Race 11 of 16 in the 1982 Formula One World Championship
Race details
Date
25 July 1982
Official name
68ème Grand Prix de France
Location
Circuit Paul Ricard Le Castellet, Var, France
Course
Permanent racing facility
Course length
5.809 km (3.610 miles)
Distance
54 laps, 313.686 km (194.915 miles)
Weather
Dry
Pole position
Driver
René Arnoux
Renault
Time
1:34.406
Fastest lap
Driver
Riccardo Patrese
Brabham-BMW
Time
1:40.075 on lap 4
Podium
First
René Arnoux
Renault
Second
Alain Prost
Renault
Third
Didier Pironi
Ferrari
Lap leaders
Motor car race
The 1982 French Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Paul Ricard on 25 July 1982. It was the eleventh race of the 1982 Formula One World Championship.
The 54-lap race was won from pole position by René Arnoux, driving a Renault. The turbocharged Renaults, Ferraris and Brabham-BMWs took up the first six grid positions, and Arnoux led home a French 1–2–3–4, with teammate Alain Prost second and the Ferraris of Didier Pironi and Patrick Tambay third and fourth, respectively. Arnoux achieved his win in sour circumstances, as he violated a pre-race agreement that if he and Prost were running first and second, respectively, he would let Prost past to aid his Drivers' Championship hopes. Arnoux left Renault at the end of the year.
The top six was completed by Keke Rosberg in the Williams-Ford and Michele Alboreto in the Tyrrell-Ford. Pironi's third place enabled him to extend his lead in the Drivers' Championship to nine points, although this would turn out to be his last finish before his career-ending accident at the next race in Germany.
The eleventh lap of this race saw a big accident when Jochen Mass's March and Mauro Baldi's Arrows collided at Signes. Mass's car went through the catch fencing into the tyre walls, then catapulted into a spectator area and caught fire. Mass escaped with burns on his hands, while several spectators were injured. The West German driver retired from Formula One immediately after this race.
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