Detroit Grand Prix

Date
Sun 5th June 1983 (UTC)
Sun 5th June 1983 (Local)

Timestamp
1983-06-05T00:00:00

Time

00:00:00 UTC (00:00:00 Local)

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League
Formula 1

Season
1983

Round
7

Status

Location
Detroit Street Circuit

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Description

The 1983 Detroit Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on June 5, 1983, in Detroit, Michigan.
The teams then travelled to Detroit for their customary mid-season visit to North America. The Detroit street circuit had been changed slightly from the previous year's race; a hairpin on Jefferson Avenue and Chrysler Drive had been bypassed and eliminated, so that the course stayed on Chrysler Drive up until it turned left onto Congress Street.

Arnoux scored his second pole of the year, but Piquet took the lead at the start. Arnoux retook the lead on lap 9, and held off both Piquet and Rosberg until the electrics failed on his Ferrari, leaving Piquet back in the lead again. Michele Alboreto's Tyrrell inherited Piquet's lead when the Brazilian developed a slow rear puncture, dropping him to fourth. This was Alboreto's second career victory, both of which had come in the United States. Rosberg came home second with Watson third, while Piquet recovered to finish fourth. Laffite was fifth and Nigel Mansell came home 6th to score Lotus's first point of 1983. Prost's failure to score left him just one point ahead of Piquet with Tambay and Rosberg both in close attendance. Renault's lead in the Constructors' Championship was reduced to four points, with Williams moving into second, one point ahead of Ferrari.

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Result List

01	Michele Alboreto	1:50:53.669
02	Keke Rosberg	+0:07.702
03	John Watson	+0:09.283
04	Nelson Piquet	+1:12.185
05	Jacques Laffite	+1:32.603
06	Nigel Mansell	+1 Lap
07	Thierry Boutsen	+1 Lap
08	Alain Prost	+1 Lap
09	Bruno Giacomelli	+1 Lap
10	Raul Boesel	+2 Laps
11	Marc Surer	+2 Laps
12	Mauro Baldi	+4 Laps
13	Niki Lauda	DNF
14	Roberto Guerrero	DNF
15	Johnny Cecotto	DNF
16	Andrea De Cesaris	DNF
17	René Arnoux	DNF
18	Danny Sullivan	DNF
19	Jean-Christophe Boullion	DNF
20	Manfred Winkelhock	DNF
21	Derek Warwick	DNF
22	Riccardo Patrese	DNF
23	Elio de Angelis	DNF
24	Eddie Cheever	DNF
25	Piercarlo Ghinzani	DNF
26	Patrick Tambay	DNF
27	Corrado Fabi	DNF