Race · Round 5 of 16 ·
1984 French Grand Prix
Niki Lauda won for McLaren from 9th on the grid at Dijon-Prenois.
- Circuit
- Dijon-PrenoisDijon, France
- Winner
- Niki LaudaMcLaren
- Pole
- Patrick Tambay
- Fastest lap
- Alain Prost
- Entries
- 2713 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 | Patrick Tambay | Renault | 15 | 1:02.200 | — | — |
| 2 | Elio de Angelis | Team Lotus | 11 | 1:02.336 | +0.136 | +0.136 |
| 3 | Nelson Piquet | Brabham | 1 | 1:02.806 | +0.606 | +0.470 |
| 4 | Keke Rosberg | Williams | 6 | 1:02.908 | +0.708 | +0.102 |
| 5 | Alain Prost | McLaren | 7 | 1:02.982 | +0.782 | +0.074 |
| 6 | Nigel Mansell | Team Lotus | 12 | 1:03.200 | +1.000 | +0.218 |
| 7 | Derek Warwick | Renault | 16 | 1:03.540 | +1.340 | +0.340 |
| 8 | Manfred Winkelhock | ATS | 14 | 1:03.865 | +1.665 | +0.325 |
| 9 | Niki Lauda | McLaren | 8 | 1:04.419 | +2.219 | +0.554 |
| 10 | Michele Alboreto | Ferrari | 27 | 1:04.459 | +2.259 | +0.040 |
| 11 | Rene Arnoux | Ferrari | 28 | 1:04.917 | +2.717 | +0.458 |
| 12 | Jacques Laffite | Williams | 5 | 1:05.410 | +3.210 | +0.493 |
| 13 | Ayrton Senna | Toleman | 19 | 1:05.744 | +3.544 | +0.334 |
| 14 | François Hesnault | Ligier | 25 | 1:05.850 | +3.650 | +0.106 |
| 15 | Thierry Boutsen | Arrows | 18 | 1:05.972 | +3.772 | +0.122 |
| 16 | Riccardo Patrese | Alfa Romeo | 22 | 1:06.172 | +3.972 | +0.200 |
| 17 | Eddie Cheever | Alfa Romeo | 23 | 1:06.281 | +4.081 | +0.109 |
| 18 | Teo Fabi | Brabham | 2 | 1:06.370 | +4.170 | +0.089 |
| 19 | Johnny Cecotto | Toleman | 20 | 1:08.189 | +5.989 | +1.819 |
| 20 | Marc Surer | Arrows | 17 | 1:08.457 | +6.257 | +0.268 |
| 21 | Jonathan Palmer | RAM | 10 | 1:09.047 | +6.847 | +0.590 |
| 22 | Philippe Alliot | RAM | 9 | 1:09.447 | +7.247 | +0.400 |
| 23 | Mauro Baldi | Spirit | 21 | 1:09.629 | +7.429 | +0.182 |
| 24 | Piercarlo Ghinzani | Osella | 24 | 1:11.625 | +9.425 | +1.996 |
| 25 | Andrea de Cesaris | Ligier | 26 | 1:22.388 | +20.188 | +10.763 |
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 | Rene Arnoux | Ferrari | 28 | 1:06.371 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Patrick Tambay | Renault | 15 | 1:06.531 | +0.160 | +0.160 | — |
| 3 | Alain Prost | McLaren | 7 | 1:06.568 | +0.197 | +0.037 | — |
| 4 | Niki Lauda | McLaren | 8 | 1:06.676 | +0.305 | +0.108 | — |
| 5 | Michele Alboreto | Ferrari | 27 | 1:07.644 | +1.273 | +0.968 | — |
| 6 | Nigel Mansell | Team Lotus | 12 | 1:08.020 | +1.649 | +0.376 | — |
| 7 | Elio de Angelis | Team Lotus | 11 | 1:08.420 | +2.049 | +0.400 | — |
| 8 | Keke Rosberg | Williams | 6 | 1:08.759 | +2.388 | +0.339 | — |
| 9 | Jacques Laffite | Williams | 5 | 1:08.846 | +2.475 | +0.087 | — |
| 10 | Nelson Piquet | Brabham | 1 | 1:08.990 | +2.619 | +0.144 | — |
| 11 | Derek Warwick | Renault | 16 | 1:09.040 | +2.669 | +0.050 | — |
| 12 | Teo Fabi | Brabham | 2 | 1:09.389 | +3.018 | +0.349 | — |
| 13 | Andrea de Cesaris | Ligier | 26 | 1:09.482 | +3.111 | +0.093 | — |
| 14 | Ayrton Senna | Toleman | 19 | 1:09.530 | +3.159 | +0.048 | — |
| 15 | Riccardo Patrese | Alfa Romeo | 22 | 1:10.184 | +3.813 | +0.654 | — |
| 16 | Eddie Cheever | Alfa Romeo | 23 | 1:10.411 | +4.040 | +0.227 | — |
| 17 | Thierry Boutsen | Arrows | 18 | 1:10.773 | +4.402 | +0.362 | — |
| 18 | Manfred Winkelhock | ATS | 14 | 1:10.903 | +4.532 | +0.130 | — |
| 19 | Mauro Baldi | Spirit | 21 | 1:10.909 | +4.538 | +0.006 | — |
| 20 | Marc Surer | Arrows | 17 | 1:10.942 | +4.571 | +0.033 | — |
| 21 | Piercarlo Ghinzani | Osella | 24 | 1:11.005 | +4.634 | +0.063 | — |
| 22 | Johnny Cecotto | Toleman | 20 | 1:11.792 | +5.421 | +0.787 | — |
| 23 | Jonathan Palmer | RAM | 10 | 1:13.973 | +7.602 | +2.181 | — |
| 24 | Philippe Alliot | RAM | 9 | 1:14.218 | +7.847 | +0.245 | — |
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
Renault RE50
Derek Warwick Renault RE50 1984 Dallas F1 · twm1340 · CC BY-SA 2.0
Lotus 95T
Mansell Lotus 95T Dallas 1984 F1 · twm1340 · CC BY-SA 2.0
Ferrari 126C
Ferrari 126CK front-left Museo Ferrari · Morio · CC BY-SA 3.0
Brabham BT53
Piquet Brabham BT53 1984 Dallas F1 · twm1340 · CC BY-SA 2.0
Arrows A7
Arrows A7 1984 · Anna from Grassau, Deutschland · 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.
5 more photographs
ATS D7
Winkelhock ATS D7 1984 Dallas F1 · twm1340 · CC BY-SA 2.0
Alfa Romeo 184T
Cheever Alfa Romeo 184T 1984 Dallas F1 · twm1340 · CC BY-SA 2.0
Arrows A6
Arrows A6 2008 Silverstone Classic · Russell Whitworth · 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
- 5 of 1984
- Grand Prix
- French Grand Prix
- Dates
- Layout raced
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- Format
- Standard weekend
- Constructor
- McLaren
- Entrant
- McLaren-TAG
- 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.