1985 World Sportscar Championship season

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The 1985 World Sportscar Championship season was the 33rd FIA World Endurance Championship season. It was a series running under the Group C formula, running cars in two classes known as C1 and C2. An invitational GTP class was also run for IMSA-spec cars. It ran from April 14, 1985 to December 1, 1985, and was comprised of 10 races.

This year marked the first time that a championship was awarded for individual teams instead of having a manufacturer's championship.

[edit] Schedule

Rnd	Race	Circuit	Date
1	1000km Mugello	Mugello Circuit	April 14
2	Trofeo Filippo Caracciolo (1000km)†	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	April 28
3	Silverstone 1000 Kilometres	Silverstone Circuit	May 12
4	24 Hours of Le Mans	Circuit de la Sarthe	June 15 June 16
5	Duschfrish ADAC 1000 Kilometres	Hockenheimring	July 14
6	Budweiser GT 1000 Kilometres	Mosport	August 11
7	1000km of Spa	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	September 1
8	1000km of Brands Hatch†	Brands Hatch	September 22
9	Fuji 1000 Kilometres	Fuji Speedway	October 6
10	Malaysia 800 Selangor†	Selangor	December 1

† - Non-points races for teams.

[edit] Season Results

Points were awarded to the top 10 finishers in the order of 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1, with the following exceptions:

• Drivers failing to drive the car within a certain percentage of the laps in a race were not given points.
• Teams were only given points for their highest finishing car; any other team cars were merely skipped in the points standings. Points were still awarded to their drivers however.
• Neither driver nor teams scored points if they did not complete 90% of the winner's distance.

[edit] Races

Rnd	Circuit	C1 Winning Team	C2 Winning Team	Results
		C1 Winning Drivers	C2 Winning Drivers
1	Mugello	Rothmans Porsche	Spice Engineering	Results
		Jacky Ickx Jochen Mass	Gordon Spice Ray Bellm
2	Monza	Porsche Kremer Racing	Spice Engineering	Results
		Manfred Winkelhock Marc Surer	Gordon Spice Ray Bellm
3	Silverstone	Rothmans Porsche	Ecurie Ecosse	Results
		Jacky Ickx Jochen Mass	Ray Mallock Mike Wilds
4	La Sarthe	Joest Racing	Spice Engineering	Results
		Klaus Ludwig Louis Krages Paolo Barilla	Gordon Spice Ray Bellm Mark Galvin
5	Hockenheimring	Rothmans Porsche	Ecurie Ecosse	Results
		Derek Bell Hans Joachim Stuck	Ray Mallock David Leslie Mike Wilds
6	Mosport	Rothmans Porsche	Spice Engineering	Results
		Derek Bell Hans Joachim Stuck	Gordon Spice Ray Bellm
7	Spa-Francorchamps	Martini Racing	Spice Engineering	Results
		Bob Wollek Mauro Baldi	Gordon Spice Ray Bellm
8	Brands Hatch	Rothmans Porsche	Ecurie Ecosse	Results
		Derek Bell Hans-Joachim Stuck	Ray Mallock Mike Wilds
9	Fuji	Hoshino Racing	Auto Beaurex Motorsport	Results
		Kazuyoshi Hoshini Akira Hagiwara Keiji Matsumoto	Kazuo Mogi Toshio Motohashi
10	Selangor	Rothmans Porsche	ADA Engineering	Results
		Jacky Ickx Jochen Mass	Richard Piper Ian Harrower Evan Clements

[edit] Teams Championship

[edit] Overall Teams Championship

All cars were awarded points for the overall championship, but C2 class cars were scored separately for their own championship.

No points were awarded for Rounds 2, 8, and 10. Points were intended for Round 9, but were not awarded due to the race being stopped at less than 50% distance being covered.

Pos	Team	Chassis	Engine	Rd 1	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Rd 6	Rd 7	Rd 9	Total
1	Rothmans Porsche	Porsche 956 Porsche 962C	Porsche 2.6L Turbo Flat-6	20	20	12	20	20	15		107
2	Martini Racing	Lancia LC2	Ferrari 308C 3.0L Turbo V8	10	12	6	10		20		58
3	New-Man Joest Racing	Porsche 956	Porsche 2.6L Turbo Flat-6		6	20	12		12		50
4	Porsche Kremer Racing	Porsche 956 Porsche 962C	Porsche 2.6L Turbo Flat-6	15	10	8		10			43
5	Richard Lloyd Racing	Porsche 956 Porsche 956 GTi	Porsche 2.6L Turbo Flat-6		8	15	8				31
6	Brun Motorsport	Porsche 956 Porscge 962C	Porsche 2.6L Turbo Flat-6	12	1		15				28
7	TWR Jaguar	Jaguar XJR-6	Jaguar 6.2L V12					12	8		20
8	Obermaier Racing	Porsche 956	Porsche 2.6L Turbo Flat-6	6	4	3	4		3		20
9	Spice Engineering	Tiga GC84 Spice-Tiga GC85	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0L V8 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8	4			2	8	2		16
10	John Fitzpatrick Racing	Porsche 956	Porsche 2.6L Turbo Flat-6			10					10

[edit] C2 Teams Championship

Pos	Team	Chassis	Engine	Rd 1	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Rd 6	Rd 7	Rd 9	Total
1	Spice Engineering	Tiga GC84 Spice-Tiga GC85	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0L V8 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8	20	15	20	15	20	20		110
2	Ecurie Ecosse	Ecosse C285	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0L V8 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8		20		20		10		50
3	Ark Racing	Ceekar 83J	Ford Cosworth BDX 2.0L I4	10	8		10	12	6		46
4	Gebhardt Engineering	Gebhardt JC843 Gebhardt JC853	BMW 3.5L I6 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8		10			15	15		40
5	Jens Winther	URD C83	BMW 3.5L I6	12			8		12		32
6	Carma F.F.	Alba AR2 Alba AR6	Carma FF 1.9L Turbo I4	15	4		12				31
7	Roy Baker Promotions	Tiga GC284 Tiga GC285	Ford BDT 1.7L Turbo I4	8		10			2		20
8	Mazdaspeed Co.	Mazda 737C	Mazda 13B 1.3L 2-Rotor		6	12					18
9	ADA Engineering	Gebhardt JC843	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8			15					15
10	Bo Strandell	Standell 85	Porsche 3.3L Turbo Flat-6		12						12

[edit] External links

• 1985 World Endurance Championship