F1/Seasons/1983/Round 4
1983 · Round 4 of 15

San Marino Grand Prix

May 1, 1983 · Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari · Imola · Italy
Tambay
WINNER
Patrick Tambay · Ferrari · from grid 3
FASTEST LAP
Lap timing starts in 2004. This race has none.
+19
MOST PLACES GAINED
John Watson · grid 24 to P5
12 of 26
CLASSIFIED
14 retired

01/Classification

26 cars
Finishing order
PosDriverConstructorGrid+/-LapsTime / statusPtsFastest lap
1Patrick TambayFerrari3+2601:37:52.4609
2Alain ProstRenault4+260+48.7816
3René ArnouxFerrari1-259+1 Lap4
4Keke RosbergWilliams11+759+1 Lap3
5John WatsonMcLaren24+1959+1 Lap2
6Marc SurerArrows12+659+1 Lap1
7Jacques LaffiteWilliams16+959+1 Lap0
8Chico SerraArrows20+1258+2 Laps0
9Raul BoeselLigier25+1658+2 Laps0
10Mauro BaldiAlfa Romeo10057Engine0
11Manfred WinkelhockATS7-457+3 Laps0
12Nigel MansellTeam Lotus15+356Spun off0
RRiccardo PatreseBrabham554Spun off0
RAndrea de CesarisAlfa Romeo845Ignition0
RElio de AngelisTeam Lotus943Handling0
RNelson PiquetBrabham241Engine0
RJean-Pierre JarierLigier1939Radiator0
RDanny SullivanTyrrell2237Collision0
RDerek WarwickToleman1427Spun off0
RCorrado FabiOsella2620Spun off0
RBruno GiacomelliToleman1720Suspension0
RNiki LaudaMcLaren1811Spun off0
RJohnny CecottoTheodore2311Spun off0
RMichele AlboretoTyrrell1310Collision0
RRoberto GuerreroTheodore213Spun off0
REddie CheeverRenault61Turbo0

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. 14 of 26 cars here were not classified (14 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

12 of 26 cars
Grid minus finishing position
PLACES GAINED
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
John WatsonMcLaren245+19
Raul BoeselLigier259+16
Chico SerraArrows208+12
Jacques LaffiteWilliams167+9
Keke RosbergWilliams114+7
PLACES LOST
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
Manfred WinkelhockATS711-4
René ArnouxFerrari13-2

Movement is grid minus finishing position, and it is computed for 12 of the 26 cars entered. It is left blank for the other 14: 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 1983 season

15 rounds
MAR 13 to OCT 15
RdDateGrand PrixCircuitWinnerConstructorCars
1MAR 13Brazilian Grand PrixAutódromo Internacional Nelson PiquetNelson PiquetBrabham26
2MAR 27United States Grand Prix WestLong BeachJohn WatsonMcLaren26
3APR 17French Grand PrixCircuit Paul RicardAlain ProstRenault26
4MAY 1San Marino Grand PrixAutodromo Enzo e Dino FerrariPatrick TambayFerrari26
5MAY 15Monaco Grand PrixCircuit de MonacoKeke RosbergWilliams20
6MAY 22Belgian Grand PrixCircuit de Spa-FrancorchampsAlain ProstRenault26
7JUN 5Detroit Grand PrixDetroit Street CircuitMichele AlboretoTyrrell27
8JUN 12Canadian Grand PrixCircuit Gilles VilleneuveRené ArnouxFerrari26
9JUL 16British Grand PrixSilverstone CircuitAlain ProstRenault26
10AUG 7German Grand PrixHockenheimringRené ArnouxFerrari26
11AUG 14Austrian Grand PrixRed Bull RingAlain ProstRenault26
12AUG 28Dutch Grand PrixCircuit Park ZandvoortRené ArnouxFerrari26
13SEP 11Italian Grand PrixAutodromo Nazionale di MonzaNelson PiquetBrabham26
14SEP 25European Grand PrixBrands HatchNelson PiquetBrabham26
15OCT 15South African Grand PrixKyalamiRiccardo PatreseBrabham26

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 1983 season is complete at 15 rounds.