French
Deutsch1985 French motorcycle Grand Prix
| Race details | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Race 9 of 12 races in the 1985 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 21 July 1985 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Official name | Grand Prix de France[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Bugatti Circuit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 500cc | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 250cc | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 125cc | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 80cc | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 1985 French motorcycle Grand Prix was the eighth round of the 1985 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 19–21 July 1985 at the Bugatti Circuit located in Le Mans.
Classification
[edit]500 cc
[edit]| Pos. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Time/Retired | Points | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Freddie Spencer | Rothmans Team HRC | Honda | 45'58.330 | 15 | ||
| 2 |  Raymond Roche | Marlboro Team Agostini | Yamaha | +15.710 | 12 | ||
| 3 | Randy Mamola | Rothmans Honda Mamola | Honda | +19.800 | 10 | ||
| 4 | Eddie Lawson | Marlboro Team Agostini | Yamaha | +26.890 | 8 | ||
| 5 |  Ron Haslam | Rothmans Honda Britain | Honda | +33.850 | 6 | ||
| 6 | Pierre-Etienne Samin | Honda Benelux Elf | Honda | +1'22.750 | 5 | ||
| 7 |  Sito Pons | HB Suzuki GP Team | Suzuki | +1'28.060 | 4 | ||
| 8 |  Gustav Reiner | Zwafink & Wilberts Racing | Honda | +1 lap | 3 | ||
| 9 |  Fabio Biliotti | Team Italia | Honda | +1 lap | 2 | ||
| 10 | Mike Baldwin | Honda | +1 lap | 1 | |||
| 11 | Armando Errico | Team Italia | Honda | +1 lap | |||
| 12 | Franco Uncini | HB Suzuki GP Team | Suzuki | +1 lap | |||
| 13 |  Wolfgang Von Muralt | Frankonia-Suzuki | Suzuki | +1 lap | |||
| 14 |  Rob Punt | Oud Bier | Suzuki | +1 lap | |||
| 15 |  Dietmar Mayer | Honda | +1 lap | ||||
| 16 | Maurice Coq | Suzuki | +1 lap | ||||
| 17 | Simon Buckmaster | Sid Griffiths Racing | Suzuki | +2 lap | |||
| 18 |  Andreas Leuthe | Honda | +2 laps | ||||
| Ret | Neil Robinson | Jim Finlay Racing | Suzuki | Retired | |||
| Ret |  Didier de Radiguès | Honda Benelux Elf | Honda | Retired | |||
| Ret | Marco Gentile | Yamaha | Retired | ||||
| Ret | Christian Sarron | Sonauto Gauloises Yamaha | Yamaha | Accident | |||
| Ret |  Wayne Gardner | Rothmans Honda Britain | Honda | Retired | |||
| Ret | Rob McElnea | Skoal Bandit Heron Suzuki | Suzuki | Retired | |||
| Ret | Christian Le Liard | Team ROC | Honda | Retired | |||
| Ret |  Stelio Marmaras | Suzuki | Retired | ||||
| Ret |  Eero Hyvärinen | Honda | Accident | ||||
| Ret | Boet van Dulmen | Shell-Toshiba Racing Team | Honda | Accident | |||
| Ret |  Dave Petersen | Kreepy Krauly Racing | Honda | Accident | |||
| Ret | Massimo Messere | Team Italia | Honda | Retired | |||
| Ret | Louis-Luc Maisto | Honda | Retired | ||||
| DNS | Claude Arciero | Honda | Did not start | ||||
| DNS | Thierry Espié | Chevallier | Did not start | ||||
| DNQ | René Lavigne | Honda | Did not qualify | ||||
| Sources:[2][3] | |||||||
References
[edit]- ^ "Grand Prix uitslagen en bijzonderheden 1985". Archive.today (in Dutch). 25 July 2015. Archived from the original on 25 July 2015. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
- ^ "1985 French MotoGP". Motor Sport Magazine. 13 June 2017. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
- ^ "French Grand Prix 500cc Race Classification 1985". Motogp. Archived from the original on 2018-09-25. Retrieved 2018-09-25.