Race · Round 14 of 15 · 25 September 1983

1983 European Grand Prix

Nelson Piquet won for Brabham from 4th on the grid at Brands Hatch. 11 of the starters were not classified.

Dry · High of 17 °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: Brands HatchWest Kingsdown, Kent, United Kingdom
Winner: Nelson PiquetBrabham
Pole: Elio de Angelis
Fastest lap: Nigel Mansell
Entries: 2915 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	—	4	76	Finished	9
2	Alain Prost	Renault	—	8	76	Finished	6
3	Nigel Mansell	Team Lotus	—	3	76	Finished	4	fastest lap
4	Andrea de Cesaris	Alfa Romeo	183T	14	76	Finished	3
5	Derek Warwick	Toleman	TG183B	11	76	Finished	2
6	Bruno Giacomelli	Toleman	TG183B	12	76	Finished	1
7	Riccardo Patrese	Brabham	—	2	76	Finished	0
8	Manfred Winkelhock	ATS	D6	9	75	Finished	0
9	Rene Arnoux	Ferrari	—	5	75	Finished	0
10	Eddie Cheever	Renault	—	7	75	Finished	0
11	Thierry Boutsen	Arrows	A6	18	75	Finished	0
12	Roberto Guerrero	Theodore	N183	21	75	Finished	0
13	Jonathan Palmer	Williams	FW08C	25	74	Finished	0
14	Stefan Johansson	Spirit	—	19	74	Finished	0
15	Raul Boesel	Ligier	JS21	23	73	Finished	0
DNF	Patrick Tambay	Ferrari	—	6	67	Spun off	0
DNF	Michele Alboreto	Tyrrell	—	26	64	Engine	0
NC	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Osella	FA1E	24	63	NC	0
DNF	Marc Surer	Arrows	A6	17	50	Engine	0
DNF	Keke Rosberg	Williams	FW08C	16	43	Engine	0
DNF	Mauro Baldi	Alfa Romeo	183T	15	39	Clutch	0
DNF	John Watson	McLaren	MP4/1E	10	36	Spun off	0
DNF	Danny Sullivan	Tyrrell	—	20	27	Oil leak	0
DNF	Niki Lauda	McLaren	MP4/1E	13	25	Engine	0
DNF	Elio de Angelis	Team Lotus	—	1	12	Oil pump	0
DNF	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Ligier	JS21	22	0	Clutch	0
DNQ	Kenny Acheson	RAM	1	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Corrado Fabi	Osella	FA1E	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Jacques Laffite	Williams	FW08C	—	—	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 brands-hatch-2 · 4.207 km · 9 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	76
Alain Prost	8	2	76
Nigel Mansell	3	3	76
Andrea de Cesaris	14	4	76
Derek Warwick	11	5	76
Bruno Giacomelli	12	6	76
Riccardo Patrese	2	7	76
Manfred Winkelhock	9	8	75
Rene Arnoux	5	9	75
Eddie Cheever	7	10	75
Thierry Boutsen	18	11	75
Roberto Guerrero	21	12	75
Jonathan Palmer	25	13	74
Stefan Johansson	19	14	74
Raul Boesel	23	15	73
Patrick Tambay	6	DNF	67
Michele Alboreto	26	DNF	64
Piercarlo Ghinzani	24	NC	63
Marc Surer	17	DNF	50
Keke Rosberg	16	DNF	43
Mauro Baldi	15	DNF	39
John Watson	10	DNF	36
Danny Sullivan	20	DNF	27
Niki Lauda	13	DNF	25
Elio de Angelis	1	DNF	12
Jean-Pierre Jarier	22	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Elio de Angelis	Team Lotus	11	1:12.092	—	0 m	—
2	Riccardo Patrese	Brabham	6	1:12.458	+0.366	21 m	+0.366
3	Nigel Mansell	Team Lotus	12	1:12.623	+0.531	31 m	+0.165
4	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	5	1:12.724	+0.632	37 m	+0.101
5	Rene Arnoux	Ferrari	28	1:13.113	+1.021	60 m	+0.389
6	Patrick Tambay	Ferrari	27	1:13.157	+1.065	62 m	+0.044
7	Eddie Cheever	Renault	16	1:13.253	+1.161	68 m	+0.096
8	Alain Prost	Renault	15	1:13.342	+1.250	73 m	+0.089
9	Manfred Winkelhock	ATS	9	1:13.679	+1.587	93 m	+0.337
10	John Watson	McLaren	7	1:13.783	+1.691	99 m	+0.104
11	Derek Warwick	Toleman	35	1:13.855	+1.763	103 m	+0.072
12	Bruno Giacomelli	Toleman	36	1:13.949	+1.857	108 m	+0.094
13	Niki Lauda	McLaren	8	1:13.972	+1.880	110 m	+0.023
14	Andrea de Cesaris	Alfa Romeo	22	1:14.403	+2.311	135 m	+0.431
15	Mauro Baldi	Alfa Romeo	23	1:14.727	+2.635	154 m	+0.324
16	Keke Rosberg	Williams	1	1:14.917	+2.825	165 m	+0.190
17	Marc Surer	Arrows	29	1:15.346	+3.254	190 m	+0.429
18	Thierry Boutsen	Arrows	30	1:15.428	+3.336	195 m	+0.082
19	Stefan Johansson	Spirit	40	1:15.912	+3.820	223 m	+0.484
20	Danny Sullivan	Tyrrell	4	1:16.640	+4.548	265 m	+0.728
21	Roberto Guerrero	Theodore	33	1:16.769	+4.677	273 m	+0.129
22	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Ligier	25	1:16.880	+4.788	279 m	+0.111
23	Raul Boesel	Ligier	26	1:17.177	+5.085	297 m	+0.297
24	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Osella	32	1:17.408	+5.316	310 m	+0.231
25	Jonathan Palmer	Williams	42	1:17.432	+5.340	312 m	+0.024
26	Michele Alboreto	Tyrrell	3	1:17.456	+5.364	313 m	+0.024
27	Kenny Acheson	RAM	17	1:17.577	+5.485	320 m	+0.121
28	Corrado Fabi	Osella	31	1:17.816	+5.724	334 m	+0.239
29	Jacques Laffite	Williams	2	1:18.261	+6.169	360 m	+0.445

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.

1 more photograph

Where this comes from

Round: 14 of 1983
Grand Prix: European Grand Prix
Dates: 25 Sep 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.