Race · Round 10 of 16 ·
1985 Austrian Grand Prix
Alain Prost won for McLaren from pole at Red Bull Ring. 15 of the starters were not classified.
- Circuit
- Red Bull RingSpielberg, Austria
- Winner
- Alain ProstMcLaren
- Pole
- Alain Prost
- Fastest lap
- Alain Prost
- Entries
- 2710 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 | Alain Prost | McLaren | 2 | 1:25.490 | — | — |
| 2 | Nigel Mansell | Williams | 5 | 1:26.052 | +0.562 | +0.562 |
| 3 | Niki Lauda | McLaren | 1 | 1:26.250 | +0.760 | +0.198 |
| 4 | Keke Rosberg | Williams | 6 | 1:26.333 | +0.843 | +0.083 |
| 5 | Nelson Piquet | Brabham | 7 | 1:26.404 | +0.914 | +0.071 |
| 6 | Teo Fabi | Toleman | 19 | 1:26.664 | +1.174 | +0.260 |
| 7 | Elio de Angelis | Team Lotus | 11 | 1:26.799 | +1.309 | +0.135 |
| 8 | Patrick Tambay | Renault | 15 | 1:27.502 | +2.012 | +0.703 |
| 9 | Michele Alboreto | Ferrari | 27 | 1:27.516 | +2.026 | +0.014 |
| 10 | Riccardo Patrese | Alfa Romeo | 22 | 1:27.851 | +2.361 | +0.335 |
| 11 | Marc Surer | Brabham | 8 | 1:27.954 | +2.464 | +0.103 |
| 12 | Stefan Johansson | Ferrari | 28 | 1:27.961 | +2.471 | +0.007 |
| 13 | Derek Warwick | Renault | 16 | 1:28.006 | +2.516 | +0.045 |
| 14 | Ayrton Senna | Team Lotus | 12 | 1:28.123 | +2.633 | +0.117 |
| 15 | Jacques Laffite | Ligier | 26 | 1:28.249 | +2.759 | +0.126 |
| 16 | Thierry Boutsen | Arrows | 18 | 1:28.262 | +2.772 | +0.013 |
| 17 | Gerhard Berger | Arrows | 17 | 1:28.566 | +3.076 | +0.304 |
| 18 | Andrea de Cesaris | Ligier | 25 | 1:28.666 | +3.176 | +0.100 |
| 19 | Piercarlo Ghinzani | Toleman | 20 | 1:28.894 | +3.404 | +0.228 |
| 20 | Eddie Cheever | Alfa Romeo | 23 | 1:29.031 | +3.541 | +0.137 |
| 21 | Philippe Alliot | RAM | 9 | 1:29.827 | +4.337 | +0.796 |
| 22 | Stefan Bellof | Tyrrell | 3 | 1:30.514 | +5.024 | +0.687 |
| 23 | Kenny Acheson | RAM | 10 | 1:35.072 | +9.582 | +4.558 |
| 24 | Huub Rothengatter | Osella | 24 | 1:35.329 | +9.839 | +0.257 |
| 25 | Jonathan Palmer | Zakspeed | 30 | 1:35.787 | +10.297 | +0.458 |
| 26 | Pierluigi Martini | Minardi | 29 | 1:36.765 | +11.275 | +0.978 |
| 27 | Martin Brundle | Tyrrell | 4 | 1:37.317 | +11.827 | +0.552 |
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 | 1:30.608 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Elio de Angelis | Team Lotus | 11 | 1:31.090 | +0.482 | +0.482 | — |
| 3 | Nigel Mansell | Williams | 5 | 1:32.095 | +1.487 | +1.005 | — |
| 4 | Keke Rosberg | Williams | 6 | 1:32.278 | +1.670 | +0.183 | — |
| 5 | Ayrton Senna | Team Lotus | 12 | 1:32.352 | +1.744 | +0.074 | — |
| 6 | Patrick Tambay | Renault | 15 | 1:32.577 | +1.969 | +0.225 | — |
| 7 | Teo Fabi | Toleman | 19 | 1:32.820 | +2.212 | +0.243 | — |
| 8 | Andrea de Cesaris | Ligier | 25 | 1:33.464 | +2.856 | +0.644 | — |
| 9 | Michele Alboreto | Ferrari | 27 | 1:33.720 | +3.112 | +0.256 | — |
| 10 | Gerhard Berger | Arrows | 17 | 1:33.771 | +3.163 | +0.051 | — |
| 11 | Stefan Johansson | Ferrari | 28 | 1:33.811 | +3.203 | +0.040 | — |
| 12 | Nelson Piquet | Brabham | 7 | 1:34.036 | +3.428 | +0.225 | — |
| 13 | Jacques Laffite | Ligier | 26 | 1:34.316 | +3.708 | +0.280 | — |
| 14 | Philippe Alliot | RAM | 9 | 1:34.926 | +4.318 | +0.610 | — |
| 15 | Stefan Bellof | Tyrrell | 3 | 1:35.356 | +4.748 | +0.430 | — |
| 16 | Thierry Boutsen | Arrows | 18 | 1:35.395 | +4.787 | +0.039 | — |
| 17 | Jonathan Palmer | Zakspeed | 30 | 1:35.629 | +5.021 | +0.234 | — |
| 18 | Marc Surer | Brabham | 8 | 1:35.883 | +5.275 | +0.254 | — |
| 19 | Niki Lauda | McLaren | 1 | 1:36.084 | +5.476 | +0.201 | — |
| 20 | Huub Rothengatter | Osella | 24 | 1:36.735 | +6.127 | +0.651 | — |
| 21 | Eddie Cheever | Alfa Romeo | 23 | 1:37.707 | +7.099 | +0.972 | — |
| 22 | Riccardo Patrese | Alfa Romeo | 22 | 1:38.054 | +7.446 | +0.347 | — |
| 23 | Derek Warwick | Renault | 16 | 1:38.611 | +8.003 | +0.557 | — |
| 24 | Kenny Acheson | RAM | 10 | 1:43.426 | +12.818 | +4.815 | — |
| 25 | Pierluigi Martini | Minardi | 29 | 1:46.489 | +15.881 | +3.063 | — |
| 26 | Piercarlo Ghinzani | Toleman | 20 | 8:26.861 | +6:56.253 | +6:40.372 | — |
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
Brabham BT54
Brabham BMW BT54 Turbo 1985 vr TCE · Stahlkocher · CC BY-SA 3.0 · unchecked
Tyrrell 014
1985 European GP Brundle 02 · Jerry Lewis-Evans · CC BY-SA 2.0 · unchecked
Arrows A8
1985 European GP Boutsen · Jerry Lewis-Evans · CC BY-SA 2.0 · unchecked
Ligier JS25
-125 - Ligier JS25 - 1985 · _morgado2 · CC BY 4.0A 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.
5 more photographs
Minardi M185
1985 European GP Martini · Jerry Lewis-Evans · CC BY-SA 2.0 · unchecked
RAM 03
1985 European GP Philippe Alliot · Jerry Lewis-Evans · CC BY-SA 2.0 · unchecked
Toleman TG185
1985 European GP Teo Fabi · Jerry Lewis-Evans · CC BY-SA 2.0 · unchecked
Tyrrell 012
Tyrrell 012 2019 Silverstone Classic (48557777561) · https://www.flickr.com/photos/davehamster/ · CC BY 2.0
Zakspeed 841
Zakspeed 841 Dr. Jonathan Palmer · Lothar Spurzem · CC BY-SA 2.0 deWhere this comes from
- Round
- 10 of 1985
- Grand Prix
- Austrian Grand Prix
- Dates
- Layout raced
- Osterreichring · 5.942 km · 12 turns
- Format
- Standard weekend
- Constructor
- McLaren
- Entrant
- McLaren-TAG
- Confidence
- reference
The layout raced and its figures are this register’s, from its own sources; the figures under the race’s drawing are F1DB’s, and at some circuits the two disagree.