Race · Round 5 of 16 · 9 May 1982

1982 Belgian Grand Prix

John Watson won for McLaren from 10th on the grid at Circuit Zolder. 17 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship podium for Eddie Cheever.

Circuit: Circuit ZolderHeusden-Zolder, Belgium
Winner: John WatsonMcLaren
Pole: Alain Prost
Fastest lap: John Watson
Entries: 329 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	John Watson	McLaren	MP4/1B	10	70	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Keke Rosberg	Williams	—	3	70	Finished	6
3	Eddie Cheever	Ligier	—	14	69	Finished	4
4	Elio de Angelis	Team Lotus	—	11	68	Finished	3
5	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	BT50	8	67	Finished	2
6	Chico Serra	Fittipaldi	—	23	67	Finished	1
7	Marc Surer	Arrows	—	22	66	Finished	0
8	Raul Boesel	March	821	24	66	Finished	0
9	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	—	17	66	Finished	0
DSQ	Niki Lauda	McLaren	MP4/1B	4	70	Car underweight	0
DNF	Derek Daly	Williams	—	13	60	Spun off	0
DNF	Jochen Mass	March	821	25	60	Engine	0
DNF	Alain Prost	Renault	RE30B	1	59	Spun off	0
DNF	Riccardo Patrese	Brabham	BT50	9	52	Spun off	0
DNF	Mauro Baldi	Arrows	—	26	51	Throttle	0
DNF	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Osella	—	16	37	Broken wing	0
DNF	Andrea de Cesaris	Alfa Romeo	—	6	34	Gearbox	0
DNF	Brian Henton	Tyrrell	9	20	33	Engine	0
DNF	Michele Alboreto	Tyrrell	9	5	29	Engine	0
DNF	Derek Warwick	Toleman	—	19	29	Transmission	0
DNF	Teo Fabi	Toleman	—	21	13	Brakes	0
DNF	Nigel Mansell	Team Lotus	—	7	9	Clutch	0
DNF	Rene Arnoux	Renault	RE30B	2	7	Turbo	0
DNF	Manfred Winkelhock	ATS	D5	12	0	Clutch	0
DNF	Eliseo Salazar	ATS	D5	18	0	Collision	0
DNF	Bruno Giacomelli	Alfa Romeo	—	15	0	Collision	0
DNS	Didier Pironi	Ferrari	126C2	—	—	Withdrew	0
DNS	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	126C2	—	—	Fatal accident in qualifying	0
DNQ	Roberto Guerrero	Ensign	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Jan Lammers	Theodore	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNPQ	Riccardo Paletti	Osella	—	—	—	DNPQ	0
DNPQ	Emilio de Villota	March	821	—	—	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 zolder-2 · 4.262 km · 15 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
John Watson	10	1	70
Keke Rosberg	3	2	70
Eddie Cheever	14	3	69
Elio de Angelis	11	4	68
Nelson Piquet	8	5	67
Chico Serra	23	6	67
Marc Surer	22	7	66
Raul Boesel	24	8	66
Jacques Laffite	17	9	66
Niki Lauda	4	DSQ	70
Derek Daly	13	DNF	60
Jochen Mass	25	DNF	60
Alain Prost	1	DNF	59
Riccardo Patrese	9	DNF	52
Mauro Baldi	26	DNF	51
Jean-Pierre Jarier	16	DNF	37
Andrea de Cesaris	6	DNF	34
Brian Henton	20	DNF	33
Michele Alboreto	5	DNF	29
Derek Warwick	19	DNF	29
Teo Fabi	21	DNF	13
Nigel Mansell	7	DNF	9
Rene Arnoux	2	DNF	7
Manfred Winkelhock	12	DNF	0
Eliseo Salazar	18	DNF	0
Bruno Giacomelli	15	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Alain Prost	Renault	15	1:15.701	—	—
2	Rene Arnoux	Renault	16	1:15.730	+0.029	+0.029
3	Keke Rosberg	Williams	6	1:15.847	+0.146	+0.117
4	Niki Lauda	McLaren	8	1:16.049	+0.348	+0.202
5	Michele Alboreto	Tyrrell	3	1:16.308	+0.607	+0.259
6	Didier Pironi	Ferrari	28	1:16.501	+0.800	+0.193
7	Andrea de Cesaris	Alfa Romeo	22	1:16.575	+0.874	+0.074
8	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	27	1:16.616	+0.915	+0.041
9	Nigel Mansell	Team Lotus	12	1:16.944	+1.243	+0.328
10	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	1	1:17.124	+1.423	+0.180
11	Riccardo Patrese	Brabham	2	1:17.126	+1.425	+0.002
12	John Watson	McLaren	7	1:17.144	+1.443	+0.018
13	Elio de Angelis	Team Lotus	11	1:17.762	+2.061	+0.618
14	Manfred Winkelhock	ATS	9	1:17.879	+2.178	+0.117
15	Derek Daly	Williams	5	1:18.194	+2.493	+0.315
16	Eddie Cheever	Ligier	25	1:18.301	+2.600	+0.107
17	Bruno Giacomelli	Alfa Romeo	23	1:18.371	+2.670	+0.070
18	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Osella	31	1:18.403	+2.702	+0.032
19	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:18.565	+2.864	+0.162
20	Eliseo Salazar	ATS	10	1:18.967	+3.266	+0.402
21	Derek Warwick	Toleman	35	1:18.985	+3.284	+0.018
22	Brian Henton	Tyrrell	4	1:19.150	+3.449	+0.165
23	Teo Fabi	Toleman	36	1:19.300	+3.599	+0.150
24	Marc Surer	Arrows	29	1:19.584	+3.883	+0.284
25	Chico Serra	Fittipaldi	20	1:19.598	+3.897	+0.014
26	Raul Boesel	March	18	1:19.621	+3.920	+0.023
27	Jochen Mass	March	17	1:19.777	+4.076	+0.156
28	Mauro Baldi	Arrows	30	1:19.815	+4.114	+0.038
29	Roberto Guerrero	Ensign	14	1:20.116	+4.415	+0.301
30	Jan Lammers	Theodore	33	1:20.584	+4.883	+0.468

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.

Brabham BT50
Patrese at 1982 Dutch Grand Prix crop · Hans van Dijk for Anefo / neg. stroken, 1945-1989, 2.24.01.05, item number 932-2347 derivative work: Sporti · CC BY-SA 3.0 nl · unchecked

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.

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Where this comes from

Round: 5 of 1982
Grand Prix: Belgian Grand Prix
Dates: 9 May 1982
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: McLaren
Entrant: McLaren-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.