Race · Round 3 of 16 · 5 May 1985

1985 San Marino Grand Prix

Elio de Angelis won for Team Lotus from 3rd on the grid at Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari. 15 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship podium for Thierry Boutsen.

High of 14 °C, 8.8 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: Autodromo Enzo e Dino FerrariImola, Italy
Winner: Elio de AngelisTeam Lotus
Pole: Ayrton Senna
Fastest lap: Michele Alboreto
Entries: 2610 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Elio de Angelis	Team Lotus	97T	3	60	Finished	9
2	Thierry Boutsen	Arrows	A8	5	59	Out of fuel	6
3	Patrick Tambay	Renault	—	11	59	Finished	4
4	Niki Lauda	McLaren	MP4/2B	8	59	Finished	3
5	Nigel Mansell	Williams	—	7	58	Out of fuel	2
6	Stefan Johansson	Ferrari	156/85	15	57	Out of fuel	1
7	Ayrton Senna	Team Lotus	97T	1	57	Out of fuel	0
8	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	BT54	9	57	Out of fuel	0
9	Martin Brundle	Tyrrell	10	25	56	Out of fuel	0
10	Derek Warwick	Renault	—	14	56	Finished	0
DSQ	Alain Prost	McLaren	MP4/2B	6	60	Car underweight	0
DNF	Eddie Cheever	Alfa Romeo	—	12	50	Engine	0
NC	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Osella	—	22	46	NC	0
DNF	Michele Alboreto	Ferrari	156/85	4	29	Electrical	0	fastest lap
DNF	Manfred Winkelhock	RAM	3	23	27	Engine	0
DNF	Philippe Alliot	RAM	3	21	24	Engine	0
DNF	Keke Rosberg	Williams	—	2	23	Brakes	0
DNF	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	JS25	16	22	Turbo	0
DNF	Pierluigi Martini	Minardi	M185	19	14	Turbo	0
DNF	Andrea de Cesaris	Ligier	JS25	13	11	Spun off	0
DNF	Mauro Baldi	Spirit	101D	26	9	Electrical	0
DNF	François Hesnault	Brabham	BT54	20	5	Engine	0
DNF	Stefan Bellof	Tyrrell	10	24	5	Engine	0
DNF	Gerhard Berger	Arrows	A8	10	4	Engine	0
DNF	Riccardo Patrese	Alfa Romeo	—	18	4	Engine	0
DNS	Jonathan Palmer	Zakspeed	841	17	—	Engine	0

A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.

F1DB layout imola-1 · 5.04 km · 22 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

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
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Elio de Angelis	3	1	60
Thierry Boutsen	5	2	59
Patrick Tambay	11	3	59
Niki Lauda	8	4	59
Nigel Mansell	7	5	58
Stefan Johansson	15	6	57
Ayrton Senna	1	7	57
Nelson Piquet	9	8	57
Martin Brundle	25	9	56
Derek Warwick	14	10	56
Alain Prost	6	DSQ	60
Eddie Cheever	12	DNF	50
Piercarlo Ghinzani	22	NC	46
Michele Alboreto	4	DNF	29
Manfred Winkelhock	23	DNF	27
Philippe Alliot	21	DNF	24
Keke Rosberg	2	DNF	23
Jacques Laffite	16	DNF	22
Pierluigi Martini	19	DNF	14
Andrea de Cesaris	13	DNF	11
Mauro Baldi	26	DNF	9
François Hesnault	20	DNF	5
Stefan Bellof	24	DNF	5
Gerhard Berger	10	DNF	4
Riccardo Patrese	18	DNF	4

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Ayrton Senna	Team Lotus	12	1:27.327	—	0 m	—
2	Keke Rosberg	Williams	6	1:27.354	+0.027	2 m	+0.027
3	Elio de Angelis	Team Lotus	11	1:27.852	+0.525	30 m	+0.498
4	Michele Alboreto	Ferrari	27	1:27.871	+0.544	31 m	+0.019
5	Thierry Boutsen	Arrows	18	1:27.918	+0.591	34 m	+0.047
6	Alain Prost	McLaren	2	1:28.099	+0.772	45 m	+0.181
7	Nigel Mansell	Williams	5	1:28.202	+0.875	50 m	+0.103
8	Niki Lauda	McLaren	1	1:28.399	+1.072	62 m	+0.197
9	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	7	1:28.489	+1.162	67 m	+0.090
10	Gerhard Berger	Arrows	17	1:28.697	+1.370	79 m	+0.208
11	Patrick Tambay	Renault	15	1:29.102	+1.775	102 m	+0.405
12	Eddie Cheever	Alfa Romeo	23	1:29.259	+1.932	112 m	+0.157
13	Andrea de Cesaris	Ligier	25	1:29.406	+2.079	120 m	+0.147
14	Derek Warwick	Renault	16	1:29.466	+2.139	123 m	+0.060
15	Stefan Johansson	Ferrari	28	1:29.806	+2.479	143 m	+0.340
16	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:30.982	+3.655	211 m	+1.176
17	Jonathan Palmer	Zakspeed	30	1:31.028	+3.701	214 m	+0.046
18	Riccardo Patrese	Alfa Romeo	22	1:31.108	+3.781	218 m	+0.080
19	Pierluigi Martini	Minardi	29	1:32.770	+5.443	314 m	+1.662
20	François Hesnault	Brabham	8	1:33.142	+5.815	336 m	+0.372
21	Philippe Alliot	RAM	10	1:34.201	+6.874	397 m	+1.059
22	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Osella	24	1:34.209	+6.882	397 m	+0.008
23	Manfred Winkelhock	RAM	9	1:34.579	+7.252	419 m	+0.370
24	Stefan Bellof	Tyrrell	4	1:35.653	+8.326	481 m	+1.074
25	Martin Brundle	Tyrrell	3	1:36.397	+9.070	523 m	+0.744
26	Mauro Baldi	Spirit	21	1:36.922	+9.595	554 m	+0.525

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

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
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Alain Prost	McLaren	2	1:50.018	—	0 m	—	—
2	Nelson Piquet	Brabham	7	1:50.590	+0.572	26 m	+0.572	—
3	Andrea de Cesaris	Ligier	25	1:50.865	+0.847	39 m	+0.275	—
4	Stefan Johansson	Ferrari	28	1:51.499	+1.481	68 m	+0.634	—
5	Nigel Mansell	Williams	5	1:51.956	+1.938	89 m	+0.457	—
6	Niki Lauda	McLaren	1	1:52.393	+2.375	109 m	+0.437	—
7	Michele Alboreto	Ferrari	27	1:52.528	+2.510	115 m	+0.135	—
8	Patrick Tambay	Renault	15	1:52.891	+2.873	132 m	+0.363	—
9	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Osella	24	1:53.224	+3.206	147 m	+0.333	—
10	Keke Rosberg	Williams	6	1:53.288	+3.270	150 m	+0.064	—
11	Ayrton Senna	Team Lotus	12	1:53.317	+3.299	151 m	+0.029	—
12	Eddie Cheever	Alfa Romeo	23	1:53.706	+3.688	169 m	+0.389	—
13	Riccardo Patrese	Alfa Romeo	22	1:53.846	+3.828	175 m	+0.140	—
14	Thierry Boutsen	Arrows	18	1:54.168	+4.150	190 m	+0.322	—
15	Elio de Angelis	Team Lotus	11	1:54.801	+4.783	219 m	+0.633	—
16	Stefan Bellof	Tyrrell	4	1:56.029	+6.011	275 m	+1.228	—
17	Philippe Alliot	RAM	10	1:56.207	+6.189	284 m	+0.178	—
18	Manfred Winkelhock	RAM	9	1:57.109	+7.091	325 m	+0.902	—
19	Martin Brundle	Tyrrell	3	1:57.431	+7.413	340 m	+0.322	—
20	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:58.803	+8.785	402 m	+1.372	—
21	François Hesnault	Brabham	8	2:00.209	+10.191	467 m	+1.406	—
22	Mauro Baldi	Spirit	21	2:04.304	+14.286	654 m	+4.095	—
23	Gerhard Berger	Arrows	17	2:26.253	+36.235	1,660 m	+21.949	—
24	Derek Warwick	Renault	16	2:39.376	+49.358	2,261 m	+13.123	—

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

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.

Lotus 97T
Lotus97T · https://www.flickr.com/jonbradbury · CC BY-SA 4.0

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.

4 more photographs

Where this comes from

Round: 3 of 1985
Grand Prix: San Marino Grand Prix
Dates: 5 May 1985
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Team Lotus
Entrant: Lotus-Renault
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.