1982 Canadian Grand Prix
Race 8 of 16 in the 1982 Formula One World Championship
Circuit Gilles Villeneuve
Circuit Gilles Villeneuve
Race details
Date 13 June 1982
Official name XXI 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 Overcast and chilly
17 °C (63 °F)[1]
Pole position
Driver
Ferrari
Time 1:27.509
Fastest lap
Driver France Didier Pironi Ferrari
Time 1:28.323 on lap 66
Podium
First
Brabham-BMW
Second
Brabham-Ford
Third
McLaren-Ford
Lap leaders

The 1982 Canadian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve on 13 June 1982. It was the eighth race of the 1982 Formula One World Championship. This was the first Canadian Grand Prix to be held in June, the organisers having moved the race from the autumn to allow for warmer weather;[2] it has been held in June ever since.

The 70-lap race was won by Nelson Piquet, driving a Brabham-BMW. It was the first Formula One victory for a BMW-engined car, but the only victory of the season for defending Drivers' Champion Piquet. Team-mate Riccardo Patrese finished second in an older Brabham-Ford, with John Watson third in a McLaren-Ford.

Death of Riccardo Paletti

The race was marred by the death of Italian driver Riccardo Paletti, in only his second F1 race start. At the start, the lights took an unusually long time to turn to green. During this time, Didier Pironi, who had the pole position, stalled the engine of his Ferrari. Pironi lifted his hand to signal the problem just as the lights switched to green, which was too late to abort the start. The other cars swerved across the track, trying to squeeze past Pironi's stationary car.[3] Raul Boesel just clipped the back left of the Ferrari, spinning his March into the path of Eliseo Salazar and Jochen Mass. Salazar, Boesel and Mass suffered minor impacts but it looked as if everyone had passed the Ferrari without serious consequences.[4] However, Paletti could not react in time and slammed into the rear of the stranded Ferrari at 180 km/h (110 mph), catapulting it into the path of Geoff Lees. The Osella's nose was crushed in severely.

Due to the force of the severe impact, Paletti sustained heavy chest injuries and was lying unconscious in his car, wedged against the steering wheel. Didier Pironi and Sid Watkins, the FIA's head doctor, were on the scene to stabilise and assist Paletti. As Watkins climbed over the wreckage of the Osella, the petrol from the fuel tank ignited, enveloping the car in a wall of fire. When the fire was finally put out, the injured Paletti was without a pulse. It took the rescue workers 25 minutes to cut him out safely from his wrecked car, as the sparks caused by the cutting equipment threatened to re-ignite the petrol on the track. He was flown by a medical helicopter to the Royal Victoria Hospital, where he died soon after arriving. His mother was watching from the stands, as they were to celebrate his 24th birthday later that week. Paletti suffered a torn aorta as well as fractures to both legs.[5] According to track doctor Jacques Bouchard his pupils were already dilated when medical personnel arrived and that the extended extraction time made no difference to his chances of survival.[5]Paletti was the last driver to lose his life in a Formula One car until Elio de Angelis was killed while testing for Brabham at the Circuit Paul Ricard in France in 1986, and was the last fatality at a Formula One race weekend until Roland Ratzenberger at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix.

Classification

Qualifying

Pos No Driver Constructor Q1 Q2 Gap
1 28 France Didier Pironi Ferrari 1:31.332 1:27.509 —
2 16 France René Arnoux Renault 1:31.494 1:27.895 +0.386
3 15 France Alain Prost Renault 1:32.258 1:28.563 +1.054
4 1 Brazil Nelson Piquet Brabham-BMW 1:32.105 1:28.663 +1.154
5 23 Italy Bruno Giacomelli Alfa Romeo 1:33.136 1:28.740 +1.231
6 7 United Kingdom John Watson McLaren-Ford 1:35.027 1:28.822 +1.313
7 6 Finland Keke Rosberg Williams-Ford 1:30.963 1:28.874 +1.365
8 2 Italy Riccardo Patrese Brabham-Ford 1:31.343 1:28.999 +1.490
9 22 Italy Andrea de Cesaris Alfa Romeo 1:30.286 1:29.183 +1.674
10 11 Italy Elio de Angelis Lotus-Ford 1:33.242 1:29.228 +1.719
11 8 Austria Niki Lauda McLaren-Ford 1:32.246 1:29.544 +2.035
12 25 United States Eddie Cheever Ligier-Matra 1:32.969 1:29.590 +2.081
13 5 Republic of Ireland Derek Daly Williams-Ford 1:31.757 1:29.883 +2.374
14 12 United Kingdom Nigel Mansell Lotus-Ford 1:33.023 1:30.048 +2.539
15 3 Italy Michele Alboreto Tyrrell-Ford 1:32.792 1:30.146 +2.637
16 29 Switzerland Marc Surer Arrows-Ford 1:36.428 1:30.518 +3.090
17 30 Italy Mauro Baldi Arrows-Ford 1:38.956 1:30.599 +3.009
18 31 France Jean-Pierre Jarier Osella-Ford 1:41.588 1:30.717 +3.208
19 26 France Jacques Laffite Ligier-Matra 1:33.664 1:30.946 +3.437
20 14 Colombia Roberto Guerrero Ensign-Ford 1:36.524 1:31.235 +3.726
21 18 Brazil Raul Boesel March-Ford 1:35.573 1:31.759 +4.250
22 17 Germany Jochen Mass March-Ford 1:33.756 1:31.861 +4.352
23 32 Italy Riccardo Paletti Osella-Ford 1:41.020 1:31.901 +4.392
24 10 Chile Eliseo Salazar ATS-Ford 1:39.542 1:32.203 +4.694
25 33 United Kingdom Geoff Lees Theodore-Ford 1:36.359 1:32.205 +4.696
26 4 United Kingdom Brian Henton Tyrrell-Ford 1:39.211 1:32.325 +4.816
27 9 West Germany Manfred Winkelhock ATS-Ford no time 1:32.359 +4.850
28 19 Spain Emilio de Villota March-Ford 1:37.409 1:34.045 +6.536
29 20 Brazil Chico Serra Fittipaldi-Ford 1:37.678 1:42.730 +10.169

Race

PosNoDriverConstructorTyreLapsTime/RetiredGridPoints
1 1 Brazil Nelson Piquet Brabham-BMW G 70 1:46:39.577 4 9
2 2 Italy Riccardo Patrese Brabham-Ford G 70 + 13.799 8 6
3 7 United Kingdom John Watson McLaren-Ford M 70 + 1:01.836 6 4
4 11 Italy Elio de Angelis Lotus-Ford G 69 + 1 Lap 10 3
5 29 Switzerland Marc Surer Arrows-Ford P 69 + 1 Lap 16 2
6 22 Italy Andrea de Cesaris Alfa Romeo M 68 Out of Fuel 9 1
7 5 Republic of Ireland Derek Daly Williams-Ford G 68 Out of Fuel 13  
8 30 Italy Mauro Baldi Arrows-Ford P 68 + 2 Laps 17  
9 28 France Didier Pironi Ferrari G 67 + 3 Laps 1  
10 25 United States Eddie Cheever Ligier-Matra M 66 Out of Fuel 12  
11 17 West Germany Jochen Mass March-Ford A 66 + 4 Laps 22  
NC 4 United Kingdom Brian Henton Tyrrell-Ford G 59 + 11 Laps 26  
Ret 6 Finland Keke Rosberg Williams-Ford G 52 Gearbox 7  
Ret 18 Brazil Raul Boesel March-Ford A 47 Engine 21  
Ret 3 Italy Michele Alboreto Tyrrell-Ford G 41 Engine 15  
Ret 15 France Alain Prost Renault M 30 Engine 3  
Ret 16 France René Arnoux Renault M 28 Spun Off 2  
Ret 10 Chile Eliseo Salazar ATS-Ford M 20 Engine 24  
Ret 8 Austria Niki Lauda McLaren-Ford M 17 Clutch 11  
Ret 26 France Jacques Laffite Ligier-Matra M 8 Fuel System 19  
Ret 14 Colombia Roberto Guerrero Ensign-Ford M 2 Clutch 20  
Ret 23 Italy Bruno Giacomelli Alfa Romeo M 1 Collision 5  
Ret 12 United Kingdom Nigel Mansell Lotus-Ford G 1 Collision 14  
Ret 31 France Jean-Pierre Jarier Osella-Ford P 0 Withdrew after teammate's fatal collision 18  
Ret 32 Italy Riccardo Paletti Osella-Ford P 0 Fatal collision on first start 23  
Ret 33 United Kingdom Geoff Lees Theodore-Ford G 0 Collision on first start 25  
DNQ 9 West Germany Manfred Winkelhock ATS-Ford M    
DNQ 19 Spain Emilio de Villota March-Ford A    
DNQ 20 Brazil Chico Serra Fittipaldi-Ford P        
Source:[6][7]

Championship standings after the race

  • Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

References

  1. ↑ "Weather History for CYUL - June, 1982 - Sunday, June 13, 1982". Weather Underground. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  2. ↑ Roebuck, Nigel. "Grand Prix Gold: 1982 Canadian GP". Autosport. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
  3. ↑ "Riccardo Paletti". Racer.com. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
  4. ↑ "Riccardo Paletti Profile". grandprix.com.
  5. 1 2 "Paletti Died Within Minutes of Crash". Syracuse Post-Standard. UPI. 15 June 1982.
  6. ↑ "1982 Canadian Grand Prix". formula1.com. Archived from the original on 4 November 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  7. ↑ "1982 Canadian Grand Prix - Race Results & History - GP Archive". GPArchive.com. 13 June 1982. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  8. 1 2 "Canada 1982 - Championship • STATS F1". www.statsf1.com. Retrieved 14 March 2019.
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