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The 1981 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 35th season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It featured the 1981 Formula One World Championship for Drivers and the 1981 Formula One World Championship for Manufacturers , which were contested over a fifteen-race series that commenced on 15 March and ended on 17 October.
A total of 74 World Championship seasons of Formula One (F1) have been run. [1] F1 is the highest form of open wheeled auto racing series regulated by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), motorsport's world governing body. [2] The "formula" in the name alludes to a series of rules established by the FIA to which all ...
SeasonRacesCountriesFirst2421242122 [i]2022 [h]20The 1981 South African Grand Prix, as a non-championship race due to difficulties from the ongoing FISA–FOCA war, was open to Formula One entrants but was not part of the World Championship. The 1981 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 35th season of FIA Formula One motor racing.
- Championship Permutations
- The Setting
- Qualifying
- Race
Going into this race, three drivers were in contention for the World Championship. Argentine Carlos Reutemann, driving a Williams-Ford, had 49 points having won two races, while Brazilian Nelson Piquet, driving a Brabham-Ford, had 48 having won three. Frenchman Jacques Laffite, driving a Ligier-Matra, had an outside chance on 43, having won two rac...
This was the third year in succession that the United States hosted the final round of the World Championship. This time, however, it took place in Las Vegas, instead of Watkins Glenin upstate New York: after twenty years on the Grand Prix schedule, the organizers at Watkins Glen were unable to fulfill financial obligations for 1981. The track, cre...
The Williams drivers, Alan Jonesand Reutemann, were fastest from the start of the first practice with points leader Reutemann the faster of the two. Later, Jones became the only other driver to break 1:18 in qualifying, and the starting front row was all Williams. Reutemann was not expecting any help winning the Championship from teammate Jones, wh...
In the race on Saturday, Jones jumped off the line into the lead, but Reutemann was quickly passed by Gilles Villeneuve, Alain Prost and Bruno Giacomelli, and finished the first lap in fifth. By the end of lap two, Jones had a five-second lead. Further down the field Patrick Tambay lost control of his Ligier, hitting a tyre wall positioned ahead of...
See 1977 season, 1978 season, 1979 season, 1980 season, 1981 season and 1982 season. 1977 also saw two radical technical innovations that would change the future of Formula One. The purpose of Lotus's experimentation in 1976 was revealed with the Lotus 78 , which brought ground effect to Formula One for the first time, using wing-profiled ...
Start Date: 1981-03-15. End Date: 1981-10-17. Number of Races: 15. Number of Drivers: 40. Number of Teams: 17. Liquipedia Tier: Tier 1. Links. Chronology. 1980. 1982. 1981 Formula One World Championship is the 32nd season of the Formula One World Championship recognised by the FIA.
