Race · Round 3 of 15 · 12 April 1981

1981 Argentine Grand Prix

Nelson Piquet won for Brabham from pole at Autodromo Oscar Galvez. 11 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship podium for Alain Prost.

Circuit: Autodromo Oscar GalvezBuenos Aires, Argentina
Winner: Nelson PiquetBrabham
Pole: Nelson Piquet
Fastest lap: Nelson Piquet
Entries: 2913 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	BT49C	1	53	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Carlos Reutemann	Williams	FW07C	4	53	Finished	6
3	Alain Prost	Renault	—	2	53	Finished	4
4	Alan Jones	Williams	FW07C	3	53	Finished	3
5	Rene Arnoux	Renault	—	5	53	Finished	2
6	Elio de Angelis	Team Lotus	—	10	52	Finished	1
7	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	A3	9	52	Finished	0
8	Mario Andretti	Alfa Romeo	—	17	52	Finished	0
9	Siegfried Stohr	Arrows	A3	19	52	Finished	0
10	Bruno Giacomelli	Alfa Romeo	—	22	51	Out of fuel	0
11	Andrea de Cesaris	McLaren	—	18	51	Finished	0
12	Jan Lammers	ATS	—	23	51	Finished	0
13	Ricardo Zunino	Tyrrell	—	24	51	Finished	0
DNF	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	126CK	7	40	Transmission	0
DNF	Patrick Tambay	Theodore	TY01	14	36	Oil leak	0
DNF	John Watson	McLaren	—	11	36	Transmission	0
DNF	Héctor Rebaque	Brabham	BT49C	6	32	Electrical	0
DNF	Chico Serra	Fittipaldi	F8C	20	28	Gearbox	0
DNF	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	JS17	21	19	Handling	0
DNF	Marc Surer	Ensign	N180B	16	14	Engine	0
DNF	Keke Rosberg	Fittipaldi	F8C	8	4	Fuel system	0
DNF	Nigel Mansell	Team Lotus	—	15	3	Engine	0
DNF	Didier Pironi	Ferrari	126CK	12	3	Engine	0
DNF	Eddie Cheever	Tyrrell	—	13	1	Clutch	0
DNQ	Miguel Ángel Guerra	Osella	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Beppe Gabbiani	Osella	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Derek Daly	March	811	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Ligier	JS17	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Eliseo Salazar	March	811	—	—	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 buenos-aires-3 · 5.968 km · 16 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	1	1	53
Carlos Reutemann	4	2	53
Alain Prost	2	3	53
Alan Jones	3	4	53
Rene Arnoux	5	5	53
Elio de Angelis	10	6	52
Riccardo Patrese	9	7	52
Mario Andretti	17	8	52
Siegfried Stohr	19	9	52
Bruno Giacomelli	22	10	51
Andrea de Cesaris	18	11	51
Jan Lammers	23	12	51
Ricardo Zunino	24	13	51
Gilles Villeneuve	7	DNF	40
Patrick Tambay	14	DNF	36
John Watson	11	DNF	36
Héctor Rebaque	6	DNF	32
Chico Serra	20	DNF	28
Jacques Laffite	21	DNF	19
Marc Surer	16	DNF	14
Keke Rosberg	8	DNF	4
Nigel Mansell	15	DNF	3
Didier Pironi	12	DNF	3
Eddie Cheever	13	DNF	1

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	5	1:42.665	—	—
2	Alain Prost	Renault	15	1:42.981	+0.316	+0.316
3	Alan Jones	Williams	1	1:43.638	+0.973	+0.657
4	Carlos Reutemann	Williams	2	1:43.935	+1.270	+0.297
5	Rene Arnoux	Renault	16	1:43.997	+1.332	+0.062
6	Héctor Rebaque	Brabham	6	1:44.100	+1.435	+0.103
7	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	27	1:44.132	+1.467	+0.032
8	Keke Rosberg	Fittipaldi	20	1:44.191	+1.526	+0.059
9	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	29	1:45.008	+2.343	+0.817
10	Elio de Angelis	Team Lotus	11	1:45.065	+2.400	+0.057
11	John Watson	McLaren	7	1:45.073	+2.408	+0.008
12	Didier Pironi	Ferrari	28	1:45.108	+2.443	+0.035
13	Eddie Cheever	Tyrrell	3	1:45.117	+2.452	+0.009
14	Patrick Tambay	Theodore	33	1:45.297	+2.632	+0.180
15	Nigel Mansell	Team Lotus	12	1:45.369	+2.704	+0.072
16	Marc Surer	Ensign	14	1:45.734	+3.069	+0.365
17	Mario Andretti	Alfa Romeo	22	1:46.059	+3.394	+0.325
18	Andrea de Cesaris	McLaren	8	1:46.387	+3.722	+0.328
19	Siegfried Stohr	Arrows	30	1:46.444	+3.779	+0.057
20	Chico Serra	Fittipaldi	21	1:46.706	+4.041	+0.262
21	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:46.854	+4.189	+0.148
22	Bruno Giacomelli	Alfa Romeo	23	1:46.918	+4.253	+0.064
23	Jan Lammers	ATS	9	1:47.174	+4.509	+0.256
24	Ricardo Zunino	Tyrrell	4	1:47.464	+4.799	+0.290
25	Miguel Ángel Guerra	Osella	31	1:47.609	+4.944	+0.145
26	Beppe Gabbiani	Osella	32	1:48.121	+5.456	+0.512
27	Derek Daly	March	17	1:48.191	+5.526	+0.070
28	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Ligier	25	1:49.581	+6.916	+1.390
29	Eliseo Salazar	March	18	1:51.086	+8.421	+1.505

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.

Photographs from this race

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At the 1981 Argentine Grand Prix — 1981 Argentine Grand Prix, Arnoux · Revista Corsa N.° 776 · Public domain

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The cars in this race

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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: 3 of 1981
Grand Prix: Argentine Grand Prix
Dates: 12 Apr 1981
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Brabham
Entrant: Brabham-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.