Countdown to
000d 00h 00m 00s1981 Drivers
| Driver | Races | Starts | Poles | Wins | Podia | F. laps | Pts | |
| 1 | Michele Alboreto | 12 | 10 | |||||
| 2 | Mario Andretti | 15 | 15 | 3 | ||||
| 3 | René Arnoux | 15 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11 | |
| 4 | Mauro Baldi | 1 | ||||||
| 5 | Slim Borgudd | 12 | 7 | 1 | ||||
| 6 | Eddie Cheever | 15 | 14 | 10 | ||||
| 7 | Kevin Cogan | 1 | ||||||
| 8 | Derek Daly | 15 | 8 | |||||
| 9 | Elio de Angelis | 15 | 14 | 14 | ||||
| 10 | Andrea de Cesaris | 15 | 14 | 1 | ||||
| 11 | Emilio de Villota | 1 | ||||||
| 12 | Giorgio Francia | 1 | ||||||
| 13 | Beppe Gabbiani | 15 | 3 | |||||
| 14 | Piercarlo Ghinzani | 2 | 1 | |||||
| 15 | Bruno Giacomelli | 15 | 15 | 1 | 7 | |||
| 16 | Miguel Angel Guerra | 5 | 1 | |||||
| 17 | Brian Henton | 12 | 1 | |||||
| 18 | Jean-Pierre Jabouille | 6 | 3 | |||||
| 19 | Jean-Pierre Jarier | 9 | 9 | |||||
| 20 | Stefan Johansson | 1 | ||||||
| 21 | Alan Jones | 15 | 15 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 46 | |
| 22 | Jacques Laffite | 15 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 44 |
| 23 | Jan Lammers | 6 | 2 | |||||
| 24 | Geoff Lees | 1 | ||||||
| 25 | Ricardo Londoño | 1 | ||||||
| 26 | Nigel Mansell | 15 | 13 | 1 | 8 | |||
| 27 | Riccardo Patrese | 15 | 14 | 1 | 2 | 10 | ||
| 28 | Nelson Piquet | 15 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 50 |
| 29 | Didier Pironi | 15 | 15 | 1 | 9 | |||
| 30 | Alain Prost | 15 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 43 |
| 31 | Hector Rebaque | 15 | 14 | 11 | ||||
| 32 | Carlos Reutemann | 15 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 49 |
| 33 | Keke Rosberg | 15 | 9 | |||||
| 34 | Eliseo Salazar | 15 | 9 | 1 | ||||
| 35 | Chico Serra | 15 | 5 | |||||
| 36 | Siegfried Stohr | 13 | 8 | |||||
| 37 | Marc Surer | 14 | 13 | 1 | 4 | |||
| 38 | Patrick Tambay | 15 | 14 | 1 | ||||
| 39 | Gilles Villeneuve | 15 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 25 |
| 40 | Jacques Villeneuve sr. | 2 | ||||||
| 41 | Derek Warwick | 12 | 1 | |||||
| 42 | John Watson | 15 | 15 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 27 | |
| 43 | Ricardo Zunino | 2 | 2 |