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The 1981 Las Vegas Grand Prix was a Formula One race held on October 17, 1981 in Las Vegas, Nevada. This event was also referred to as the Caesar's Palace Grand Prix. Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_States. ...
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Nickname: The Entertainment Capital of the World; Sin City Location of Las Vegas in Nevada Coordinates: County Clark Mayor Oscar B. Goodman(D) Area - City 131. ...
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The United States Grand Prix concluded the Formula One season in 1981, but instead of being at the natural road course in Watkins Glen, New York, as it had for the previous twenty years, the final race in 1981 took place in a parking lot in Las Vegas, Nevada. The organizers at Watkins Glen had lost the race after being unable to fulfill financial obligations for 1980, and so a track was created on the grounds of the Caesars Palace hotel. Watkins Glen International (nicknamed The Glen) is an auto race track located near Watkins Glen, New York at the southern tip of Seneca Lake. ...
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The temporary course was better than anyone expected, and the organizers had taken care to make it wide enough for overtaking, provided ample run-off areas filled with sand, and laid down a surface that was as smooth as glass. Most importantly, the World Championship would be decided among three drivers: Carlos Reutemann, 49 points; Nelson Piquet, 48 points; and Jacques Laffite, 43 points. Carlos Reutemann in 1980, near the end of his racing career Carlos Alberto Reutemann (b. ...
Nelson Piquet Souto Maior (born August 17, 1952), more commonly known as Nelson Piquet, is a Brazilian racing driver who was Formula One world champion in 1981, 1983, and 1987. ...
Jacques-Henri Laffite (born November 21, 1943) is a French former racing driver who competed in Formula One from 1974 to 1986. ...
The track provided higher speeds than expected, averaging over 100 mph, and with the counter-clockwise direction straining the drivers' necks unusually, it was clear the drivers' endurance would be tested in the extreme all weekend. Even in practice, Piquet suffered noticeably and became physically sick; he later got a 90-minute massage from Sugar Ray Leonard's masseur to help sort out his troubled back and "Las Vegas neck." Sugar Ray Leonard (born May 17, 1956 in Wilmington, North Carolina) is an American former professional boxer. ...
The Williams drivers, Alan Jones and Reutemann, were fastest from the start, of the first practice with points leader Reutemann, particularly determined and quick, the faster of the two. Later, Jones became the only other driver to break 1:18 in qualifying, and the starting front row was all Williams. Reutemann was not expecting any help winning the Championship from teammate Jones, who explained, "I don't see how I can help him; I would not go holding up people as I am a member of the British Commonwealth (Australia, specifically) and I would consider that unsporting." WilliamsF1, formerly Williams Grand Prix Engineering, is a Formula 1 (F1) motor racing team formed and run by Sir Frank Williams and Patrick Head. ...
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In the race on Saturday, Jones jumped off the line into the lead, but Reutemann was quickly passed by Gilles Villeneuve, Alain Prost and Bruno Giacomelli, and finished the first lap in fifth. By the end of lap two, Jones had a five-second lead. Prost passed Villeneuve on lap three, but could not get close enough to challenge Jones for the lead. Villeneuve, meanwhile, kept a line of cars behind him as he fought off the advances of Giacomelli. This allowed Mario Andretti to move right on to Piquet's tail, as he desperately tried to overtake Reutemann. Gilles Villeneuve at Monza in 1981. ...
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The Brazilian was nearly touching the back of the Williams as they approached the last left-hander before the pits on lap 17. Piquet got around Reutemann on the inside when Reutemann, fighting for the Championship, inexplicably braked early. Piquet said, "I saw his car getting worse oversteer, then he braked very early, I think in the hope I would run into him, but I saw it and passed easily." On the next lap, Andretti also went by. Piquet got the better of John Watson on lap 22, and put himself in a position to score points when he took over sixth place. Reutemann continued to slip backwards with gearbox trouble, having lost fourth gear as early as lap two. John Marshall Watson, born May 4, 1946 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, was a Formula 1 race car driver. ...
The Ferrari team was trying to decide whether to call Villeneuve in on lap 23 after he had been disqualified for lining up on the grid improperly, but when his red car pulled off the track with an engine fire, the point was moot. On lap 30, crowd favorite Andretti retired from a fine fourth place with broken suspension. Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro is the name for the Gestione Sportiva, the division of the Ferrari automobile company concerned with racing. ...
With 15 laps still to go, but a 40-second lead over Prost, Jones began pacing himself to the finish. Giacomelli was third, having worked his way back after spinning from fourth to tenth, and Nigel Mansell had passed Piquet for fourth. Nigel Mansell driving in the American CART racing series in 1993 Nigel Ernest James Mansell (born August 8, 1953) is an English former racing driver who won world championships in both Formula One (1992) and CART (1993). ...
Piquet, in fact, was on the verge of physical exhaustion with his head visibly rolling around in the cockpit, but he still held fifth place and the two points he needed for the Championship. Piquet's condition was the only question left about how the Championship would turn out, for Reutemann, driving without fourth gear, was passed by Watson and Laffite, dropping to eighth place on lap 69. Laffite took sixth place and the final point from Watson on the last corner of the last lap, while Giacomelli missed taking second from Prost, on failing tires, by a few car lengths. Piquet took fifteen minutes to recover from heat exhaustion after making it to the finish, but he had collected the two points for fifth-place, and was the new World Champion.
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This article recaps the 1981 Formula One season. ...
Results from the 1982 Formula One South African Grand Prix held at Kyalami on January 23, 1982 Classification Notes Fastest Lap: Alain Prost 18. ...
The Las Vegas Grand Prix was a car race which was a Formula One World Championship event in 1981 and 1982. ...
Results from the 1982 Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix held at Las Vegas on September 25, 1982. ...
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References - Rob Walker (February, 1982). "1st Las Vegas Grand Prix: The Chips Are Down". Road & Track, 136-140.
- Mike S. Lang (1992). Grand Prix!: Race-by-race account of Formula 1 World Championship motor racing. Volume 4: 1981 to 1984. Haynes Publishing Group. ISBN 0-85429-733-2
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