F1 Season ((hot)) - 1983
All eyes were on Renault’s Alain Prost (the "Professor") and Ferrari’s René Arnoux (the fiery Frenchman). They traded wins, crashes, and insults. Prost was smooth; Arnoux was chaos.
And it proved that in F1, the quiet ones—with the biggest turbos—are the most dangerous. Would you have preferred Prost to win on consistency, or was Piquet’s raw speed the right call? Drop your take below. 👇 1983 f1 season
The sound? A high-pitched shriek, then a wastegate chatter like gunfire. Drivers wrestled violent turbo lag—nothing, nothing, NOTHING, then a tidal wave of torque mid-corner. All eyes were on Renault’s Alain Prost (the
For years, turbos were unreliable jokes. Not in ’83. Ferrari, Renault, BMW, and Honda (with Williams) turned engines into bombs with wheels. Qualifying boost pressures approached 5 bar —over 1,400 hp in short bursts. Engines that lasted one race, if lucky. And it proved that in F1, the quiet
Except… the FIA had a weird rule: only the 11 best results counted (from 15 races). Prost had more lower-point finishes to drop. When they recalculated, Piquet won by .