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Race · Round 15 of 16 ·

1985 South African Grand Prix

Nigel Mansell won for Williams from pole at Kyalami. 13 of the starters were not classified.

Dry · High of 26 °C, 0.1 mm of rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

ERA5's reanalysis, through Open-Meteo, of the circuit's whole local day and not the race's hours, for the grid cell the circuit sits in and not the track, so a shower can be missing from it. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.

Circuit
KyalamiMidrand, South Africa
Winner
Nigel MansellWilliams
Fastest lap
Keke Rosberg
Entries
217 classified

Classification

Classification
PosDriverConstructorChassisGridLapsOutPointsFL
1Nigel MansellWilliams—175Finished9
2Keke RosbergWilliams—375Finished6fastest lap
3Alain ProstMcLarenMP4/2B974Finished4
4Stefan JohanssonFerrari156/851674Finished3
5Gerhard BergerArrowsA81174Finished2
6Thierry BoutsenArrowsA81074Finished1
7Martin BrundleTyrrell121773Finished0
DNFElio de AngelisTeam Lotus97T652Engine0
DNFPierluigi MartiniMinardiM1851945Radiator0
DNFNiki LaudaMcLarenMP4/2B837Turbo0
DNFPhilippe StreiffTyrrell121816Accident0
DNFAyrton SennaTeam Lotus97T48Engine0
DNFMichele AlboretoFerrari156/85158Turbo0
DNFNelson PiquetBrabhamBT5426Engine0
DNFPiercarlo GhinzaniTolemanTG185134Engine0
DNFTeo FabiTolemanTG18573Engine0
DNFMarc SurerBrabhamBT5453Engine0
DNFHuub RothengatterOsella—201Electrical0
DNFRiccardo PatreseAlfa Romeo—120Collision0
DNFEddie CheeverAlfa Romeo—140Collision0
DNSAlan JonesLolaTHL1——Unwell0
A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.
F1DB layout kyalami-1 · 4.094 km · 9 turns, F1DB’s figures
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

010203040506070Laps completedGridResult11Nigel Mansell32Keke Rosberg93Alain Prost164Stefan Johansson115Gerhard Berger106Thierry Boutsen177Martin Brundle6DNFElio de Angelis19DNFPierluigi Martini8DNFNiki Lauda18DNFPhilippe Streiff4DNFAyrton Senna15DNFMichele Alboreto2DNFNelson Piquet13DNFPiercarlo Ghinzani7DNFTeo Fabi5DNFMarc Surer20DNFHuub Rothengatter12DNFRiccardo Patrese14DNFEddie Cheever

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.

Grid to flag
DriverGridResultLaps
Nigel Mansell1175
Keke Rosberg3275
Alain Prost9374
Stefan Johansson16474
Gerhard Berger11574
Thierry Boutsen10674
Martin Brundle17773
Elio de Angelis6DNF52
Pierluigi Martini19DNF45
Niki Lauda8DNF37
Philippe Streiff18DNF16
Ayrton Senna4DNF8
Michele Alboreto15DNF8
Nelson Piquet2DNF6
Piercarlo Ghinzani13DNF4
Teo Fabi7DNF3
Marc Surer5DNF3
Huub Rothengatter20DNF1
Riccardo Patrese12DNF0
Eddie Cheever14DNF0

Qualifying

Qualifying
PosDriverConstructorNo.TimeGap≈ DistanceInterval
1Nigel MansellWilliams51:02.366—0 m—
2Nelson PiquetBrabham71:02.490+0.1248 m+0.124
3Keke RosbergWilliams61:02.504+0.1389 m+0.014
4Ayrton SennaTeam Lotus121:02.825+0.45930 m+0.321
5Marc SurerBrabham81:04.088+1.722113 m+1.263
6Elio de AngelisTeam Lotus111:04.129+1.763116 m+0.041
7Teo FabiToleman191:04.215+1.849121 m+0.086
8Niki LaudaMcLaren11:04.283+1.917126 m+0.068
9Alain ProstMcLaren21:04.376+2.010132 m+0.093
10Thierry BoutsenArrows181:04.518+2.152141 m+0.142
11Gerhard BergerArrows171:04.780+2.414158 m+0.262
12Riccardo PatreseAlfa Romeo221:04.948+2.582169 m+0.168
13Piercarlo GhinzaniToleman201:05.114+2.748180 m+0.166
14Eddie CheeverAlfa Romeo231:05.260+2.894190 m+0.146
15Michele AlboretoFerrari271:05.268+2.902191 m+0.008
16Stefan JohanssonFerrari281:05.388+3.022198 m+0.120
17Martin BrundleTyrrell31:05.649+3.283216 m+0.261
18Alan JonesLola331:05.731+3.365221 m+0.082
19Philippe StreiffTyrrell41:06.205+3.839252 m+0.474
20Pierluigi MartiniMinardi291:08.658+6.292413 m+2.453
21Huub RothengatterOsella241:09.873+7.507493 m+1.215
Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.
How it is derived: distance, Qualifying

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

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

Warm-up
PosDriverConstructorNo.Best lapGap≈ DistanceIntervalLaps
1Nelson PiquetBrabham71:06.856—0 m——
2Ayrton SennaTeam Lotus121:08.296+1.44088 m+1.440—
3Keke RosbergWilliams61:08.635+1.779109 m+0.339—
4Niki LaudaMcLaren11:08.977+2.121130 m+0.342—
5Nigel MansellWilliams51:09.026+2.170133 m+0.049—
6Alain ProstMcLaren21:09.270+2.414148 m+0.244—
7Elio de AngelisTeam Lotus111:09.368+2.512154 m+0.098—
8Michele AlboretoFerrari271:09.695+2.839174 m+0.327—
9Stefan JohanssonFerrari281:09.880+3.024185 m+0.185—
10Marc SurerBrabham81:10.104+3.248199 m+0.224—
11Thierry BoutsenArrows181:10.329+3.473213 m+0.225—
12Teo FabiToleman191:10.547+3.691226 m+0.218—
13Martin BrundleTyrrell31:10.662+3.806233 m+0.115—
14Gerhard BergerArrows171:10.750+3.894238 m+0.088—
15Piercarlo GhinzaniToleman201:10.967+4.111252 m+0.217—
16Riccardo PatreseAlfa Romeo221:11.115+4.259261 m+0.148—
17Philippe StreiffTyrrell41:11.469+4.613282 m+0.354—
18Eddie CheeverAlfa Romeo231:11.529+4.673286 m+0.060—
19Pierluigi MartiniMinardi291:12.821+5.965365 m+1.292—
20Huub RothengatterOsella241:13.000+6.144376 m+0.179—
Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.
How it is derived: distance, Warm-up

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

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
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
Arrows A8
Arrows A8
1985 European GP Boutsen · Jerry Lewis-Evans · CC BY-SA 2.0 · unchecked
Tyrrell 014
Tyrrell 014
1985 European GP Brundle 02 · Jerry Lewis-Evans · CC BY-SA 2.0 · unchecked
Brabham BT54
Brabham BT54
Brabham BMW BT54 Turbo 1985 vr TCE · Stahlkocher · CC BY-SA 3.0 · unchecked
Lotus 97T
Lotus 97T
Lotus97T · https://www.flickr.com/jonbradbury · CC BY-SA 4.0
Minardi M185
Minardi M185
1985 European GP Martini · Jerry Lewis-Evans · CC BY-SA 2.0 · unchecked

A 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.

1 more photograph
Toleman TG185
Toleman TG185
1985 European GP Teo Fabi · Jerry Lewis-Evans · CC BY-SA 2.0 · unchecked

Where this comes from

Round
15 of 1985
Grand Prix
South African Grand Prix
Dates
Layout raced
—
Format
Standard weekend
Constructor
Williams
Entrant
Williams-Honda
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.