Race · Round 2 of 15 · 29 March 1981

1981 Brazilian Grand Prix

Carlos Reutemann won for Williams from 2nd on the grid at Jacarepagua. 11 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: JacarepaguaRio de Janeiro, Brazil
Winner: Carlos ReutemannWilliams
Pole: Nelson Piquet
Fastest lap: Marc Surer
Entries: 3113 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Carlos Reutemann	Williams	FW07C	2	62	Finished	9
2	Alan Jones	Williams	FW07C	3	62	Finished	6
3	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	A3	4	62	Finished	4
4	Marc Surer	Ensign	N180B	18	62	Finished	3	fastest lap
5	Elio de Angelis	Team Lotus	—	10	62	Finished	2
6	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	JS17	16	62	Finished	1
7	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Ligier	JS17	23	62	Finished	0
8	John Watson	McLaren	—	15	61	Finished	0
9	Keke Rosberg	Fittipaldi	F8C	12	61	Finished	0
10	Patrick Tambay	Theodore	TY01	19	61	Finished	0
11	Nigel Mansell	Team Lotus	—	13	61	Finished	0
12	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	BT49C	1	60	Finished	0
13	Ricardo Zunino	Tyrrell	—	24	57	Finished	0
NC	Eddie Cheever	Tyrrell	—	14	49	NC	0
NC	Bruno Giacomelli	Alfa Romeo	—	6	40	NC	0
DNF	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	126CK	7	25	Turbo	0
DNF	Héctor Rebaque	Brabham	BT49C	11	22	Spun off	0
DNF	Alain Prost	Renault	—	5	20	Collision	0
DNF	Siegfried Stohr	Arrows	A3	21	20	Accident	0
DNF	Didier Pironi	Ferrari	126CK	17	19	Collision	0
DNF	Andrea de Cesaris	McLaren	—	20	9	Engine	0
DNF	Chico Serra	Fittipaldi	F8C	22	0	Collision	0
DNF	Rene Arnoux	Renault	—	8	0	Collision	0
DNF	Mario Andretti	Alfa Romeo	—	9	0	Collision	0
DNQ	Jan Lammers	ATS	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Beppe Gabbiani	Osella	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Miguel Ángel Guerra	Osella	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Eliseo Salazar	March	811	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Derek Daly	March	811	—	—	DNQ	0
DNS	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Ligier	JS17	—	—	Car raced by Jarier	0
DNP	Ricardo Londoño	Ensign	N180B	—	—	Car raced by Surer	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
Carlos Reutemann	2	1	62
Alan Jones	3	2	62
Riccardo Patrese	4	3	62
Marc Surer	18	4	62
Elio de Angelis	10	5	62
Jacques Laffite	16	6	62
Jean-Pierre Jarier	23	7	62
John Watson	15	8	61
Keke Rosberg	12	9	61
Patrick Tambay	19	10	61
Nigel Mansell	13	11	61
Nelson Piquet	1	12	60
Ricardo Zunino	24	13	57
Eddie Cheever	14	NC	49
Bruno Giacomelli	6	NC	40
Gilles Villeneuve	7	DNF	25
Héctor Rebaque	11	DNF	22
Alain Prost	5	DNF	20
Siegfried Stohr	21	DNF	20
Didier Pironi	17	DNF	19
Andrea de Cesaris	20	DNF	9
Chico Serra	22	DNF	0
Rene Arnoux	8	DNF	0
Mario Andretti	9	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	5	1:35.079	—	—
2	Carlos Reutemann	Williams	2	1:35.390	+0.311	+0.311
3	Alan Jones	Williams	1	1:36.337	+1.258	+0.947
4	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	29	1:36.667	+1.588	+0.330
5	Alain Prost	Renault	15	1:36.670	+1.591	+0.003
6	Bruno Giacomelli	Alfa Romeo	23	1:37.283	+2.204	+0.613
7	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	27	1:37.497	+2.418	+0.214
8	Rene Arnoux	Renault	16	1:37.561	+2.482	+0.064
9	Mario Andretti	Alfa Romeo	22	1:37.597	+2.518	+0.036
10	Elio de Angelis	Team Lotus	11	1:37.734	+2.655	+0.137
11	Héctor Rebaque	Brabham	6	1:37.777	+2.698	+0.043
12	Keke Rosberg	Fittipaldi	20	1:37.981	+2.902	+0.204
13	Nigel Mansell	Team Lotus	12	1:38.003	+2.924	+0.022
14	Eddie Cheever	Tyrrell	3	1:38.160	+3.081	+0.157
15	John Watson	McLaren	7	1:38.263	+3.184	+0.103
16	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:38.273	+3.194	+0.010
17	Didier Pironi	Ferrari	28	1:38.565	+3.486	+0.292
18	Marc Surer	Ensign	14	1:38.570	+3.491	+0.005
19	Patrick Tambay	Theodore	33	1:38.726	+3.647	+0.156
20	Andrea de Cesaris	McLaren	8	1:38.780	+3.701	+0.054
21	Siegfried Stohr	Arrows	30	1:39.190	+4.111	+0.410
22	Chico Serra	Fittipaldi	21	1:39.326	+4.247	+0.136
23	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Ligier	25	1:39.398	+4.319	+0.072
24	Ricardo Zunino	Tyrrell	4	1:39.798	+4.719	+0.400
25	Jan Lammers	ATS	9	1:39.844	+4.765	+0.046
26	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Ligier	25	1:40.306	+5.227	+0.462
27	Beppe Gabbiani	Osella	32	1:40.709	+5.630	+0.403
28	Miguel Ángel Guerra	Osella	31	1:40.984	+5.905	+0.275
29	Eliseo Salazar	March	18	1:43.267	+8.188	+2.283
30	Derek Daly	March	17	—	—	—

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: 2 of 1981
Grand Prix: Brazilian Grand Prix
Dates: 29 Mar 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.