1984 Austrian Grand Prix

F1 Austria Austrian Österreichring 1977-1987.svg The Österreichring (last modified in 1977) 19 August 1984 XXII Holiday Großer Preis von Österreich 12 16 Österreichring, Spielberg, Styria, Austria Permanent racing facility 3.692 5.942 51 188.292 303.042 Dry Nelson Piquet Brabham-BMW 1:26.173 Brazil 1968 Niki Lauda McLaren-TAG 1:32.882 23 Austria Niki Lauda McLaren-TAG Austria Nelson Piquet Brabham-BMW Brazil 1968 Michele Alboreto Ferrari Italy AUT The 1984 Austrian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Österreichring on 19 August 1984. It was the twelfth race of the 1984 Formula One World Championship, and the 400th Grand Prix held as part of the World Championship since it began in 1950. The 51-lap race was won by local driver Niki Lauda, driving a McLaren-TAG. Brazilian Nelson Piquet finished second in a Brabham-BMW, having started from pole position, with Italian Michele Alboreto third in a Ferrari. The win, Lauda's fourth of the season, gave him the lead of the Drivers' Championship by 4.5 points from his French teammate Alain Prost, who spun out shortly after half distance. Report The race had to be stopped soon after the first start, due to a problem with the starting lights which caused chaos among the drivers with Niki Lauda claiming that he saw "Red, green, yellow then red again". This caused 3rd fastest qualifier Elio de Angelis to hesitate badly off the line and his Lotus-Renault was almost hit from behind by several cars and saw the Toleman-Hart of Ayrton Senna in 4th place by the time they reached Hella-Licht after starting 10th. On the formation lap for the re-start, pole sitter Piquet, who had seen the McLarens change tyres on the grid, angered the other drivers when he led the field on an extremely slow lap in an effort to not allow Prost or Lauda to scrub in their new Michelin rubber. Alain Prost, Lauda's team mate and the World Championship leader going into the race, failed to finish after spinning off on oil at the Jochen Rindt Curve on lap 28, that came from the Lotus of Elio de Angelis when his Renault engine failed moments before Prost retired (de Angelis later received criticism for continuing to drive his car on the racing line while dropping oil). Prost had been running a close second behind Piquet at the time of his spin. Piquet came upon the oil of de Angelis first and managed to keep his car from sliding off despite a twitch on the oil. Prost however was having gear selection problems and hit the oil with one hand on his steering wheel and the other on his gear lever. This saw him spin off and clout the outside guardrail almost nose first, the resulting suspension damage causing his immediate retirement. Lauda moved into second and then passed Piquet for the lead, the Brazilian suffering tyre trouble. Despite a brief gearbox problem where for a few hundred metres he could not find a gear before eventually finding 4th coming out of the Texaco Schikane, Lauda went on to win his home race by 23 seconds largely only having 3rd and 5th gears left in his McLaren's gearbox. Another Austrian driver Gerhard Berger, who would go on to win 10 Grands Prix before retiring at the end of the 1997 season, made his Formula One debut at the Österreichring, finishing 12th and last in his ATS-BMW. The third Austrian in the race, Jo Gartner, retired after only 6 laps with engine troubles in his Osella-Alfa Romeo. Both Renaults retired with engine failures, Derek Warwick on lap 18 and Patrick Tambay on lap 43. Classification Qualifying Pos No Driver Constructor Q1 Q2 Gap 1 1BRA 1968 Nelson Piquet Brabham-BMW 1:26.928 1:26.173 2 7FRA Alain Prost McLaren-TAG 1:26.203 1:27.098 +0.030 3 11ITA Elio de Angelis Lotus-Renault 1:27.531 1:26.318 +0.145 4 8AUT Niki Lauda McLaren-TAG 1:26.715 1:27.312 +0.542 5 15FRA Patrick Tambay Renault 1:27.748 1:26.748 +0.575 6 16 GBR Derek Warwick Renault 1:27.928 1:27.123 +0.950 7 2ITA Teo Fabi Brabham-BMW 1:29.893 1:27.201 +1.028 8 12GBR Nigel Mansell Lotus-Renault 1:28.430 1:27.558 +1.385 9 6FIN Keke Rosberg Williams-Honda 1:28.760 1:29.012 +2.587 10 19BRA 1968 Ayrton Senna Toleman-Hart 1:29.463 1:29.200 +3.027 11 5FRA Jacques Laffite Williams-Honda 1:29.228 1:31.498 +3.055 12 27ITA Michele Alboreto Ferrari 1:29.694 1:30.000 +3.541 13 22ITA Riccardo Patrese Alfa Romeo 1:30.966 1:30.736 +4.563 14 14FRG Manfred Winkelhock ATS-BMW 1:33.276 1:30.853 +4.680 15 28 FRA René Arnoux Ferrari 1:31.003 1:31.313 +4.830 16 23USA Eddie Cheever Alfa Romeo 1:31.250 1:31.045 +4.872 17 18BEL Thierry Boutsen Arrows-BMW 1:31.255 1:31.189 +5.016 18 26ITA Andrea de Cesaris Ligier-Renault 1:36.771 1:31.588 +5.415 19 17SWI Marc Surer Arrows-BMW 1:31.701 1:31.655 +5.482 20 31AUT Gerhard Berger ATS-BMW 1:31.904No time +5.731 21 25FRA François Hesnault Ligier-Renault 1:32.582 1:32.270 +6.097 22 30Austria Jo Gartner Osella-Alfa Romeo 1:35.212 1:33.019 +6.846 23 24 ITA Piercarlo Ghinzani Osella-Alfa Romeo 1:33.172No time +6.999 24 10GBR Jonathan Palmer RAM-Hart 1:34.622 1:34.128 +7.955 25 9FRA Philippe Alliot RAM-Hart 1:34.495 1:44.304 +8.322 26 21NED Huub Rothengatter Spirit-Hart 1:00:43.900 1:35.605 +9.432 27 3SWE Stefan Johansson Tyrrell-Ford 1:37.292 1:36.282 +10.109 28 4FRG Stefan Bellof Tyrrell-Ford 1:37.535 1:37.893 +11.362Source:https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/1984/races/477/austria/qualifying-1.html 22. Grosser Preis Von Oesterreich 1984 - Qualifying 1 formula1.com 11 May 2018https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/1984/races/477/austria/qualifying-2.html 22. Grosser Preis Von Oesterreich 1984 - Qualifying 2 formula1.com 11 May 2018https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/1984/races/477/austria/qualifying-0.html 22. Grosser Preis Von Oesterreich 1984 - Overall qualifying formula1.com 11 May 2018 Race Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 8AUT Niki Lauda McLaren-TAG 51 1:21:12.851 4 9 2 1BRA 1968 Nelson Piquet Brabham-BMW 51 + 23.525 1 6 3 27ITA Michele Alboreto Ferrari 51 + 48.998 12 4 4 2ITA Teo Fabi Brabham-BMW 51 + 56.312 7 3 5 18BEL Thierry Boutsen Arrows-BMW 50 + 1 Lap 17 2 6 17SWI Marc Surer Arrows-BMW 50 + 1 Lap 19 1 7 28FRA René Arnoux Ferrari 50 + 1 Lap 15   8 25FRA François Hesnault Ligier-Renault 49 + 2 Laps 21   9 10GBR Jonathan Palmer RAM-Hart 49 + 2 Laps 24   10 22ITA Riccardo Patrese Alfa Romeo 48 Out of Fuel 13   11 9FRA Philippe Alliot RAM-Hart 48 + 3 Laps 25   12 31AUT Gerhard Berger ATS-BMW 48 Gearbox 20  Ret Retired 15FRA Patrick Tambay Renault 42 Engine 5  Ret Retired 19BRA 1968 Ayrton Senna Toleman-Hart 35 Oil Pressure 10  Ret Retired 12GBR Nigel Mansell Lotus-Renault 32 Engine 8  Ret Retired 7FRA Alain Prost McLaren-TAG 28 Spun Off/Gearbox 2  Ret Retired 11ITA Elio de Angelis Lotus-Renault 28 Engine 3  NC Not classified 21NED Huub Rothengatter Spirit-Hart 23 + 28 Laps 26  Ret Retired 23USA Eddie Cheever Alfa Romeo 18 Engine 16   Ret Retired 16GBR Derek Warwick Renault 17 Engine 6  Ret Retired 26ITA Andrea de Cesaris Ligier-Renault 15 Injection 18   Ret Retired 6FIN Keke Rosberg Williams-Honda 15 Handling 9  Ret Retired 5FRA Jacques Laffite Williams-Honda 12 Engine 11  Ret Retired 30AUT Jo Gartner Osella-Alfa Romeo 6 Engine 22  Ret Retired 24ITA Piercarlo Ghinzani Osella-Alfa Romeo 4 Gearbox 23  DNS Did not start 14FRG Manfred Winkelhock ATS-BMW 0 Gearbox 14  DNQ Did not qualify 3SWE Stefan Johansson Tyrrell-Ford EX Excluded 4FRG Stefan Bellof Tyrrell-Ford Source:http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1984/322/ 1984 Austrian Grand Prix formula1.com 23 December 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20141104031314/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1984/322/ 4 November 2014 Championship standings after the race Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 AUT Niki Lauda 48 2 FRA Alain Prost 43.5 3 ITA Elio de Angelis 26.5 4 FRA René Arnoux 24.5 5 BRA 1968 Nelson Piquet 24Source:https://www.statsf1.com/en/1984/autriche/championnat.aspx Austria 1984 - Championship • STATS F1 www.statsf1.com 7 March 2019 Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 1 GBR McLaren-TAG 91.5 2 ITA Ferrari 39.5 3 GBR Lotus-Renault 35.5 4 FRA Renault 32 5 GBR Brabham-BMW 30Source: Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. Points accurate at final declaration of results. Tyrrell's points were subsequently reallocated. References 30em Austrian Grand Prix 1984 1984 German Grand Prix 1984 Dutch Grand Prix 1983 Austrian Grand Prix 1985 Austrian Grand Prix Austrian Grand Prix Grand Prix Austrian Grand Prix Category:Austrian Grand Prix