Race · Round 1 of 15 · 13 March 1983

1983 Brazilian Grand Prix

Nelson Piquet won for Brabham from 4th on the grid at Jacarepagua. 12 of the starters were not classified.

Dry · High of 31 °C, 9.4 mm of 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: JacarepaguaRio de Janeiro, Brazil
Winner: Nelson PiquetBrabham
Pole: Keke Rosberg
Fastest lap: Nelson Piquet
Entries: 2814 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	—	4	63	Finished	9	fastest lap
3	Niki Lauda	McLaren	MP4/1C	9	63	Finished	4
4	Jacques Laffite	Williams	FW08C	18	63	Finished	3
5	Patrick Tambay	Ferrari	—	3	63	Finished	2
6	Marc Surer	Arrows	A6	20	63	Finished	1
7	Alain Prost	Renault	—	2	62	Finished	0
8	Derek Warwick	Toleman	TG183B	5	62	Finished	0
9	Chico Serra	Arrows	A6	23	62	Finished	0
10	Rene Arnoux	Ferrari	—	6	62	Finished	0
11	Danny Sullivan	Tyrrell	—	21	62	Finished	0
12	Nigel Mansell	Team Lotus	92	22	61	Finished	0
13	Johnny Cecotto	Theodore	N183	19	60	Finished	0
14	Eliseo Salazar	RAM	1	26	59	Finished	0
15	Manfred Winkelhock	ATS	D6	25	59	Finished	0
DSQ	Keke Rosberg	Williams	FW08C	1	63	Push start in pits	0
DSQ	Elio de Angelis	Team Lotus	92	13	60	Illegal car change	0
NC	Roberto Guerrero	Theodore	N183	14	53	NC	0
DNF	Eddie Cheever	Renault	—	8	41	Brakes	0
DNF	John Watson	McLaren	MP4/1C	16	34	Engine	0
DNF	Raul Boesel	Ligier	JS21	17	25	Engine	0
DNF	Mauro Baldi	Alfa Romeo	183T	10	23	Collision	0
DNF	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Ligier	JS21	12	22	Suspension	0
DNF	Riccardo Patrese	Brabham	—	7	19	Exhaust	0
DNF	Corrado Fabi	Osella	FA1D	24	17	Engine	0
DNF	Bruno Giacomelli	Toleman	TG183B	15	16	Spun off	0
DNF	Michele Alboreto	Tyrrell	—	11	7	Engine	0
DNQ	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Osella	FA1D	—	—	DNQ	0
EX	Andrea de Cesaris	Alfa Romeo	183T	—	—	Missed weight check	0

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

F1DB layout jacarepagua-1 · 5.031 km · 11 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
Nelson Piquet	4	1	63
Niki Lauda	9	3	63
Jacques Laffite	18	4	63
Patrick Tambay	3	5	63
Marc Surer	20	6	63
Alain Prost	2	7	62
Derek Warwick	5	8	62
Chico Serra	23	9	62
Rene Arnoux	6	10	62
Danny Sullivan	21	11	62
Nigel Mansell	22	12	61
Johnny Cecotto	19	13	60
Eliseo Salazar	26	14	59
Manfred Winkelhock	25	15	59
Keke Rosberg	1	DSQ	63
Elio de Angelis	13	DSQ	60
Roberto Guerrero	14	NC	53
Eddie Cheever	8	DNF	41
John Watson	16	DNF	34
Raul Boesel	17	DNF	25
Mauro Baldi	10	DNF	23
Jean-Pierre Jarier	12	DNF	22
Riccardo Patrese	7	DNF	19
Corrado Fabi	24	DNF	17
Bruno Giacomelli	15	DNF	16
Michele Alboreto	11	DNF	7

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Keke Rosberg	Williams	1	1:34.526	—	0 m	—
2	Alain Prost	Renault	15	1:34.672	+0.146	8 m	+0.146
3	Patrick Tambay	Ferrari	27	1:34.758	+0.232	12 m	+0.086
4	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	5	1:35.114	+0.588	31 m	+0.356
5	Derek Warwick	Toleman	35	1:35.206	+0.680	36 m	+0.092
6	Rene Arnoux	Ferrari	28	1:35.547	+1.021	54 m	+0.341
7	Riccardo Patrese	Brabham	6	1:35.958	+1.432	76 m	+0.411
8	Eddie Cheever	Renault	16	1:36.051	+1.525	81 m	+0.093
9	Niki Lauda	McLaren	8	1:36.054	+1.528	81 m	+0.003
10	Mauro Baldi	Alfa Romeo	23	1:36.126	+1.600	85 m	+0.072
11	Michele Alboreto	Tyrrell	3	1:36.291	+1.765	94 m	+0.165
12	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Ligier	25	1:36.393	+1.867	99 m	+0.102
13	Elio de Angelis	Team Lotus	11	1:36.454	+1.928	103 m	+0.061
14	Roberto Guerrero	Theodore	33	1:36.694	+2.168	115 m	+0.240
15	Bruno Giacomelli	Toleman	36	1:36.747	+2.221	118 m	+0.053
16	John Watson	McLaren	7	1:36.977	+2.451	130 m	+0.230
17	Raul Boesel	Ligier	26	1:37.729	+3.203	170 m	+0.752
18	Jacques Laffite	Williams	2	1:38.234	+3.708	197 m	+0.505
19	Johnny Cecotto	Theodore	34	1:38.378	+3.852	205 m	+0.144
20	Marc Surer	Arrows	29	1:38.468	+3.942	210 m	+0.090
21	Danny Sullivan	Tyrrell	4	1:38.686	+4.160	221 m	+0.218
22	Nigel Mansell	Team Lotus	12	1:39.154	+4.628	246 m	+0.468
23	Chico Serra	Arrows	30	1:39.965	+5.439	289 m	+0.811
24	Corrado Fabi	Osella	31	1:40.309	+5.783	308 m	+0.344
25	Manfred Winkelhock	ATS	9	1:41.153	+6.627	353 m	+0.844
26	Eliseo Salazar	RAM	17	1:41.478	+6.952	370 m	+0.325
27	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Osella	32	1:42.267	+7.741	412 m	+0.789
EX	Andrea de Cesaris	Alfa Romeo	22	—	—	—	—

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.

2 more photographs

Where this comes from

Round: 1 of 1983
Grand Prix: Brazilian Grand Prix
Dates: 13 Mar 1983
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Brabham
Entrant: Brabham-BMW
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.