Race · Round 7 of 16 ·
1985 French Grand Prix
Nelson Piquet won for Brabham from 5th on the grid at Circuit Paul Ricard. 10 of the starters were not classified.
- Circuit
- Circuit Paul RicardLe Castellet, France
- Winner
- Nelson PiquetBrabham
- Pole
- Keke Rosberg
- Fastest lap
- Keke Rosberg
- Entries
- 2615 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 | Keke Rosberg | Williams | 6 | 1:32.462 | — | — |
| 2 | Ayrton Senna | Team Lotus | 12 | 1:32.835 | +0.373 | +0.373 |
| 3 | Michele Alboreto | Ferrari | 27 | 1:33.267 | +0.805 | +0.432 |
| 4 | Alain Prost | McLaren | 2 | 1:33.335 | +0.873 | +0.068 |
| 5 | Nelson Piquet | Brabham | 7 | 1:33.812 | +1.350 | +0.477 |
| 6 | Niki Lauda | McLaren | 1 | 1:33.860 | +1.398 | +0.048 |
| 7 | Elio de Angelis | Team Lotus | 11 | 1:34.022 | +1.560 | +0.162 |
| 8 | Nigel Mansell | Williams | 5 | 1:34.191 | +1.729 | +0.169 |
| 9 | Gerhard Berger | Arrows | 17 | 1:34.674 | +2.212 | +0.483 |
| 10 | Patrick Tambay | Renault | 15 | 1:34.680 | +2.218 | +0.006 |
| 11 | Derek Warwick | Renault | 16 | 1:34.976 | +2.514 | +0.296 |
| 12 | Thierry Boutsen | Arrows | 18 | 1:35.488 | +3.026 | +0.512 |
| 13 | Andrea de Cesaris | Ligier | 25 | 1:35.571 | +3.109 | +0.083 |
| 14 | Marc Surer | Brabham | 8 | 1:35.572 | +3.110 | +0.001 |
| 15 | Jacques Laffite | Ligier | 26 | 1:36.133 | +3.671 | +0.561 |
| 16 | Stefan Johansson | Ferrari | 28 | 1:36.140 | +3.678 | +0.007 |
| 17 | Riccardo Patrese | Alfa Romeo | 22 | 1:36.729 | +4.267 | +0.589 |
| 18 | Eddie Cheever | Alfa Romeo | 23 | 1:36.931 | +4.469 | +0.202 |
| 19 | Teo Fabi | Toleman | 19 | 1:37.142 | +4.680 | +0.211 |
| 20 | Manfred Winkelhock | RAM | 9 | 1:37.654 | +5.192 | +0.512 |
| 21 | Martin Brundle | Tyrrell | 3 | 1:40.015 | +7.553 | +2.361 |
| 22 | Jonathan Palmer | Zakspeed | 30 | 1:40.289 | +7.827 | +0.274 |
| 23 | Philippe Alliot | RAM | 10 | 1:41.647 | +9.185 | +1.358 |
| 24 | Piercarlo Ghinzani | Osella | 24 | 1:42.136 | +9.674 | +0.489 |
| 25 | Pierluigi Martini | Minardi | 29 | 1:44.350 | +11.888 | +2.214 |
| 26 | Stefan Bellof | Tyrrell | 4 | 1:44.404 | +11.942 | +0.054 |
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 | 1:39.129 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Niki Lauda | McLaren | 1 | 1:39.251 | +0.122 | +0.122 | — |
| 3 | Nelson Piquet | Brabham | 7 | 1:39.718 | +0.589 | +0.467 | — |
| 4 | Elio de Angelis | Team Lotus | 11 | 1:39.896 | +0.767 | +0.178 | — |
| 5 | Jacques Laffite | Ligier | 26 | 1:40.092 | +0.963 | +0.196 | — |
| 6 | Andrea de Cesaris | Ligier | 25 | 1:40.476 | +1.347 | +0.384 | — |
| 7 | Michele Alboreto | Ferrari | 27 | 1:40.547 | +1.418 | +0.071 | — |
| 8 | Ayrton Senna | Team Lotus | 12 | 1:41.020 | +1.891 | +0.473 | — |
| 9 | Keke Rosberg | Williams | 6 | 1:41.213 | +2.084 | +0.193 | — |
| 10 | Gerhard Berger | Arrows | 17 | 1:41.409 | +2.280 | +0.196 | — |
| 11 | Thierry Boutsen | Arrows | 18 | 1:41.906 | +2.777 | +0.497 | — |
| 12 | Marc Surer | Brabham | 8 | 1:42.029 | +2.900 | +0.123 | — |
| 13 | Stefan Johansson | Ferrari | 28 | 1:42.123 | +2.994 | +0.094 | — |
| 14 | Patrick Tambay | Renault | 15 | 1:42.272 | +3.143 | +0.149 | — |
| 15 | Teo Fabi | Toleman | 19 | 1:42.572 | +3.443 | +0.300 | — |
| 16 | Derek Warwick | Renault | 16 | 1:42.903 | +3.774 | +0.331 | — |
| 17 | Martin Brundle | Tyrrell | 3 | 1:43.614 | +4.485 | +0.711 | — |
| 18 | Eddie Cheever | Alfa Romeo | 23 | 1:43.736 | +4.607 | +0.122 | — |
| 19 | Philippe Alliot | RAM | 10 | 1:44.155 | +5.026 | +0.419 | — |
| 20 | Manfred Winkelhock | RAM | 9 | 1:44.622 | +5.493 | +0.467 | — |
| 21 | Riccardo Patrese | Alfa Romeo | 22 | 1:44.953 | +5.824 | +0.331 | — |
| 22 | Jonathan Palmer | Zakspeed | 30 | 1:44.967 | +5.838 | +0.014 | — |
| 23 | Stefan Bellof | Tyrrell | 4 | 1:46.601 | +7.472 | +1.634 | — |
| 24 | Piercarlo Ghinzani | Osella | 24 | 1:46.929 | +7.800 | +0.328 | — |
| 25 | Pierluigi Martini | Minardi | 29 | 1:48.232 | +9.103 | +1.303 | — |
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.
Brabham BT54
Brabham BMW BT54 Turbo 1985 vr TCE · Stahlkocher · CC BY-SA 3.0 · unchecked
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
Arrows A8
1985 European GP Boutsen · 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
Tyrrell 012
Tyrrell 012 2019 Silverstone Classic (48557777561) · https://www.flickr.com/photos/davehamster/ · CC BY 2.0A 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
Toleman TG185
1985 European GP Teo Fabi · Jerry Lewis-Evans · CC BY-SA 2.0 · unchecked
Ligier JS25
-125 - Ligier JS25 - 1985 · _morgado2 · CC BY 4.0
Minardi M185
1985 European GP Martini · 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
- 7 of 1985
- Grand Prix
- French Grand Prix
- Dates
- Layout raced
- —
- Format
- Standard weekend
- Constructor
- Brabham
- Entrant
- Brabham-BMW
- 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.