Race · Round 6 of 15 · 31 May 1981

1981 Monaco Grand Prix

Gilles Villeneuve won for Ferrari from 2nd on the grid at Circuit de Monaco. 13 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: Circuit de MonacoMonte Carlo, Monaco
Winner: Gilles VilleneuveFerrari
Pole: Nelson Piquet
Fastest lap: Alan Jones
Entries: 317 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	126CK	2	76	Finished	9
2	Alan Jones	Williams	FW07C	7	76	Finished	6	fastest lap
3	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	JS17	8	76	Finished	4
4	Didier Pironi	Ferrari	126CK	17	75	Finished	3
5	Eddie Cheever	Tyrrell	—	15	74	Finished	2
6	Marc Surer	Ensign	N180B	19	74	Finished	1
7	Patrick Tambay	Theodore	TY01	16	72	Finished	0
DNF	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	BT49C	1	53	Spun off	0
DNF	John Watson	McLaren	—	10	53	Engine	0
DNF	Michele Alboreto	Tyrrell	—	20	50	Collision	0
DNF	Bruno Giacomelli	Alfa Romeo	—	18	50	Collision	0
DNF	Alain Prost	Renault	—	9	45	Engine	0
DNF	Carlos Reutemann	Williams	FW07C	4	34	Gearbox	0
DNF	Elio de Angelis	Team Lotus	—	6	32	Engine	0
DNF	Rene Arnoux	Renault	—	13	32	Spun off	0
DNF	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	A3	5	29	Gearbox	0
DNF	Nigel Mansell	Team Lotus	—	3	16	Suspension	0
DNF	Siegfried Stohr	Arrows	A3	14	15	Fuel system	0
DNF	Andrea de Cesaris	McLaren	—	11	0	Collision	0
DNF	Mario Andretti	Alfa Romeo	—	12	0	Collision	0
DNQ	Keke Rosberg	Fittipaldi	F8C	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Ligier	JS17	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Héctor Rebaque	Brabham	BT49C	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Chico Serra	Fittipaldi	F8C	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Osella	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Beppe Gabbiani	Osella	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNPQ	Slim Borgudd	ATS	—	—	—	DNPQ	0
DNPQ	Derek Daly	March	811	—	—	DNPQ	0
DNPQ	Eliseo Salazar	March	811	—	—	DNPQ	0
DNPQ	Brian Henton	Toleman	TG181	—	—	DNPQ	0
DNPQ	Derek Warwick	Toleman	TG181	—	—	DNPQ	0

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

F1DB layout monaco-4 · 3.312 km · 20 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
Gilles Villeneuve	2	1	76
Alan Jones	7	2	76
Jacques Laffite	8	3	76
Didier Pironi	17	4	75
Eddie Cheever	15	5	74
Marc Surer	19	6	74
Patrick Tambay	16	7	72
Nelson Piquet	1	DNF	53
John Watson	10	DNF	53
Michele Alboreto	20	DNF	50
Bruno Giacomelli	18	DNF	50
Alain Prost	9	DNF	45
Carlos Reutemann	4	DNF	34
Elio de Angelis	6	DNF	32
Rene Arnoux	13	DNF	32
Riccardo Patrese	5	DNF	29
Nigel Mansell	3	DNF	16
Siegfried Stohr	14	DNF	15
Andrea de Cesaris	11	DNF	0
Mario Andretti	12	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	5	1:25.710	—	—
2	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	27	1:25.788	+0.078	+0.078
3	Nigel Mansell	Team Lotus	12	1:25.815	+0.105	+0.027
4	Carlos Reutemann	Williams	2	1:26.010	+0.300	+0.195
5	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	29	1:26.040	+0.330	+0.030
6	Elio de Angelis	Team Lotus	11	1:26.259	+0.549	+0.219
7	Alan Jones	Williams	1	1:26.538	+0.828	+0.279
8	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:26.704	+0.994	+0.166
9	Alain Prost	Renault	15	1:26.953	+1.243	+0.249
10	John Watson	McLaren	7	1:27.058	+1.348	+0.105
11	Andrea de Cesaris	McLaren	8	1:27.122	+1.412	+0.064
12	Mario Andretti	Alfa Romeo	22	1:27.512	+1.802	+0.390
13	Rene Arnoux	Renault	16	1:27.513	+1.803	+0.001
14	Siegfried Stohr	Arrows	30	1:27.564	+1.854	+0.051
15	Eddie Cheever	Tyrrell	3	1:27.594	+1.884	+0.030
16	Patrick Tambay	Theodore	33	1:27.939	+2.229	+0.345
17	Didier Pironi	Ferrari	28	1:28.266	+2.556	+0.327
18	Bruno Giacomelli	Alfa Romeo	23	1:28.323	+2.613	+0.057
19	Marc Surer	Ensign	14	1:28.339	+2.629	+0.016
20	Michele Alboreto	Tyrrell	4	1:28.358	+2.648	+0.019
21	Keke Rosberg	Fittipaldi	20	1:28.436	+2.726	+0.078
22	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Ligier	25	1:28.841	+3.131	+0.405
23	Héctor Rebaque	Brabham	6	1:29.188	+3.478	+0.347
24	Chico Serra	Fittipaldi	21	1:29.434	+3.724	+0.246
25	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Osella	32	1:29.649	+3.939	+0.215
26	Beppe Gabbiani	Osella	31	1:29.795	+4.085	+0.146

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.

Practice sessions Pre-qualifying

Pre-qualifying

Pre-qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	Interval	Laps
1	Patrick Tambay	Theodore	33	1:30.492	—	—	—
2	Marc Surer	Ensign	14	1:31.249	+0.757	+0.757	—
3	Beppe Gabbiani	Osella	31	1:32.704	+2.212	+1.455	—
4	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Osella	32	1:33.189	+2.697	+0.485	—
5	Slim Borgudd	ATS	10	1:33.285	+2.793	+0.096	—
6	Derek Daly	March	18	1:33.800	+3.308	+0.515	—
7	Eliseo Salazar	March	17	1:35.249	+4.757	+1.449	—
8	Brian Henton	Toleman	35	1:37.528	+7.036	+2.279	—
9	Derek Warwick	Toleman	36	1:41.966	+11.474	+4.438	—

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

Photographs from this race

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At the 1981 Monaco Grand Prix — Piquetmonaco · Eric Verplanken · CC BY-SA 3.0

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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: 6 of 1981
Grand Prix: Monaco Grand Prix
Dates: 31 May 1981
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Ferrari
Entrant: Ferrari
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.