1983

Pos	Driver	Nat	Car	Pts	Wins	Share of the leader
1	Nelson Piquet	Brazilian	Brabham	59	3
2	Alain Prost	French	Renault	57	4
3	René Arnoux	French	Ferrari	49	3
4	Patrick Tambay	French	Ferrari	40	1
5	Keke Rosberg	Finnish	Williams	27	1
6	John Watson	British	McLaren	22	1
7	Eddie Cheever	American	Renault	22	0
8	Andrea de Cesaris	Italian	Alfa Romeo	15	0
9	Riccardo Patrese	Italian	Brabham	13	1
10	Niki Lauda	Austrian	McLaren	12	0
11	Jacques Laffite	French	Williams	11	0
12	Michele Alboreto	Italian	Tyrrell	10	1
13	Nigel Mansell	British	Team Lotus	10	0
14	Derek Warwick	British	Toleman	9	0
15	Marc Surer	Swiss	Arrows	4	0
16	Mauro Baldi	Italian	Alfa Romeo	3	0
17	Danny Sullivan	American	Tyrrell	2	0
18	Elio de Angelis	Italian	Team Lotus	2	0
19	BGBruno Giacomelli	Italian	Toleman	1	0
20	Johnny Cecotto	Venezuelan	Theodore	1	0
—	KAKenny Acheson	British	RAM	0	0
—	Raul Boesel	Brazilian	Ligier	0	0
—	Thierry Boutsen	Belgian	Arrows	0	0
—	CFCorrado Fabi	Italian	Osella	0	0
—	PGPiercarlo Ghinzani	Italian	Osella	0	0
—	Roberto Guerrero	Colombian	Theodore	0	0
—	Jean-Pierre Jarier	French	Ligier	0	0
—	Stefan Johansson	Swedish	Spirit	0	0
—	AJAlan Jones	Australian	Arrows	0	0
—	Jonathan Palmer	British	Williams	0	0
—	Eliseo Salazar	Chilean	RAM	0	0
—	Chico Serra	Brazilian	Arrows	0	0
—	MWManfred Winkelhock	German	ATS	0	0

Read from the season’s final standings row, never summed from the race results. 13 of 33 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 15, 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 1983, 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 1983, not those that entered. The constructors’ championship has been awarded since 1958, so both tables exist for this season. 1983 is complete: all 15 rounds are loaded and both tables are final.