1984 French Grand Prix
The French Grand Prix 1984 was held on 20 May at the Stade Automobile de Dijon -Prenois and was the fifth race of the Formula 1 season 1984.
- 3.1 qualifying
- 3.2 race
- 4.1 Drivers' Championship
- 4.2 Constructors' Championship
Reports
Background
The 3.8 -kilometer circuit near Dijon was elected for the last time as the venue for a Grand Prix.
The two Arrows pilots Marc Surer and Thierry Boutsen took turns still at the wheel of the new A7 from, so that the car at the French GP was again piloted by Boutsen, Surer while had to resort to the A6. The Toleman team, however, reported directly two copies of the new type TG184 for the two regular drivers Johnny Cecotto and Ayrton Senna.
After due to lack of fuel, the target had not been reached at the Grand Prix of San Marino numerous pilots who criticized the limited to 220 liters per car and race fuel load was louder.
Training
The pole position reached Renault driver Patrick Tambay before Elio de Angelis Lotus. These were for the time being last pole for the Renault factory team, which was represented again only at the Malaysian Grand Prix 2003 on the first launch site. Nelson Piquet and Keke Rosberg were the second row in front of Alain Prost and Nigel Mansell. The first three rows of the grid thus consisted of five different vehicles.
As was observed in random controls during the first timed practice that the fire extinguisher in the car by Ligier driver Andrea de Cesaris was empty, the Italian was denied his qualifying time for punishment. Since it was raining during the second pass on Saturday, he could not undercut the times achieved on Friday its counterparties and would therefore not have been allowed to start in 27th. However, to enable him to start from the last place of, waived his qualified for the 14th place team mate François Hesnault to participate in his home Grand Prix.
Race
Piquet and de Angelis reached the first corner before Tambay. Since this, however, managed to slightly push away Piquet, he regained his lost at the start guide. Mansell and Rosberg also moved past Piquet and thereby arrived at the third and fourth places behind de Angelis.
Prost, who was found at the end of the first lap in seventh place, came up to the sixth round on the fourth forward. On lap 14 he overtook Mansell, four laps later he took over second place from de Angelis. The second McLaren driver, Niki Lauda, the dominance of the MP4 / 2 also presented to prove by fighting up to the 21st round from tenth to third place forward.
Of the drivers at the top Lauda made its pit stop as the last, which he reached in the meantime the lead. The late stop turned out to be for him an advantage as he was able to overtake in the 62nd round with newer tires Tambay and thereby finally took the lead. As a second stop was necessary for Prost technical reasons, he could not hold his position in the top group. Nigel Mansell was third ahead of René Arnoux, Elio de Angelis and Keke Rosberg.
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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 )