21/05/1981 spain jarama gilles villeneuve takes spanish grand prix

Описание: spanish gp, 1981
spanish gp
jarama
june 21, 1981
80 laps, 3.312 km
three weeks after gilles villeneuve's victory in monaco, the f1 circus rolled up at jarama for the spanish gp. the field had altered somewhat with eliseo salazar having left march to join ensign, displacing marc surer.
jacques laffite took pole on his ligier-matra with the two williams-dfvs of alan jones and carlos reutemann second and third ahead of john watson's mclaren, alain prost's renault and the alfa romeo of bruno giacomelli. villeneuve was seventh.
race day was incredibly hot and the temperature was around 100-degrees when the race began with jones and reutemann blasting into the lead as laffite made a poor start and villeneuve diving into third place at the first corner, snagging prost's front wing as he took the place. at the end of the first lap villeneuve pulled out of reutemann's slipstream and took second place. jones quickly built a lead but on lap 14 - when he was around 10secs ahead - he went off.
this left villeneuve with reutemann on his tail. behind them watson, laffite and elio de angelis emerged from the hurly-burly and all began to close on the dueling leaders. reutemann was having some trouble with his gearbox and when laffite arrived behind him there was little carlos could do to stop jacques overtaking. the argentine would later drop behind watson as well as the five front-runners became a train of cars, nose-to-tail for the 18 laps of the race.
villeneuve had the power to get away from his rivals on the straight but in the corners they were all over him. time and time again laffite pulled alongside as they emerged from a corner but the ferrari would surge ahead as the horsepower kicked in. the five remained locked together right to the flag, crossing the line covered by just 1.24s to record the second closest race in the history of f1 at the time.
pos no driver entrant laps time/retirement qual pos
1 27 gilles villeneuve
ferrari
80 1h46m35.019s 7
2 26 jacques laffite
talbot ligier-matra
80 1h46m35.230s 1
3 7 john watson
mclaren-cosworth
80 1h46m35.590s 4
4 2 carlos reutemann
williams-cosworth
80 1h46m36.020s 3
5 11 elio de angelis
lotus-cosworth
80 1h46m36.250s 10
6 12 nigel mansell
lotus-cosworth
80 1h47m03.590s 11
7 1 alan jones
williams-cosworth
80 1h47m31.590s 2
8 22 mario andretti
alfa romeo
80 1h47m35.810s 8
9 16 rene arnoux
renault 80 1h47m42.090s 17
10 23 bruno giacomelli
alfa romeo
80 1h47m48.660s 6
11 21 chico serra
fittipaldi-cosworth
79 21
12 20 keke rosberg
fittipaldi-cosworth
78 15
13 33 patrick tambay
theodore-cosworth
78 16
14 14 eliseo salazar
ensign-cosworth
77 24
15 28 didier pironi
ferrari
76 13
16 17 derek daly
march-cosworth
75 22
nc 3 eddie cheever
tyrrell-cosworth
61 20
r 25 jean-pierre jobouille talbot ligier-matra
52 brakes 19
r 6 hector rebaque
brabham-cosworth
46 gearbox 18
r 5 nelson piquet
brabham-cosworth
43 accident 9
r 30 siegfried stohr
arrows-cosworth
43 engine 23
r 15 alain prost
renault 28 accident 5
r 29 riccardo patrese
arrows-cosworth
21 engine 12
r 8 andrea de cesaris
mclaren-cosworth
9 accident 14
nq 4 michele alboreto
tyrrell-cosworth
25
nq 31 beppe gabbiani
osella-cosworth
26
nq 10 slim borgudd ats-cosworth
27
nq 35 brian henton
toleman-hart
28
nq 36 derek warwick
toleman-hart
29
nq 32 giorgio francia osella-cosworth
30
exc 37 emilio de villota
williams-cosworth
not allowed to practice 31