1984 Portuguese Grand Prix
The Grand Prix of Portugal in 1984 took place on 21 October at the Autódromo Fernanda Pires da Silvaist near Estoril as the 16th and final race of the Formula 1 1984 season instead.
- 3.1 qualifying
- 3.2 race
- 4.1 Drivers' Championship
- 4.2 Constructors' Championship
Reports
Background
For the first time since 1960, Grand Prix of Portugal took place. For this, the Estoril circuit was built in 1972 has been modernized and adapted to the then-current safety standards of Formula 1. The necessary work was completed shortly before the race weekend.
The field consisted of 27 pilots, as the Renault team driver Philippe Streiff his French test at the wheel of a third company car gave the opportunity to make his Grand Prix debut.
Teo Fabi, whose father had died a few days before the race, not stepped up to the season finale. He was represented at Brabham by Manfred Winkelhock.
Training
Since it was raining during the first qualifying session on Friday, made all the pilots their respective bests Saturdays.
For the third time in a row, the front row sat out of the still reigning world champion Nelson Piquet and Alain Prost, the runner-up of the then current championship standings, together. Ayrton Senna qualified for the third place ahead of Keke Rosberg and the two Lotus drivers Elio de Angelis and Nigel Mansell.
The one in the championship standings with 4.5 points ahead before leading Prost Niki Lauda came eleventh on the grid.
Race
Prost came shortly after the start past the relatively poor launched Piquet, had, however, for its part, even before the first curve Rosberg and Mansell beaten. During the second round, however, he conquered back to second place. In the ninth round, he eventually moved well past Rosberg and was thus in the lead. Meanwhile, Lauda fought by the chasing pack. His comeback took him to the 18th round to seventh forward.
Rosberg had meanwhile fallen behind Mansell and Senna to fourth place. Between 26 and 33 round Lauda made a further four positions well and finished on the second place Mansell. When he turned in round 51 due to a brake defect, Lauda took the second place, which gave him the victory despite his team-mates to win the title. Ayrton Senna was third ahead of Michele Alboreto, Elio de Angelis and Nelson Piquet.
Niki Lauda secured his third world title with the historical projection of the scarcest Formula 1 history of half a point ahead of his teammate Alain Prost.
The team McLaren, which was clear at this time for several weeks as the Constructors' World Championship in 1984, finished the season with the fourth double win of the year. For the team were end of the season more than twice as many championship points to beech, as for the second-placed Scuderia Ferrari.
Message list
Classifications
Qualifying
Race
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 )