1983 French Grand Prix

1983 French Grand Prix
Race 3 of 15 in the 1983 Formula One World Championship
Race details
Date 17 April 1983
Location Paul Ricard Circuit
Course Permanent racing facility
Course length 5.810[1] km (3.610 miles)
Distance 54 laps, 313.740[1] km (194.949 miles)
Weather Dry, grey and cool[1]
Pole position
Driver Renault
Time 1:36.672
Fastest lap
Driver France Alain Prost Renault
Time 1:42.695 on lap 34
Podium
First Renault
Second Brabham-BMW
Third Renault
Lap leaders

The 1983 French Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Paul Ricard on 17 April 1983.

French driver Alain Prost won the race for the Renault team, and this was the French marque's 3rd French Grand Prix win in a row and the 4th in 5 seasons. Second was the Brabham-BMW of 1981 World Champion Nelson Piquet, with Prost's Renault teammate Eddie Cheever finishing third. Rounding out the points finishers were Patrick Tambay in his Ferrari, and the non-turbo Williamses of Keke Rosberg and Jacques Laffite. This was the final time that both Renault cars started on the front row until the 2003 Malaysian Grand Prix, when young Spaniard Fernando Alonso and Jarno Trulli started on the front row.

  1. ^ a b c "The French Grand Prix". MotorSport. May 1983. Retrieved 29 August 2018.