	—	13	61	Finished	1
7	Jochen Mass	March	821	18	61	Finished	0
8	Marc Surer	Arrows	—	19	61	Finished	0
9	Brian Henton	Tyrrell	9	20	60	Finished	0
10	Rene Arnoux	Renault	RE30B	15	59	Finished	0
11	Chico Serra	Fittipaldi	—	26	59	Finished	0
NC	Alain Prost	Renault	RE30B	1	54	NC	0	fastest lap
DNF	Nigel Mansell	Team Lotus	—	7	44	Engine	0
DNF	Niki Lauda	McLaren	MP4/1B	10	40	Collision	0
DNF	Michele Alboreto	Tyrrell	9	16	40	Spun off	0
DNF	Bruno Giacomelli	Alfa Romeo	—	6	30	Collision	0
DNF	Elio de Angelis	Team Lotus	—	8	17	Gearbox	0
DNF	Eliseo Salazar	ATS	D5	25	13	Spun off	0
DNF	Roberto Guerrero	Ensign	—	11	6	Collision	0
DNF	Riccardo Patrese	Brabham	—	14	6	Collision	0
DNF	Andrea de Cesaris	Alfa Romeo	—	2	2	Transmission	0
DNF	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Osella	—	22	2	Ignition	0
DNF	Manfred Winkelhock	ATS	D5	5	1	Spun off	0
DNF	Raul Boesel	March	821	21	0	Collision	0
DNF	Mauro Baldi	Arrows	—	24	0	Collision	0
DNS	Riccardo Paletti	Osella	—	23	—	DNS	0
DNQ	Emilio de Villota	March	821	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	BT50	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Jan Lammers	Theodore	—	—	—	DNQ	0

A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.

F1DB layout detroit-1 · 4.168 km · 24 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
John Watson	17	1	62
Eddie Cheever	9	2	62
Didier Pironi	4	3	62
Keke Rosberg	3	4	62
Derek Daly	12	5	62
Jacques Laffite	13	6	61
Jochen Mass	18	7	61
Marc Surer	19	8	61
Brian Henton	20	9	60
Rene Arnoux	15	10	59
Chico Serra	26	11	59
Alain Prost	1	NC	54
Nigel Mansell	7	DNF	44
Niki Lauda	10	DNF	40
Michele Alboreto	16	DNF	40
Bruno Giacomelli	6	DNF	30
Elio de Angelis	8	DNF	17
Eliseo Salazar	25	DNF	13
Roberto Guerrero	11	DNF	6
Riccardo Patrese	14	DNF	6
Andrea de Cesaris	2	DNF	2
Jean-Pierre Jarier	22	DNF	2
Manfred Winkelhock	5	DNF	1
Raul Boesel	21	DNF	0
Mauro Baldi	24	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Alain Prost	Renault	15	1:48.537	—	0 m	—
2	Andrea de Cesaris	Alfa Romeo	22	1:48.872	+0.335	13 m	+0.335
3	Keke Rosberg	Williams	6	1:49.264	+0.727	28 m	+0.392
4	Didier Pironi	Ferrari	28	1:49.903	+1.366	52 m	+0.639
5	Manfred Winkelhock	ATS	9	1:50.066	+1.529	59 m	+0.163
6	Bruno Giacomelli	Alfa Romeo	23	1:50.252	+1.715	66 m	+0.186
7	Nigel Mansell	Team Lotus	12	1:50.294	+1.757	67 m	+0.042
8	Elio de Angelis	Team Lotus	11	1:50.443	+1.906	73 m	+0.149
9	Eddie Cheever	Ligier	25	1:50.520	+1.983	76 m	+0.077
10	Niki Lauda	McLaren	8	1:51.026	+2.489	96 m	+0.506
11	Roberto Guerrero	Ensign	14	1:51.039	+2.502	96 m	+0.013
12	Derek Daly	Williams	5	1:51.227	+2.690	103 m	+0.188
13	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:51.270	+2.733	105 m	+0.043
14	Riccardo Patrese	Brabham	2	1:51.508	+2.971	114 m	+0.238
15	Rene Arnoux	Renault	16	1:51.514	+2.977	114 m	+0.006
16	Michele Alboreto	Tyrrell	3	1:51.618	+3.081	118 m	+0.104
17	John Watson	McLaren	7	1:51.868	+3.331	128 m	+0.250
18	Jochen Mass	March	17	1:52.271	+3.734	143 m	+0.403
19	Marc Surer	Arrows	29	1:52.316	+3.779	145 m	+0.045
20	Brian Henton	Tyrrell	4	1:52.867	+4.330	166 m	+0.551
21	Raul Boesel	March	18	1:52.870	+4.333	166 m	+0.003
22	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Osella	31	1:52.988	+4.451	171 m	+0.118
23	Riccardo Paletti	Osella	32	1:54.084	+5.547	213 m	+1.096
24	Mauro Baldi	Arrows	30	1:54.332	+5.795	223 m	+0.248
25	Eliseo Salazar	ATS	10	1:55.633	+7.096	272 m	+1.301
26	Chico Serra	Fittipaldi	20	1:55.848	+7.311	281 m	+0.215
27	Emilio de Villota	March	19	1:56.589	+8.052	309 m	+0.741
28	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	1	1:57.779	+9.242	355 m	+1.190
29	Jan Lammers	Theodore	33	—	—	—	—

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Pit stops

Pit stops are recorded from 1994. F1DB, the source of every stop here, holds none before then, so this race has no stints to draw.

The cars in this race

The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.

A photograph marked unchecked has a file name that does not name the car it is shown for. Most are still the right car, filed under the driver rather than the machine — but nobody has confirmed these one by one.

1 more photograph

Brabham BT50
Patrese at 1982 Dutch Grand Prix crop · Hans van Dijk for Anefo / neg. stroken, 1945-1989, 2.24.01.05, item number 932-2347 derivative work: Sporti · CC BY-SA 3.0 nl · unchecked

Where this comes from

Round: 7 of 1982
Grand Prix: Detroit Grand Prix
Dates: 6 Jun 1982
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: McLaren
Entrant: McLaren-Ford
Confidence: reference

No layout is recorded for this round: this register has no layout timeline for the circuit, and a blank here is better than a guess.