Race · Round 12 of 16 ·
1984 Austrian Grand Prix
Niki Lauda won for McLaren from 4th on the grid at Red Bull Ring.
- Circuit
- Red Bull RingSpielberg, Austria
- Winner
- Niki LaudaMcLaren
- Pole
- Nelson Piquet
- Fastest lap
- Niki Lauda
- Entries
- 2812 classified
Classification
A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.
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.
2 entries with no recorded grid slot or lap count are in the classification and not drawn.
Qualifying
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | No. | Time | Gap | Interval |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nelson Piquet | Brabham | 1 | 1:26.173 | — | — |
| 2 | Alain Prost | McLaren | 7 | 1:26.203 | +0.030 | +0.030 |
| 3 | Elio de Angelis | Team Lotus | 11 | 1:26.318 | +0.145 | +0.115 |
| 4 | Niki Lauda | McLaren | 8 | 1:26.715 | +0.542 | +0.397 |
| 5 | Patrick Tambay | Renault | 15 | 1:26.748 | +0.575 | +0.033 |
| 6 | Derek Warwick | Renault | 16 | 1:27.123 | +0.950 | +0.375 |
| 7 | Teo Fabi | Brabham | 2 | 1:27.201 | +1.028 | +0.078 |
| 8 | Nigel Mansell | Team Lotus | 12 | 1:27.558 | +1.385 | +0.357 |
| 9 | Keke Rosberg | Williams | 6 | 1:28.760 | +2.587 | +1.202 |
| 10 | Ayrton Senna | Toleman | 19 | 1:29.200 | +3.027 | +0.440 |
| 11 | Jacques Laffite | Williams | 5 | 1:29.228 | +3.055 | +0.028 |
| 12 | Michele Alboreto | Ferrari | 27 | 1:29.694 | +3.521 | +0.466 |
| 13 | Riccardo Patrese | Alfa Romeo | 22 | 1:30.736 | +4.563 | +1.042 |
| 14 | Manfred Winkelhock | ATS | 14 | 1:30.853 | +4.680 | +0.117 |
| 15 | Rene Arnoux | Ferrari | 28 | 1:31.003 | +4.830 | +0.150 |
| 16 | Eddie Cheever | Alfa Romeo | 23 | 1:31.045 | +4.872 | +0.042 |
| 17 | Thierry Boutsen | Arrows | 18 | 1:31.189 | +5.016 | +0.144 |
| 18 | Andrea de Cesaris | Ligier | 26 | 1:31.588 | +5.415 | +0.399 |
| 19 | Marc Surer | Arrows | 17 | 1:31.655 | +5.482 | +0.067 |
| 20 | Gerhard Berger | ATS | 31 | 1:31.904 | +5.731 | +0.249 |
| 21 | François Hesnault | Ligier | 25 | 1:32.270 | +6.097 | +0.366 |
| 22 | Jo Gartner | Osella | 30 | 1:33.019 | +6.846 | +0.749 |
| 23 | Piercarlo Ghinzani | Osella | 24 | 1:33.172 | +6.999 | +0.153 |
| 24 | Jonathan Palmer | RAM | 10 | 1:34.128 | +7.955 | +0.956 |
| 25 | Philippe Alliot | RAM | 9 | 1:34.495 | +8.322 | +0.367 |
| 26 | Huub Rothengatter | Spirit | 21 | 1:35.605 | +9.432 | +1.110 |
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 Warm-up
Warm-up
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | No. | Best lap | Gap | Interval | Laps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alain Prost | McLaren | 7 | 1:31.561 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Niki Lauda | McLaren | 8 | 1:31.868 | +0.307 | +0.307 | — |
| 3 | Patrick Tambay | Renault | 15 | 1:32.193 | +0.632 | +0.325 | — |
| 4 | Derek Warwick | Renault | 16 | 1:32.609 | +1.048 | +0.416 | — |
| 5 | Elio de Angelis | Team Lotus | 11 | 1:32.899 | +1.338 | +0.290 | — |
| 6 | Ayrton Senna | Toleman | 19 | 1:32.978 | +1.417 | +0.079 | — |
| 7 | Nelson Piquet | Brabham | 1 | 1:33.329 | +1.768 | +0.351 | — |
| 8 | Michele Alboreto | Ferrari | 27 | 1:34.573 | +3.012 | +1.244 | — |
| 9 | Nigel Mansell | Team Lotus | 12 | 1:34.693 | +3.132 | +0.120 | — |
| 10 | Teo Fabi | Brabham | 2 | 1:35.096 | +3.535 | +0.403 | — |
| 11 | Keke Rosberg | Williams | 6 | 1:35.152 | +3.591 | +0.056 | — |
| 12 | Gerhard Berger | ATS | 31 | 1:35.355 | +3.794 | +0.203 | — |
| 13 | Riccardo Patrese | Alfa Romeo | 22 | 1:35.361 | +3.800 | +0.006 | — |
| 14 | Rene Arnoux | Ferrari | 28 | 1:35.931 | +4.370 | +0.570 | — |
| 15 | Andrea de Cesaris | Ligier | 26 | 1:36.047 | +4.486 | +0.116 | — |
| 16 | Marc Surer | Arrows | 17 | 1:36.051 | +4.490 | +0.004 | — |
| 17 | Jacques Laffite | Williams | 5 | 1:36.125 | +4.564 | +0.074 | — |
| 18 | Eddie Cheever | Alfa Romeo | 23 | 1:36.203 | +4.642 | +0.078 | — |
| 19 | Philippe Alliot | RAM | 9 | 1:36.940 | +5.379 | +0.737 | — |
| 20 | Thierry Boutsen | Arrows | 18 | 1:36.958 | +5.397 | +0.018 | — |
| 21 | François Hesnault | Ligier | 25 | 1:37.556 | +5.995 | +0.598 | — |
| 22 | Jo Gartner | Osella | 30 | 1:38.650 | +7.089 | +1.094 | — |
| 23 | Jonathan Palmer | RAM | 10 | 1:39.212 | +7.651 | +0.562 | — |
| 24 | Huub Rothengatter | Spirit | 21 | 1:39.402 | +7.841 | +0.190 | — |
| 25 | Piercarlo Ghinzani | Osella | 24 | 2:24.748 | +53.187 | +45.346 | — |
Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.
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.
McLaren MP4/2
Stuttgart Jul 2012 31 (Porsche Museum - 1986 McLaren TAG MP 4-2 C Formel 1) · Michael Barera · CC BY-SA 4.0 · unchecked
Brabham BT53
Piquet Brabham BT53 1984 Dallas F1 · twm1340 · CC BY-SA 2.0
Ferrari 126C
Ferrari 126CK front-left Museo Ferrari · Morio · CC BY-SA 3.0
Arrows A7
Arrows A7 1984 · Anna from Grassau, Deutschland · CC BY-SA 2.0
Alfa Romeo 184T
Cheever Alfa Romeo 184T 1984 Dallas F1 · twm1340 · CC BY-SA 2.0
ATS D7
Winkelhock ATS D7 1984 Dallas F1 · twm1340 · CC BY-SA 2.0A 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.
4 more photographs
Lotus 95T
Mansell Lotus 95T Dallas 1984 F1 · twm1340 · CC BY-SA 2.0
Renault RE50
Derek Warwick Renault RE50 1984 Dallas F1 · twm1340 · CC BY-SA 2.0
Spirit 101
Spirit 101 at Silverstone Classic 2011 · David Merrett from Daventry, England · CC BY 2.0
Tyrrell 012
Tyrrell 012 2019 Silverstone Classic (48557777561) · https://www.flickr.com/photos/davehamster/ · CC BY 2.0Where this comes from
- Round
- 12 of 1984
- Grand Prix
- Austrian Grand Prix
- Dates
- Layout raced
- Osterreichring · 5.942 km · 12 turns
- Format
- Standard weekend
- Constructor
- McLaren
- Entrant
- McLaren-TAG
- Confidence
- reference
The layout raced and its figures are this register’s, from its own sources; the figures under the race’s drawing are F1DB’s, and at some circuits the two disagree.