Race Rewind
As of April 1985

1985 Portuguese Grand Prix

🇵🇹 Portugal Autódromo do Estoril, Estoril, Portugal Round 2 of 16

Going Into This Race

WDC Leader
9 pts (+3 over P2)
WCC Leader
9 pts

Pre-Race Report

Previous race

In Brazil, Alain Prost won from Michele Alboreto and Elio de Angelis. Nigel Mansell — in his first race for Williams — was involved in a start-line incident and retired early with body damage.

Between-race developments

Ferrari have sacked René Arnoux with no official explanation given by the team or the driver. Stefan Johansson, who stood in for Bellof at Tyrrell in Brazil, moves to the Scuderia and takes Arnoux’s seat.

Entrants

Zakspeed make their Formula One debut this weekend. Jonathan Palmer is their driver.

Adapted by AI summarisation from “1985 Portuguese Grand Prix” on Wikipedia . This adapted text is licensed under CC-BY-SA-4.0 . Modifications: summarised and spoiler-trimmed.

Drivers' Championship

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Constructors' Championship

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PosTeamPtsWins
1McLaren91
2Ferrari90
3Team Lotus40
4Renault20
5Ligier10