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25px UK  1985 British Grand Prix
Race details
Race 8 of 16 in the 1985 Formula One season
Silverstone 1975
Date July 21, 1985
Official name XXXVIII Marlboro British Grand Prix
Location Silverstone Circuit, Northamptonshire, Great Britain
Course Permanent racing facility
4.719 km (2.932 mi)
Distance 65 laps, 306.735 km (190.569 mi)
Scheduled Distance66 laps, 311.454 km (193.529 mi)
Weather Cool, overcast
Pole position
Driver 25px Finland Keke Rosberg Williams-Honda
Time 1:05.591[1]
Fastest lap
Driver 25px France Alain Prost McLaren-TAG
Time 1:09.886[2] on lap 43
Podium
First 25px France Alain Prost McLaren-TAG
Second 25px Italy Michele Alboreto Ferrari
Third 25px France Jacques Laffite Ligier-Renault

The 1985 British Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Silverstone on 21 July 1985. It was the eighth round of the 1985 Formula One season.

At an average speed of 160.9 mph (258.9 km/h), Keke Rosberg's qualifying lap remained the fastest in F1 history until 2002.

On the first lap right after the start, 4 cars went out at Copse. Patrick Tambay touched Stefan Johansson, and Tambay lost his front right wheel and was out immediately but Johansson was able to make it back to the pits. Piercarlo Ghinzani and Philippe Alliot also crashed into each other and were out immediately.

After intentionally dropping to 6th in order to save fuel, Alain Prost stormed through the field, passed 5 leading cars (Nelson Piquet, Nigel Mansell, Andrea De Cesaris, Keke Rosberg and Ayrton Senna) and battled with Senna (who made an excellent start from fourth on the grid, had been leading almost every lap since lap 1, but eventually retired with fuel problems) for much of the second half of the race. By the time Prost had finished and won the race, he had lapped every running car in the field. Prost's teammate Niki Lauda also put up a notable drive; he started 10th; dropped to 15th at the start, and by the time he retired with an alternator failure he was up to 3rd.

The race was scheduled for 66 laps, but was stopped 1 lap early in error. Nelson Piquet who finished 4th in his Brabham, was particularly angry with the error. Jacques Laffite, who finished 3rd in his Ligier, had ran out of fuel half way around what was meant to be the last lap and would have been passed by Piquet who did have enough fuel to finish the scheduled distance. If the error had not been made, Piquet would have finished on the podium.

Classification[]

Qualifying[]

Pos No Driver Constructor Q1 Q2 Gap
1 6 25px Finland Keke Rosberg Williams-Honda 1:06.107 1:05.591
2 7 25px Brazil Nelson Piquet Brabham-BMW 1:08.933 1:06.249 +0.658
3 2 25px France Alain Prost McLaren-TAG 1:06.308 1:08.532 +0.717
4 12 25px Brazil Ayrton Senna Lotus-Renault 1:06.324 1:06.794 +0.733
5 5 25px UK Nigel Mansell Williams-Honda 1:09.080 1:06.675 +1.084
6 27 25px Italy Michele Alboreto Ferrari 1:06.793 1:07.427 +1.202
7 25 25px Italy Andrea de Cesaris Ligier-Renault 1:11.082 1:07.448 +1.857
8 11 25px Italy Elio de Angelis Lotus-Renault 1:07.581 1:07.696 +1.990
9 19 25px Italy Teo Fabi Toleman-Hart 1:07.678 1:07.871 +2.087
10 1 25px Austria Niki Lauda McLaren-TAG 1:07.743 1:09.001 +2.152
11 28 25px Sweden Stefan Johansson Ferrari 1:08.169 1:07.887 +2.296
12 16 25px UK Derek Warwick Renault 1:08.238 1:08.604 +2.647
13 15 25px France Patrick Tambay Renault 1:09.898 1:08.240 +2.649
14 22 25px Italy Riccardo Patrese Alfa Romeo 1:08.384 1:10.110 +2.793
15 8 25px Switzerland Marc Surer Brabham-BMW 1:09.572 1:08.587 +2.996
16 26 25px France Jacques Laffite Ligier-Renault 1:10.756 1:08.656 +3.065
17 17 25px Austria Gerhard Berger Arrows-BMW 1:09.870 1:08.672 +3.081
18 9 25px West Germany Manfred Winkelhock RAM-Hart 1:10.299 1:09.114 +3.523
19 18 25px Belgium Thierry Boutsen Arrows-BMW 1:09.413 1:09.131 +3.540
20 3 25px UK Martin Brundle Tyrrell-Renault 1:10.718 1:09.242 +3.651
21 10 25px France Philippe Alliot RAM-Hart 1:11.162 1:09.609 +4.018
22 23 25px USA Eddie Cheever Alfa Romeo 1:11.072 1:10.345 +4.754
23 29 25px Italy Pierluigi Martini Minardi-Motori Moderni 1:13.645 1:15.363 +8.054
24 30 25px UK Jonathan Palmer Zakspeed 1:17.856 1:13.713 +8.122
25 24 25px Italy Piercarlo Ghinzani Osella-Alfa Romeo 1:16.400 +10.809
26 4 25px West Germany Stefan Bellof Tyrrell-Ford 1:17.009 1:16.596 +11.005

Race[]

Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 2 25px France Alain Prost McLaren-TAG 65 1:18:10.436 3 9
2 27 25px Italy Michele Alboreto Ferrari 64 + 1 Lap 6 6
3 26 25px France Jacques Laffite Ligier-Renault 64 + 1 Lap 16 4
4 7 25px Brazil Nelson Piquet Brabham-BMW 64 + 1 Lap 2 3
5 16 25px UK Derek Warwick Renault 64 + 1 Lap 12 2
6 8 25px Switzerland Marc Surer Brabham-BMW 63 + 2 Laps 15 1
7 3 25px UK Martin Brundle Tyrrell-Renault 63 + 2 Laps 20  
8 17 25px Austria Gerhard Berger Arrows-BMW 63 + 2 Laps 17  
9 22 25px Italy Riccardo Patrese Alfa Romeo 62 + 3 Laps 14  
10 12 25px Brazil Ayrton Senna Lotus-Renault 60 Fuel injection, electronics[3] 4  
11 4 25px West Germany Stefan Bellof Tyrrell-Ford 59 + 6 Laps 26  
Ret 1 25px Austria Niki Lauda McLaren-TAG 57 Electrical 10  
Ret 18 25px Belgium Thierry Boutsen Arrows-BMW 57 Spun Off 19  
Ret 25 25px Italy Andrea de Cesaris Ligier-Renault 41 Clutch 7  
Ret 29 25px Italy Pierluigi Martini Minardi-Motori Moderni 38 Transmission 23  
NC 11 25px Italy Elio de Angelis Lotus-Renault 37 Not Classified 8  
Ret 9 25px West Germany Manfred Winkelhock RAM-Hart 28 Turbo 18  
Ret 6 25px Finland Keke Rosberg Williams-Honda 21 Exhaust 1  
Ret 5 25px UK Nigel Mansell Williams-Honda 17 Clutch 5  
Ret 23 25px USA Eddie Cheever Alfa Romeo 17 Turbo 22  
Ret 30 25px UK Jonathan Palmer Zakspeed 6 Engine 24  
Ret 19 25px Italy Teo Fabi Toleman-Hart 4 Transmission 9  
Ret 28 25px Sweden Stefan Johansson Ferrari 1 Accident 11  
Ret 15 25px France Patrick Tambay Renault 0 Collision 13  
Ret 10 25px France Philippe Alliot RAM-Hart 0 Accident 21  
Ret 24 25px Italy Piercarlo Ghinzani Osella-Alfa Romeo 0 Accident 25  

Standings after the race[]

Drivers' Championship standings
Pos Driver Points
1 25px Italy Michele Alboreto 37
2 25px France Alain Prost 35
3 25px Italy Elio de Angelis 26
4 25px Finland Keke Rosberg 18
5 25px Sweden Stefan Johansson 16
Constructors' Championship standings
Pos Constructor Points
1 25px Italy Ferrari 56
2 25px UK McLaren-TAG 38
3 25px UK Lotus-Renault 35
4 25px UK Williams-Honda 23
5 25px France Renault 15
  • Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

References[]

  1. Hamilton, Maurice (ed.) (1985). AUTOCOURSE 1985-86. Hazleton Publishing. p. 244. 
  2. Hamilton, Maurice (ed.) (1985). AUTOCOURSE 1985-86. Hazleton Publishing. p. 245. 
  3. Anthony, Pritchard (March 2006). Lotus: The Competition Cars. Haynes Publishing. p. 245. 

Unless otherwise indicated, all race results are taken from "The Official Formula 1 website". http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1985/302/. Retrieved 2007-06-17. 



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