1984 Dallas Grand Prix
The Grand Prix of the USA in 1984 took place on 8 July in Dallas and was the ninth race of the Formula 1 season 1984.
- 3.1 qualifying
- 3.2 race
- 4.1 Drivers' Championship
- 4.2 Constructors' Championship
Reports
Background
For the U.S. Grand Prix, which was first held two weeks after the U.S. Grand Prix East in Detroit at the Fair Park Grand Prix Circuit in Dallas, Arrows brought a second A7 at the start. Since we now had a sufficient number of BMW turbo engines, you could equip both factory riders so.
Instead of Teo Fabi again took over his brother Corrado Brabham BT53 in the second team of Bernie Ecclestone.
During the midsummer weekend temporarily track temperatures up to 66 ° C were measured. The already poor quality asphalt blistered and broke in several places.
Training
The two Lotus drivers Nigel Mansell and Elio de Angelis completed the fastest lap times of the first qualifying session. Although both pilots did not participate in the second round, remained their bests to exist and have not undercut, so Mansell reached the first pole position of his Formula 1 career. For Lotus, this was the first double pole for the Grand Prix of the Netherlands in 1978.
Derek Warwick formed together with René Arnoux on the second row in front of Niki Lauda, Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost and Keke Rosberg.
The prevailing during training high air temperature up to 38 ° C, the BMW turbo engines proved to be less competitive. The Brabham pilots qualified only for places 11 and 12
Martin Brundle was injured in the course of an accident on both feet.
Race
Since the day of the race there was great heat, Rosberg decided to try a new type of cooling system in his helmet. Arnoux had to go into the race, as his Ferrari 126C4 for prestart, which was signaled by actor Larry Hagman with the green flag, did not start from the last position from.
Mansell went on de Angelis, Warwick and Senna in the lead. In the second round Senna touched a wall that bordered the path, thereby damaged a tire and had to pit. In round four Warwick took over second place from de Angelis. However, in the tenth round he dropped out due to an accident, so that the Lotus twin leadership was restored. She held until the 19th round when Rosberg took second place.
From about the second third of the race, the number of driving errors increased significantly, mainly due to fatigue phenomena due to the heat. So different, for example, Patrick Tambay in the 25th round due to a self-inflicted accident from. Alain Prost fought meanwhile to the 33rd round to second place forward, but also fell due to a driving error shortly afterwards behind Rosberg back. This took over in the 36th round of the leadership Mansell, who thereupon fell back and the box was heading to have to change his tires.
In the 49th round of cheers went to Rosberg in the lead. Meanwhile, Arnoux had reached the fourth place behind Lauda to a remarkable comeback by the end of the field. This he passed shortly thereafter. As Prost collided on lap 57 in the wall, Rosberg was before Arnoux, Lauda and de Angelis in the lead. Since Lauda retired just before the race was stopped prematurely because of reaching the two-hour limit, de Angelis reached third place on the podium, which is the only time in the 1984 season thus consisted exclusively of drivers who equipped with Goodyear tires were. The already twice outsell Laffite was fourth ahead of Piercarlo Ghinzani which ensured their first points of the season for Osella.
Nigel Mansell's car stopped in the last round due to a gearbox failure lie. When trying to push the vehicle to the finish, Mansell broke from exhaustion a few meters before the finish line together. Due to its distance traveled, he was still regarded as a sixth and was therefore assigned a championship point.
In addition to the Grand Prix of Belgium this was the only race of the 1984 season, in which neither of the two McLaren drivers reached the points. Honda could, however, post the first Grand Prix victory since the Italian Grand Prix in 1967, where it was then represented as a factory team and not solely as an engine supplier.
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Classifications
Qualifying
Race
1 due to violations of the rules, the team driver Martin Brundle Tyrrell and Stefan Bellof and were retroactively disqualified in September 1984 for the entire 1984 season. In addition, the team participating in the final three races of the year was prohibited.
WM stands after the race
The first six of the race were 9, 6, 4, 3, 2 and 1 point (s).
( Results after the disqualification of the team Tyrrell )