Race · Round 14 of 16 ·
1985 European Grand Prix
Nigel Mansell won for Williams from 3rd on the grid at Brands Hatch. 14 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship race win for Nigel Mansell.
- Circuit
- Brands HatchWest Kingsdown, Kent, United Kingdom
- Winner
- Nigel MansellWilliams
- Pole
- Ayrton Senna
- Fastest lap
- Jacques Laffite
- Entries
- 2712 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 | Ayrton Senna | Team Lotus | 12 | 1:07.169 | — | — |
| 2 | Nelson Piquet | Brabham | 7 | 1:07.482 | +0.313 | +0.313 |
| 3 | Nigel Mansell | Williams | 5 | 1:08.059 | +0.890 | +0.577 |
| 4 | Keke Rosberg | Williams | 6 | 1:08.197 | +1.028 | +0.138 |
| 5 | Philippe Streiff | Ligier | 25 | 1:09.080 | +1.911 | +0.883 |
| 6 | Alain Prost | McLaren | 2 | 1:09.429 | +2.260 | +0.349 |
| 7 | Marc Surer | Brabham | 8 | 1:09.762 | +2.593 | +0.333 |
| 8 | Derek Warwick | Renault | 16 | 1:09.904 | +2.735 | +0.142 |
| 9 | Elio de Angelis | Team Lotus | 11 | 1:10.014 | +2.845 | +0.110 |
| 10 | Jacques Laffite | Ligier | 26 | 1:10.081 | +2.912 | +0.067 |
| 11 | Riccardo Patrese | Alfa Romeo | 22 | 1:10.251 | +3.082 | +0.170 |
| 12 | Thierry Boutsen | Arrows | 18 | 1:10.323 | +3.154 | +0.072 |
| 13 | Stefan Johansson | Ferrari | 28 | 1:10.517 | +3.348 | +0.194 |
| 14 | Piercarlo Ghinzani | Toleman | 20 | 1:10.570 | +3.401 | +0.053 |
| 15 | Michele Alboreto | Ferrari | 27 | 1:10.659 | +3.490 | +0.089 |
| 16 | Martin Brundle | Tyrrell | 3 | 1:10.731 | +3.562 | +0.072 |
| 17 | Patrick Tambay | Renault | 15 | 1:10.934 | +3.765 | +0.203 |
| 18 | Eddie Cheever | Alfa Romeo | 23 | 1:11.500 | +4.331 | +0.566 |
| 19 | Gerhard Berger | Arrows | 17 | 1:11.608 | +4.439 | +0.108 |
| 20 | Teo Fabi | Toleman | 19 | 1:12.090 | +4.921 | +0.482 |
| 21 | John Watson | McLaren | 1 | 1:12.496 | +5.327 | +0.406 |
| 22 | Alan Jones | Lola | 33 | 1:13.084 | +5.915 | +0.588 |
| 23 | Philippe Alliot | RAM | 9 | 1:13.537 | +6.368 | +0.453 |
| 24 | Ivan Capelli | Tyrrell | 4 | 1:13.721 | +6.552 | +0.184 |
| 25 | Christian Danner | Zakspeed | 30 | 1:15.054 | +7.885 | +1.333 |
| 26 | Pierluigi Martini | Minardi | 29 | 1:15.127 | +7.958 | +0.073 |
| 27 | Huub Rothengatter | Osella | 24 | 1:16.994 | +9.825 | +1.867 |
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 | Nelson Piquet | Brabham | 7 | 1:12.333 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Alain Prost | McLaren | 2 | 1:13.452 | +1.119 | +1.119 | — |
| 3 | Keke Rosberg | Williams | 6 | 1:13.604 | +1.271 | +0.152 | — |
| 4 | Marc Surer | Brabham | 8 | 1:13.612 | +1.279 | +0.008 | — |
| 5 | Stefan Johansson | Ferrari | 28 | 1:13.613 | +1.280 | +0.001 | — |
| 6 | Michele Alboreto | Ferrari | 27 | 1:14.253 | +1.920 | +0.640 | — |
| 7 | Elio de Angelis | Team Lotus | 11 | 1:14.354 | +2.021 | +0.101 | — |
| 8 | Nigel Mansell | Williams | 5 | 1:14.767 | +2.434 | +0.413 | — |
| 9 | Ayrton Senna | Team Lotus | 12 | 1:14.995 | +2.662 | +0.228 | — |
| 10 | Teo Fabi | Toleman | 19 | 1:15.219 | +2.886 | +0.224 | — |
| 11 | Philippe Alliot | RAM | 9 | 1:15.348 | +3.015 | +0.129 | — |
| 12 | Philippe Streiff | Ligier | 25 | 1:15.355 | +3.022 | +0.007 | — |
| 13 | Piercarlo Ghinzani | Toleman | 20 | 1:15.416 | +3.083 | +0.061 | — |
| 14 | Thierry Boutsen | Arrows | 18 | 1:15.668 | +3.335 | +0.252 | — |
| 15 | Gerhard Berger | Arrows | 17 | 1:15.808 | +3.475 | +0.140 | — |
| 16 | Martin Brundle | Tyrrell | 3 | 1:15.993 | +3.660 | +0.185 | — |
| 17 | Riccardo Patrese | Alfa Romeo | 22 | 1:16.010 | +3.677 | +0.017 | — |
| 18 | John Watson | McLaren | 1 | 1:16.125 | +3.792 | +0.115 | — |
| 19 | Alan Jones | Lola | 33 | 1:16.388 | +4.055 | +0.263 | — |
| 20 | Patrick Tambay | Renault | 15 | 1:16.593 | +4.260 | +0.205 | — |
| 21 | Derek Warwick | Renault | 16 | 1:16.747 | +4.414 | +0.154 | — |
| 22 | Eddie Cheever | Alfa Romeo | 23 | 1:16.804 | +4.471 | +0.057 | — |
| 23 | Ivan Capelli | Tyrrell | 4 | 1:16.923 | +4.590 | +0.119 | — |
| 24 | Christian Danner | Zakspeed | 30 | 1:17.272 | +4.939 | +0.349 | — |
| 25 | Pierluigi Martini | Minardi | 29 | 1:31.057 | +18.724 | +13.785 | — |
| 26 | Jacques Laffite | Ligier | 26 | 1:31.109 | +18.776 | +0.052 | — |
Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.
Photographs from this race
Filed on Wikimedia Commons under this race's own category, each shown with the photographer and licence its terms require. The filing is the Commons editors' and has not been checked here.
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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.
Lotus 97T
Lotus97T · https://www.flickr.com/jonbradbury · CC BY-SA 4.0
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
Arrows A8
1985 European GP Boutsen · Jerry Lewis-Evans · CC BY-SA 2.0 · unchecked
Ligier JS25
-125 - Ligier JS25 - 1985 · _morgado2 · CC BY 4.0
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 · 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.
4 more photographs
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 014
1985 European GP Brundle 02 · Jerry Lewis-Evans · CC BY-SA 2.0 · unchecked
Zakspeed 841
Zakspeed 841 Dr. Jonathan Palmer · Lothar Spurzem · CC BY-SA 2.0 deWhere this comes from
- Round
- 14 of 1985
- Grand Prix
- European Grand Prix
- Dates
- Layout raced
- —
- Format
- Standard weekend
- Constructor
- Williams
- Entrant
- Williams-Honda
- 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.