1982 Caesars Palace Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 16 of 16 in the 1982 Formula One season | |||
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| Date | September 25, 1982 | ||
| Official name | 2nd Caesars Palace Grand Prix | ||
| Location | Las Vegas Strip | ||
| Course | Temporary street course | ||
| Course length | 3.650 km (2.268 mi) | ||
| Distance | 75 laps, 273.75 km (170.10 mi) | ||
| Weather | Sunny with temperatures reaching up to 98.8 °F (37.1 °C); wind speeds approaching speeds up to 18.1 miles per hour (29.1 km/h) | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Renault | ||
| Time | 1:16.356 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Michele Alboreto
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Tyrrell-Ford | |
| Time | 1:19.639 on lap 59 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Tyrrell-Ford | ||
| Second | McLaren-Ford | ||
| Third | Ligier-Matra | ||
The 1982 Caesars Palace Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on September 25, 1982, in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was won by Michele Alboreto for Tyrrell. This was also Mario Andretti's last F1 race.
For the first time since the World Championship began in 1950, a country hosted three rounds in the same season in 1982. The final race of the year, and the third in the US, would once again decide the Championship. Keke Rosberg of Williams had 42 points, to 33 for McLaren's John Watson, and needed to finish sixth or better to secure the title. Meanwhile, the race was former world champion Mario Andretti's final grand prix.
The course's tight turns and short straights allowed the non-turbo cars to be more competitive than usual, with Michele Alboreto's Tyrrell and Eddie Cheever's Talbot Ligier fastest among them. The turbocharged Renaults of Alain Prost and René Arnoux took first and second positions in qualifying, more than eight-tenths clear of Alboreto. The two Championship contenders, Rosberg and Watson, meanwhile, were in sixth and ninth places respectively, separated by the Ferraris of Mario Andretti and Patrick Tambay.
At the green light for the race on Saturday, Prost led from the pole, followed by teammate Arnoux. Cheever, from the fourth spot on the grid, was determined to get around the outside of Alboreto on the first left-hander. They touched wheels, but both continued with Alboreto still in front, Cheever's Ligier sporting a vibrating front wheel and the Tyrrell of Alboreto bearing a tire mark on the right sidepod.
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