Race · Round 7 of 15 · 21 June 1981

1981 Spanish Grand Prix

Gilles Villeneuve won for Ferrari from 7th on the grid at Circuito del Jarama. 8 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: Circuito del JaramaMadrid, Spain
Winner: Gilles VilleneuveFerrari
Pole: Jacques Laffite
Fastest lap: Alan Jones
Entries: 3016 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	126CK	7	80	Finished	9
2	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	JS17	1	80	Finished	6
3	John Watson	McLaren	—	4	80	Finished	4
4	Carlos Reutemann	Williams	FW07C	3	80	Finished	3
5	Elio de Angelis	Team Lotus	—	10	80	Finished	2
6	Nigel Mansell	Team Lotus	—	11	80	Finished	1
7	Alan Jones	Williams	FW07C	2	80	Finished	0	fastest lap
8	Mario Andretti	Alfa Romeo	—	8	80	Finished	0
9	Rene Arnoux	Renault	—	17	80	Finished	0
10	Bruno Giacomelli	Alfa Romeo	—	6	80	Finished	0
11	Chico Serra	Fittipaldi	F8C	21	79	Finished	0
12	Keke Rosberg	Fittipaldi	F8C	15	78	Finished	0
13	Patrick Tambay	Theodore	TY01	16	78	Finished	0
14	Eliseo Salazar	Ensign	N180B	24	77	Finished	0
15	Didier Pironi	Ferrari	126CK	13	76	Finished	0
16	Derek Daly	March	811	22	75	Finished	0
NC	Eddie Cheever	Tyrrell	—	20	61	NC	0
DNF	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Ligier	JS17	19	52	Brakes	0
DNF	Héctor Rebaque	Brabham	BT49C	18	46	Gearbox	0
DNF	Siegfried Stohr	Arrows	A3	23	43	Ignition	0
DNF	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	BT49C	9	43	Accident	0
DNF	Alain Prost	Renault	—	5	28	Spun off	0
DNF	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	A3	12	21	Brakes	0
DNF	Andrea de Cesaris	McLaren	—	14	9	Accident	0
DNQ	Michele Alboreto	Tyrrell	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Beppe Gabbiani	Osella	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Slim Borgudd	ATS	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Brian Henton	Toleman	TG181	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Derek Warwick	Toleman	TG181	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Giorgio Francia	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 jarama-2 · 3.314 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
Gilles Villeneuve	7	1	80
Jacques Laffite	1	2	80
John Watson	4	3	80
Carlos Reutemann	3	4	80
Elio de Angelis	10	5	80
Nigel Mansell	11	6	80
Alan Jones	2	7	80
Mario Andretti	8	8	80
Rene Arnoux	17	9	80
Bruno Giacomelli	6	10	80
Chico Serra	21	11	79
Keke Rosberg	15	12	78
Patrick Tambay	16	13	78
Eliseo Salazar	24	14	77
Didier Pironi	13	15	76
Derek Daly	22	16	75
Eddie Cheever	20	NC	61
Jean-Pierre Jabouille	19	DNF	52
Héctor Rebaque	18	DNF	46
Siegfried Stohr	23	DNF	43
Nelson Piquet	9	DNF	43
Alain Prost	5	DNF	28
Riccardo Patrese	12	DNF	21
Andrea de Cesaris	14	DNF	9

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:13.754	—	—
2	Alan Jones	Williams	1	1:14.024	+0.270	+0.270
3	Carlos Reutemann	Williams	2	1:14.342	+0.588	+0.318
4	John Watson	McLaren	7	1:14.657	+0.903	+0.315
5	Alain Prost	Renault	15	1:14.669	+0.915	+0.012
6	Bruno Giacomelli	Alfa Romeo	23	1:14.897	+1.143	+0.228
7	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	27	1:14.987	+1.233	+0.090
8	Mario Andretti	Alfa Romeo	22	1:15.159	+1.405	+0.172
9	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	5	1:15.355	+1.601	+0.196
10	Elio de Angelis	Team Lotus	11	1:15.399	+1.645	+0.044
11	Nigel Mansell	Team Lotus	12	1:15.562	+1.808	+0.163
12	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows	29	1:15.627	+1.873	+0.065
13	Didier Pironi	Ferrari	28	1:15.715	+1.961	+0.088
14	Andrea de Cesaris	McLaren	8	1:15.850	+2.096	+0.135
15	Keke Rosberg	Fittipaldi	20	1:15.924	+2.170	+0.074
16	Patrick Tambay	Theodore	33	1:16.355	+2.601	+0.431
17	Rene Arnoux	Renault	16	1:16.406	+2.652	+0.051
18	Héctor Rebaque	Brabham	6	1:16.527	+2.773	+0.121
19	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Ligier	25	1:16.559	+2.805	+0.032
20	Eddie Cheever	Tyrrell	3	1:16.641	+2.887	+0.082
21	Chico Serra	Fittipaldi	21	1:16.782	+3.028	+0.141
22	Derek Daly	March	17	1:16.979	+3.225	+0.197
23	Siegfried Stohr	Arrows	30	1:17.294	+3.540	+0.315
24	Eliseo Salazar	Ensign	14	1:17.822	+4.068	+0.528
25	Michele Alboreto	Tyrrell	4	1:17.943	+4.189	+0.121
26	Beppe Gabbiani	Osella	31	1:18.169	+4.415	+0.226
27	Slim Borgudd	ATS	9	1:18.263	+4.509	+0.094
28	Brian Henton	Toleman	35	1:18.340	+4.586	+0.077
29	Derek Warwick	Toleman	36	1:18.872	+5.118	+0.532
30	Giorgio Francia	Osella	32	1:19.586	+5.832	+0.714

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: 7 of 1981
Grand Prix: Spanish Grand Prix
Dates: 21 Jun 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.