| Lørdag: Kvalifikation |
| Navn | Team | Tid | Gap | |
| 1 | Nelson Piquet | Brabham | 1:25,710 | - |
| 2 | Gilles Villeneuve | Ferrari | 1:25,788 | + 0,078 |
| 3 | Nigel Mansell | Lotus | 1:25,815 | + 0,105 |
| 4 | Carlos Reutemann | Williams | 1:26,010 | + 0,300 |
| 5 | Ricardo Patrese | Arrows | 1:26,040 | + 0,330 |
| 6 | Elio de Angelis | Lotus | 1:26,259 | + 0,549 |
| 7 | Alan Jones | Williams | 1:26,538 | + 0,828 |
| 8 | Jacques Laffite | Ligier | 1:26,704 | + 0,994 |
| 9 | Alain Prost | Renault | 1:26,953 | + 1,243 |
| 10 | John Watson | McLaren | 1:27,058 | + 1,348 |
| 11 | Andrea de Cesaris | McLaren | 1:27,122 | + 1,412 |
| 12 | Mario Andretti | Alfa Romeo | 1:27,512 | + 1,802 |
| 13 | René Arnoux | Renault | 1:27,513 | + 1,803 |
| 14 | Siegfried Stohr | Arrows | 1:27,564 | + 1,854 |
| 15 | Eddie Cheever | Tyrrell | 1:27,594 | + 1,884 |
| 16 | Patrick Tambay | Theodore | 1:27,939 | + 2,229 |
| 17 | Didier Pironi | Ferrari | 1:28,266 | + 2,556 |
| 18 | Bruno Giacomelli | Alfa Romeo | 1:28,323 | + 2,613 |
| 19 | Marc Surer | Ensign | 1:28,339 | + 2,629 |
| 20 | Michele Alboreto | Tyrrell | 1:28,358 | + 2,648 |
| 107% | 1:31,710 | |||