F1/Seasons/1985/Round 4
1985 · Round 4 of 16

Monaco Grand Prix

May 19, 1985 · Circuit de Monaco · Monte Carlo · Monaco
Prost
WINNER
Alain Prost · McLaren · from grid 5
FASTEST LAP
Lap timing starts in 2004. This race has none.
+10
MOST PLACES GAINED
Jacques Laffite · grid 16 to P6
11 of 20
CLASSIFIED
9 retired

01/Classification

20 cars
Finishing order
PosDriverConstructorGrid+/-LapsTime / statusPtsFastest lap
1Alain ProstMcLaren5+4781:51:58.0349
2Michele AlboretoFerrari3+178+7.5416
3Elio de AngelisTeam Lotus9+678+1:27.1714
4Andrea de CesarisLigier8+477+1 Lap3
5Derek WarwickRenault10+577+1 Lap2
6Jacques LaffiteLigier16+1077+1 Lap1
7Nigel MansellWilliams2-577+1 Lap0
8Keke RosbergWilliams7-176+2 Laps0
9Thierry BoutsenArrows6-376+2 Laps0
10Martin BrundleTyrrell18+874+4 Laps0
11Jonathan PalmerZakspeed19+874+4 Laps0
RNiki LaudaMcLaren1417Spun off0
RRiccardo PatreseAlfa Romeo1216Accident0
RNelson PiquetBrabham1316Accident0
RTeo FabiToleman2016Turbo0
RAyrton SennaTeam Lotus113Engine0
REddie CheeverAlfa Romeo410Alternator0
RStefan JohanssonFerrari151Accident0
RGerhard BergerArrows110Accident0
RPatrick TambayRenault170Accident0

Ordered on the source’s position column and printed from position_text. Those two disagree on purpose: position is a sort key that is never null, and position_text is what happened to the car. 9 of 20 cars here were not classified (9 retired). Across the archive that is 9,612 of 26,048 result rows, so a page that printed the sort key would tell more than a third of every field it finished.


02/Grid to finish

11 of 20 cars
Grid minus finishing position
PLACES GAINED
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
Jacques LaffiteLigier166+10
Martin BrundleTyrrell1810+8
Jonathan PalmerZakspeed1911+8
Elio de AngelisTeam Lotus93+6
Derek WarwickRenault105+5
PLACES LOST
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
Nigel MansellWilliams27-5
Thierry BoutsenArrows69-3
Keke RosbergWilliams78-1

Movement is grid minus finishing position, and it is computed for 11 of the 20 cars entered. It is left blank for the other 9: a car that was not classified has no finishing position to subtract from, and no car here carries grid 0, the value the source uses for a pit lane start or for no recorded grid slot. Scoring a grid of 0 as a gain of every place on the grid is the arithmetic this rule exists to stop; 266 of 26,048 rows across the archive are grid 0, and 40 of those were classified.


03/The 1985 season

16 rounds
APR 7 to NOV 3
RdDateGrand PrixCircuitWinnerConstructorCars
1APR 7Brazilian Grand PrixAutódromo Internacional Nelson PiquetAlain ProstMcLaren25
2APR 21Portuguese Grand PrixAutódromo do EstorilAyrton SennaTeam Lotus26
3MAY 5San Marino Grand PrixAutodromo Enzo e Dino FerrariElio de AngelisTeam Lotus26
4MAY 19Monaco Grand PrixCircuit de MonacoAlain ProstMcLaren20
5JUN 16Canadian Grand PrixCircuit Gilles VilleneuveMichele AlboretoFerrari25
6JUN 23Detroit Grand PrixDetroit Street CircuitKeke RosbergWilliams25
7JUL 7French Grand PrixCircuit Paul RicardNelson PiquetBrabham26
8JUL 21British Grand PrixSilverstone CircuitAlain ProstMcLaren26
9AUG 4German Grand PrixNürburgringMichele AlboretoFerrari27
10AUG 18Austrian Grand PrixRed Bull RingAlain ProstMcLaren26
11AUG 25Dutch Grand PrixCircuit Park ZandvoortNiki LaudaMcLaren26
12SEP 8Italian Grand PrixAutodromo Nazionale di MonzaAlain ProstMcLaren26
13SEP 15Belgian Grand PrixCircuit de Spa-FrancorchampsAyrton SennaTeam Lotus24
14OCT 6European Grand PrixBrands HatchNigel MansellWilliams26
15OCT 19South African Grand PrixKyalamiNigel MansellWilliams21
16NOV 3Australian Grand PrixAdelaide Street CircuitKeke RosbergWilliams25

Every figure here is one race, read from f1_results and f1_races. The finishing order is the source’s position column; the printed position is position_text, which is a letter on 9,612 of 26,048 rows across the archive (R retired 9,089, W withdrew 364, D disqualified 159). Grid 0 is a pit lane start and prints as PIT, not as a place ahead of pole; 266 of 26,048 rows are grid 0. Time is a total for the winner and a gap to the car ahead for everyone else, and it is present on 8,508 of 26,048 rows only, so most of the archive shows the status instead; where both exist and the status is not “Finished” the status is printed beside the time, because 8,335 of 16,436 classified rows finished lapped or otherwise not cleanly. The fastest lap column is empty before 2004: the source carries lap timing on 8,977 of 26,048 rows and a ranked fastest lap in 447 of 1,161 races, and speed on 8,238 of those, none after 2024. Points are printed as the source stores them and are never rounded to a whole number: 38 of 26,048 rows are fractional (0.5, 1.33, 3.14), which is half points for a shortened race and a split score for a shared car, and every one of them is real. Three races (1951 French, 1956 Argentine, 1957 British) print two cars as first, because two drivers shared one car and the record books credit both; in those three the source hangs the race points on other rows, which is why 5 of 1,164 winning rows across the archive print zero points. Constructors carry no logo in any f1_* table, so none is drawn and none is invented. The 1985 season is complete at 16 rounds.