Countdown to
000d 00h 00m 00s1981 Cars
| Car | Races | Starts | Poles | Wins | Podia | F. laps | Pts | |
| 1 | Alfa Romeo 179C | 25 | 24 | 1 | 10 | |||
| 2 | Alfa Romeo 179D | 5 | 5 | |||||
| 3 | Alfa Romeo 179E | 1 | 1 | |||||
| 4 | Arrows A3 | 30 | 22 | 1 | 2 | 10 | ||
| 5 | ATS D4 | 5 | 3 | |||||
| 6 | ATS HGS | 13 | 6 | 1 | ||||
| 7 | Brabham BT49C | 30 | 29 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 61 |
| 8 | Ensign N180B | 16 | 14 | 1 | 5 | |||
| 9 | Ferrari 126C | 30 | 30 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 34 |
| 10 | Fittipaldi F8C | 30 | 14 | |||||
| 11 | Ligier JS17 | 31 | 28 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 44 |
| 12 | Lotus 81B | 8 | 8 | 1 | 9 | |||
| 13 | Lotus 87 | 20 | 19 | 13 | ||||
| 14 | Lotus 88 | 2 | ||||||
| 15 | March 811 | 22 | 9 | |||||
| 16 | McLaren M29F | 7 | 7 | 1 | ||||
| 17 | McLaren MP4/1 | 23 | 22 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 27 | |
| 18 | Osella FA1B | 27 | 9 | |||||
| 19 | Osella FA1C | 3 | 3 | |||||
| 20 | Renault RE20B | 10 | 10 | 1 | 6 | |||
| 21 | Renault RE30 | 20 | 19 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 48 |
| 22 | Theodore TY01 | 16 | 13 | 1 | ||||
| 23 | Toleman TG181 | 24 | 2 | |||||
| 24 | Tyrrell 010 | 20 | 17 | 8 | ||||
| 25 | Tyrrell 011 | 10 | 9 | 2 | ||||
| 26 | Williams FW07 | 1 | ||||||
| 27 | Williams FW07C | 30 | 30 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 7 | 95 |