

Ferrari, an Italian constructor, competed in the 1981 Formula 1 season with Gilles Villeneuve and Didier Pironi.
Ferrari finished 5th in the 1981 constructors' championship with 34 points, 2 wins and 3 podiums – 61 points behind champions Williams. Ferrari won 2 Grands Prix, the last of them the Spanish Grand Prix.
Final 1981 results after 15 rounds. Data: Jolpica F1 API.
Share of the team's points (race and sprint).
Race and sprint points per round, stacked by driver (Villeneuve, Pironi: darker to lighter).
Shared Grand Prix only. Qualifying uses the qualifying classification.
15 shared GPs
Both cars, every round. S = sprint result.
| Rd | Grand Prix | Villeneuve | Pironi | Pts |
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Short answers about Ferrari in 1981.
Gilles Villeneuve and Didier Pironi drove for Ferrari in the 1981 Formula 1 season.
Ferrari scored 34 points in 1981 and finished 5th in the constructors' championship, 61 points behind champions Williams.
Ferrari won 2 of 15 Grands Prix in 1981, with 3 podium finishes.
Ferrari is the only team to have raced in every Formula 1 world championship season since the series began in 1950. Based in Maranello, it holds the records for constructors’ titles (16) and drivers’ titles (15), with champions including Alberto Ascari, Niki Lauda, Michael Schumacher and, most recently, Kimi Räikkönen in 2007. Schumacher’s five consecutive titles from 2000 to 2004 remain the team’s most successful era.
Ferrari builds its own power unit and also supplies Haas and Cadillac. Frédéric Vasseur has been team principal since 2023, and the 2026 line-up pairs Charles Leclerc with seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton, who is in his second season with the team.
| 1 | DNF | DNF | 0 |
| 2 | DNF | DNF | 0 |
| 3 | DNF | DNF | 0 |
| 4 | P7 | P5 | 2 |
| 5 | P4 | P8 | 3 |
| 6 | P1 | P4 | 12 |
| 7 | P1 | P15 | 9 |
| 8 | DNF | P5 | 2 |
| 9 | DNF | DNF | 0 |
| 10 | P10 | DNF | 0 |
| 11 | DNF | P9 | 0 |
| 12 | DNF | DNF | 0 |
| 13 | DNF | P5 | 2 |
| 14 | P3 | DNF | 4 |
| 15 | DSQ | P9 | 0 |