Canadian Grand Prix

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Date & Time
Sun 27th September 1981 Local
Sun 27th September 1981 12:00am UTC

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League
Formula 1

Season
1981

Round
Round 14

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Île Notre-Dame

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The 1981 Canadian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Circuit Île Notre-Dame, Montreal on 27 September 1981. It was the fourteenth race of the 1981 Formula One World Championship.
The race was run in wet conditions, and ended after 63 of the scheduled 70 laps due to the two-hour time limit. Frenchman Jacques Laffite won in a Talbot Ligier-Matra, with Northern Ireland's John Watson second in a McLaren-Ford and local hero Gilles Villeneuve third in a Ferrari. Brazilian Nelson Piquet finished fifth in his Brabham-Ford, having started from pole position, while Drivers' Championship rival, Argentine Carlos Reutemann, could only manage tenth in his Williams-Ford. Piquet thus moved within one point of Reutemann with one race to go, while the win gave Laffite an outside chance of the title. Despite both Reutemann and Australian teammate Alan Jones failing to score, Williams clinched the Constructors' Championship.
This would turn out to be Laffite's final F1 victory, as well as the last for the Ligier team for fifteen years, until the 1996 Monaco Grand Prix.

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Result List

01	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	2:01:25.20
02	John Watson	McLaren Formula 1 Team	+0:06.23
03	Gilles Villeneuve	Scuderia Ferrari HP	+1:50.27
04	Bruno Giacomelli	Alfa Romeo S.p.A.	+1 Lap
05	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	+1 Lap
06	Elio de Angelis	Lotus F1	+1 Lap
07	Mario Andretti	Alfa Romeo S.p.A.	+1 Lap
08	Derek Daly	March Engineering	+2 Laps
09	Marc Surer	Theodore Racing	+2 Laps
10	Carlos Reutemann	Williams Racing	+3 Laps
11	Michele Alboreto	Tyrrell Racing	+4 Laps
12	Eddie Cheever	Tyrrell Racing	DNF
13	Andrea De Cesaris	McLaren Formula 1 Team	DNF
14	Alain Prost	Renault F1 Team	DNF
15	Nigel Mansell	Lotus F1	DNF
16	Slim Borgudd	ATS	DNF
17	Hector Rebaque	Brabham	DNF
18	Jean-Christophe Boullion	Osella	DNF
19	Alan Jones	Williams Racing	DNF
20	Didier Pironi	Scuderia Ferrari HP	DNF
21	Eliseo Salazar	Ensign Racing	DNF
22	Patrick Tambay	Ligier	DNF
23	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows Grand Prix International	DNF
24	René Arnoux	Renault F1 Team	DNF
25	Keke Rosberg	Fittipaldi Automotive	Did not qualify
26	Chico Serra	Fittipaldi Automotive	Did not qualify
27	Brian Henton	Toleman	Did not qualify
28	Jacques Villeneuve	Arrows Grand Prix International	Did not qualify
29	Derek Warwick	Toleman	Did not qualify
30	Beppe Gabbiani	Osella	Did not qualify