Race · Round 4 of 16 ·
1985 Monaco Grand Prix
Alain Prost won for McLaren from 5th on the grid at Circuit de Monaco. 9 of the starters were not classified.
- Circuit
- Circuit de MonacoMonte Carlo, Monaco
- Winner
- Alain ProstMcLaren
- Pole
- Ayrton Senna
- Fastest lap
- Michele Alboreto
- Entries
- 2611 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 | 1:20.450 | — | — |
| 2 | Nigel Mansell | Williams | 5 | 1:20.536 | +0.086 | +0.086 |
| 3 | Michele Alboreto | Ferrari | 27 | 1:20.563 | +0.113 | +0.027 |
| 4 | Eddie Cheever | Alfa Romeo | 23 | 1:20.729 | +0.279 | +0.166 |
| 5 | Alain Prost | McLaren | 2 | 1:20.885 | +0.435 | +0.156 |
| 6 | Thierry Boutsen | Arrows | 18 | 1:21.302 | +0.852 | +0.417 |
| 7 | Keke Rosberg | Williams | 6 | 1:21.320 | +0.870 | +0.018 |
| 8 | Andrea de Cesaris | Ligier | 25 | 1:21.347 | +0.897 | +0.027 |
| 9 | Elio de Angelis | Team Lotus | 11 | 1:21.465 | +1.015 | +0.118 |
| 10 | Derek Warwick | Renault | 16 | 1:21.531 | +1.081 | +0.066 |
| 11 | Gerhard Berger | Arrows | 17 | 1:21.665 | +1.215 | +0.134 |
| 12 | Riccardo Patrese | Alfa Romeo | 22 | 1:21.813 | +1.363 | +0.148 |
| 13 | Nelson Piquet | Brabham | 7 | 1:21.817 | +1.367 | +0.004 |
| 14 | Niki Lauda | McLaren | 1 | 1:21.907 | +1.457 | +0.090 |
| 15 | Stefan Johansson | Ferrari | 28 | 1:22.635 | +2.185 | +0.728 |
| 16 | Jacques Laffite | Ligier | 26 | 1:22.880 | +2.430 | +0.245 |
| 17 | Patrick Tambay | Renault | 15 | 1:22.912 | +2.462 | +0.032 |
| 18 | Martin Brundle | Tyrrell | 3 | 1:23.827 | +3.377 | +0.915 |
| 19 | Jonathan Palmer | Zakspeed | 30 | 1:23.840 | +3.390 | +0.013 |
| 20 | Teo Fabi | Toleman | 19 | 1:23.965 | +3.515 | +0.125 |
| 21 | Piercarlo Ghinzani | Osella | 24 | 1:24.071 | +3.621 | +0.106 |
| 22 | Stefan Bellof | Tyrrell | 4 | 1:24.236 | +3.786 | +0.165 |
| 23 | Philippe Alliot | RAM | 10 | 1:24.763 | +4.313 | +0.527 |
| 24 | Manfred Winkelhock | RAM | 9 | 1:24.764 | +4.314 | +0.001 |
| 25 | François Hesnault | Brabham | 8 | 1:25.068 | +4.618 | +0.304 |
| 26 | Pierluigi Martini | Minardi | 29 | 6:41.037 | +5:20.587 | +5:15.969 |
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 | 1:23.737 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Michele Alboreto | Ferrari | 27 | 1:24.070 | +0.333 | +0.333 | — |
| 3 | Derek Warwick | Renault | 16 | 1:24.232 | +0.495 | +0.162 | — |
| 4 | Nigel Mansell | Williams | 5 | 1:24.405 | +0.668 | +0.173 | — |
| 5 | Patrick Tambay | Renault | 15 | 1:25.040 | +1.303 | +0.635 | — |
| 6 | Elio de Angelis | Team Lotus | 11 | 1:25.056 | +1.319 | +0.016 | — |
| 7 | Ayrton Senna | Team Lotus | 12 | 1:25.195 | +1.458 | +0.139 | — |
| 8 | Niki Lauda | McLaren | 1 | 1:25.346 | +1.609 | +0.151 | — |
| 9 | Thierry Boutsen | Arrows | 18 | 1:25.361 | +1.624 | +0.015 | — |
| 10 | Keke Rosberg | Williams | 6 | 1:25.551 | +1.814 | +0.190 | — |
| 11 | Stefan Johansson | Ferrari | 28 | 1:25.667 | +1.930 | +0.116 | — |
| 12 | Andrea de Cesaris | Ligier | 25 | 1:26.002 | +2.265 | +0.335 | — |
| 13 | Eddie Cheever | Alfa Romeo | 23 | 1:26.266 | +2.529 | +0.264 | — |
| 14 | Nelson Piquet | Brabham | 7 | 1:26.467 | +2.730 | +0.201 | — |
| 15 | Teo Fabi | Toleman | 19 | 1:26.511 | +2.774 | +0.044 | — |
| 16 | Gerhard Berger | Arrows | 17 | 1:27.430 | +3.693 | +0.919 | — |
| 17 | Jacques Laffite | Ligier | 26 | 1:27.665 | +3.928 | +0.235 | — |
| 18 | Riccardo Patrese | Alfa Romeo | 22 | 1:28.060 | +4.323 | +0.395 | — |
| 19 | Martin Brundle | Tyrrell | 3 | 1:28.250 | +4.513 | +0.190 | — |
| 20 | Jonathan Palmer | Zakspeed | 30 | 1:29.314 | +5.577 | +1.064 | — |
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
Arrows A8
1985 European GP Boutsen · 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 deA 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
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
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 · uncheckedWhere this comes from
- Round
- 4 of 1985
- Grand Prix
- Monaco Grand Prix
- Dates
- Layout raced
- —
- 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.