Race · Round 2 of 16 ·
1985 Portuguese Grand Prix
Ayrton Senna won for Team Lotus from pole at Autodromo do Estoril. 17 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship race win for Ayrton Senna.
- Circuit
- Autodromo do EstorilEstoril, Portugal
- Winner
- Ayrton SennaTeam Lotus
- Pole
- Ayrton Senna
- Fastest lap
- Ayrton Senna
- Entries
- 269 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 | 1:21.007 | — | — |
| 2 | Alain Prost | McLaren | 2 | 1:21.420 | +0.413 | +0.413 |
| 3 | Keke Rosberg | Williams | 6 | 1:21.904 | +0.897 | +0.484 |
| 4 | Elio de Angelis | Team Lotus | 11 | 1:22.159 | +1.152 | +0.255 |
| 5 | Michele Alboreto | Ferrari | 27 | 1:22.577 | +1.570 | +0.418 |
| 6 | Derek Warwick | Renault | 16 | 1:23.084 | +2.077 | +0.507 |
| 7 | Niki Lauda | McLaren | 1 | 1:23.288 | +2.281 | +0.204 |
| 8 | Andrea de Cesaris | Ligier | 25 | 1:23.302 | +2.295 | +0.014 |
| 9 | Nigel Mansell | Williams | 5 | 1:23.594 | +2.587 | +0.292 |
| 10 | Nelson Piquet | Brabham | 7 | 1:23.618 | +2.611 | +0.024 |
| 11 | Stefan Johansson | Ferrari | 28 | 1:23.652 | +2.645 | +0.034 |
| 12 | Patrick Tambay | Renault | 15 | 1:24.111 | +3.104 | +0.459 |
| 13 | Riccardo Patrese | Alfa Romeo | 22 | 1:24.230 | +3.223 | +0.119 |
| 14 | Eddie Cheever | Alfa Romeo | 23 | 1:24.563 | +3.556 | +0.333 |
| 15 | Manfred Winkelhock | RAM | 9 | 1:24.721 | +3.714 | +0.158 |
| 16 | Thierry Boutsen | Arrows | 18 | 1:24.747 | +3.740 | +0.026 |
| 17 | Gerhard Berger | Arrows | 17 | 1:24.842 | +3.835 | +0.095 |
| 18 | Jacques Laffite | Ligier | 26 | 1:24.943 | +3.936 | +0.101 |
| 19 | François Hesnault | Brabham | 8 | 1:25.717 | +4.710 | +0.774 |
| 20 | Philippe Alliot | RAM | 10 | 1:26.187 | +5.180 | +0.470 |
| 21 | Stefan Bellof | Tyrrell | 4 | 1:27.284 | +6.277 | +1.097 |
| 22 | Martin Brundle | Tyrrell | 3 | 1:27.602 | +6.595 | +0.318 |
| 23 | Jonathan Palmer | Zakspeed | 30 | 1:28.166 | +7.159 | +0.564 |
| 24 | Mauro Baldi | Spirit | 21 | 1:28.473 | +7.466 | +0.307 |
| 25 | Pierluigi Martini | Minardi | 29 | 1:28.596 | +7.589 | +0.123 |
| 26 | Piercarlo Ghinzani | Osella | 24 | 1:30.855 | +9.848 | +2.259 |
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 | 1:24.680 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Elio de Angelis | Team Lotus | 11 | 1:24.796 | +0.116 | +0.116 | — |
| 3 | Stefan Johansson | Ferrari | 28 | 1:25.601 | +0.921 | +0.805 | — |
| 4 | Michele Alboreto | Ferrari | 27 | 1:25.774 | +1.094 | +0.173 | — |
| 5 | Niki Lauda | McLaren | 1 | 1:26.651 | +1.971 | +0.877 | — |
| 6 | Keke Rosberg | Williams | 6 | 1:27.175 | +2.495 | +0.524 | — |
| 7 | Ayrton Senna | Team Lotus | 12 | 1:27.337 | +2.657 | +0.162 | — |
| 8 | Andrea de Cesaris | Ligier | 25 | 1:27.502 | +2.822 | +0.165 | — |
| 9 | Jonathan Palmer | Zakspeed | 30 | 1:27.517 | +2.837 | +0.015 | — |
| 10 | Eddie Cheever | Alfa Romeo | 23 | 1:27.567 | +2.887 | +0.050 | — |
| 11 | Riccardo Patrese | Alfa Romeo | 22 | 1:27.680 | +3.000 | +0.113 | — |
| 12 | Nelson Piquet | Brabham | 7 | 1:28.004 | +3.324 | +0.324 | — |
| 13 | Thierry Boutsen | Arrows | 18 | 1:28.032 | +3.352 | +0.028 | — |
| 14 | Nigel Mansell | Williams | 5 | 1:28.116 | +3.436 | +0.084 | — |
| 15 | Derek Warwick | Renault | 16 | 1:28.373 | +3.693 | +0.257 | — |
| 16 | Jacques Laffite | Ligier | 26 | 1:28.394 | +3.714 | +0.021 | — |
| 17 | Stefan Bellof | Tyrrell | 4 | 1:28.863 | +4.183 | +0.469 | — |
| 18 | Patrick Tambay | Renault | 15 | 1:28.885 | +4.205 | +0.022 | — |
| 19 | Gerhard Berger | Arrows | 17 | 1:28.893 | +4.213 | +0.008 | — |
| 20 | Manfred Winkelhock | RAM | 9 | 1:28.934 | +4.254 | +0.041 | — |
| 21 | Mauro Baldi | Spirit | 21 | 1:29.693 | +5.013 | +0.759 | — |
| 22 | Martin Brundle | Tyrrell | 3 | 1:29.802 | +5.122 | +0.109 | — |
| 23 | Philippe Alliot | RAM | 10 | 1:30.190 | +5.510 | +0.388 | — |
| 24 | Piercarlo Ghinzani | Osella | 24 | 1:30.622 | +5.942 | +0.432 | — |
| 25 | François Hesnault | Brabham | 8 | 1:31.459 | +6.779 | +0.837 | — |
| 26 | Pierluigi Martini | Minardi | 29 | 1:33.192 | +8.512 | +1.733 | — |
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.
Lotus 97T
Lotus97T · https://www.flickr.com/jonbradbury · CC BY-SA 4.0
Tyrrell 012
Tyrrell 012 2019 Silverstone Classic (48557777561) · https://www.flickr.com/photos/davehamster/ · CC BY 2.0
Arrows A8
1985 European GP Boutsen · Jerry Lewis-Evans · CC BY-SA 2.0 · unchecked
Brabham BT54
Brabham BMW BT54 Turbo 1985 vr TCE · Stahlkocher · CC BY-SA 3.0 · unchecked
Ligier JS25
-125 - Ligier JS25 - 1985 · _morgado2 · CC BY 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 · 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
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
Spirit 101
Spirit 101 at Silverstone Classic 2011 · David Merrett from Daventry, England · CC BY 2.0
Zakspeed 841
Zakspeed 841 Dr. Jonathan Palmer · Lothar Spurzem · CC BY-SA 2.0 deWhere this comes from
- Round
- 2 of 1985
- Grand Prix
- Portuguese Grand Prix
- Dates
- Layout raced
- —
- Format
- Standard weekend
- Constructor
- Team Lotus
- Entrant
- Lotus-Renault
- 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.