Race · Round 15 of 15 · 17 October 1981

1981 Caesars Palace Grand Prix

Alan Jones won for Williams from 2nd on the grid at Caesars Palace. 11 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship podium for Bruno Giacomelli.

Circuit: Caesars PalaceLas Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Winner: Alan JonesWilliams
Pole: Carlos Reutemann
Fastest lap: Didier Pironi
Entries: 3013 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Alan Jones	Williams	FW07C	2	75	Finished	9
2	Alain Prost	Renault	—	5	75	Finished	6
3	Bruno Giacomelli	Alfa Romeo	—	8	75	Finished	4
4	Nigel Mansell	Team Lotus	—	9	75	Finished	3
5	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	BT49C	4	75	Finished	2
6	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	JS17	12	75	Finished	1
7	John Watson	McLaren	—	6	75	Finished	0
8	Carlos Reutemann	Williams	FW07C	1	74	Finished	0
9	Didier Pironi	Ferrari	126CK	18	73	Finished	0	fastest lap
10	Keke Rosberg	Fittipaldi	F8C	20	73	Finished	0
11	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	A3	11	71	Finished	0
12	Andrea de Cesaris	McLaren	—	14	69	Finished	0
13	Michele Alboreto	Tyrrell	—	17	67	Engine	0
NC	Eliseo Salazar	Ensign	N180B	24	61	NC	0
DNF	Derek Warwick	Toleman	TG181	22	43	Gearbox	0
DNF	Mario Andretti	Alfa Romeo	—	10	29	Suspension	0
DSQ	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	126CK	3	22	Incorrect grid formation	0
DNF	Héctor Rebaque	Brabham	BT49C	16	20	Throttle	0
DNF	Marc Surer	Theodore	TY01	23	19	Suspension	0
DNF	Eddie Cheever	Tyrrell	—	19	10	Engine	0
DNF	Rene Arnoux	Renault	—	13	10	Electrical	0
DNF	Patrick Tambay	Ligier	JS17	7	2	Accident	0
DNF	Elio de Angelis	Team Lotus	—	15	2	Water leak	0
DNF	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Osella	—	21	0	Transmission	0
DNQ	Slim Borgudd	ATS	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Chico Serra	Fittipaldi	F8C	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Derek Daly	March	811	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Jacques Villeneuve, Sr.	Arrows	A3	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Brian Henton	Toleman	TG181	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Beppe Gabbiani	Osella	—	—	—	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 caesars-palace-1 · 3.65 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
Alan Jones	2	1	75
Alain Prost	5	2	75
Bruno Giacomelli	8	3	75
Nigel Mansell	9	4	75
Nelson Piquet	4	5	75
Jacques Laffite	12	6	75
John Watson	6	7	75
Carlos Reutemann	1	8	74
Didier Pironi	18	9	73
Keke Rosberg	20	10	73
Riccardo Patrese	11	11	71
Andrea de Cesaris	14	12	69
Michele Alboreto	17	13	67
Eliseo Salazar	24	NC	61
Derek Warwick	22	DNF	43
Mario Andretti	10	DNF	29
Gilles Villeneuve	3	DSQ	22
Héctor Rebaque	16	DNF	20
Marc Surer	23	DNF	19
Eddie Cheever	19	DNF	10
Rene Arnoux	13	DNF	10
Patrick Tambay	7	DNF	2
Elio de Angelis	15	DNF	2
Jean-Pierre Jarier	21	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Carlos Reutemann	Williams	2	1:17.821	—	—
2	Alan Jones	Williams	1	1:17.995	+0.174	+0.174
3	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	27	1:18.060	+0.239	+0.065
4	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	5	1:18.161	+0.340	+0.101
5	Alain Prost	Renault	15	1:18.433	+0.612	+0.272
6	John Watson	McLaren	7	1:18.617	+0.796	+0.184
7	Patrick Tambay	Ligier	25	1:18.681	+0.860	+0.064
8	Bruno Giacomelli	Alfa Romeo	23	1:18.792	+0.971	+0.111
9	Nigel Mansell	Team Lotus	12	1:19.044	+1.223	+0.252
10	Mario Andretti	Alfa Romeo	22	1:19.068	+1.247	+0.024
11	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	29	1:19.152	+1.331	+0.084
12	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:19.167	+1.346	+0.015
13	Rene Arnoux	Renault	16	1:19.197	+1.376	+0.030
14	Andrea de Cesaris	McLaren	8	1:19.217	+1.396	+0.020
15	Elio de Angelis	Team Lotus	11	1:19.562	+1.741	+0.345
16	Héctor Rebaque	Brabham	6	1:19.571	+1.750	+0.009
17	Michele Alboreto	Tyrrell	4	1:19.774	+1.953	+0.203
18	Didier Pironi	Ferrari	28	1:19.899	+2.078	+0.125
19	Eddie Cheever	Tyrrell	3	1:20.475	+2.654	+0.576
20	Keke Rosberg	Fittipaldi	20	1:20.729	+2.908	+0.254
21	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Osella	32	1:20.781	+2.960	+0.052
22	Derek Warwick	Toleman	36	1:21.294	+3.473	+0.513
23	Marc Surer	Theodore	33	1:21.430	+3.609	+0.136
24	Eliseo Salazar	Ensign	14	1:21.629	+3.808	+0.199
25	Slim Borgudd	ATS	9	1:21.665	+3.844	+0.036
26	Chico Serra	Fittipaldi	21	1:21.672	+3.851	+0.007
27	Derek Daly	March	17	1:21.824	+4.003	+0.152
28	Jacques Villeneuve, Sr.	Arrows	30	1:22.822	+5.001	+0.998
29	Brian Henton	Toleman	35	1:22.960	+5.139	+0.138
30	Beppe Gabbiani	Osella	31	1:26.634	+8.813	+3.674

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

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.

Where this comes from

Round: 15 of 1981
Grand Prix: Caesars Palace Grand Prix
Dates: 17 Oct 1981
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Williams
Entrant: Williams-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.