Race 12 of 16 in the 1985 Formula One World Championship
Race details
Date
8 September 1985
Official name
LVI Gran Premio d'Italia
Location
Autodromo Nazionale di Monza, Monza
Course
Permanent racing facility
Course length
5.800 km (3.60 miles)
Distance
51 laps, 295.800 km (183.600 miles)
Weather
Dry
Pole position
Driver
Ayrton Senna
Lotus-Renault
Time
1:25.084
Fastest lap
Driver
Nigel Mansell
Williams-Honda
Time
1:28.283 on lap 38
Podium
First
Alain Prost
McLaren-TAG
Second
Nelson Piquet
Brabham-BMW
Third
Ayrton Senna
Lotus-Renault
Lap leaders
Motor car race
The 1985 Italian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Monza on 8 September 1985. It was the twelfth round of the 1985 FIA Formula One World Championship. It was the 55th Italian Grand Prix and the 50th to be held at Monza. The race was held over 51 laps of the 5.8-kilometre circuit for a total race distance of 295.8 kilometres.
The race was won by Frenchman Alain Prost driving a McLaren MP4/2B. It was Prost's fifth and final victory of the 1985 season as he powered towards the first of his four Formula One world championships. Prost won by almost 52 seconds over the Brazilian duo Nelson Piquet (Brabham BT54) and Ayrton Senna (Lotus 97T).
It was the debut race for the American owned Haas Lola team with their new car, the Lola THL1 running the Hart 415T turbocharged engine, driven by Australia's 1980 World Champion Alan Jones. Jones, who had retired following the 1981 season, was making a full-time return to Formula One after two races, the US Grand Prix West, and the non championship Race of Champions with Arrows in early 1983.
Missing from the grid was popular West German driver Stefan Bellof who was killed a week earlier in a World Sportscar Championship race at the Spa Circuit in Belgium. With his funeral set for the day after the Italian Grand Prix the Tyrrell team only ran the one car for Martin Brundle feeling it would be disrespectful to Bellof to bring a driver in to replace him for the race. Members of the Tyrrell team, including team boss Ken Tyrrell, attended Bellof's funeral the next day.
Senna's pole position is often cited as one of his greatest moments.[1]
^"Gran Turismo 6: Relive Senna's Legendary Moments". 12 May 2014.
and 29 Related for: 1985 Italian Grand Prix information
The ItalianGrandPrix (Italian: Gran Premio d'Italia) is the fifth oldest national motor racing GrandPrix (after the French GrandPrix, the United States...
The San Marino GrandPrix (Italian: Gran Premio di San Marino) was a Formula One championship race which was run at the Autodromo Internazionale Enzo...
The 1985 Dutch GrandPrix was a Formula One motor race held at Circuit Zandvoort on 25 August 1985. It was the eleventh round of the 1985 FIA Formula...
The Italian motorcycle GrandPrix is a motorcycling event that is part of the FIM GrandPrix motorcycle racing season. From 1949 to 1990 the event was...
The 1985 Austrian GrandPrix was a Formula One motor race held at Österreichring on 18 August 1985. It was the tenth race of the 1985 Formula One World...
The 1985 Belgian GrandPrix was a Formula One motor race held at Spa-Francorchamps on 15 September 1985. It was the thirteenth round of the 1985 FIA Formula...
The 1985 Canadian GrandPrix was a Formula One motor race held at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal on 16 June 1985. It was the fifth race of the...
1985 F.I.M. GrandPrix motorcycle racing season Previous 1984 Next 1986 1985 World Champions 500cc – Freddie Spencer (Honda) 250cc – Freddie Spencer (Honda)...
The 1985 San Marino GrandPrix was a Formula One motor race held at Imola on 5 May 1985. It was the third race of the 1985 Formula One World Championship...
The 1985 Detroit GrandPrix was a Formula One motor race held on June 23, 1985, in Detroit, Michigan. It was the sixth round of the 1985 FIA Formula One...
The 1985 French GrandPrix was a Formula One motor race held at Paul Ricard on 7 July 1985. It was the seventh race of the 1985 Formula One World Championship...
The Dutch GrandPrix (Dutch: Grote Prijs van Nederland) is an annual Formula One World Championship auto racing event, held at Circuit Zandvoort, North...
The 1985 European GrandPrix (formally the Shell Oils GrandPrix of Europe) was a Formula One motor race held at Brands Hatch on 6 October 1985. It was...
The Austrian GrandPrix (German: Großer Preis von Österreich) is a Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile sanctioned motor racing event that was held...
The 1985 Australian GrandPrix was a Formula One motor race held on the Adelaide Street Circuit in Adelaide on 3 November 1985. The sixteenth and final...
national GrandsPrix in Europe. The first race to be so named was the 1923 ItalianGrandPrix, held at Monza, and the last was the 1977 British GrandPrix at...
The 1984 ItalianGrandPrix was a Formula One motor race held at Monza on 9 September 1984. It was the fourteenth race of the 1984 Formula One World Championship...
The 1980 ItalianGrandPrix was a Formula One motor race held on 14 September 1980 at the Autodromo Dino Ferrari in Imola, Italy. It was the twelfth race...
The British GrandPrix is a GrandPrix motor racing event organised in the United Kingdom by Motorsport UK. First held by the Royal Automobile Club (RAC)...
The 1986 ItalianGrandPrix was a Formula One motor race held at Monza on 7 September 1986. It was the thirteenth race of the 1986 Formula One World Championship...
The 1987 ItalianGrandPrix was a Formula One motor race held at Monza on 6 September 1987. It was the eleventh race of the 1987 Formula One World Championship...
The Japanese GrandPrix (Japanese: 日本グランプリ, romanized: Nihon-guranpuri) is a motor racing event in the calendar of the Formula One World Championship....
The Belgian GrandPrix (French: GrandPrix de Belgique; Dutch: Grote Prijs van België; German: Großer Preis von Belgien) is a motor racing event which...
The 1983 ItalianGrandPrix was a Formula One motor race held at Monza on 11 September 1983. It was the thirteenth race of the 1983 Formula One World Championship...
The Monaco GrandPrix (French: GrandPrix de Monaco) is a Formula One motor racing event held annually on the Circuit de Monaco, in late May or early June...
The 1989 ItalianGrandPrix was a Formula One motor race held at Monza on 10 September 1989. It was the twelfth race of the 1989 Formula One season. Alain...
The South African GrandPrix was first run as a GrandPrix motor racing handicap race in 1934 at the Prince George Circuit at East London, Cape Province...
Global Information
Nigel Mansell
