Sunday 12th April 1981

Nelson Piquet won the Argentine Grand Prix in a Brabham BT49C. Thanks to designer Gordon Murray’s alternative solution to flexible side skirts, the Brabham cars of Nelson Piquet and Héctor Rebaque were dominant in this race, with Piquet (who took pole at an average speed of 130.029 mph (209.261 km/h)) taking the lead immediately from Alan Jones on the back straight and Rebaque climbing up from 5th to 2nd over 23 laps. It was the last Argentine Grand Prix held until 1995.

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