1985

Pos	Driver	Nat	Car	Pts	Wins	Share of the leader
1	Alain Prost	French	McLaren	73	5
2	Michele Alboreto	Italian	Ferrari	53	2
3	Keke Rosberg	Finnish	Williams	40	2
4	Ayrton Senna	Brazilian	Team Lotus	38	2
5	Elio de Angelis	Italian	Team Lotus	33	1
6	Nigel Mansell	British	Williams	31	2
7	Stefan Johansson	Swedish	Ferrari / Tyrrell	26	0
8	Nelson Piquet	Brazilian	Brabham	21	1
9	Jacques Laffite	French	Ligier	16	0
10	Niki Lauda	Austrian	McLaren	14	1
11	Thierry Boutsen	Belgian	Arrows	11	0
12	Patrick Tambay	French	Renault	11	0
13	Marc Surer	Swiss	Brabham	5	0
14	Derek Warwick	British	Renault	5	0
15	Philippe Streiff	French	Ligier / Tyrrell	4	0
16	Stefan Bellof	German	Tyrrell	4	0
17	Andrea de Cesaris	Italian	Ligier	3	0
18	Ivan Capelli	Italian	Tyrrell	3	0
19	René Arnoux	French	Ferrari	3	0
20	Gerhard Berger	Austrian	Arrows	3	0
—	KAKenny Acheson	British	RAM	0	0
—	Philippe Alliot	French	RAM	0	0
—	Mauro Baldi	Italian	Spirit	0	0
—	Martin Brundle	British	Tyrrell	0	0
—	Eddie Cheever	American	Alfa Romeo	0	0
—	Christian Danner	German	Zakspeed	0	0
—	TFTeo Fabi	Italian	Toleman	0	0
—	PGPiercarlo Ghinzani	Italian	Osella / Toleman	0	0
—	FHFrançois Hesnault	French	Brabham / Renault	0	0
—	AJAlan Jones	Australian	Lola	0	0
—	PMPierluigi Martini	Italian	Minardi	0	0
—	Jonathan Palmer	British	Zakspeed	0	0
—	Riccardo Patrese	Italian	Alfa Romeo	0	0
—	Huub Rothengatter	Dutch	Osella	0	0
—	John Watson	British	McLaren	0	0
—	MWManfred Winkelhock	German	RAM	0	0

Read from the season’s final standings row, never summed from the race results. 16 of 36 entries in this table carry no championship position and are ruled below the placed field, ordered by points.

Read from the season’s final constructor standings row. A constructor scores through both of its cars, so these totals are not the sum of any one driver’s line above.

Both championship tables on this page are read from the season’s standings rows at round 16, the last round loaded, and neither is derived by adding up the race results. That distinction is the whole point: for most of the sport’s history only a driver’s best few results counted toward the title, a race stopped short paid half points, and a driver could be excluded from a championship he had scored in, so a table built by summing the results column would disagree with the championship as it was actually awarded. Positions are the source’s own; where it recorded none, the row prints a dash and sits below the placed field rather than being given a place it never held or dropped from the page. A points total is printed as it is stored, to two decimals where it needs them, because the sport has awarded half points and split shared drives since the 1950s and those fractions are real. The calendar is every round in the archive for 1985, in round order, with the winner taken from the classification code the source prints rather than from its sort key; three of the 1,161 races loaded were won by a shared car, and for those the calendar names one driver while the race classification credits both. The Cars column counts the rows in each race’s classification, which includes cars that retired, so it is entries with a recorded result rather than a count of cars that took the start. The drivers and constructors counted in the masthead are those that appear in a race result for 1985, not those that entered. The constructors’ championship has been awarded since 1958, so both tables exist for this season. 1985 is complete: all 16 rounds are loaded and both tables are final.