McLaren's total domination was underlined when Alain Prost won the Dutch Grand Prix, his fifth and the team's ninth victory of the season. It was enough to ensure McLaren secured the constructors' championship with three rounds still to go, and Prost left Zandvoort trailing team-mate Niki Lauda, who finished second, by only half a point in the drivers' title race. Nelson Piquet, whose hopes of retaining his title disappeared when he failed to score a point in the first six rounds, showed what might have been had his Brabham been reliable, with the fastest time in provisional qualifying and then grabbing a front-row spot on the Saturday. But the gremlins returned and he lasted only ten laps...
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