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00:00Monaco. The name itself is magical and the images it conjures up in the mind's eye are borne out
00:05handsomely by an actual visit to this fabled principality on the CĂ´te d'Azur. Almost all
00:10year long, the pace is leisurely, the ambiance serene, the weather velvety. The stately grace
00:16of the famed Monte Carlo Casino reflects the architectural style of this playground of the
00:21wealthy. Once each spring, any semblance of tranquility is shattered by the roar of engines
00:27and an influx of thousands of racing enthusiasts. The streets of Monte Carlo and the surrounding
00:32districts become a Formula One race course. The 40th Grand Prix of Monaco coming up today.
00:38This is the case every year at this time. Pleasure craft from around the world have come.
00:43They've come to party. They've come for revelry, but that's over now because they are here for this.
00:49As the 20 cars get set to make their way out onto the track for the warm-up lap, the noise of the
00:55engines reverberating through the terrace hillsides of the Principality of Monaco as we get set for one
01:00of the most glittering and glamorous sporting events in the world. Good afternoon, everyone. I'm Al
01:05Michaels. Welcome to Monaco. The sun ducking in and out today, a cool breeze blowing in off the
01:10Mediterranean. And at hand, we have the 40th running of the Grand Prix of Monaco. The Formula One season
01:16has been won marked by controversy thus far. This will be the sixth race of the 1982 campaign.
01:23They have already raced now on four different continents. There have been disputes over the
01:27weights of the cars. There's been a lot of political infighting between the men who design and build the
01:32cars and the men who set down the rules. In fact, Nelson Piquet had a victory taken away for just such
01:37an infraction, an apparent victory in the Brazilian Grand Prix. It's also been a season marred by tragedy.
01:44Earlier this month, Gilles Villeneuve of Canada, the man who won the Monaco Grand Prix in 1981,
01:50was killed during qualifying at the Belgian Grand Prix. But the attention now focusing on the Grand
01:55Prix of Monaco 1982. As usual, a longtime colleague, the three-time world champion and the man who won
02:02this race three times, Jackie Stewart, is here. And Jackie, what sets this apart? What makes the
02:07Monaco Grand Prix so unique?
02:08Well, I think it's totally unique in the sense that, of course, it's so glamorous, so colorful,
02:13so exciting. And it's a very unusual combination between the old and the new. The enormous nostalgia
02:19and history of this, the great drivers of the past and great cars, Alfa Romeos, Mercedes, Auto
02:25Unions, Ferraris, and drivers like Caracchiola, Nuvolari, Fangio, Stirling Morris, Jim Clark,
02:31Graham Hill have been here, done very well. The other aspect of it, with the glamour, of course,
02:37is the family. The Prince Rainier, Princess Grace, and Princess Caroline, Prince Albert,
02:42will be watching the race here today, along with the jet set, the beautiful people from
02:46around the world. And the racetrack itself has changed little over the years. If you can
02:51think of this racetrack in the sense that the cars of yesterday year raced here in almost
02:56exactly the same geography.
03:00The start-finishing line of this little more than two-mile racetrack is right here. The
03:06cars accelerate along towards the Sandy Vought corner, and we're now in the car being driven
03:10by Alain Prost in the Renault car, following his teammate, Renny Arnault, up the hill, where
03:16the driver engages third, fourth, finally fifth gear, getting up to a speed of about 130 miles
03:21an hour before going into the casino square around the Hotel de Paris. Prost now going
03:26into that casino square, third gear corner for him, accelerating into fourth gear as
03:30he goes down towards the Mirabeau corner. Corner taken in second gear, he accelerates hard
03:35to the slowest corner on the racetrack, what used to be the station hairpin. Car accelerating,
03:40braking heavily from second gear into first gear, around perhaps only 30 miles an hour as
03:46he accelerates hard back into second gear before heading down towards the Portier and the
03:50Mediterranean, and then entering the long tunnel under the Lowe's Hotel. This gives another
03:56problem to the driver, because coming out of the strong light into the darkness of the
04:00tunnel can be difficult, particularly if there's any oil or debris on the racetrack. He's going
04:05through this tunnel perhaps around 130 to 140 miles an hour when he exits, and towards the
04:10chicane, what I think is the most difficult corner on the racetrack. Driver coming down about
04:15140 miles an hour, it's really a little flick from left to right, keeping in mind that on the
04:19right-hand side clips an apartment, and the left-hand side the harbour. He accelerates in fourth gear
04:25along towards the tobacconist corner, and then towards the swimming pool turns in third gear,
04:30down to second gear right there, accelerating into third, and then towards the Rescasse. Almost as slow
04:35as the station hairpin, back into first gear. The Renault coming in there, dropping it into first gear,
04:41accelerating up a little incline there to a first or second gear corner, again behind Renny Arnault, Alan first,
04:47accelerating along in front of his pits and back to the start finishing line. A great challenge of
04:53street racing.
04:54All right, Jackie, and as the cars conclude their warm-up lap, also working with us today will be
04:59Jack Whittaker, who will be moving about throughout the Principality, checking on some of the other
05:03happenings during the race itself, and former world driving champion Jody Schechter, who will be covering the
05:09pits for us. Here are the current standings after the first five races of the season. Alain Prost of France is the
05:14leader with 18 points. John Watson is second. K.K. Rosberg of Finland is third. Nicky Lauda, two-time
05:20defending champion, is fourth. The winner of this race picks up nine points. Second place is worth six. Four
05:25points for finishing third. Three for fourth. Two points for fifth. One point for finishing sixth. A staggered
05:31grid at the start. Here are the first few rows. In row one, the pole sitter is René Arnault of France.
05:36Riccardo Patrese of Italy is outside Arnault. Bruno Giacomelli and Alain Prost of France in row two. Didier
05:43Pironi of France and K.K. Rosberg of Finland in row three. The fourth row comprised of Andrea De
05:48Cesaris of Italy and Derek Daly of Ireland. Nicky Lauda will be back in the sixth row. Nelson
05:53Piquet, the defending world champion in row seven, and the only American in the race, Eddie Cheever, who was
05:57born in Phoenix, Arizona, but grew up in Italy, is in row eight. And when the light turns green, we'll be underway.
06:06Just a 300 yard straightaway until they reach that Sandoval corner. We're underway with René Arnault
06:15getting off to a good start from his pole position and taking the lead. The 20 cars funneling their
06:19way in through the Sandoval turn. We've seen numerous incidents here over the years, but thus
06:24far a very clean strife to this 40th Monaco Grand Prix. The turbo car, one of four turbos in
06:30the race, being driven right there by René Arnault. That's Giacomelli, who's moved into second.
06:35Patrese is third. And one of the other turbo cars, our new teammate, Alain Prost, has moved
06:41into fourth position, but a very, very fine start. And that is a considerable lead for the
06:45first lap here, Jackie.
06:46Tremendous amount of space between he and Giacomelli and, of course, the rest of the cars. The turbo
06:52charge, of course, being able to put a lot of power on the road. He's got a clear track
06:56ahead of him. Giacomelli and the Alfa Romeo engine car behind him. That engine has proven
07:01to be very flexible around this little tight circuit. But look at the lead Arnault has as
07:06he comes down to the chicane. And this is the first lap. It's a long wait before Giacomelli
07:11comes through and then another long wait before Patrese makes it. The leader, René Arnault,
07:1733 years old. He's finished only one race this season. That was the initial race on the
07:211982 circuit in South Africa. He came in third. He has not finished since. He has never finished
07:26a race here in Monaco. This is his fourth start. He's won two of the 53 Grand Prix races he has
07:32participated in. And a near perfect first lap there. And that's as big a lead as you'll ever
07:38see at Monaco at the end of one lap for René Arnault of France. Into your picture, that's Bruno
07:43Giacomelli running in second place. And here comes Alain Prost in the yellow car moving by Patrese
07:48and into third. So the Renault turbos are running 1-3 early at Monaco.
07:53The battle right there for third place with Riccardo Patrese leading D.D.A.
08:00Pirony, who is currently fourth. Bruno Giacomelli, who was right in the thick of things, has come
08:05into the pits. But the story right now, early in the 40th running of the Grand Prix of Monaco,
08:11the Renault team, the turbocharged Renault. René Arnault is the leader. He was sitting on the pole
08:15and now has a seven-second advantage over his teammate Alain Prost. Both, of course, from France.
08:22And right now, the way things look, Jackie, if things stay together mechanically for them,
08:26this might be a runaway. It could be. But the turbos this year have proven to be extremely
08:31unreliable. The car that you're looking at in the lead now, that is car number two, Patrese.
08:36In fact, he's lying in third place. And he's in a normally aspirated engine now, a car that's
08:41been showing enormous reliability. It's the fourth Cosworth engine. He's been closely followed
08:46by D.D. Pirony in car number 28. Behind him is the Cesaris and the Alfa Romeo.
08:52Jackie, maybe you can explain further the difference between the two engines.
08:55The turbocharged engine is used by Ferrari, by Renault, and by Nelson Piquet and the Brabham BMW.
09:02The turbocharged engine is a 1,500 cc or one and a half liter engine. The Ford Cosworth engine
09:07used by most of the other teams is a three liter engine, 3,000 cc, twice the size. Yet the turbo
09:14produces about 60 brake horsepower more. A big difference. Now, how does it produce that
09:20power? Basically, the turbo is a blower, a little machine that blows the combination of
09:25fuel and air into the engine. In other words, forces that combination in, gives more fuel,
09:31more weight, and therefore more power. A normally aspirated engine, it sucks in the combination
09:37of air and fuel, therefore doesn't get the density. Now, of course, it's a compromise because
09:43the turbo cars are a lot heavier. They've got to carry more fuel. They've got to carry more
09:48coolant, bigger radiators. They've got to have bigger brakes because they go faster. The
09:53tires, because of the weight, have to be of a harder compound. And in addition to that,
09:57they've been proving in the past to be extremely unreliable. But that may all be changing now.
10:03So the balance of power between turbo and normally aspirated engines is certainly very much the story
10:09of the day. And the turbo is dominating the early stages of this race. There he is running very
10:14cleanly. Rene Arnaud of France. He is well down at the moment in the current world driver standings,
10:22having finished only one race this season. But the season is young. They still have 10 races
10:27remaining, so a lot of time. And of course, his teammate, the man chasing him, Alain Prost,
10:31leads the world driving standings at the moment. Earlier, Jackie spoke with Arnaud.
10:36Rene, Monaco is obviously important to you.
10:40Yes, it's very important because this is a track very difficult for the turbocharged engine.
10:45And now it's much better to use the power. And the lag is only a little.
10:52Rene, the Renault and Arnaud have a good chance for the world championship this year. I hope.
11:01And it's difficult for me because I have lost much points during the two last races. But it's always
11:08possible. And I am very happy in my team. And I think that the car is competitive here at Monaco
11:14for the race. And if it is competitive here, it's competitive for a whole Grand Prix. This is very important.
11:22The lag that Rene Arnaud speaks about is a power lag. When you press the accelerator pedal in a turbocharged engine,
11:29normally there's a delay before the power comes in. Renault have been working very hard in this,
11:34have introduced a new system that almost removes that power lag. So the engine is much more responsive now,
11:41which has certainly never been the case in the past with turbocharged engines.
11:45There is Arnaud. A clean line. He has yet to move up on the back marker. So he has the entire racetrack
11:51to himself at the moment. And there he's into a spin around the swimming pool turn. Arnaud not making
11:57any contact with the barriers and certainly not in a position, Jackie, where he had to think about
12:01anybody else. Here comes Prost, his teammate, moving by him. He has to be shocked at the moment,
12:05seeing Arnaud right there, immobile at the moment. Prost has the lead.
12:09Well, it looks like he just lost control, perhaps just lost it. It could have been driver error right
12:14there, but certainly he was either very skillful or the good Lord was looking after him well
12:19because he didn't come into contact with any of the barriers. So it's the end of the day for
12:24Rene Arnaud.
12:25The leader is Alain Prost in card number 15, and he is being stalked at the moment
12:38by the man who was in row one outside the post, Arnaud, and that is Ricardo Patrese. Now, Prost had about
12:45a six or seven second lead a little bit earlier, and as you can see, it is down to about one second at the moment.
12:52The Ferrari being driven by Didier Pirani is in third position, and the Cesaris is in the hunt
12:57in fourth place. So it started out as perhaps a runaway has turned into a pretty good battle here.
13:03Well, I wonder what could have caused that. Right now, going out of that last corner, we saw, in fact, the
13:09gravel car of Patrese getting a little bit wild, and he's losing quite a lot of time. See how close he was
13:14earlier on there, and we see the car out parked on the left-hand side of Salazar going up the hill.
13:19The yellow flag being waved to warn drivers that it could be a hazard as Alain Prost goes
13:24round the mezzanet into the casino square, heading down towards the Mirabeau corner now, and he's
13:29white and yellow reno. Not so closely followed right now by Patrese in the blue and white gravel,
13:36and right now we're going into the station here, but Jodie Schechter is down in the pits
13:40with the early reader, Renny Arno. You were leading the race, and you were doing so well. What happened?
13:47I broken the left skirt, and my car is very difficult to drive after some laps, and I make a spin.
14:07Okay. Thanks very much. I think further elaboration is required there, Jackie, as to the problem.
14:15Aerodynamics have become a very important part of modern Grand Prix motor racing, as it has in
14:19Indianapolis as well, and what happens there is the skirts on these cars affect the ground effect.
14:26That's to say that the air underneath the car, and these skirts run along the bottom of the car,
14:31touching the road at some parts, and if one of those skirts break, and that seems to be what has
14:36happened to Arno's car, he loses the aerodynamic downforce from the ground effect, and suddenly the
14:41car has no adhesion, so that's probably why he spun out. When it happens at those sort of speeds,
14:46it's a very sudden breakaway, and I think Renny Arno can be extremely fortunate, and good luck
14:52really was on his side that he didn't hit anything, because the close confines of the barriers around
14:57this technical circuit in Monte Carlo, oh, it highly precludes you hitting something when you spit out.
15:03So it looked like perhaps driver error earlier was indeed a very skillful bit of maneuvering on his part.
15:10Well, it looks like it wasn't driver error in fact. What happened was when we lost that aerodynamic
15:14effect underneath the car, suddenly the car broke loose, and he had only to try and regain control and
15:20try and avoid hitting anything, which he obviously did with some skill.
15:23So the car is in decent shape, no real damage to it at this particular point, but as far as
15:31the competition is concerned here, it has to be as frustrating a day as he's had.
15:35Absolutely, but the battle is still very much on, as we can see. Patrice in there,
15:39and the blue and white car being hounded by the Ferrari of Didi Pirani. Of course,
15:44the car in the lead is still the car on the left-hand side of your screen, the white and yellow car
15:48the second car, the other blue and white one by Patrice of Italy, and then Pirani of France riding
15:54the Italian Ferrari, of course, and a very partisan crowd here for this entire group because
16:00Monaco is surrounding one side by France and the other side by Italy, so they flock in here and
16:06there are thousands to cheer their heroes, and of course, they're getting a very local performance
16:12by these French and Italian drivers. And another young Italian doing quite well as the
16:16Cesaris is right there in fourth position. Well, plenty of action, of course, out on the track
16:21during the running of the Monaco Grand Prix. There's more action, though, throughout the
16:24principality. Let's check in with our colleague Jack Whitaker.
16:29At this moment, we're overlooking the lovely harbor in Monaco and the Mediterranean Ocean and the
16:34Massenet Curve, a curve which takes these racing cars into Casino Square, the very center of this quiet
16:41little town known as Monte Carlo. I'm speaking from the second floor balcony of this world-renowned
16:46gambling casino, which has changed the Rocky Mountain side into one of the world's most famous
16:51fleshbots. Here are found some of the world's most beautiful women, the international ladies,
16:58groomed and bejeweled beyond perfection. And where there are beautiful women, there are also men to
17:03follow them. And where there are men to follow beautiful women, there is money, money, money,
17:09money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, in the rich man's world.
17:16Monday, Monday, Monday, Monday, always Sunday, in the rich man's world.
17:26Money and the international set have been coming to Monte Carlo for over 100 years. And for the last 40
17:32years, the Grand Prix has joined to add a new dimension to this town that has been the playground
17:38for Grand Dukes and Kings, artists and writers, the famous and notorious, all who have come trying
17:44to break the bank at Monte Carlo inside this graceful gambling desk. Here in Monte Carlo, the Grand Prix is a
17:53glittering affair, international, popular, and very, very cheap.
17:59Well, I'm afraid there is no hazard change for our man Whitaker today. Jack moving around and about
18:07on a race day in Monaco. The leader is still L.A. close.
18:11Card number 15. Ricardo Patrese is currently second. Didier Pirani is third. And André De Cesaris is
18:18fourth. We'll be back with more coverage of the 40th Grand Prix of Monaco later. But right now,
18:23let's join Phil. Our number 15 being driven by Alain Frost is still a leader. Ricardo Patrese,
18:28though, is staying right with him in second place. Didier Pirani is third as they move up on the slower
18:33cars and into the rash gas turn. And here we have the round. Just up there right now, Pirani,
18:37front end of his car has been damaged. He ran up against Elio D'Angelo's rear wheel. And I think
18:42the nose cone of his Ferrari has been knocked off. It doesn't seem as he passes or come into
18:47position that the wings of the car have been affected. But certainly, yes, he's lost his nose
18:52cone. Hopefully that won't cost him much in the way of time. We'll keep our eye on him. He was the
18:57winner earlier this year of the San Marino Grand Prix. Prost is out in front. He made his Formula One
19:02debut in 1980. He won three races last year. He's won twice already this year. He's
19:07won five times in 31 career Grand Prix starts, which in this sport is an amazing percentage.
19:14Moving up on the back markers now, first minute in your picture is the defending world champion
19:18Nelson Piquet. What a difference a year makes. Well, Nelson Piquet is driving the turbocharged BMW
19:26engine Brabham. This year, that engine has been proving to be very fast, but also very unreliable. And
19:32the turbo turbo lag in this racetrack has proven to be very, very difficult to deal with. Keep in
19:38mind that Piquet's own teammate is Mitresi. He's driving the Ford engine car. The leader Prost won
19:44the first two races of the season, but has had nothing but problems since. And Jackie spoke with
19:47him earlier. Alan, obviously Monaco is very important for you. It's very important for me because
19:57it's a typical race. And the most important thing is that I did not finish the last three races. And
20:05even if I am a leader in the world championship, I would like to finish the rest to mark some points.
20:11So Alain Prost still maintaining the lead. The three P's running one, two, three. Prost,
20:17Patrese and Pirini. We'll be right back.
20:22We're back in Monaco and there is the battle for fourth place. At the moment, it is Andrea
20:27De Cesaris in car number 22 in fourth position. And he is being stalked by car six driven by KK
20:33Rosberg. Rosberg has been able to pick up quite a bit of ground on him, but De Cesaris doing a fine
20:38job, but not only driving his own race, but making sure Rosberg has no room to get by.
20:43In fact, there's a real good battle on. It's almost a three-car battle. Didi Pirini and the Ferrari,
20:48who's had a little problem with his aerodynamics in front. But right now, it's the man,
20:51Keki Rosberg from Finland, the very unlikely country for a grand free driver to come from.
20:55Stalking, Andrea De Cesaris. Both of those young drivers, by the way, without victories in
21:00Grand Prix racing. Both of them having had spectacular careers. De Cesaris, the car in
21:04the center of those three cars right now, running the Alfa Romeo. He, in fact, has had a spectacular
21:10year of incidents and accidents. He was supposedly capable of demolishing 18 cars during last season,
21:18practicing, qualifying and racing them. So he's brought quite a reputation with him. Right now,
21:23now he wants to get past the Ferrari. Of course, another Italian idle end of Ferrari,
21:27who never goes to any Grand Prix just now. And that's the car that you're looking at,
21:30ZD Pirini driving that Ferrari, closely followed by the Italian driver in the Italian car,
21:35the Alfa Romeo. And then the Finnish driver in the British car with Arab sponsorship, close behind.
21:41Gilles Villeneuve. Here, the car, the Ferrari, being driven by Nidia Parity and the Ferrari team,
21:47with only one car in the Grand Prix of Monaco. Of course, the other Ferrari driver was Gilles Villeneuve,
21:53who died during qualifying at the Belgian Grand Prix. He has not, at this moment, been replaced. Of course,
21:59our colleague working the pitch today, Jody Schechter, a former world champion, a former driver for the
22:05Ferrari team, and a great friend, in addition to being the teammate of Gilles Villeneuve.
22:11Gilles Villeneuve remembers the great Canadian Grand Prix driver in his own special way.
22:16Gilles Villeneuve, in my opinion, was the fastest driver in the history of motor racing.
22:22Gilles Villeneuve. He only had six wins, but he did a lot more for the sport and really deserved a lot more.
22:29The reason why he only had six wins is because he tried to win every duel and wasn't really worried
22:35about winning races or winning a world championship. The people in motor racing are going to miss him
22:41for that type of style, but I'm going to miss him because he was the most genuine person I ever knew.
22:46Gilles Villeneuve was a very gentle man, a great family man, a man who loved to be with his wife
22:54and his children, who more or less always came to the Grand Prix with him and in fact lived in a little
22:58caravan. A spectacular and very exciting driver. Villeneuve was killed during qualifying in
23:06Belgium. Out of respect to Gilles, the Ferrari team dropped out of that race and earlier Jackie
23:12visited with Didier Pyrenees. Didier, this is the first Grand Prix since the accident of Gilles Villeneuve in
23:18Belgium. It must be an emotional problem for the entire team, for the mechanics as well as the
23:24administration and obviously also for you. How do you deal with this? Well, I think the emotion
23:33point of view is the same for all the team. I mean, you know, all the team is
23:36is made by men and the men is emotional and we can't forget Gilles like that in 15 days. I think
23:46we will never anyways. But this team like a few other teams in Formula One is very professional too and
23:53as soon as we are working for the race, I mean, we are too much concentrate on the race to
24:01to think about these problems, these emotional problems. And when we are working, nothing changed
24:11in fact. The world of motor racing, unique indeed as Pyrenees is able to block it out of his mind for
24:17the moment. Right now, he is running third, has another problem though, as it's begun to rain very
24:22lightly here in Monaco. Back at the Monaco Grand Prix, just like that, it has stopped raining. We had
24:33some brief sprinkles a few moments ago. It's dry, however, it's still overcast and there's the leader
24:38in car 15. Alley throws to France, who has built up a huge lead right now, moving up and trying to lap
24:44one of the slower cars, Mark Schur of Switzerland. Well, earlier we checked in with Jack Whittaker, who was
24:49hobnobbing in Monte Carlo. For the moment, however, Jack has moved across the track, so to speak.
24:55Across the harbor from Monte Carlo, it's a rock of Monaco. Against two steep sides, thousands of
25:01racing enthusiasts cling. More than 10,000 of them actually have come by bus and car and motorbikes
25:08with sleeping bags and coolers to sit high above the race course, where some of the best views of the
25:13race can be seen. It was on this rock that Monaco was founded, and here on race day, the people invade
25:21it and use every inch of available space. It is a far different crowd from that over in Monte Carlo.
25:29No Yves Saint Laurent haute couture. It's all blue jeans and t-shirts. No pate de foie gras and champagne,
25:36but good rough bread and wine. It's family and friends on this hillside, and a happy holiday
25:43atmosphere, as young people celebrate a sporting event as they have since ancient times. And there's
25:50an occasional nap to while away the time until the race is over. Thousands of Italians have come up on the
25:58overnight train from Milan to cheer on their countrymen. And most of these people here are
26:04serious racing fans who care very much about the Grand Prix of Monaco. And it's the fans from France
26:12having the most fun at the moment as Elaine Frost continues to lead more than halfway through the
26:17race under threatening skies. We'll return later with more of the Monaco Grand Prix. But right now,
26:23let's go to Indianapolis and check in at the Speedway for a preview of the Indy 500 with Jim McKay.
26:30I'm standing right now at a spot that will be the focus of millions of eyes tomorrow because
26:34this is the start finish line at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. And it's here that a field of 33
26:39cars and drivers will take the green flag for the 66 running of the Indianapolis 500. Of course,
26:45if the weather is like this, nothing will be happening here because Indianapolis cars do not run in the
26:49rain. The weather forecast, well, it's for occasional showers. Now, as usual, ABC Sports will be bringing
26:55you exclusive same-day coverage of the race, a three-hour program beginning at nine o'clock Eastern
27:00time, except in the Indianapolis area, which will be blacked out. If I were to select one word to
27:05describe this year's race, it would be speed. And if that sounds like an obvious statement, consider this
27:10fact. The speed with which Johnny Rutherford won the poll two years ago would not even have qualified him to be
27:17in this year's race. Two weeks ago today, 30-year-old Rick Mears of Bakersfield, California, winner of
27:24the 500 three years ago, established a new qualifying record with an average speed of 207.004 miles per
27:31hour for the required four laps. It was a performance that struck awe and fear into the minds of many
27:36observers, speeds they thought might be getting out of hand. Average speed for the entire field is more
27:41than 197 miles per hour. Well, the same day that Mears set his record, driver Gordon Smiley of
27:48Grapevine, Texas, was killed when his car hit the wall head-on, the first driver fatality here in nine
27:53years. Four-time winner A.J. Foyt, here for his 25th 500, told Jackie Stewart that even he felt that speeds
27:59were entering an uncontrollable area. I think we've gotten ourselves into an area right now that is a
28:03dangerous area. It's a very tricky area. You know, the cars feel so superior, so super. But like you say,
28:10Jackie, I don't think a man can control the cars at today's present speeds when you're in trouble,
28:16because once you lose the ground effects, it's just like an airplane of both wings fall off. You
28:20really have no more control. This year's race is a family affair like none before it. Rick Mears,
28:27fastest qualifier, is joined in the field by his brother Roger, slowest of the 33 drivers to qualify.
28:32Then there are three other sets of brothers. Tom Sneeta, who three times has finished second,
28:38is here again, along with his brother Jerry, one year the younger. Gary Bettenhausen here for
28:43the 14th time. Brother Tony making his second appearance. There are three Whittington brothers.
28:49Bill is the fastest, Don is the oldest, and Dale makes his rookie appearance at age 22. Now,
28:54last Sunday in practice, Bill Whittington almost lost his place in the field. His car out of control,
29:00smashed into the wall, as you see. But not head on. He was lucky. The car has been repaired. Bill is sore
29:06all over, but ready to go tomorrow. One third of the field, then, will have fraternal connections
29:12in this year's race. There'll be great interest in Mexico. Hector Rabake, a Formula One driver,
29:18has qualified for the first time. Jose La Garza, last year's rookie of the year, is a national idol back
29:23home. Oddly, the most familiar brother act will not race tomorrow. Al answers in the field,
29:28but Bobby, last year's winner, will be in the pits as manager of the Garza team. And so the scene is
29:33set. Join us for exclusive three-hour same-day coverage tomorrow evening at 9 Eastern time.
29:38The Indianapolis area is blacked out. In a minute, more world in the pit. Raindrops have reappeared.
29:44A light sprinkle coming down on the track as the leader is Alleyne Frost in the yellow car. He's
29:48moving up on two slower cars being driven by Elio De Angelis and Derrick Daly. That blue flag
29:53indicating a passing attempt will be made. As Alleyne Frost is just five laps away
29:58from a victory. Alan Frost, a very talented young driver, as the cars come up towards
30:03Sandivort now. Frost's turbocharger getting advantage. And he comes into contact with De Angelis,
30:09side by side, going into Sandivort's corner. They definitely collided reasonably heavily,
30:13in fact, as Frost continues up the hill. You can see it again here. Frost on the right-hand side comes in.
30:18De Angelis simply didn't see him. And you can see right there they come in front. Luckily,
30:22the tires kiss side by side. They could have so easily interlocked and thrown the car up into the
30:27air, as we've seen before here in Monte Carlo. Frost very, very fortunate as he maintains a large
30:33advantage over Ricardo Patrese, who is running second. And Didier Perny in the Ferrari is still running
30:38third. Well, we've checked in with Jack Whittaker on one side of the harbor and on the other. Right now,
30:44Jack is in the harbor itself. And so as this race winds down, it would appear that in its 40th year,
30:51the Grand Prix of Monaco is still the quintessential road race, fairly European and unmatched anywhere
30:58in the world. In this lovely setting, in this harbor, the mountains beyond, the posh of Monte Carlo. One
31:05would think they would all diminish this event, but they cannot diminish this event. And in the end,
31:10it's the combination of this glorious backdrop, the race course, the men and their machines,
31:16that makes the Grand Prix of Monaco like nothing else in the world.
31:23And Alain Frost will be joining in that victory celebration, perhaps, but it's beginning to rain even
31:29harder now as the Grand Prix continues. It's raining steadily as we return to Monaco. There's the
31:37leader, Alain Frost, followed by Ricardo Patrese, but he's well back and Didier Perny is third.
31:42Well, in fact, it is raining very heavily. And before this race, we were able to look at what a dry tire
31:48is and what a rain tire is. On the back of Patrese's car here, the tire on the right hand
31:53side is what you call a slick. It's got no tread on it at all. And this is used in totally dry
31:57conditions. These little grooves that you see there are only for the measurement of the tread,
32:01not to drain any of the water from the tread. As you can see, this tire is a wet weather tire and,
32:06of course, allows the water to be drained off. Now, of course, all of the cars on this race right now
32:12are on slick tires because the race started completely dry. Alan Frost has absolutely
32:19lost control of his car coming out of the chicane. A very fast accident indeed. The front end of the
32:23car totally wiped out. It looked like the car had a lot of grip as it went through the chicane.
32:28He's okay. He's perfectly clear. Patrese has gone through. He now inherits the lead.
32:33Alan Frost seems to be okay. He's sitting down, but luckily, and there is Patrese leading this Grand
32:383 of Monaco in still very slippery conditions. You can see that almost the reflection coming off
32:44of the tires there because they are very damp. Now, at this time, of course, the clerk of the course,
32:50or the chief steward, is in a position to call the race. He could put the checkered flag out because
32:55of potentially dangerous conditions. The flag you just saw there, the red and yellow striped flag,
33:00is to show that the track is in very slippery conditions. So, therefore, the marshals and everybody
33:05else cheering Patrese on as he goes past the start finishing line there. He now, of course,
33:10has to be extremely careful. The conditions are lethal in these conditions because these tires,
33:14like you saw, the slick tires, simply have no grip. This is not the first time that there's been
33:20rain here today. Earlier on, there were sprinkles of rain. At that time, the chief steward, or the
33:25clerk of the course, as they call them here, could have called the race and restarted it, allowing the cars
33:30to come in, change into wet weather tires. But that decision was not taken. It is now a situation
33:36that he's got to satisfy himself, that the track is in good enough condition for these tires.
33:41Safety and he's raising. He's all over the place and he's reversed down at the slowest corner of the
33:46racetrack here at the lowest hotel, the old station here. He's stalled his engine. The engine is not
33:52running. There's Pyrenees going through there. The Lotus going through also. And Derek Daly, he's not
33:57restarting his engine. He's in trouble. The marshals and so forth. And there you can see a marshal
34:02pointing up into the air with the oil of slippery track conditions flag, obviously advising the
34:08official, the drivers, that there is a problem and it is raining. So this clock of the course now has
34:13to decide, is he going to call the race? Is he going to stop it in the interest of safety? Or does
34:18he feel the track is still suitable for racing? So we have seen pros crash with two and a half laps to
34:24go. We have seen Patrese go into a spin with just a lap and a half to go. There is no white flag as
34:29such in Grand Prix racing. But when Pyrrady comes around this time and passes the start finish line,
34:34he will know he has just one lap remaining. He will have completed 75 and a 76 and it looks like it
34:40will be a Ferrari victory now after the Renault has led throughout the race and been running quite
34:45steadily. Then Patrese had his chance, his car spinning in the old station turn. And when DBA
34:52Pyrrady comes past the start finish line, he will have just a little bit more than two miles remaining.
34:57He is driving, as you can see here, Jackie, very, very slowly, very, very conservatively on the slick
35:01surface. In fact, very carefully indeed, I would do the same if I were leading the race. It would be
35:06wonderful justice if Ferrari were able to win this race and it would be a great honor for the memory of
35:11Gilles Bielder, if a Ferrari could take victory. But Pyrrady is really being passed by a lot of cars.
35:16It does, this car doesn't sound a million dollars either, but he's still accelerating up the hill.
35:22The cars that are passing DBA Pyrrady at this point are at least one lap down. Andrea De Cesaris would be
35:28next. He would be in second place. We're getting a report that in pushing Ricardo Patrese's car out of
35:35the old station turn has restarted. He is back on the track and he indeed would be on the same lap but
35:40behind the Cesaris. Right now it is Pyrrady about half a lap or one mile away from victory
35:47in the Grand Prix of Monaco. Derek Daly in car number five as they head down toward the old station
35:52turn. DBA Pyrrady moving very, very slowly through the turn. This is the corner that Patrese spun on.
35:59You can see there's no sign of him so he's obviously back in business again. This is the Portier corner and
36:05that's Derek Daly coming round. He's in a lot of trouble, Jackie. Look at him. Oh, he's going very
36:11slowly. The car's hardly picking up. This is a remarkable finish. We're in the tunnel looking back,
36:17waiting for Pyrrady. No sign of him at all and that's him there. Oh, on the left hand side of the
36:22racetrack there, coming to a stop. Pyrrady stopping, that would make De Cesaris the leader at this point.
36:29Andrea De Cesaris would assume first place as Pyrrady has come to a dead stop in the tunnel.
36:35The marshals coming to his. There is the Cesaris' car. I don't believe this.
36:39That was the man. He was running fourth a minute ago. Could have been running first. He's out of the
36:44car. Ah, he's out of it. He's closed it. And look, they're trying to push start him now. If this engine
36:49starts, I'm afraid D.D. Pyrrady will be, oh, he'll be losing this race because if you get a push start
36:55from any outside help, you're excluded from the result. Now, of course, Patrese got a restart,
37:01but they pushed him back across the racetrack out of harm's way. And because he was sitting on a hill,
37:07he allowed the car to go downhill, got it into gear and got it restarted. And Derek Daly's now
37:12stopped in the Tag Williams car. He's walking away. Alan Frost, who, of course, crashed earlier. He
37:18seems to be okay. There's Patrese. Patrese has passed Pyrrady in the tunnel. He is right now
37:24concluding this lap. This will be his final lap. Ricardo Patrese, who has made 70 lifetime Grand
37:30Prix starts, has never won a Grand Prix race. He's just a few yards away now from winning the Grand
37:36Prix of Monaco. As we mentioned at the outset, a controversy-filled year, a lot of inquiries,
37:41a lot of protests, some disqualifications as he takes the jeckered flag. And for now,
37:46at least, it appears in a bizarre and incredible finish. Ricardo Patrese has won the Grand Prix of
37:52Monaco. We'll be back to sort it all out in a minute. Eight-year-old Ricardo Patrese of Italy,
37:59the winner of the 1982 Grand Prix of Monaco. I'm sure he's pinching himself. He's a man who was running
38:06a distant second most of the day, then assumed the lead just briefly, went into a spin, watched a
38:11couple of other men pass him. Here was the spin in the old station turn, but his car was restarted.
38:16He was able to complete the remaining lap and a half, and he is with Jackie Stewart right now.
38:22Congratulations, your first ever Grand Prix. To win it in Monaco must be a dream come true.
38:29Yes, in the way that I won, I think that all the bad luck I had in this era came back,
38:35because really, I spent... All of the years of bad luck.
38:37I know, I know, but anyway, this time I spent the last lap, I thought it was finished for this
38:43Grand Prix, and I was very lucky. The other two cars stopped at the last lap.
38:47Well, wonderful. Many, many congratulations. Long, many more.
38:52Ricardo Patrese, the winner. Well, this incredible sequence of events started with two and a half laps to
38:57go. Alain Prost in car 15, the leader by a wide margin over Patrese, crashing heavily after he had exited the
39:03chicane. We saw a shot of Prost just a few moments ago. He has been taken to the hospital. Preliminary
39:08report, a bruised knee and heel. Was that accident rain induced? We'll never know. Should the race have
39:14been stopped? Should they have been racing at that point? Well, the man whose decision that was is in
39:19the pits right now with our colleague, Jody Schechter. We have Michel Ferry in the pits. He's the clerk of
39:23the course and the man that should or should not stop the race towards the end. Michel, why didn't you stop
39:29the race towards the end when it started to rain like that? Because I discussed by radio telephone
39:33with my marshals and marshals said that the truck was not very, very, you say, wet. Wet, yeah.
39:41We thought in the pits that the race should have been stopped. More in the pits than in a portier
39:46or in a casino. Okay, now the race is finished. I know it was a difficult decision during the race.
39:52Now the race is finished and you saw what happened. Would you change your mind again? No, no, sure not.
39:58So you thought you did the right thing? Yeah. I discussed with Michelin and Goodyear
40:02just five minutes ago. They said that the truck was enough good to drive on this truck.
40:07Thank you very much, Michel. All right, Jody, and here are the results. Patrese winning it.
40:12EDA Perny was the first of the next four to complete 75 laps, so he winds up second,
40:18to Cesare's third, Mansell fourth, and De Angelis fifth. Nicky Lotto left the race, wound up 12th,
40:23oil pressure problems. Nelson Fiquet came in 13th. Only American-born driver in the race,
40:28Eddie Cheever was 17th. Jackie, you've seen it all in your career. Have you ever seen anything like
40:32this, though? This was indeed a bizarre race. However, there's been no protests either for
40:37the wet conditions or the push start of Patrese, so the official results will stand. For me,
40:42not a classic Grand Prix, but certainly very exciting at the end. And there are the up-to-date Formula One
40:48standings with pro still leading. Perny now third, Patrese moving up to fifth. The executive producer of
40:54ABC Sports is Rune Arledge. Coordinating producer of ABC's Wide World of Sports, Dennis Lewin, who
40:59produced our telecast of the Grand Prix of Monaco, which was directed by Larry Kamm. World Invitational
41:05High Diving Championship produced by Peter Diamond, directed by Roger Goodman. Indianapolis 500
41:10Preview produced by Ben Harvey. Coordinator, Carol Letty. Associate producer in Monaco, Mary Ann Grabovoy.
41:17Associate Directors Brian McCullough and Ned Simon. Technical Director in Orlando, Chet Mazurik.