The sad 1982 season was coming to an end.

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Goodbye Gilles. It is widely remembered as being the race that nobody wanted to win.

The 1982 Austrian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 15 August 1982 at the Österreichring in Spielberg, Styria, Austria. It had been a cursed year for Scuderia Ferrari, to put it mildly. The 1982 Monaco Grand Prix was the sixth race to be held in 1982, with the paddock was still struggling to come to terms with the death of Gilles Villeneuve at Zolder two weeks earlier. Jacques Laffite finished third in a Ligier-Matra, one lap behind. De Angelis held off Keke Rosberg's Williams-Ford to win by just 0.05 seconds, or less than half a car length.

It should have been the team’s 337th race in Formula 1, but instead the team withdrew in an act of mourning following the death of Gilles Villeneuve.

The race, contested over 53 laps, was the thirteenth race of the 1982 Formula One season and was won by Elio de Angelis, driving a Lotus-Ford.

FERRARI 126 C2. Ferrari opted to only enter one car in Formula One's most iconic race, with Didier Pironi set to battle on alone. This is the story of a Grand Prix in which Scuderia Ferrari did not take part. Formula 1 went to Zolder for the Belgian Grand Prix amidst controversy.

In the space of just a few Grands Prix, the sport had lost Gilles Villeneuve, who died in qualifying for the Belgian Grand Prix, then Didier Pironi was involved in a terrible accident in practice for the German Grand Prix. 1982 Belgian GP. "A real strange one," is how Autosport's Nigel Roebuck opened his report for the 1982 Monaco Grand Prix, offering a fitting precis for a chaotic race with a chaotic finish.