1984

Pos	Driver	Nat	Car	Pts	Wins	Share of the leader
1	Niki Lauda	Austrian	McLaren	72	5
2	Alain Prost	French	McLaren	71.5	7
3	Elio de Angelis	Italian	Team Lotus	34	0
4	Michele Alboreto	Italian	Ferrari	30.5	1
5	Nelson Piquet	Brazilian	Brabham	29	2
6	René Arnoux	French	Ferrari	27	0
7	Derek Warwick	British	Renault	23	0
8	Keke Rosberg	Finnish	Williams	20.5	1
9	Ayrton Senna	Brazilian	Toleman	13	0
10	Nigel Mansell	British	Team Lotus	13	0
11	Patrick Tambay	French	Renault	11	0
12	TFTeo Fabi	Italian	Brabham	9	0
13	Riccardo Patrese	Italian	Alfa Romeo	8	0
14	Jacques Laffite	French	Williams	5	0
15	Thierry Boutsen	Belgian	Arrows	5	0
16	Eddie Cheever	American	Alfa Romeo	3	0
17	Stefan Johansson	Swedish	Toleman / Tyrrell	3	0
18	Andrea de Cesaris	Italian	Ligier	3	0
19	PGPiercarlo Ghinzani	Italian	Osella	2	0
20	Marc Surer	Swiss	Arrows	1	0
—	Philippe Alliot	French	RAM	0	0
—	Mauro Baldi	Italian	Spirit	0	0
—	Stefan Bellof	German	Tyrrell	0	0
—	Gerhard Berger	Austrian	ATS	0	0
—	Martin Brundle	British	Tyrrell	0	0
—	Johnny Cecotto	Venezuelan	Toleman	0	0
—	CFCorrado Fabi	Italian	Brabham	0	0
—	JGJo Gartner	Austrian	Osella	0	0
—	FHFrançois Hesnault	French	Ligier	0	0
—	Jonathan Palmer	British	RAM	0	0
—	Huub Rothengatter	Dutch	Spirit	0	0
—	Philippe Streiff	French	Renault	0	0
—	MTMike Thackwell	New Zealander	RAM	0	0
—	MWManfred Winkelhock	German	ATS / Brabham	0	0

Read from the season’s final standings row, never summed from the race results. 14 of 34 entries in this table carry no championship position and are ruled below the placed field, ordered by points. 3 of 34 totals are fractional, which is the sport’s own arithmetic (shared drives split a score, and a race stopped short pays half points), not a rounding artefact.

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 1984, 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 1984, not those that entered. The constructors’ championship has been awarded since 1958, so both tables exist for this season. 1984 is complete: all 16 rounds are loaded and both tables are final.