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| - Colors = id:canvas value:rgb(0.937,0.937,0.937) id:linemark value:gray(0.8) id:linemark2 value:gray(0.9) BackgroundColors = canvas:canvas PlotData = mark:(line,linemark) from:start till:59 color:blue shift:(20,-5) text:Nelson Piquet (Laps 1–59) from:59 till:end color:darkblue shift:(20,-5) text:Riccardo Patrese (Laps 60–77) The 1983 South African Grand Prix was the final round of the 1983 Formula One World Championship, held at Kyalami in Gauteng, South Africa. The race saw the championship decided in favour of Nelson Piquet, after a three way duel between himself, Alain Prost and René Arnoux. Piquet actually finished the race in third, although the points awarded to him were enough to get him ahead of Prost in the final standings, after the Renault driver retired with a turbo failure. The seventeenth running of the South African Grand Prix saw Riccardo Patrese take his second career victory, although he was under pressure from Alfa Romeo's Andrea de Cesaris in the closing stages. De Cesaris claimed second in the race, with Ferrari taking the Constructor's title despite failing to take a point in the race.
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