1982 Monaco Grand Prix

[The Artist.....]

I've just been thinking about the 1982 Monaco Grand Prix... I'm not sure that we'll ever see a race like it... Rain in the final laps spelt the end of many leaders, and in the end, only 1 car actually finished the race distance...

1st: Riccardo Patrese - for his first ever win, but only after having spun the car on the damp track a couple of laps later
2nd Didier Pironi - But had run out of petrol on the final lap. Had he not run out of petrol, he would have won
3rd Andrea de Cesaris - As with Pironi, he'd run out of petrol on the final lap and parked slightly less far round the lap
4th Nigel Mansell - Still running, albeit a lap adrift
5th Elio de Angelis - as with Mansell
6th Derek Daly - Had lost his rear wing in an accident, and only classified as completing 74 laps.
7th Alain Prost - Crashed out of the lead on the damp track

What an utterly chaotic race!

 

[rufus_mcdufus]

One of the first races I remember watching live, and falling about laughing at the end!

 

[cider_and_toast]

I've seen the ending of the race on YouTube. Dear old Murray Walker is set to 11 with the commentary.

 

[The Artist.....]

It’s the fact that it was an utterly typical Monaco GP, with virtually no racing, right up until the last 5 laps…

 

[F1Brits_90]

i watched that race in full during lockdown & it was absoulte madness. as i love that nobody knew what was happening in them laps & 1 driver that was out because of everyone else was somehow back in

 

[F1Brits_90]

found the youtube link if nobodies ever seen it

 

[Dartman]

I watched it live, one of the BBC'S better performances and it showed the best wet drivers, but again the rules were bent to favour a crashed driver, was it because he was French or just favoured, Verstappen wasn't the first

 

[The Artist.....]

I watched it live, one of the BBC'S better performances and it showed the best wet drivers, but again the rules were bent to favour a crashed driver, was it because he was French or just favoured, Verstappen wasn't the first

1982 - are you sure you're not thinking of 1984?

1982 was the race that no-one wanted to win!

 

[cider_and_toast]

I was thinking exactly the same thing but didn't want to say anything in case I'd missed something.

 

[Dartman]

Yes, sorry confused with the spray, you don't often get two very wet races on the same track in Europe only two years apart except Silverstone