1984 Dallas Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 9 of 16 in the 1984 Formula One season | |||
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| Date | July 8, 1984 | ||
| Official name | I Stroh's Dallas Grand Prix | ||
| Location |
Fair Park Dallas, Texas |
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| Course | Temporary Street Circuit | ||
| Course length | 3.901 km (2.424 mi) | ||
| Distance | 67 laps, 261.37 km (162.41 mi) | ||
| Weather | Sunny with temperatures reaching up to 100 °F (38 °C); wind speeds approaching speeds up to 14 miles per hour (23 km/h) | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Lotus-Renault | ||
| Time | 1:37.041 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Niki Lauda
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McLaren-TAG | |
| Time | 1:45.353 on lap 22 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Williams-Honda | ||
| Second | Ferrari | ||
| Third | Lotus-Renault | ||
The 1984 Dallas Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on July 8, 1984, at Fair Park in Dallas, Texas. It was the ninth round of the 1984 Formula One season.
Keke Rosberg of Finland won his only race of the season at the Dallas Grand Prix. The race was one of only two races in 1984 where both of the year's dominant McLarens driven by Niki Lauda and Alain Prost did not score (Belgium being the other), and gave Honda their first turbocharged Grand Prix win and the Japanese giants first Grand Prix win since the 1967 Italian Grand Prix. René Arnoux's Ferrari was the only other car on the lead lap at the end after starting from the pit lane due to an electrical fault on the warm up lap, while Elio de Angelis came home third for Lotus. It was the only race of the season that cars using Goodyear tyres filled all three podium positions.
The event was conceived as a way to demonstrate Dallas' status as a "world-class city" and overcame 100 °F (38 °C) heat, a disintegrating track surface and weekend-long rumors of its cancellation. The tight and twisty course was laid out on the Texas State Fair Grounds with help from United States Grand Prix West founder Chris Pook, and featured two hairpin curves and while the layout was seen as interesting and was generally well received by the drivers (though some thought one or two of the chicanes made it tighter than it needed to be), all had issues with the lack of run-off areas and the crumbling surface which during the race itself made the track more like a Rallycross track than a Grand Prix circuit. It was bubbling before qualifying, and after a few laps, it began to break apart.
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