1984 Italian Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 14 of 16 in the 1984 Formula One season | |||
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| Date | September 9, 1984 | ||
| Official name | LV Gran Premio d'Italia | ||
| Location | Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 5.800 km (3.60 mi) | ||
| Distance | 51 laps, 295.800 km (183.600 mi) | ||
| Weather | Dry | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Brabham-BMW | ||
| Time | 1:26.584 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Niki Lauda
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McLaren-TAG | |
| Time | 1:31.912 on lap 42 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | McLaren-TAG | ||
| Second | Ferrari | ||
| Third | Alfa Romeo | ||
The 1984 Italian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Monza on 9 September 1984. It was the fourteenth round of the 1984 Formula One season.
Niki Lauda won in his McLaren-TAG, stretching his championship lead over team mate Alain Prost (whose TAG engine blew on lap 3) to 10.5 points. Michele Alboreto and Riccardo Patrese gave the partisan Italian crowd something to cheer by bringing their Ferrari and Alfa Romeo home in second and third place respectively.
Sweden's Stefan Johansson finished fourth in his Toleman-Hart (after being last at the end of the first lap), while Austrians Jo Gartner (Osella-Alfa Romeo) and Gerhard Berger (ATS-BMW) finished 5th and 6th respectively, though as their teams had only entered one car for the season and both were in second cars entered for the race, neither Gartner or Berger scored championship points.
Patrese's third place was the final ever Formula One podium for Alfa Romeo as either a constructor or engine supplier, although the position came at the expense of his team mate Eddie Cheever who had been third until his Alfa (which was running a different, more powerful engine setting) ran out of fuel. The 1984 Italian Grand Prix was the only Formula One race in history to have three Austrian drivers finish in the top six placings.
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