F1/Seasons/1982/Round 7
1982 · Round 7 of 16

Detroit Grand Prix

June 6, 1982 · Detroit Street Circuit · Detroit · USA
Watson
WINNER
John Watson · McLaren · from grid 17
FASTEST LAP
Lap timing starts in 2004. This race has none.
+16
MOST PLACES GAINED
John Watson · grid 17 to P1
11 of 26
CLASSIFIED
15 retired

01/Classification

26 cars
Finishing order
PosDriverConstructorGrid+/-LapsTime / statusPtsFastest lap
1John WatsonMcLaren17+16621:58:41.0439
2Eddie CheeverLigier9+762+15.7266
3Didier PironiFerrari4+162+28.0774
4Keke RosbergWilliams3-162+1:11.9763
5Derek DalyWilliams12+762+1:23.7572
6Jacques LaffiteLigier13+761+1 Lap1
7Jochen MassMarch18+1161+1 Lap0
8Marc SurerArrows19+1161+1 Lap0
9Brian HentonTyrrell20+1160+2 Laps0
10René ArnouxRenault15+559+3 Laps0
11Chico SerraFittipaldi26+1559+3 Laps0
RAlain ProstRenault154Not classified0
RNigel MansellTeam Lotus744Engine0
RNiki LaudaMcLaren1040Collision0
RMichele AlboretoTyrrell1640Spun off0
RBruno GiacomelliAlfa Romeo630Collision0
RElio de AngelisTeam Lotus817Gearbox0
REliseo SalazarATS2513Spun off0
RRoberto GuerreroEnsign116Collision0
RRiccardo PatreseBrabham146Collision0
RAndrea de CesarisAlfa Romeo22Transmission0
RJean-Pierre JarierOsella222Ignition0
RManfred WinkelhockATS51Spun off0
RRaul BoeselMarch210Collision0
RMauro BaldiArrows240Collision0
RRiccardo PalettiOsella230Retired0

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 26 cars here were not classified (15 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 26 cars
Grid minus finishing position
PLACES GAINED
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
John WatsonMcLaren171+16
Chico SerraFittipaldi2611+15
Jochen MassMarch187+11
Marc SurerArrows198+11
Brian HentonTyrrell209+11
PLACES LOST
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
Keke RosbergWilliams34-1

Movement is grid minus finishing position, and it is computed for 11 of the 26 cars entered. It is left blank for the other 15: 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 1982 season

16 rounds
JAN 23 to SEP 25
RdDateGrand PrixCircuitWinnerConstructorCars
1JAN 23South African Grand PrixKyalamiAlain ProstRenault26
2MAR 21Brazilian Grand PrixAutódromo Internacional Nelson PiquetAlain ProstRenault26
3APR 4United States Grand Prix WestLong BeachNiki LaudaMcLaren26
4APR 25San Marino Grand PrixAutodromo Enzo e Dino FerrariDidier PironiFerrari14
5MAY 9Belgian Grand PrixZolderJohn WatsonMcLaren28
6MAY 23Monaco Grand PrixCircuit de MonacoRiccardo PatreseBrabham20
7JUN 6Detroit Grand PrixDetroit Street CircuitJohn WatsonMcLaren26
8JUN 13Canadian Grand PrixCircuit Gilles VilleneuveNelson PiquetBrabham26
9JUL 3Dutch Grand PrixCircuit Park ZandvoortDidier PironiFerrari26
10JUL 18British Grand PrixBrands HatchNiki LaudaMcLaren26
11JUL 25French Grand PrixCircuit Paul RicardRené ArnouxRenault26
12AUG 8German Grand PrixHockenheimringPatrick TambayFerrari26
13AUG 15Austrian Grand PrixRed Bull RingElio de AngelisTeam Lotus26
14AUG 29Swiss Grand PrixDijon-PrenoisKeke RosbergWilliams26
15SEP 12Italian Grand PrixAutodromo Nazionale di MonzaRené ArnouxRenault26
16SEP 25Caesars Palace Grand PrixLas Vegas Street CircuitMichele AlboretoTyrrell27

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 1982 season is complete at 16 rounds.