F1/Seasons/1981/Round 11
1981 · Round 11 of 15

Austrian Grand Prix

August 16, 1981 · Red Bull Ring · Spielberg · Austria
Laffite
WINNER
Jacques Laffite · Ligier · from grid 4
FASTEST LAP
Lap timing starts in 2004. This race has none.
+10
MOST PLACES GAINED
Andrea de Cesaris · grid 18 to P8
11 of 24
CLASSIFIED
13 retired

01/Classification

24 cars
Finishing order
PosDriverConstructorGrid+/-LapsTime / statusPtsFastest lap
1Jacques LaffiteLigier4+3531:27:36.4709
2René ArnouxRenault1-153+5.1706
3Nelson PiquetBrabham7+453+7.3404
4Alan JonesWilliams6+253+12.0403
5Carlos ReutemannWilliams5053+31.8502
6John WatsonMcLaren12+653+1:31.1401
7Elio de AngelisTeam Lotus9+252+1 Lap0
8Andrea de CesarisMcLaren18+1052+1 Lap0
9Didier PironiFerrari8-152+1 Lap0
10Jean-Pierre JarierOsella14+451+2 Laps0
11Derek DalyMarch19+847+6 Laps0
RMario AndrettiAlfa Romeo1346Engine0
RSlim BorguddATS2144Brakes0
RRiccardo PatreseArrows1043Engine0
REliseo SalazarEnsign2043Oil pressure0
RMichele AlboretoTyrrell2240Gearbox0
RBruno GiacomelliAlfa Romeo1635Heat shield fire0
RHector RebaqueBrabham1532Clutch0
RSiegfried StohrArrows2427Overheating0
RAlain ProstRenault226Suspension0
RPatrick TambayLigier1726Engine0
RNigel MansellTeam Lotus1123Engine0
RGilles VilleneuveFerrari311Accident0
RMarc SurerTheodore230Distributor0

Ordered on the source’s position column and printed from position_text. Those two disagree on purpose: position is a sort key that is never null, and position_text is what happened to the car. 13 of 24 cars here were not classified (13 retired). Across the archive that is 9,612 of 26,048 result rows, so a page that printed the sort key would tell more than a third of every field it finished.


02/Grid to finish

11 of 24 cars
Grid minus finishing position
PLACES GAINED
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
Andrea de CesarisMcLaren188+10
Derek DalyMarch1911+8
John WatsonMcLaren126+6
Nelson PiquetBrabham73+4
Jean-Pierre JarierOsella1410+4
PLACES LOST
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
René ArnouxRenault12-1
Didier PironiFerrari89-1

Movement is grid minus finishing position, and it is computed for 11 of the 24 cars entered. It is left blank for the other 13: a car that was not classified has no finishing position to subtract from, and no car here carries grid 0, the value the source uses for a pit lane start or for no recorded grid slot. Scoring a grid of 0 as a gain of every place on the grid is the arithmetic this rule exists to stop; 266 of 26,048 rows across the archive are grid 0, and 40 of those were classified.


03/The 1981 season

15 rounds
MAR 15 to OCT 17
RdDateGrand PrixCircuitWinnerConstructorCars
1MAR 15United States Grand Prix WestLong BeachAlan JonesWilliams24
2MAR 29Brazilian Grand PrixAutódromo Internacional Nelson PiquetCarlos ReutemannWilliams25
3APR 12Argentine Grand PrixAutódromo Juan y Oscar GálvezNelson PiquetBrabham24
4MAY 3San Marino Grand PrixAutodromo Enzo e Dino FerrariNelson PiquetBrabham27
5MAY 17Belgian Grand PrixZolderCarlos ReutemannWilliams24
6MAY 31Monaco Grand PrixCircuit de MonacoGilles VilleneuveFerrari20
7JUN 21Spanish Grand PrixJaramaGilles VilleneuveFerrari24
8JUL 5French Grand PrixDijon-PrenoisAlain ProstRenault24
9JUL 18British Grand PrixSilverstone CircuitJohn WatsonMcLaren24
10AUG 2German Grand PrixHockenheimringNelson PiquetBrabham24
11AUG 16Austrian Grand PrixRed Bull RingJacques LaffiteLigier24
12AUG 30Dutch Grand PrixCircuit Park ZandvoortAlain ProstRenault25
13SEP 13Italian Grand PrixAutodromo Nazionale di MonzaAlain ProstRenault24
14SEP 27Canadian Grand PrixCircuit Gilles VilleneuveJacques LaffiteLigier24
15OCT 17Caesars Palace Grand PrixLas Vegas Street CircuitAlan JonesWilliams24

Every figure here is one race, read from f1_results and f1_races. The finishing order is the source’s position column; the printed position is position_text, which is a letter on 9,612 of 26,048 rows across the archive (R retired 9,089, W withdrew 364, D disqualified 159). Grid 0 is a pit lane start and prints as PIT, not as a place ahead of pole; 266 of 26,048 rows are grid 0. Time is a total for the winner and a gap to the car ahead for everyone else, and it is present on 8,508 of 26,048 rows only, so most of the archive shows the status instead; where both exist and the status is not “Finished” the status is printed beside the time, because 8,335 of 16,436 classified rows finished lapped or otherwise not cleanly. The fastest lap column is empty before 2004: the source carries lap timing on 8,977 of 26,048 rows and a ranked fastest lap in 447 of 1,161 races, and speed on 8,238 of those, none after 2024. Points are printed as the source stores them and are never rounded to a whole number: 38 of 26,048 rows are fractional (0.5, 1.33, 3.14), which is half points for a shortened race and a split score for a shared car, and every one of them is real. Three races (1951 French, 1956 Argentine, 1957 British) print two cars as first, because two drivers shared one car and the record books credit both; in those three the source hangs the race points on other rows, which is why 5 of 1,164 winning rows across the archive print zero points. Constructors carry no logo in any f1_* table, so none is drawn and none is invented. The 1981 season is complete at 15 rounds.