French Grand Prix

Date & Time
Sun 25th July 1982 12:00am Local
Sun 25th July 1982 12:00am UTC

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League
Formula 1

Season
1982

Round
11

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Location
Circuit Paul Ricard

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Description

The 1982 French Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Paul Ricard on 25 July 1982. It was the eleventh race of the 1982 Formula One World Championship.

The 54-lap race was won from pole position by René Arnoux, driving a Renault. The turbocharged Renaults, Ferraris and Brabham-BMWs took up the first six grid positions, and Arnoux led home a French 1–2–3–4, with teammate Alain Prost second and the Ferraris of Didier Pironi and Patrick Tambay third and fourth, respectively. Arnoux achieved his win in sour circumstances, as he violated a pre-race agreement that if he and Prost were running first and second, respectively, he would let Prost past to aid his Drivers' Championship hopes. Arnoux left Renault at the end of the year.

The top six was completed by Keke Rosberg in the Williams-Ford and Michele Alboreto in the Tyrrell-Ford. Pironi's third place enabled him to extend his lead in the Drivers' Championship to nine points, although this would turn out to be his last finish before his career-ending accident at the next race in Germany.

The eleventh lap of this race saw a big accident when Jochen Mass's March and Mauro Baldi's Arrows collided at Signes. Mass's car went through the catch fencing into the tyre walls, then catapulted into a spectator area and caught fire. Mass escaped with burns on his hands, while several spectators were injured. The West German driver retired from Formula One immediately after this race.

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Result List

01	René Arnoux	Renault F1 Team	1:33:33.217
02	Alain Prost	Renault F1 Team	+0:17.308
03	Didier Pironi	Scuderia Ferrari HP	+0:42.128
04	Patrick Tambay	Scuderia Ferrari HP	+1:16.241
05	Keke Rosberg	Williams Racing	+1:30.994
06	Michele Alboreto	Tyrrell Racing	+1:32.339
07	Derek Daly	Williams Racing	+1 Lap
08	Niki Lauda	McLaren Formula 1 Team	+1 Lap
09	Bruno Giacomelli	Alfa Romeo S.p.A.	+1 Lap
10	Brian Henton	Tyrrell Racing	+1 Lap
11	Manfred Winkelhock	ATS	+2 Laps
12	Geoff Lees	Lotus F1	+2 Laps
13	Marc Surer	Arrows Grand Prix International	+2 Laps
14	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	+3 Laps
15	Derek Warwick	Toleman	+4 Laps
16	Eddie Cheever	Ligier	+5 Laps
17	Andrea De Cesaris	Alfa Romeo S.p.A.	DNF
18	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	DNF
19	Elio de Angelis	Lotus F1	DNF
20	John Watson	McLaren Formula 1 Team	DNF
21	Jochen Mass	March Engineering	DNF
22	Mauro Baldi	Arrows Grand Prix International	DNF
23	Riccardo Patrese	Brabham	DNF
24	Eliseo Salazar	ATS	DNF
25	Jean-Christophe Boullion	Osella	DNF
26	Teo Fabi	Toleman	DNF
27	Jan Lammers	Theodore Racing	Did not qualify
28	Roberto Guerrero	Ensign Racing	Did not qualify
29	Raul Boesel	March Engineering	Did not qualify