Long Beach 1982 F1 Grand Prix (Practise session) - great shots from Linden avenue

With (by order of apperance) Niki Lauda, Nelson Piquet, Jacques Laffite, Bruno Giacomelli, Mario Andretti, Keke Rosberg, Didier Pironi, René Arnoux, Jean-Pierre Jarier, Riccardo Paletti, Eddie Chever, Alain Prost, Michele Alboreto, Andrea de Cesaris, Gilles Villeneuve, Teo Fabi, Manfred Winkelhock, Mauro Baldi, Roberto Guerrero, Riccardo Patrese, Elio de Angelis, John Watson, Jochen Mass and Slim Borgudd.

[@amjan]

Beautiful cars.

[@pierreptg]

Great closed-up shots with the sharp decline down Linden Avenue between Cook's and Penthouse corners (only used with the 1982 track configuration) @ 1:28 and especially @ 3:47 till the end !! Was such a lovely street circuit back then...

[@80sf1fan2]

126c2 one of the most beautiful f1 car ever

[@nevillegrimshaw7758]

I couldn’t agree more 👍

[@malquezare]

Yes, beautiful and fast

[@TDR_MrT17]

This track was insane, why can’t we have tracks like these nowadays…

[@pierreptg]

@ 3:16 you can see Pironi driving the impressive Ferrari 126 C2 with the twin rear spoiler followed by his teammate Gilles Villeneuve.

[@ernestomartinez4090]

And then on sunday the team placed that rear spoiler on Gilles' Ferrari. Gilles ended up on 3rd position and then he was DSQ from the race because of that rear spoiler. So Riccardo Patrese took 3rd position with his Brabham Ford Cosworth.

[@ernestomartinez4090]

This was the only pole position by Andrea De Cesaris and the last pole by Alfa Romeo. And last podium by Alfa Romeo was 3rd position by Riccardo Patrese at Monza 1984.

[@rascassette]

Andrea was almost on pole too in Belgium 1983 at Spa with Alfa Romeo (actually 3rd but not a huge gap vs. Prost/Tambay)

[@ernestomartinez4090]

@@rascassette He should won than race aftee two starts jumping to P1 on the first corner. He led several laps from than race and he retired with a broken engine.

[@pierreptg]

Keke Rosberg, future 1982 World Champion, @ 0:27 really has the viking look :-)

[@bmf97ss1]

And this is why I subscribed to this channel 👍

[@heliumtrophy]

I truly feel sorry for any commentator when a McLaren and Alfa Romeo are side by side during these years.

[@analuiza.mp4]

I couldn’t find Paletti, could you please provide me with some timestamps? And I loved the end shot of the decline, thank you for this gem!

[@pierreptg]

@0:38 on the left in the pitlane for Riccardo Paletti . As for timelaps:
1 22 Italy Andrea de Cesaris Alfa Romeo 1:31.095 1:27.316
2 8 Austria Niki Lauda McLaren-Ford 1:28.791 1:27.436 +0.120
3 16 France René Arnoux Renault 1:31.159 1:27.763 +0.447
4 15 France Alain Prost Renault 1:29.935 1:27.979 +0.663
5 23 Italy Bruno Giacomelli Alfa Romeo 1:30.669 1:28.087 +0.771
6 1 Brazil Nelson Piquet Brabham-Ford 1:29.934 1:28.276 +0.960
7 27 Canada Gilles Villeneuve Ferrari 1:29.949 1:28.476 +1.160
8 6 Finland Keke Rosberg Williams-Ford 1:28.576 1:29.042 +1.260
9 28 France Didier Pironi Ferrari 1:30.125 1:28.680 +1.364
10 31 France Jean-Pierre Jarier Osella-Ford 1:31.383 1:28.708 +1.392