Race · Round 3 of 15 · 17 April 1983

1983 French Grand Prix

Alain Prost won for Renault from pole at Circuit Paul Ricard. 13 of the starters were not classified.

Dry, with cloud · High of 16 °C, 0.6 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: Circuit Paul RicardLe Castellet, France
Winner: Alain ProstRenault
Pole: Alain Prost
Fastest lap: Alain Prost
Entries: 2913 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Alain Prost	Renault	—	1	54	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	—	6	54	Finished	6
3	Eddie Cheever	Renault	—	2	54	Finished	4
4	Patrick Tambay	Ferrari	—	11	54	Finished	3
5	Keke Rosberg	Williams	FW08C	16	53	Finished	2
6	Jacques Laffite	Williams	FW08C	19	53	Finished	1
7	Rene Arnoux	Ferrari	—	4	53	Finished	0
8	Michele Alboreto	Tyrrell	—	15	53	Finished	0
9	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Ligier	JS21	20	53	Finished	0
10	Marc Surer	Arrows	A6	21	53	Finished	0
11	Johnny Cecotto	Theodore	N183	17	52	Finished	0
12	Andrea de Cesaris	Alfa Romeo	183T	7	50	Finished	0
13	Bruno Giacomelli	Toleman	TG183B	13	49	Gearbox	0
DNF	Raul Boesel	Ligier	JS21	25	47	Engine	0
DNF	Corrado Fabi	Osella	FA1D	23	36	Engine	0
DNF	Manfred Winkelhock	ATS	D6	10	36	Turbo	0
DNF	Niki Lauda	McLaren	MP4/1C	12	29	Wheel bearing	0
DNF	Mauro Baldi	Alfa Romeo	183T	8	28	Spun off	0
DNF	Chico Serra	Arrows	A6	26	26	Gearbox	0
DNF	Roberto Guerrero	Theodore	N183	22	23	Engine	0
DNF	Danny Sullivan	Tyrrell	—	24	21	Clutch	0
DNF	Elio de Angelis	Team Lotus	—	5	20	Electrical	0
DNF	Riccardo Patrese	Brabham	—	3	19	Water leak	0
DNF	Derek Warwick	Toleman	TG183B	9	14	Engine	0
DNF	Nigel Mansell	Team Lotus	92	18	6	Physical	0
DNF	John Watson	McLaren	MP4/1C	14	3	Engine	0
DNQ	Eliseo Salazar	RAM	1	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Osella	FA1D	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Jean-Louis Schlesser	RAM	1	—	—	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 paul-ricard-1 · 5.809 km · 14 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
Alain Prost	1	1	54
Nelson Piquet	6	2	54
Eddie Cheever	2	3	54
Patrick Tambay	11	4	54
Keke Rosberg	16	5	53
Jacques Laffite	19	6	53
Rene Arnoux	4	7	53
Michele Alboreto	15	8	53
Jean-Pierre Jarier	20	9	53
Marc Surer	21	10	53
Johnny Cecotto	17	11	52
Andrea de Cesaris	7	12	50
Bruno Giacomelli	13	13	49
Raul Boesel	25	DNF	47
Corrado Fabi	23	DNF	36
Manfred Winkelhock	10	DNF	36
Niki Lauda	12	DNF	29
Mauro Baldi	8	DNF	28
Chico Serra	26	DNF	26
Roberto Guerrero	22	DNF	23
Danny Sullivan	24	DNF	21
Elio de Angelis	5	DNF	20
Riccardo Patrese	3	DNF	19
Derek Warwick	9	DNF	14
Nigel Mansell	18	DNF	6
John Watson	14	DNF	3

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Alain Prost	Renault	15	1:36.672	—	0 m	—
2	Eddie Cheever	Renault	16	1:38.980	+2.308	139 m	+2.308
3	Riccardo Patrese	Brabham	6	1:39.104	+2.432	146 m	+0.124
4	Rene Arnoux	Ferrari	28	1:39.115	+2.443	147 m	+0.011
5	Elio de Angelis	Team Lotus	11	1:39.312	+2.640	159 m	+0.197
6	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	5	1:39.601	+2.929	176 m	+0.289
7	Andrea de Cesaris	Alfa Romeo	22	1:39.611	+2.939	177 m	+0.010
8	Mauro Baldi	Alfa Romeo	23	1:39.618	+2.946	177 m	+0.007
9	Derek Warwick	Toleman	35	1:39.881	+3.209	193 m	+0.263
10	Manfred Winkelhock	ATS	9	1:40.233	+3.561	214 m	+0.352
11	Patrick Tambay	Ferrari	27	1:40.393	+3.721	224 m	+0.160
12	Niki Lauda	McLaren	8	1:41.065	+4.393	264 m	+0.672
13	Bruno Giacomelli	Toleman	36	1:41.775	+5.103	307 m	+0.710
14	John Watson	McLaren	7	1:41.838	+5.166	310 m	+0.063
15	Michele Alboreto	Tyrrell	3	1:42.177	+5.505	331 m	+0.339
16	Keke Rosberg	Williams	1	1:42.450	+5.778	347 m	+0.273
17	Johnny Cecotto	Theodore	34	1:42.615	+5.943	357 m	+0.165
18	Nigel Mansell	Team Lotus	12	1:42.650	+5.978	359 m	+0.035
19	Jacques Laffite	Williams	2	1:42.678	+6.006	361 m	+0.028
20	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Ligier	25	1:42.737	+6.065	364 m	+0.059
21	Marc Surer	Arrows	29	1:42.962	+6.290	378 m	+0.225
22	Roberto Guerrero	Theodore	33	1:43.367	+6.695	402 m	+0.405
23	Corrado Fabi	Osella	31	1:43.411	+6.739	405 m	+0.044
24	Danny Sullivan	Tyrrell	4	1:43.654	+6.982	420 m	+0.243
25	Raul Boesel	Ligier	26	1:44.470	+7.798	469 m	+0.816
26	Chico Serra	Arrows	30	1:44.778	+8.106	487 m	+0.308
27	Eliseo Salazar	RAM	17	1:45.073	+8.401	505 m	+0.295
28	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Osella	32	1:45.812	+9.140	549 m	+0.739
29	Jean-Louis Schlesser	RAM	18	1:45.866	+9.194	552 m	+0.054

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: 3 of 1983
Grand Prix: French Grand Prix
Dates: 17 Apr 1983
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Renault
Entrant: Renault
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.