The 1982 Monaco Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Monaco on 23 May 1982. It was the sixth race of the 1982 Formula One World Championship. This was the first race meeting following the death of Gilles Villeneuve at the Belgian Grand Prix qualifying two weeks previously. Consequently, Ferrari entered only one car, for Didier Pironi.
René Arnoux took pole position in his Renault and led until he spun off at the Swimming Pool on lap 15. Team-mate Alain Prost took over the lead and held it until the closing stages, when rain started to fall. On lap 74, three from the end, Prost pushed too hard and crashed into the Armco barriers coming out of the Chicane du Port (also known as the Dog Leg), handing the lead to Riccardo Patrese in the Brabham. Then, on lap 75, Patrese spun on oil at the Loews hairpin and stalled.
Pironi now led, but his battery was not charged properly before the race and the engine started misfiring on the last lap and finally stopped in the tunnel on the final lap. Andrea de Cesaris then ran out of fuel before he could pass Pironi, and Derek Daly, the next leader, had already lost the wings from his Williams after an accident and had also damaged his gearbox, which seized up before he could start the final lap. Patrese, who had managed to restart his car by rolling downhill and bump-starting, came through to take his first Formula One victory, with Pironi, de Cesaris and Daly classified second, third and sixth respectively.
BBC commentator and 1976 world champion James Hunt commented, "Well, we've got this ridiculous situation where we're all sitting by the start-finish line waiting for a winner to come past, and we don't seem to be getting one!"
Classification
Pre-qualifying A pre-qualifying session was held because of limits on the number of cars allowed on the Monaco track at once. PosNoDriverConstructorTimeGap131 Jean-Pierre JarierOsella-Ford1:29.479—217 Jochen MassMarch-Ford1:29.901 +0.422335 Derek WarwickToleman-Hart1:30.352 +0.873436 Teo FabiToleman-Hart1:30.407 +0.928532 Riccardo PalettiOsella-Ford1:31.059 +1.580618 Raul BoeselMarch-Ford1:31.212 +1.733720 Chico SerraFittipaldi-Ford1:31.471 +1.992819 Emilio de VillotaMarch-Ford1:52.401 +22.922
Qualifying PosNo.DriverConstructorQ1Q2Gap116 René Arnoux Renault1:24.5431:23.281—22 Riccardo Patrese Brabham-Ford1:24.9291:23.791 +0.510323 Bruno Giacomelli Alfa Romeo1:26.0831:23.939 +0.658415 Alain Prost Renault1:25.7661:24.439 +1.158528 Didier Pironi Ferrari1:27.3601:24.585 +1.30466 Keke Rosberg Williams-Ford1:25.1251:24.649 +1.368722 Andrea de Cesaris Alfa Romeo1:24.9281:25.235 +1.64785 Derek Daly Williams-Ford1:25.5051:25.390 +2.10993 Michele Alboreto Tyrrell-Ford1:25.8401:25.449 +2.168107 John Watson McLaren-Ford1:27.3171:25.583 +2.3021112 Nigel Mansell Lotus-Ford1:26.2021:25.642 +2.361128 Niki Lauda McLaren-Ford1:25.8381:26.019 +2.557131 Nelson Piquet Brabham-BMW1:26.0751:26.120 +2.794149 Manfred Winkelhock ATS-Ford1:27.9521:26.260 +2.9791511 Elio de Angelis Lotus-Ford1:27.5681:26.456 +3.1751625 Eddie Cheever Ligier-Matra1:28.0581:26.463 +3.182174 Brian Henton Tyrrell-Ford1:28.9711:26.690 +3.4091826 Jacques Laffite Ligier-Matra1:28.3531:27.007 +3.7261929 Marc Surer Arrows-Ford1:28.3801:27.019 +3.7382010 Eliseo Salazar ATS-Ford1:29.5741:27.022 +3.7412130 Mauro Baldi Arrows-Ford1:29.3061:27.208 +3.9272233 Jan Lammers Theodore-Fordno time1:27.523 +4.2422317 Jochen Mass March-Ford1:29.4521:27.885 +4.6042435 Derek Warwick Toleman-Hart1:31.2331:28.075 +4.7942531 Jean-Pierre Jarier Osella-Ford1:29.0571:28.264 +4.9832614 Roberto Guerrero Ensign-Ford1:32.1831:28.635 +5.354Source: *Positions in red denote entrants that failed to qualify.
Race Pos No Driver Constructor Tyre Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 2 Riccardo Patrese Brabham-Ford 76 1:54:11.259 2 9 2 28 Didier Pironi Ferrari 75 Battery 5 6 3 22 Andrea de Cesaris Alfa Romeo 75 Out of fuel 7 4 4 12 Nigel Mansell Lotus-Ford 75 + 1 lap 11 3 5 11 Elio de Angelis Lotus-Ford 75 + 1 lap 15 2 6 5 Derek Daly Williams-Ford 74 Accident/gearbox 8 1 7 15 Alain Prost Renault 73 Accident 4 8 4 Brian Henton Tyrrell-Ford 72 + 4 laps 17 9 29 Marc Surer Arrows-Ford 70 + 6 laps 19 10 3 Michele Alboreto Tyrrell-Ford 69 Suspension 9 6 Keke Rosberg Williams-Ford 64 Collision 6 8 Niki Lauda McLaren-Ford 56 Engine 12 1 Nelson Piquet Brabham-BMW 49 Turbo 13 7 John Watson McLaren-Ford 35 Electrical 10 9 Manfred Winkelhock ATS-Ford 31 Differential 14 26 Jacques Laffite Ligier-Matra 29 Handling 18 25 Eddie Cheever Ligier-Matra 27 Oil leak 16 10 Eliseo Salazar ATS-Ford 22 Mechanical 20 16 René Arnoux Renault 14 Spun off 1 23 Bruno Giacomelli Alfa Romeo 4 Halfshaft 3 30 Mauro Baldi Arrows-Ford 33 Jan Lammers Theodore-Ford 17 Jochen Mass March-Ford 35 Derek Warwick Toleman-Hart 31 Jean-Pierre Jarier Osella-Ford 14 Roberto Guerrero Ensign-Ford 36 Teo Fabi Toleman-Hart 32 Riccardo Paletti Osella-Ford 18 Raul Boesel March-Ford 20 Chico Serra Fittipaldi-Ford 19 Emilio de Villota March-Ford
Championship standings after the race
Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 Alain Prost 18 2 John Watson 17 3 Didier Pironi 16 4 Keke Rosberg 14 5 Riccardo Patrese 13Source:
Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 1 McLaren-Ford 29 2 Renault 22 3 Ferrari 22 4 Williams-Ford 21 5 Lotus-Ford 14Source:
Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
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