Outgoing World Champion Niki Lauda was 16th on the grid in his McLaren.

The race also proved to be the 25th and last … Honda's Freddie Spencergave a dominating performance becoming the first man to win the 250 and 500 championships in the same year. The race was marked with some teams boycotting the event due to apartheid – the segregation of blacks and whites – and was the last South African Formula One race until apartheid ended in 1992. It was the seventh race of the 1985 FIA Formula One World Championship. It was the 63rd French Grand Prix and the ninth to be held at Paul Ricard. All the winners from the 1985 F1 World Championship season. The race was won by Nigel Mansell in a Williams - Honda, who also took pole position . World Champion elect Alain Prost was 4th on the grid in his McLaren TAG - Porsche, the Ferrari of 1985 World Championship runner up Michele Alboreto fifth, and Marc Surer in his Brabham - BMW rounding out the top six qualifiers. Here you can find the 1985 F1 teams overview , we also have all other F1 results since 1950. The race was won by Nelson Piquet, driving a Brabham … After coming so close in the two previous seasons, Alain Prost finally became the first Frenchman to win the World Championship. He clinched the title thanks to six wins and with two races to spare. The Formula One writer Koen Vergeer remarked that "It was about time, everyone knew he was the best", reflecting a general feeling that Prost had been unlucky to finish runner-up in the previous two years, ev… The race was held over 53 laps of the 5.81-kilometre circuit for a total race distance of 307.93 kilometres. The Formula One World Drivers' Championship (WDC) is awarded by the Fédération … The 1985 Dutch Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Circuit Zandvoort on 25 August 1985. The 1985 Formula One season saw continued success for the McLaren-TAG team. After losing the Drivers' Championship by two points to Nelson Piquet in 1983, and by just half a point the previous year to teammate Niki Lauda, Alain Prost would ultimately secure his first of four titles by a 23-point margin. It was the eleventh round of the 1985 FIA Formula One World Championship and the 34th World Championship Grand Prix to be held in the Netherlands.The race was held over 70 laps of the four kilometre circuit for a race distance of 298 kilometres. Defending champion Eddie Lawsonfinished in second with former 250 world champion, Christian Sarroncoming in third. The 1985 French Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Paul Ricard on 7 July 1985.

1985 F1 Championship Standings See all 1985 F1 results for each race, driver and team. A Temporada de Fórmula 1 de 1985 foi a 36.ª realizada pela FIA, decorrendo entre 7 de abril à 3 de novembro de 1985, com dezesseis corridas.. Teve como campeão o francês Alain Prost, da equipe McLaren, sendo vice-campeão o italiano Michele Alboreto, da Ferrari.Foi a primeira vez que um piloto francês tornou-se campeão mundial na categoria.