F1/Seasons/1981/Round 12
1981 · Round 12 of 15

Dutch Grand Prix

August 30, 1981 · Circuit Park Zandvoort · Zandvoort · Netherlands
Prost
WINNER
Alain Prost · Renault · from grid 1
FASTEST LAP
Lap timing starts in 2004. This race has none.
+18
MOST PLACES GAINED
Eliseo Salazar · grid 24 to P6
10 of 25
CLASSIFIED
14 retired · 1 withdrew

01/Classification

25 cars
Finishing order
PosDriverConstructorGrid+/-LapsTime / statusPtsFastest lap
1Alain ProstRenault10721:40:22.4309
2Nelson PiquetBrabham3+172+8.2406
3Alan JonesWilliams4+172+35.5004
4Hector RebaqueBrabham15+1171+1 Lap3
5Elio de AngelisTeam Lotus9+471+1 Lap2
6Eliseo SalazarEnsign24+1870+2 Laps1
7Siegfried StohrArrows21+1469+3 Laps0
8Marc SurerTheodore20+1269+3 Laps0
9Michele AlboretoTyrrell25+1668Engine0
10Slim BorguddATS23+1368+4 Laps0
RMario AndrettiAlfa Romeo762Accident0
RJohn WatsonMcLaren850Ignition0
REddie CheeverTyrrell2246Suspension0
RJean-Pierre JarierOsella1829Transmission0
RRené ArnouxRenault221Engine0
RBruno GiacomelliAlfa Romeo1419Tyre0
RJacques LaffiteLigier618Collision0
RCarlos ReutemannWilliams518Collision0
RRiccardo PatreseArrows1016Suspension0
RDerek DalyMarch195Suspension0
RDidier PironiFerrari124Collision0
RNigel MansellTeam Lotus171Engine0
RPatrick TambayLigier111Collision0
RGilles VilleneuveFerrari160Collision0
WAndrea de CesarisMcLarenPIT0Withdrew0

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. 15 of 25 cars here were not classified (14 retired, 1 withdrew). 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

10 of 25 cars
Grid minus finishing position
PLACES GAINED
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
Eliseo SalazarEnsign246+18
Michele AlboretoTyrrell259+16
Siegfried StohrArrows217+14
Slim BorguddATS2310+13
Marc SurerTheodore208+12
PLACES LOST

No classified car finished behind its grid slot.

Movement is grid minus finishing position, and it is computed for 10 of the 25 cars entered. It is left blank for the other 15: a car that was not classified has no finishing position to subtract from, and 1 car here carry grid 0, which the source uses for a pit lane start or for no recorded grid slot and this page prints as PIT, and neither has a grid position to subtract. 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.