1985 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season

The 1985 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 37th F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season.

Season summary

Honda's Freddie Spencer gave a dominating performance becoming the first man to win the 250 and 500 championships in the same year. Defending champion Eddie Lawson finished in second with former 250 world champion, Christian Sarron coming in third. Australian Wayne Gardner showed promise with a fourth place finish for Honda.

With perennial champion Angel Nieto moving to the 250 class, the 125 class was left open for his Garelli team-mate, Fausto Gresini to clinch the title, giving the Italian team its fourth consecutive championship. Swiss Stefan Dörflinger would take his fourth consecutive title in the 80cc class. Angel Nieto won his 90th and final Grand Prix victory in the 80cc round in France, at the time second only to Giacomo Agostini, but since surpassed by Valentino Rossi.^[1]

Grands Prix

Round	Race	Location	80cc winner	125cc winner	250cc winner	500cc winner	Report
1	South African Grand Prix	Kyalami			Freddie Spencer	Eddie Lawson	Report
2	Spanish Grand Prix	Jarama	Jorge Martínez	Pier Paolo Bianchi	Carlos Lavado	Freddie Spencer	Report
3	German Grand Prix	Hockenheim	Stefan Dörflinger	August Auinger	Martin Wimmer	Christian Sarron	Report
4	Nations Grand Prix	Mugello	Jorge Martínez	Pier Paolo Bianchi	Freddie Spencer	Freddie Spencer	Report
5	Austrian Grand Prix	Salzburgring		Fausto Gresini	Freddie Spencer	Freddie Spencer	Report
6	Yugoslavian Grand Prix	Rijeka	Stefan Dörflinger		Freddie Spencer	Eddie Lawson	Report
7	Dutch TT	Assen	Gerd Kafka	Pier Paolo Bianchi	Freddie Spencer	Randy Mamola	Report
8	Belgian Grand Prix	Spa		Fausto Gresini	Freddie Spencer	Freddie Spencer	Report
9	French Grand Prix	Le Mans	Ángel Nieto	Ezio Gianola	Freddie Spencer	Freddie Spencer	Report
10	British Grand Prix	Silverstone		August Auinger	Anton Mang	Freddie Spencer	Report
11	Swedish Grand Prix	Anderstorp		August Auinger	Anton Mang	Freddie Spencer	Report
12	San Marino Grand Prix	Misano	Jorge Martínez	Fausto Gresini	Carlos Lavado	Eddie Lawson	Report

Final standings

500cc standings^[2]

Place	Rider	Number	Team	Machine	Points	Wins	P.Pos.	F.Laps
1	Freddie Spencer	4	Rothmans-Honda	NSR500	141	7	10	6
2	Eddie Lawson	1	Marlboro-Yamaha	YZR500	133	3	2	3
3	Christian Sarron	6	Gauloises-Yamaha	YZR500	80	1		2
4	Wayne Gardner	7	Rothmans-Honda	NSR500	73			1
5	Ron Haslam	5	Rothmans-Honda	NS500	73
6	Randy Mamola	2	Rothmans-Honda	NSR500	72	1
7	Raymond Roche	3	Marlboro-Yamaha	YZR500	50
8	Didier de Radiguès	9	Elf-Honda	NS500	47
9	Rob McElnea	19	Skoal Bandit-Suzuki	RG500	20
10	Boet van Dulmen	8	Toshiba-Honda	RS500	18

250cc standings^[3][4]

Place	Rider	Number	Team	Machine	Points	Wins	P.Pos.	F.Laps
1	Freddie Spencer	19	Rothmans-Honda	NSR250	127	7	6	6
2	Anton Mang	5	Marlboro-Honda	RS250	124	2		1
3	Carlos Lavado	3	Venemotos-Yamaha	TZ250	94	2	5	1
4	Martin Wimmer	7	Lui-Yamaha	TZ250	69	1	1	2
5	Fausto Ricci	16	Rothmans-Honda Italy	RS250	50
6	Loris Reggiani	9	Aprilia	Aprilia-Rotax	44
7	Alan Carter	9	Donington Park-Honda	RS250	32
8	Manfred Herweh	2	Massa-Real	Real-Rotax	31			1
9	Reinhold Roth	13	Römer-Yamaha	TZ250	29
10	Jacques Cornu	6	Parisienne Elf-Honda	RS250	25

125cc final standings

Place	Rider	Number	Country	Machine	Points	Wins
1	Fausto Gresini	3	Italy	Garelli	109	3
2	Pier Paolo Bianchi	18	Italy	MBA	99	3
3	August Auinger	5	Austria	Monnet[disambiguation needed ]	78	3
4	Ezio Gianola	15	Italy	Garelli	77	1
5	Bruno Kneubühler	10	Switzerland	LCR[disambiguation needed ]	58	0
6	Domenico Brigaglia		Italy	MBA	45	0
7	Jean-Claude Selini	6	France	MBA	36	0
8	Jussi Hautaniemi	21	Finland	MBA	26	0
9	Lucio Pietroniro		Belgium	MBA	25	0
10	Olivier Liegeois		Belgium	KLS	23	0

80cc standings

Place	Rider	Number	Country	Machine	Points	Wins
1	Stefan Dörflinger	1	Switzerland	Krauser	86	2
2	Jorge Martínez	4	Spain	Derbi	67	3
3	Gerd Kafka		Austria	Casal	48	1
4	Manuel Herreros	55	Spain	Derbi	45	0
5	Gerhard Waibel	5	West Germany	Seel	35	0
6	Ian McConnachie		United Kingdom	Krauser	33	0
7	Theo Timmer	10	Netherlands	Huvo	21	0
8	Henk van Kessel		Netherlands	Huvo	18	0
9	Angel Nieto		Spain	Derbi	15	1
10	Paul Rimmelzwaan		Netherlands	Casal	15	0

References

• Büla, Maurice & Schertenleib, Jean-Claude (2001). Continental Circus 1949-2000. Chronosports S.A. ISBN 2-940125-32-5
• "The Official MotoGP website". http://www.motogp.com/en/Results+Statistics/1985/NAT/500cc/World+Standing. Retrieved 2010-07-06. 

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