1984 Canadian Grand Prix | |||
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Race 7 of 16 in the 1984 Formula One World Championship | |||
Race details | |||
Date | 17 June 1984 | ||
Official name | XXIII Grand Prix du Canada | ||
Location |
Circuit Gilles Villeneuve Montreal, Quebec, Canada | ||
Course | Temporary street circuit | ||
Course length | 4.410 km (2.740 miles) | ||
Distance | 70 laps, 308.700 km (191.817 miles) | ||
Weather | Dry with temperatures approaching 26 °C (79 °F); wind speeds up to 12.9 kilometres per hour (8.0 mph)[1] | ||
Pole position | |||
Driver | Brabham-BMW | ||
Time | 1:25.442 | ||
Fastest lap | |||
Driver | Nelson Piquet | Brabham-BMW | |
Time | 1:28.763 on lap 55 | ||
Podium | |||
First | Brabham-BMW | ||
Second | McLaren-TAG | ||
Third | McLaren-TAG | ||
Lap leaders |
The 1984 Canadian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Montreal on 17 June 1984. It was the seventh race of the 1984 Formula One World Championship.
The 70-lap race was won by Brazilian Nelson Piquet, driving a Brabham-BMW. Piquet took pole position, led all 70 laps and set the fastest race lap, finishing 2.6 seconds ahead of Austrian Niki Lauda in the McLaren-TAG. Lauda's French teammate, Alain Prost, finished third.
The top six was completed by Elio de Angelis in the Lotus-Renault, René Arnoux in the Ferrari, and Nigel Mansell in the other Lotus-Renault.
After the race, Piquet climbed out of his car and collapsed on the ground, due to a badly burned right foot caused by the extreme heat from his Brabham's new nose-mounted oil cooler which had actually burned a hole in his driving boot. In the next race at Detroit, he had a special tray of ice for easing the blisters on his foot.