| 1985 Dutch Grand Prix | |||
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| Race 11 of 16 in the1985 Formula One World Championship | |||
 The Zandvoort Circuit (1980–1989) | |||
| Race details | |||
| Date | 25 August 1985 | ||
| Official name | XXXIIGrote Prijs van Nederland | ||
| Location | Circuit Zandvoort,Zandvoort,Netherlands | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 4.252 km (2.642 miles) | ||
| Distance | 70 laps, 297.640 km (184.945 miles) | ||
| Weather | Sunny | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Brabham-BMW | ||
| Time | 1:11.074 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |  Alain Prost | McLaren-TAG | |
| Time | 1:16.538 on lap 57(lap record) | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | McLaren-TAG | ||
| Second | McLaren-TAG | ||
| Third | Lotus-Renault | ||
Lap leaders | |||
The1985 Dutch Grand Prix was aFormula Onemotor race held atCircuit Zandvoort on 25 August 1985. It was the eleventh round of the1985 FIA Formula One World Championship and the 34th World Championship Grand Prix to be held in theNetherlands. 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 25th and final Grand Prix victory for triple World ChampionNiki Lauda, driving aMcLaren-TAG. Lauda's teammateAlain Prost was second, with Brazilian racerAyrton Senna third in hisLotus-Renault. However, it was also to be the last Dutch Grand Prix for 36 years. It was planned to be re-introduced in2020, on a revised Zandvoort circuit, however the re-introduction was postponed due to theCOVID-19 pandemic, which would be eventually cancelled.[1] The first race back at Zandvoort eventually turned out to be in2021, won byMax Verstappen, the nation's first World Champion.
It was also the last Grand Prix for West GermanStefan Bellof, who was killed the following week at the1000 km of SpaWorld Sportscar race.
Renault'sPatrick Tambay, who qualified sixth, had a huge crash at nearly 322 km/h (200 mph) in the Sunday morning warm-up following a suspension failure on the start-finish straight. Tambay escaped shaken but unhurt, and took the start in the spare car.
Nelson Piquet recorded his first and only pole position of the season, averaging 215.369 km/h (133.824 mph), the first for tyre manufacturerPirelli. However, he stalled hisBrabham at the start and was eventually push-started, almost a lap behind the leaders. He eventually finished eighth.
Niki Lauda took his 25th and final Grand Prix win in hisMcLaren-TAG. His teammateAlain Prost finished second, only 0.232 seconds behind; the two had diced for the lead over the final twelve laps of the race.Ayrton Senna continued his late-season charge by finishing third in hisLotus, albeit 48 seconds behind the McLarens; he finished just ahead of Prost's Drivers' Championship rivalMichele Alboreto in theFerrari. Senna's teammateElio de Angelis was fifth, withWilliams'sNigel Mansell taking the final point for sixth.
Following his car destroying crash at the previous race inAustria, this was also the last timeAndrea de Cesaris appeared in aLigier. It would in fact be the Italian's last race of the season.
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