1985 Italian Grand Prix

September 2021 F1 Italy Italian 8 September 1985 12 16 LVI Gran Premio d'Italia Autodromo Nazionale di Monza, Monza Monza 1976-1993.png Permanent racing facility 3.60 5.800 51 183.600 295.800 Dry Ayrton Senna Lotus-Renault 1:25.084 Brazil 1968 Nigel Mansell Williams-Honda 1:28.283 38 UK Alain Prost McLaren-TAG France Nelson Piquet Brabham-BMW Brazil 1968 Ayrton Senna Lotus-Renault Brazil 1968 ITA The 1985 Italian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Monza on 8 September 1985. It was the twelfth round of the 1985 FIA Formula One World Championship. It was the 55th Italian Grand Prix and the 50th to be held at Monza. The race was held over 51 laps of the 5.8-kilometre circuit for a total race distance of 295.8 kilometres. The race was won by Frenchman Alain Prost driving a McLaren MP4/2B. It was Prost's fifth and final victory of the 1985 season as he powered towards the first of his four Formula One world championships. Prost won by almost 52 seconds over the Brazilian duo Nelson Piquet (Brabham BT54) and Ayrton Senna (Lotus 97T). It was the debut race for the American owned Haas Lola team with their new car, the Lola THL1 running the Hart 415T turbocharged engine, driven by Australia's 1980 World Champion Alan Jones. Jones, who had retired following the 1981 season, was making a full-time return to Formula One after two races, the US Grand Prix West, and the non championship Race of Champions with Arrows in early 1983. Missing from the grid was popular West German driver Stefan Bellof who was killed a week earlier in a World Sportscar Championship race at the Spa Circuit in Belgium. With his funeral set for the day after the Italian Grand Prix the Tyrrell team only ran the one car for Martin Brundle feeling it would be disrespectful to Bellof to bring a driver in to replace him for the race. Members of the Tyrrell team, including team boss Ken Tyrrell, attended Bellof's funeral the next day. Also missing were the West German Zakspeed team because their driver Jonathan Palmer had broken his leg when he also crashed his Porsche 956 at the 1000 km of Spa the weekend before, though Palmer's accident came in practice. With only a week until the Italian Grand Prix and no spare driver the team was forced to miss the race, but would return at the next round, the rescheduled Belgian Grand Prix with the 1985 Formula 3000 champion Christian Danner (also of West Germany) replacing Palmer. Senna's pole position is often cited as one of his greatest moments.https://blog.us.playstation.com/2014/05/12/gran-turismo-6-relive-sennas-legendary-moments/ Gran Turismo 6: Relive Senna's Legendary Moments 12 May 2014 Classification Qualifying Pole position went to Ayrton Senna; his 5th pole of the year. His average speed was 152.487 mph (245.405 km/h). Pos No Driver Constructor Q1 Q2 Gap 1 12 BRA 1968 Ayrton Senna Lotus-Renault 1:27.009 1:25.084 — 2 6 FIN Keke Rosberg Williams-Honda 1:26.161 1:25.230 +0.146 3 5 GBR Nigel Mansell Williams-Honda 1:26.960 1:25.486 +0.402 4 7 BRA 1968 Nelson Piquet Brabham-BMW 1:25.679 1:25.584 +0.500 5 2 FRA Alain Prost McLaren-TAG 1:27.576 1:25.790 +0.706 6 11 ITA Elio de Angelis Lotus-Renault 1:27.098 1:26.044 +0.960 7 27 ITA Michele Alboreto Ferrari 1:27.552 1:26.468 +1.384 8 15 FRA Patrick Tambay Renault 1:28.578 1:27.020 +1.936 9 8 SWI Marc Surer Brabham-BMW 1:27.799 1:27.153 +2.069 10 28 SWE Stefan Johansson Ferrari 1:29.001 1:27.473 +2.389 11 17 AUT Gerhard Berger Arrows-BMW 1:27.746 1:27.723 +2.639 12 16 GBR Derek Warwick Renault 1:28.119 1:28.112 +3.028 13 22 ITA Riccardo Patrese Alfa Romeo 1:29.068 1:28.340 +3.256 14 18 BEL Thierry Boutsen Arrows-BMW 1:28.369 1:28.760 +3.285 15 19 ITA Teo Fabi Toleman-Hart 1:29.050 1:28.386 +3.302 16 1 AUT Niki Lauda McLaren-TAG 1:28.472 1:28.949 +3.388 17 23 USA Eddie Cheever Alfa Romeo 1:29.298 1:28.629 +3.545 18 3 GBR Martin Brundle Tyrrell-Renault 1:33.503 1:28.793 +3.709 19 25 FRA Philippe Streiff Ligier-Renault 1:31.727 1:29.839 +4.755 20 26 FRA Jacques Laffite Ligier-Renault 1:30.186 1:30.376 +5.102 21 20 ITA Piercarlo Ghinzani Toleman-Hart 1:30.271 1:31.449 +5.187 22 24 NED Huub Rothengatter Osella-Alfa Romeo 1:33.529 1:37.664 +8.445 23 29 ITA Pierluigi Martini Minardi-Motori Moderni 1:35.770 1:33.961 +8.877 24 10 GBR Kenny Acheson RAM-Hart 1:34.919 1:38.325 +9.835 25 33 AUS Alan Jones Lola-Hart 1:34.943 1:45.823 +9.859 26 9 FRA Philippe Alliot RAM-Hart 1:36.221 1:37.664 +11.137 Race Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 2 FRA Alain Prost McLaren-TAG 51 1:17:59.451 5 9 2 7 BRA 1968 Nelson Piquet Brabham-BMW 51 + 51.635 4 6 3 12 BRA 1968 Ayrton Senna Lotus-Renault 51 + 1:00.390 1 4 4 8 SWI Marc Surer Brabham-BMW 51 + 1:00.609 9 3 5 28 SWE Stefan Johansson Ferrari 50 + 1 Lap 10 2 6 11 ITA Elio de Angelis Lotus-Renault 50 + 1 Lap 6 1 7 15 FRA Patrick Tambay Renault 50 + 1 Lap 8   8 3 GBR Martin Brundle Tyrrell-Renault 50 + 1 Lap 18   9 18 BEL Thierry Boutsen Arrows-BMW 50 + 1 Lap 14   10 25 FRA Philippe Streiff Ligier-Renault 49 + 2 Laps 19   11 5 GBR Nigel Mansell Williams-Honda 47 Engine 3   12 19 ITA Teo Fabi Toleman-Hart 47 + 4 Laps 15   13 27 ITA Michele Alboreto Ferrari 45 Engine 7   Ret Retired 6 FIN Keke Rosberg Williams-Honda 44 Engine 2   Ret Retired 26 FRA Jacques Laffite Ligier-Renault 40 Engine 20   Ret Retired 1 AUT Niki Lauda McLaren-TAG 33 Transmission 16   Ret Retired 22 ITA Riccardo Patrese Alfa Romeo 31 Exhaust 13   Ret Retired 24 NED Huub Rothengatter Osella-Alfa Romeo 26 Engine 22   Ret Retired 9 FRA Philippe Alliot RAM-Hart 19 Turbo 26   Ret Retired 17 AUT Gerhard Berger Arrows-BMW 13 Engine 11   Ret Retired 16 GBR Derek Warwick Renault 9 Transmission 12   Ret Retired 33 AUS Alan Jones Lola-Hart 6 Engine 25   Ret Retired 23 USA Eddie Cheever Alfa Romeo 3 Engine 17   Ret Retired 10 GBR Kenny Acheson RAM-Hart 2 Clutch 24   Ret Retired 29 ITA Pierluigi Martini Minardi-Motori Moderni 0 Fuel Pump 23   DNS Did not start 20 ITA Piercarlo Ghinzani Toleman-Hart 0 Non Starter    Source:http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1985/305/ 1985 Italian Grand Prix formula1.com 23 December 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20140218001227/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1985/305/ 18 February 2014 Championship standings after the race Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 FRA Alain Prost 65 2 ITA Michele Alboreto 53 3 ITA Elio de Angelis 31 4 BRA 1968 Ayrton Senna 23 5 SWE Stefan Johansson 21Source:https://www.statsf1.com/en/1985/italie/championnat.aspx Italy 1985 - Championship • STATS F1 www.statsf1.com 18 March 2019 Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 1 UK McLaren-TAG 79 2 ITA Ferrari 77 3 UK Lotus-Renault 54 4 UK Williams-Honda 25 5 UK Brabham-BMW 24Source: Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. 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