1985 жылғы Формула-1 маусымының Бразилия Гран-присі

1st round of the 1985 Formula One season

The 1985 Brazilian Grand Prix (officially known as the XIV Grande Prêmio do Brasil) was a Formula One motor race held at Jacarepaguá in Jacarepaguá, Rio de Janeiro on 7 April 1985. It was the first round of the 1985 Formula One World Championship, and marked the 13th edition of the Brazilian Grand Prix as a round of the World Championship since its inception in 1950. Alain Prost, driving for McLaren was the defending race winner heading into the race. In qualifying, Ferrari driver, Michele Alboreto took pole, his second of his career. In the race, he would finish second on the podium behind eventual race winner, Prost while Elio de Angelis rounded out the podium in the Lotus car. Of note, even though René Arnoux finished 4th for Ferrari, he was sacked after the race, with both the team and Arnoux never revealing the reason behind the sacking. The driver who finished 7th in this race, Stefan Johansson, was picked up by the Scuderia for the rest of the year. This race was also Nigel Mansell's first race of seven seasons with the Williams team.

The 1985 Formula One season saw an entry list of 28 drivers competing with Zakspeed officially joining Formula One with Jonathan Palmer as their driver, though they wouldn't be competing in the opening round as they were going to join the field in Portugal (Zakspeed competed only in the European races that season for economic reasons). The other brand new team that was competing in the 1985 season was Minardi who had competed in Formula Two from 1980 to 1984 with a custom chassis before stepping up and competing in F1. The Toleman team, meanwhile, missed the race due to being unable to secure a tyre contract. Their lead driver, Stefan Johansson, was present, however, and substituted for Stefan Bellof when the German driver was suspended by his Tyrrell team due to a contract dispute. The opening round in Brazil was the first round of the 1985 championship, this was the 14th edition of the Brazilian Grand Prix since its inception in 1972. It's also the 13th time that a Formula One World Championship had been held there with the 1972 edition being a non championship race. The race was held at the Jacarepaguá circuit which held its first Grand Prix in 1978 and had been holding the Grand Prix since 1981.

Qualifying for the 1985 Brazilian Grand Prix was held in two sessions with one being held on the Friday and the other being held on the Saturday. In the Friday session, Lotus who did some aerodynamic tweaks to the car similar to the Lola's new Indycar as they went to the top of the timesheets on Friday morning. But for Elio de Angelis he wouldn't be able to improve on his time with de Angelis responding after the second qualifying session, "I am sure I could have retained the pole." Senna would improve on his lap time but only slightly as he finished behind de Angelis on the grid in fourth. On the front row of the grid, Michele Alboreto would claim the first pole position of the season with a time of 1:27.768, a full one second ahead of his time on the Friday. Alboreto team mate in Rene Arnoux also improve his time by a second. But had to start the race in seventh place with Arnoux needing to use the spare car after the Ferrari engine was down on power on his main car. Also on the front row of the grid was Keke Rosberg in the Williams Honda who earlier in the weekend had a blown turbo from their engine on the Saturday morning. But one flying lap secured Rosberg a front row start with team mate Nigel Mansell starting from fifth.

Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 2 Alain Prost McLaren TAG 61 1:41:26.115 6 9 2 27 Michele Alboreto Ferrari 61 + 3.259 1 6 3 11 Elio de Angelis Lotus Renault 60 + 1 Lap 3 4 4 28 René Arnoux Ferrari 59 + 2 Laps 7 3 5 15 Patrick Tambay Renault 59 + 2 Laps 11 2 6 26 Jacques Laffite Ligier Renault 59 + 2 Laps 15 1 7 4 Stefan Johansson Tyrrell Ford 58 + 3 Laps 23   8 3 Martin Brundle Tyrrell Ford 58 + 3 Laps 21   9 10 Philippe Alliot RAM Hart 58 + 3 Laps 20   10 16 Derek Warwick Renault 57 + 4 Laps 10   11 18 Thierry Boutsen Arrows BMW 57 + 4 Laps 12   12 24 Piercarlo Ghinzani Osella Alfa Romeo 57 + 4 Laps 22   13 9 Manfred Winkelhock RAM Hart 57 + 4 Laps 16   Ret 17 Gerhard Berger Arrows BMW 51 Suspension 19   Ret 12 Ayrton Senna Lotus Renault 48 Electrical 4   Ret 23 Eddie Cheever Alfa Romeo 42 Engine 18   Ret 29 Pierluigi Martini Minardi Ford 41 Engine 25   Ret 1 Niki Lauda McLaren TAG 27 Fuel System 9   Ret 25 Andrea de Cesaris Ligier Renault 26 Accident 13   Ret 22 Riccardo Patrese Alfa Romeo 20 Puncture 14   Ret 6 Keke Rosberg Williams Honda 10 Turbo 2   Ret 8 François Hesnault Brabham BMW 9 Accident 17   Ret 5 Nigel Mansell Williams Honda 8 Exhaust 5   Ret 21 Mauro Baldi Spirit Hart 7 Turbo 24   Ret 7 Nelson Piquet Brabham BMW 2 Transmission 8  Source: