Race · Round 1 of 16 ·
1985 Brazilian Grand Prix
Alain Prost won for McLaren from 6th on the grid at Jacarepagua. 12 of the starters were not classified.
- Circuit
- JacarepaguaRio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Winner
- Alain ProstMcLaren
- Pole
- Michele Alboreto
- Fastest lap
- Alain Prost
- Entries
- 2513 classified
Classification
A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.
Grid to flag
Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.
Qualifying
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | No. | Time | Gap | Interval |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michele Alboreto | Ferrari | 27 | 1:27.768 | — | — |
| 2 | Keke Rosberg | Williams | 6 | 1:27.864 | +0.096 | +0.096 |
| 3 | Elio de Angelis | Team Lotus | 11 | 1:28.081 | +0.313 | +0.217 |
| 4 | Ayrton Senna | Team Lotus | 12 | 1:28.389 | +0.621 | +0.308 |
| 5 | Nigel Mansell | Williams | 5 | 1:28.848 | +1.080 | +0.459 |
| 6 | Alain Prost | McLaren | 2 | 1:29.117 | +1.349 | +0.269 |
| 7 | Rene Arnoux | Ferrari | 28 | 1:29.612 | +1.844 | +0.495 |
| 8 | Nelson Piquet | Brabham | 7 | 1:29.855 | +2.087 | +0.243 |
| 9 | Niki Lauda | McLaren | 1 | 1:29.984 | +2.216 | +0.129 |
| 10 | Derek Warwick | Renault | 16 | 1:30.100 | +2.332 | +0.116 |
| 11 | Patrick Tambay | Renault | 15 | 1:30.254 | +2.486 | +0.154 |
| 12 | Thierry Boutsen | Arrows | 18 | 1:30.953 | +3.185 | +0.699 |
| 13 | Andrea de Cesaris | Ligier | 25 | 1:31.411 | +3.643 | +0.458 |
| 14 | Riccardo Patrese | Alfa Romeo | 22 | 1:31.790 | +4.022 | +0.379 |
| 15 | Jacques Laffite | Ligier | 26 | 1:32.021 | +4.253 | +0.231 |
| 16 | Manfred Winkelhock | RAM | 9 | 1:32.560 | +4.792 | +0.539 |
| 17 | François Hesnault | Brabham | 8 | 1:32.904 | +5.136 | +0.344 |
| 18 | Eddie Cheever | Alfa Romeo | 23 | 1:33.091 | +5.323 | +0.187 |
| 19 | Gerhard Berger | Arrows | 17 | 1:34.773 | +7.005 | +1.682 |
| 20 | Philippe Alliot | RAM | 10 | 1:35.726 | +7.958 | +0.953 |
| 21 | Martin Brundle | Tyrrell | 3 | 1:36.152 | +8.384 | +0.426 |
| 22 | Piercarlo Ghinzani | Osella | 24 | 1:36.743 | +8.975 | +0.591 |
| 23 | Stefan Johansson | Tyrrell | 4 | 1:37.293 | +9.525 | +0.550 |
| 24 | Mauro Baldi | Spirit | 21 | 1:41.330 | +13.562 | +4.037 |
| 25 | Pierluigi Martini | Minardi | 29 | 1:44.046 | +16.278 | +2.716 |
Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.
Pit stops
Pit stops are recorded from 1994. F1DB, the source of every stop here, holds none before then, so this race has no stints to draw.
Practice sessions Warm-up
Warm-up
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | No. | Best lap | Gap | Interval | Laps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alain Prost | McLaren | 2 | 1:36.481 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Michele Alboreto | Ferrari | 27 | 1:36.838 | +0.357 | +0.357 | — |
| 3 | Niki Lauda | McLaren | 1 | 1:37.050 | +0.569 | +0.212 | — |
| 4 | Elio de Angelis | Team Lotus | 11 | 1:37.236 | +0.755 | +0.186 | — |
| 5 | Keke Rosberg | Williams | 6 | 1:37.712 | +1.231 | +0.476 | — |
| 6 | Rene Arnoux | Ferrari | 28 | 1:38.062 | +1.581 | +0.350 | — |
| 7 | Nelson Piquet | Brabham | 7 | 1:38.166 | +1.685 | +0.104 | — |
| 8 | Ayrton Senna | Team Lotus | 12 | 1:38.194 | +1.713 | +0.028 | — |
| 9 | Andrea de Cesaris | Ligier | 25 | 1:38.605 | +2.124 | +0.411 | — |
| 10 | Nigel Mansell | Williams | 5 | 1:38.839 | +2.358 | +0.234 | — |
| 11 | François Hesnault | Brabham | 8 | 1:39.151 | +2.670 | +0.312 | — |
| 12 | Jacques Laffite | Ligier | 26 | 1:39.834 | +3.353 | +0.683 | — |
| 13 | Patrick Tambay | Renault | 15 | 1:40.278 | +3.797 | +0.444 | — |
| 14 | Philippe Alliot | RAM | 10 | 1:40.825 | +4.344 | +0.547 | — |
| 15 | Riccardo Patrese | Alfa Romeo | 22 | 1:41.016 | +4.535 | +0.191 | — |
| 16 | Thierry Boutsen | Arrows | 18 | 1:41.163 | +4.682 | +0.147 | — |
| 17 | Eddie Cheever | Alfa Romeo | 23 | 1:41.624 | +5.143 | +0.461 | — |
| 18 | Gerhard Berger | Arrows | 17 | 1:41.874 | +5.393 | +0.250 | — |
| 19 | Derek Warwick | Renault | 16 | 1:42.063 | +5.582 | +0.189 | — |
| 20 | Martin Brundle | Tyrrell | 3 | 1:42.813 | +6.332 | +0.750 | — |
| 21 | Stefan Johansson | Tyrrell | 4 | 1:42.904 | +6.423 | +0.091 | — |
| 22 | Manfred Winkelhock | RAM | 9 | 1:43.640 | +7.159 | +0.736 | — |
| 23 | Pierluigi Martini | Minardi | 29 | 1:44.957 | +8.476 | +1.317 | — |
| 24 | Piercarlo Ghinzani | Osella | 24 | 1:45.027 | +8.546 | +0.070 | — |
| 25 | Mauro Baldi | Spirit | 21 | 1:49.318 | +12.837 | +4.291 | — |
Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.
The cars in this race
The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.
McLaren MP4/2
Stuttgart Jul 2012 31 (Porsche Museum - 1986 McLaren TAG MP 4-2 C Formel 1) · Michael Barera · CC BY-SA 4.0 · unchecked
Lotus 97T
Lotus97T · https://www.flickr.com/jonbradbury · CC BY-SA 4.0
Ligier JS25
-125 - Ligier JS25 - 1985 · _morgado2 · CC BY 4.0
Tyrrell 012
Tyrrell 012 2019 Silverstone Classic (48557777561) · https://www.flickr.com/photos/davehamster/ · CC BY 2.0
RAM 03
1985 European GP Philippe Alliot · Jerry Lewis-Evans · CC BY-SA 2.0 · unchecked
Arrows A8
1985 European GP Boutsen · Jerry Lewis-Evans · CC BY-SA 2.0 · uncheckedA photograph marked unchecked has a file name that does not name the car it is shown for. Most are still the right car, filed under the driver rather than the machine — but nobody has confirmed these one by one.
3 more photographs
Brabham BT54
Brabham BMW BT54 Turbo 1985 vr TCE · Stahlkocher · CC BY-SA 3.0 · unchecked
Minardi M185
1985 European GP Martini · Jerry Lewis-Evans · CC BY-SA 2.0 · unchecked
Spirit 101
Spirit 101 at Silverstone Classic 2011 · David Merrett from Daventry, England · CC BY 2.0Where this comes from
- Round
- 1 of 1985
- Grand Prix
- Brazilian Grand Prix
- Dates
- Layout raced
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- Format
- Standard weekend
- Constructor
- McLaren
- Entrant
- McLaren-TAG
- Confidence
- reference
No layout is recorded for this round: this register has no layout timeline for the circuit, and a blank here is better than a guess.