1985 Dutch Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 11 of 16 in the 1985 Formula One season | |||
The Zandvoort Circuit (1980–1989)
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| Date | August 25, 1985 | ||
| Official name | XXXIV Grote Prijs van Nederland | ||
| Location | Circuit Zandvoort, Zandvoort, Netherlands | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 4.252 km (2.642 mi) | ||
| Distance | 70 laps, 297.840 km (184.940 mi) | ||
| Weather | Dry | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Brabham-BMW | ||
| Time | 1:11.074 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Alain Prost
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McLaren-TAG | |
| Time | 1:16.538 on lap 57 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | McLaren-TAG | ||
| Second | McLaren-TAG | ||
| Third | Lotus-Renault | ||
The 1985 Dutch Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Circuit Zandvoort on August 25, 1985. It was the eleventh round of the 1985 FIA Formula One World Championship. The race was held over 70 laps of the four kilometre circuit for a race distance of 298 kilometres. The race also proved to be the 34th and last Dutch Grand Prix and the 25th and last Grand Prix victory for triple (and defending) World Champion Niki Lauda. Lauda's team mate Alain Prost was second in his McLaren MP4/2B with Brazilian racer Ayrton Senna third in his Lotus 97T.
It was also rising German star Stefan Bellof's last Grand Prix, as he was killed at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit in the 1000 km of Spa World Sportscar race a week later, driving a Porsche 956.
Renault's Patrick Tambay, who qualified an excellent season best sixth, had a huge crash at nearly 200 mph (322 km/h) in the Sunday morning warm up from which he walked away from shaken but unhurt. After losing Saturday to rain and having not run on full tanks all weekend the RE60B's front suspension broke at the end of the main straight going into Tarzan. The car was destroyed in the tyre wall. Tambay was able to start in the spare. Both he and team mate Derek Warwick made what were considered brave decisions to start despite not really knowing what caused the suspension to fail in the first place.
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