1982 жылғы Детройт Гран-при: Жарысқа дайындық пен күтпеген бұрылыстар

The 1982 Detroit Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on June 6, 1982, in Detroit, Michigan.

Due to organizational problems, extra practice planned for Thursday was cancelled, and the first qualifying session on Friday had to be postponed. There was time for only a one hour practice session on Friday, and so qualifying would take place on Saturday in two one hour sessions, four hours apart. Saturday was cold and overcast with a threat of rain, and nearly all the drivers scrambled to get a time in on the dry track while they could, with many spins and trips down the escape roads of the unfamiliar circuit. The afternoon session was wet throughout, as expected, and the times from the morning session did indeed determine the grid. Alain Prost took Renault's sixth pole in seven races on the season with a lap of 1:48.537, an average of less than 83 miles per hour (134 kilometers per hour), slower than Monaco. Andrea de Cesaris, the only non Renault driver with a pole so far in 1982 (Long Beach), put his Alfa Romeo alongside Prost on the front row with a 1:48.872, ahead of the Williams of Keke Rosberg. For the second straight race, Ferrari had only one entry following the death of Gilles Villeneuve in Belgium four weeks earlier, and Didier Pironi qualified it in fourth spot. The lone American driver in the race, Eddie Cheever, put on a fine show for the home crowd, placing his Ligier ninth, behind the Lotus pair of Nigel Mansell and Elio de Angelis and just ahead of Niki Lauda's McLaren. The biggest surprise, however, was seeing defending World Champion Nelson Piquet at the bottom of the time sheets. Problems with the BMW engines in both his race car and spare during the morning session and rain in the afternoon combined to keep him off the grid for Sunday's race. This is the only time a reigning World Champion has failed to qualify for a Grand Prix.

In contrast to Saturday afternoon, Sunday was mostly sunny and pleasant as a flotilla of boats dotted the river across from the circuit. The top three drivers all managed excellent starts, and Prost led de Cesaris and Rosberg through the first turn. Following them at the end of Lap one were Pironi, Mansell, Bruno Giacomelli, Cheever and Lauda. Manfred Winkelhock retired from an excellent fifth position when a front hub upright that had been replaced on the grid broke anyway, putting his ATS into the wall. Just two laps later, on Lap three, de Cesaris limped into the pits with a broken driveshaft, leaving Rosberg in second place, three seconds behind Prost. On Lap seven, under pressure from de Angelis, Roberto Guerrero's Ensign went wide at the first corner. De Angelis tried to go through on the inside, but when Guerrero resumed his line, the two collided. The Lotus was able to continue, but Guerrero slid to a halt in the tire wall. Jochen Mass and Watson were able to avoid the disabled Ensign, but when Riccardo Patrese came upon the scene, he locked up and hit the tire wall right next to Guerrero, losing a wheel. A brake duct on Patrese's car quickly caught fire, and though the disabled cars seemed to be out of the way, the sight of two cars stopped on the track, one in flames, prompted the Clerk of the Course to call for the red flag. The cars returned to the pits and waited for nearly an hour while all manner of repairs were made by the mechanics. Prost had his skirts changed and fuel topped off, Lauda changed his leaking oil cooler, and Guerrero, Winkelhock and Patrese, who had retired, even brought their spare cars out on the grid for the restart! This, at least, was not allowed, and eighteen cars restarted the race in running order, with the final result to be determined by the sum of the two times recorded in the two parts of the race. Prost again took the lead off the grid, and one lap later he led Rosberg, Pironi, Giacomelli, Cheever, René Arnoux, Lauda and Mansell. Immediately, Prost began to distance himself from Rosberg, who was also pulling away from Pironi and, after fifteen laps (total), led by five seconds. Gradually, however, the Renault began to develop electronic injection problems, as teammate Arnoux had several laps earlier, and the Frenchman saw his lead over Rosberg begin to evaporate. By Lap 21, the two cars were nose to tail, and a lap later, the Williams took the lead in brilliant fashion as Rosberg pulled alongside entering one of the many tight right hand corners, stayed there through the corner on the outside, and emerged slightly sideways but in front. Prost continued to fall back and eventually pitted, while a furious dice continued behind Rosberg, now over second place, between Pironi, Giacomelli, Cheever and Lauda. Behind this group, amazingly, came the charging McLaren of John Watson, who had stormed through nearly the entire field from seventeenth place on the original grid. When Cheever and Lauda both overtook Giacomelli as he got sideways exiting a corner, Watson was quickly nose to tail behind Giacomelli and struggling to get through. On Lap 30, with Rosberg leading by 15 seconds, Watson passed Giacomelli, but the Italian counterattacked a moment later when the McLaren went wide. Giacomelli tried to force his way through on the inside, but his left front wheel hit Watson's right rear, and Giacomelli ended up in the wall. Pironi had been holding up both Lauda and Cheever, but when Watson latched on to them, he passed all three on the same lap to take over second place, thirteen seconds behind Rosberg. In two laps, the gap was down to seven seconds, then two seconds, and at the end of Lap 37, Watson was two seconds up, as Rosberg had lost third gear. Overall, however, on combined time, Rosberg was still eighteen seconds ahead, so he attempted merely to stay close to the McLaren. Meanwhile Lauda, perhaps inspired by his teammate, had passed both Cheever and Pironi, and now also approached Rosberg. Likely knowing the Williams was in trouble, he unwisely made a late dive down the inside of Turn One. He locked his wheels, hit the wall and broke his suspension, leaving Cheever in third place. Secure in the lead, Watson was able to back off as Rosberg struggled with fuel feed problems and worn tires, in addition to his ailing gearbox, and dropped all the way back to fifth on the track and fourth on combined time. With an average speed of only 78 mph, the two hour time limit was well short of the intended 76 laps, and Watson took his second win of the season, which was the first Detroit Grand Prix, at America's sixth different Formula One venue. American Eddie Cheever claimed second for his best Grand Prix finish, ahead of Pironi in third. Despite a mountain of teething problems with the new circuit, the organizers of the race received excellent reviews for their efforts, and a new American city had made its entrance to Formula One. With two US races already run in 1982, one still remained, as, for the first time ever, one country would host three events in a single Grand Prix season.

PosNoDriverConstructorQ1Q2Gap115 Alain ProstRenault1:48.5372:14.616—222 Andrea de CesarisAlfa Romeo1:48.8722:10.770 +0.33536 Keke RosbergWilliams Ford1:49.2642:12.559 +0.727428 Didier PironiFerrari1:49.9032:13.665 +1.36659 Manfred WinkelhockATS Ford1:50.0662:11.260 +1.529623 Bruno GiacomelliAlfa Romeo1:50.252no time +1.715712 Nigel MansellLotus Ford1:50.2942:20.888 +1.757811 Elio de AngelisLotus Ford1:50.4432:12.481 +1.906925 Eddie CheeverLigier Matra1:50.5202:11.745 +1.983108 Niki LaudaMcLaren Ford1:51.0262:09.121 +2.4891114 Roberto GuerreroEnsign Ford1:51.039no time +2.502125 Derek DalyWilliams Ford1:51.2272:11.554 +2.6901326 Jacques LaffiteLigier Matra1:51.270no time +2.733142 Riccardo PatreseBrabham Ford1:51.508no time +2.9711516 René ArnouxRenault1:51.514no time +2.977163 Michele AlboretoTyrrell Ford1:51.6182:11.678 +3.081177 John WatsonMcLaren Ford1:51.8682:11.384 +3.3311817 Jochen MassMarch Ford1:52.2712:13.486 +3.7341929 Marc SurerArrows Ford1:52.3162:12.033 +3.779204 Brian HentonTyrrell Ford1:52.8672:22.663 +4.3302118 Raul BoeselMarch Ford1:52.8702:14.385 +4.3332231 Jean Pierre JarierOsella Ford1:52.9882:13.648 +4.4512332 Riccardo PalettiOsella Ford1:54.0842:24.878 +5.5472430 Mauro BaldiArrows Ford1:54.3322:14.746 +5.7952510 Eliseo SalazarATS Ford1:55.6332:16.139 +7.0962620 Chico SerraFittipaldi Ford1:55.8482:24.739 +7.3112719 Emilio de VillotaMarch Ford1:56.589no time +8.052281 Nelson PiquetBrabham BMW1:57.779no time +9.2422933 Jan LammersTheodore Fordno timeno time

Pos No Driver Constructor Tyre Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 7 John Watson McLaren Ford 62 1:58:41.043 17 9 2 25 Eddie Cheever Ligier Matra 62 + 15.726 9 6 3 28 Didier Pironi Ferrari 62 + 28.077 4 4 4 6 Keke Rosberg Williams Ford 62 + 1:11.976 3 3 5 5 Derek Daly Williams Ford 62 + 1:23.757 12 2 6 26 Jacques Laffite Ligier Matra 61 + 1 Lap 13 1 7 17 Jochen Mass March Ford 61 + 1 Lap 18   8 29 Marc Surer Arrows Ford 61 + 1 Lap 19   9 4 Brian Henton Tyrrell Ford 60 + 2 Laps 20   10 16 René Arnoux Renault 59 + 3 Laps 15   11 20 Chico Serra Fittipaldi Ford 59 + 3 Laps 26   NC 15 Alain Prost Renault 54 + 8 Laps 1   Ret 12 Nigel Mansell Lotus Ford 44 Engine 7   Ret 8 Niki Lauda McLaren Ford 40 Collision 10   Ret 3 Michele Alboreto Tyrrell Ford 40 Spun Off 16   Ret 23 Bruno Giacomelli Alfa Romeo 30 Collision 6   Ret 11 Elio de Angelis Lotus Ford 17 Gearbox 8   Ret 10 Eliseo Salazar ATS Ford 13 Spun Off 25   Ret 14 Roberto Guerrero Ensign Ford 6 Collision 11   Ret 2 Riccardo Patrese Brabham Ford 6 Collision 14   Ret 22 Andrea de Cesaris Alfa Romeo 2 Transmission 2   Ret 31 Jean Pierre Jarier Osella Ford 2 Ignition 22   Ret 9 Manfred Winkelhock ATS Ford 1 Spun Off 5   Ret 18 Raul Boesel March Ford 0 Collision 21   Ret 30 Mauro Baldi Arrows Ford 0 Collision 24   DNS 32 Riccardo Paletti Osella Ford 23   DNQ 19 Emilio de Villota March Ford       DNQ 1 Nelson Piquet Brabham BMW       DNQ 33 Jan Lammers Theodore Ford      Source: