Race · Round 15 of 15 · 15 October 1983

1983 South African Grand Prix

Riccardo Patrese won for Brabham from 3rd on the grid at Kyalami. 14 of the starters were not classified.

Dry · High of 26 °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: KyalamiMidrand, South Africa
Winner: Riccardo PatreseBrabham
Pole: Patrick Tambay
Fastest lap: Nelson Piquet
Entries: 2612 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Riccardo Patrese	Brabham	—	3	77	Finished	9
2	Andrea de Cesaris	Alfa Romeo	183T	9	77	Finished	6
3	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	—	2	77	Finished	4	fastest lap
4	Derek Warwick	Toleman	TG183B	13	76	Finished	3
5	Keke Rosberg	Williams	FW09	6	76	Finished	2
6	Eddie Cheever	Renault	—	14	76	Finished	1
7	Danny Sullivan	Tyrrell	—	19	75	Finished	0
8	Marc Surer	Arrows	A6	22	75	Finished	0
9	Thierry Boutsen	Arrows	A6	20	74	Finished	0
10	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Ligier	JS21	21	73	Finished	0
11	Niki Lauda	McLaren	MP4/1E	12	71	Electrical	0
12	Kenny Acheson	RAM	1	24	71	Finished	0
NC	Nigel Mansell	Team Lotus	—	7	68	NC	0
NC	Raul Boesel	Ligier	JS21	23	66	NC	0
DNF	Michele Alboreto	Tyrrell	—	18	60	Engine	0
DNF	Patrick Tambay	Ferrari	—	1	56	Turbo	0
DNF	Bruno Giacomelli	Toleman	TG183B	16	56	Turbo	0
DNF	Alain Prost	Renault	—	5	35	Turbo	0
DNF	Corrado Fabi	Osella	FA1E	25	28	Engine	0
DNF	Elio de Angelis	Team Lotus	—	11	20	Engine	0
DSQ	John Watson	McLaren	MP4/1E	15	18	Overtaking on formation lap	0
DNF	Rene Arnoux	Ferrari	—	4	9	Engine	0
DNF	Mauro Baldi	Alfa Romeo	183T	17	5	Engine	0
DNF	Manfred Winkelhock	ATS	D6	8	1	Engine	0
DNF	Jacques Laffite	Williams	FW09	10	1	Spun off	0
DNF	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Osella	FA1E	26	1	Engine	0

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

F1DB layout kyalami-1 · 4.094 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
Riccardo Patrese	3	1	77
Andrea de Cesaris	9	2	77
Nelson Piquet	2	3	77
Derek Warwick	13	4	76
Keke Rosberg	6	5	76
Eddie Cheever	14	6	76
Danny Sullivan	19	7	75
Marc Surer	22	8	75
Thierry Boutsen	20	9	74
Jean-Pierre Jarier	21	10	73
Niki Lauda	12	11	71
Kenny Acheson	24	12	71
Nigel Mansell	7	NC	68
Raul Boesel	23	NC	66
Michele Alboreto	18	DNF	60
Patrick Tambay	1	DNF	56
Bruno Giacomelli	16	DNF	56
Alain Prost	5	DNF	35
Corrado Fabi	25	DNF	28
Elio de Angelis	11	DNF	20
John Watson	15	DSQ	18
Rene Arnoux	4	DNF	9
Mauro Baldi	17	DNF	5
Manfred Winkelhock	8	DNF	1
Jacques Laffite	10	DNF	1
Piercarlo Ghinzani	26	DNF	1

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Patrick Tambay	Ferrari	27	1:06.554	—	0 m	—
2	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	5	1:06.792	+0.238	15 m	+0.238
3	Riccardo Patrese	Brabham	6	1:07.001	+0.447	27 m	+0.209
4	Rene Arnoux	Ferrari	28	1:07.105	+0.551	34 m	+0.104
5	Alain Prost	Renault	15	1:07.186	+0.632	39 m	+0.081
6	Keke Rosberg	Williams	1	1:07.256	+0.702	43 m	+0.070
7	Nigel Mansell	Team Lotus	12	1:07.643	+1.089	67 m	+0.387
8	Manfred Winkelhock	ATS	9	1:07.682	+1.128	69 m	+0.039
9	Andrea de Cesaris	Alfa Romeo	22	1:07.759	+1.205	74 m	+0.077
10	Jacques Laffite	Williams	2	1:07.931	+1.377	85 m	+0.172
11	Elio de Angelis	Team Lotus	11	1:07.937	+1.383	85 m	+0.006
12	Niki Lauda	McLaren	8	1:07.974	+1.420	87 m	+0.037
13	Derek Warwick	Toleman	35	1:08.061	+1.507	93 m	+0.087
14	Eddie Cheever	Renault	16	1:08.069	+1.515	93 m	+0.008
15	John Watson	McLaren	7	1:08.328	+1.774	109 m	+0.259
16	Bruno Giacomelli	Toleman	36	1:08.350	+1.796	110 m	+0.022
17	Mauro Baldi	Alfa Romeo	23	1:08.628	+2.074	128 m	+0.278
18	Michele Alboreto	Tyrrell	3	1:11.096	+4.542	279 m	+2.468
19	Danny Sullivan	Tyrrell	4	1:11.382	+4.828	297 m	+0.286
20	Thierry Boutsen	Arrows	30	1:11.658	+5.104	314 m	+0.276
21	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Ligier	25	1:12.017	+5.463	336 m	+0.359
22	Marc Surer	Arrows	29	1:12.049	+5.495	338 m	+0.032
23	Raul Boesel	Ligier	26	1:12.745	+6.191	381 m	+0.696
24	Kenny Acheson	RAM	17	1:13.352	+6.798	418 m	+0.607
25	Corrado Fabi	Osella	31	1:13.656	+7.102	437 m	+0.304
26	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Osella	32	1:14.903	+8.349	514 m	+1.247

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: 15 of 1983
Grand Prix: South African Grand Prix
Dates: 15 Oct 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.