The 1981 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 35th season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It featured the 1981 Formula One World Championship for Drivers and the 1981 Formula One World Champion
Nelson Piquet won the first of his 3 drivers' championships, driving for the Brabham team.
Carlos Reutemann, driving for Williams, placed second in the Drivers' Championship by just one point.
Defending World Champion and Reutemann's teammate Alan Jones, placed third in the Drivers' Championship.
Williams won the 1981 Constructors' Championship with the FW07C.
The 1982 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 36th season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It included two competitions run over the course of the year, the 33rd Formula One World Championship f
1981 Formula One World Championship
…rather than individual races, while the FIA would also set the prize money. A standardised set of rules would be in place at every race and, from 1982 on, the entrants had to own the intellectual rights to the chassis that they entered, as such the distinction between the terms "entrant" and "constructor…
Keke Rosberg won his first and only Drivers' Championship with Williams with 44 points, despite having trailed for most of the season and having only won one race.
Ferrari won the Constructors' Championship with the 126C2.
Bernie Ecclestone (pictured in 1991), owner of Brabham and chairman of FOCA, was one of the leading figures in the FISA–FOCA war.