1982

Pos	Driver	Nat	Car	Pts	Wins	Share of the leader
1	Keke Rosberg	Finnish	Williams	44	1
2	Didier Pironi	French	Ferrari	39	2
3	John Watson	British	McLaren	39	2
4	Alain Prost	French	Renault	34	2
5	Niki Lauda	Austrian	McLaren	30	2
6	René Arnoux	French	Renault	28	2
7	Patrick Tambay	French	Ferrari	25	1
8	Michele Alboreto	Italian	Tyrrell	25	1
9	Elio de Angelis	Italian	Team Lotus	23	1
10	Riccardo Patrese	Italian	Brabham	21	1
11	Nelson Piquet	Brazilian	Brabham	20	1
12	Eddie Cheever	American	Ligier	15	0
13	Derek Daly	Irish	Theodore / Williams	8	0
14	Nigel Mansell	British	Team Lotus	7	0
15	GVGilles Villeneuve	Canadian	Ferrari	6	0
16	Carlos Reutemann	Argentine	Williams	6	0
17	Andrea de Cesaris	Italian	Alfa Romeo	5	0
18	Jacques Laffite	French	Ligier	5	0
19	Mario Andretti	American	Ferrari / Williams	4	0
20	Jean-Pierre Jarier	French	Osella	3	0
21	Marc Surer	Swiss	Arrows	3	0
22	BGBruno Giacomelli	Italian	Alfa Romeo	2	0
23	Eliseo Salazar	Chilean	ATS	2	0
24	MWManfred Winkelhock	German	ATS	2	0
25	Mauro Baldi	Italian	Arrows	2	0
26	Chico Serra	Brazilian	Fittipaldi	1	0
—	Raul Boesel	Brazilian	March	0	0
—	Slim Borgudd	Swedish	Tyrrell	0	0
—	TBTommy Byrne	Irish	Theodore	0	0
—	TFTeo Fabi	Italian	Toleman	0	0
—	Roberto Guerrero	Colombian	Ensign	0	0
—	BHBrian Henton	British	Arrows / Tyrrell	0	0
—	Rupert Keegan	British	March	0	0
—	Jan Lammers	Dutch	Theodore	0	0
—	GLGeoff Lees	British	Team Lotus / Theodore	0	0
—	Jochen Mass	German	March	0	0
—	RPRiccardo Paletti	Italian	Osella	0	0
—	Derek Warwick	British	Toleman	0	0

Read from the season’s final standings row, never summed from the race results. 12 of 38 entries in this table carry no championship position and are ruled below the placed field, ordered by points.

Read from the season’s final constructor standings row. A constructor scores through both of its cars, so these totals are not the sum of any one driver’s line above.

Both championship tables on this page are read from the season’s standings rows at round 16, the last round loaded, and neither is derived by adding up the race results. That distinction is the whole point: for most of the sport’s history only a driver’s best few results counted toward the title, a race stopped short paid half points, and a driver could be excluded from a championship he had scored in, so a table built by summing the results column would disagree with the championship as it was actually awarded. Positions are the source’s own; where it recorded none, the row prints a dash and sits below the placed field rather than being given a place it never held or dropped from the page. A points total is printed as it is stored, to two decimals where it needs them, because the sport has awarded half points and split shared drives since the 1950s and those fractions are real. The calendar is every round in the archive for 1982, in round order, with the winner taken from the classification code the source prints rather than from its sort key; three of the 1,161 races loaded were won by a shared car, and for those the calendar names one driver while the race classification credits both. The Cars column counts the rows in each race’s classification, which includes cars that retired, so it is entries with a recorded result rather than a count of cars that took the start. The drivers and constructors counted in the masthead are those that appear in a race result for 1982, not those that entered. The constructors’ championship has been awarded since 1958, so both tables exist for this season. 1982 is complete: all 16 rounds are loaded and both tables are final.