1985 Formula One Grand Prix Results, including Drivers and Constructors Championship Points. April 1985 bis zum 3. Swiss Stefan Dörflinger would take his fourth consecutive title in the 80cc class. Going into Surtees Rosberg tried to get past Senna, but Senna took his line forcefully and Rosberg spun to avoid contact. A third Italian Grand Prix in Rome was also scheduled for October 6, but it too was cancelled. This race was a rarity in that it was a wet-dry race: Prost took pole ahead of Senna, but Senna took an immediate lead into La Source, ahead of Piquet and Prost. In January 1986 at an awards ceremony in New York the ATP players elected Ivan Lendl as the 1985 ATP Player of the Year. *** Points you earn from this quiz will then be saved, … Australian Grand Prix (1985–2019) 35 Austria: Austrian Grand Prix, 33 (1964, 1970–1987, … Rosberg stormed after Prost, who was putting considerable pressure on Piquet. Alain Prost gewann zum ersten Mal die Fahrer-Weltmeisterschaft. From San Jose to most of the great capitals of Europe, athletes vied against each other for awards with the series culminating in a Grand Prix Final in Rome on 7 September. NTT IndyCar Series Choose one to start playing: Take Quiz: Single Page HTML format. Regarded as one of the greatest motorcycle racers of the early 1980s. November 1985 ausgetragen. Popularly referred to as "The Cathedral" of motorcycling by the fans of the sport. option 1- 16 fu ll full races !! Behind Rosberg were the two Ferraris of Johansson and Alboreto, the former pushing Rosberg hard for the lead. It was the first championship win out of four for Prost, the first two race wins (out of 31) for Mansell, and the first two race wins (out of 41) for Senna. Skip to primary navigation; Skip to main content ; GP Racing Stats. Niki Lauda crashed his McLaren in practice, and injured his wrist; he would not take part in this weekend or the upcoming European GP. 1985 Grand Prix Season 10 question trivia quiz, authored by minardifan. Wikipedia, Motorsport circuit located near Castle Donington in Leicestershire, England. The reality was quite different. The tour incorporated the four ITF grand slam tournaments, three World Championship Tennis tournaments and the Grand Prix tournaments. 78 laps on a 3.312 kilometer street course (258.3 kilometers), Glossary    1985 Formula One results 1.5-litre turbocharged engines had become universal during 1985, heralding the extinction of the 3.0-litre naturally aspirated Ford Cosworth DFY engine. The race was, as expected, very fast – Senna, after starting 4th, took the lead at the start after an excellent start. However, another accident involving Patrese and Piquet caused more problems: Alboreto then punctured a tire, came into the pits to get his tires changed, dropping to 4th place behind Prost, and Italians de Angelis and Andrea de Cesaris. option 2 line-up is as follows . Büla, Maurice & Schertenleib, Jean-Claude (2001). However, Ferrari's results faded badly in the second half of the season as other emerging drivers took the fight to Prost.[1]. Piquet then spun, and Senna started to break away. This was the triple-world champion's 25th and last ever Grand Prix victory, and it was also the last Dutch Grand Prix for 35 years – the track owners went bankrupt, and the back side of the Zandvoort circuit past the Marlborobocht was sold to redevelopers. Sarron's victory at the German Grand Prix would mark the first 500cc Grand Prix victory for a non-American rider since the 1982 Swedish Grand Prix. At the end of the year the top 64 Singles players and top 24 Doubles players received bonuses from a $4,000,000 bonus pool. ), “Mobil Athletics Focus”, the dedicated newsletter that the IAAF published to promote the new series, described the Grand Prix as, “a new concept in athletics. The race proved to be popular – and Senna took his 7th pole position of the season by some margin on his superior-handling Lotus-Renault. Established in 1955 upon separation from Yamaha Corporation , and is headquartered in Iwata, Shizuoka, Japan. Honda's Freddie Spencer gave a dominating performance becoming the first man to win the 250 and 500 championships in the same year. It was for prototypes in the existing GTP class and new, smaller Lights class, as well as Grand Tourer-style racing cars which ran in the GTO and GTU classes.It began on February 2, 1985, and ended on December 1, 1985, after seventeen rounds. The summer of 1985 was remembered as the saddest weeks for German motor sport, as both German Formula One drivers, Bellof and Manfred Winkelhock died within three weeks in WEC races. Ed Moses, double Olympic 400m hurdles champion, reflecting at the end of the first season, said, “The IAAF Mobil Grand Prix unquestionably has elevated track and field’s visibility and provides an ongoing showcase to the American and European public.”. ARCA Menards Series, Privacy Policy This page was last edited on 6 June 2020, at 19:57. The nimble Lotus proved to be well-suited to slow tracks; and Senna decided to take a chance by using harder tires than the rest of the field and try to go a greater distance. Wikipedia, Motorcycling event that had been part of the Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championship, held intermittently from 1983 to 2004. It also saw the last race at the original Kyalami and Zandvoort circuits, and the last South African Grand Prix until 1992 due to political pressure over South Africa's controversial Apartheid laws. Total prize money for the circuit was $23 million. [4] Lendl won the most tournament titles, played the most finals, was the points leader of the Grand Prix circuit and finished the year as no.1 in the ATP Ranking. Wikipedia, Italian motorcycle manufacturer. The IAAF, founded in 1912, had until the 1980s governed the sport of athletics with a strict set of amateur rules. After losing the Drivers' Championship by two points to Nelson Piquet in 1983, and by just half a point the previous year to teammate Niki Lauda, Alain Prost would ultimately secure his first of four titles by a 23-point margin. The athlete was only to have access to the fund after retirement and until then was “not to assign, charge or mortgage the Athletic Fund or in any way borrow against it (Rule 17).”. In addition, the top four men and top four women over all events received bonuses of $25,000, $15,000, $10,000, and $5000. The slowest and toughest race of the year was in the United States, at the angular Renaissance Center street circuit in the center of downtown Detroit, Michigan. Brazilian Grand Prix: 7 April: Jacarepaguá: Michele Alboreto: Alain Prost: Alain Prost: … Rosberg drove hard and caught 2nd-placed Prost before the finish, who ran out of fuel – but was still classified 3rd to make it a Williams 1–2; Williams was the third team this year to finish a race 1–2, the others being Ferrari and McLaren. The French Grand Prix at the very fast Circuit Paul Ricard with its long 1.1 mile Mistral Straight came after the North American tour – where pole-sitter Keke Rosberg averaged more than 140 mph in qualifying, ahead of Senna, Alboreto, Prost and Nelson Piquet. The 1985 Grand Prix tournaments were divided in 18 separate point categories, ranging from the Grand Slam tournaments (700 points for the Singles winner and 120 points for Doubles winner) to the smallest Regular Series tournaments (80 points for the Singles winner and 15 points for Doubles winner). The weather was hot, and after making an excellent start, double world champion Piquet made the most of his BMW engine's superior power (this engine was the most powerful in F1 at the time) and Pirelli tires that for once, seemed to work properly. Nach der Einführung im Vorjahr war es die zweite Ausgabe des Turniers. Wikipedia, American former four-time Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champion. Mansell, now knowing that he had not only the ability but also the car he needed in order to win races, would go on to mount a serious title challenge in 1986. The reigning Drivers' Champion Lauda competed in his final season of Formula One, but he was unable to match Prost for results; despite maintaining a close pace with his teammate, Lauda only won once at Zandvoort. Riders who rode it to world championships are Giacomo Agostini (1975), Kenny Roberts (1978, 1979, 1980), Eddie Lawson (1984, 1986, 1988) and Wayne Rainey (1990, 1991, 1992). Until his death, Bellof was considered one of the rising stars in racing and was rumored to have an offer to drive for Ferrari in 1986. The drivers found it impossible to race with such a dreadful surface, so the Belgian GP would be rescheduled to September. His co-driver for that race had been Brabham's Marc Surer. There was a 4-week gap between the Monaco and Canadian GP's as the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps was postponed, after the newly-laid track surface, to help deal with wet weather, melted due to the hot weather conditons. Oktober 1985 im Hexagon Theatre von Reading stattfand. It was Ferrari's first 1–2 since the 1983 Dutch Grand Prix and their last until the 1987 Australian Grand Prix. The IAAF Mobil Grand Prix series, whose creation under the presidency of Primo Nebiolo owes much to the West Nally marketing agency of Patrick Nally and BBC television presenter Peter West, included a selected number of event disciplines, 16 in total per season. Peter Matthews, ATFS Athletics Annual 1985 (2.) He finished behind Mansell, Senna, and Rosberg, who drove a storming race to finish 3rd. The previous wording was that “An amateur is a person who competes for the love of sport and as a means of recreation, without any motive of securing any material gain from such competition.” This was replaced with “An amateur is one who abides by the eligibility rules of the IAAF”. After pole-sitter Senna went out with engine problems, Alboreto took the lead, followed by Prost. The season also enhanced Keke Rosberg's reputation as a "street fighter". 1985 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. option 2. extended highlights. Held in 1983 at the Kyalami circuit and was taken off the calendar after the 1985 season due to the Apartheid policies which were in place in the country and the subsequent boycott from many sport associations that followed. F1 2020; Drivers; Constructors; Seasons; Grands Prix; Circuits; You are here: Home / Seasons / 1985 F1 World Championship Season. This patrician view of sport had permitted a limited group of athletes to achieve high level performances by virtue of a privileged social and financial situation. There had been some concerns about racing these very powerful cars at the small, very fast Brands Hatch circuit: Niki Lauda and a few other drivers felt the cars were too fast for a short circuit like Brands, and if the power of the engines increased over time, the circuit would have to be modified in order to accommodate the cars.

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