Race winner Alain Prost leads the pack in his McLaren MP4/2B.
All this brings us to two important FISAIFOCA results, both enjoyable, both satisfactory, but both inexplicable. I refer to the Monaco GP taking place on May 19th, when all the winter noises from Paris said there would not be a Monaco GP, and the appearance of Teo Fabi in a Toleman-Hart Car running on Pirelli ryres, when all the winter noises from Witney said the Toleman team had no tyres and would not be racing this year. Don’t ask why, just accept the facts, though if you like worrying about things you can ponder on the facts that the Spirit team’s single car entry disappeared, the Benetton Italian clothing people put some money somewhere, Teo Fabi is Italian, and Toleman’s number one driver Stefan Johansson was released to join the Ferrari team because there was a vacancy brought about by Rene Arnoux leaving the Ferrari team.
If Arnoux had not left Ferrari, Johansson would not have joined them and would have still been number one at Toleman, which would have meant that Fabi could not have driven the single Toleman entry, and if Fabi couldn’t drive there would have been no Benetton money, and with no Benetton money the Spirit team would not have gone away, and with Spirit still in the entry list there would have been no surplus Pirelli tyres.
