1985 Canadian Grand Prix | |||
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Race 5 of 16 in the 1985 Formula One World Championship | |||
Race details | |||
Date | 16 June 1985 | ||
Official name | XXIV Grand Prix du Canada | ||
Location |
Circuit Gilles Villeneuve Montreal, Quebec, Canada | ||
Course | Temporary street circuit | ||
Course length | 4.410 km (2.740 miles) | ||
Distance | 70 laps, 308.700 km (191.817 miles) | ||
Weather | Sunny with temperatures approaching 20.5 °C (68.9 °F); wind speeds up to 12.9 kilometres per hour (8.0 mph)[1] | ||
Pole position | |||
Driver | Lotus-Renault | ||
Time | 1:24.567 | ||
Fastest lap | |||
Driver | Ayrton Senna | Lotus-Renault | |
Time | 1:27.445 on lap 45 | ||
Podium | |||
First | Ferrari | ||
Second | Ferrari | ||
Third | McLaren-TAG | ||
Lap leaders |
The 1985 Canadian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal on 16 June 1985. It was the fifth race of the 1985 Formula One World Championship.
The 70-lap race was won by Italian driver Michele Alboreto, driving a Ferrari, with Swedish teammate Stefan Johansson second and Frenchman Alain Prost third in a McLaren-TAG. The win gave Alboreto the lead of the Drivers' Championship by five points from Prost and fellow Italian Elio de Angelis, who finished fifth in his Lotus-Renault having started from pole position, while Ferrari took the lead of the Constructors' Championship.