1985 International Formula 3000 season

1985 FIA International Formula 3000 season
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The 1985 International Formula 3000 season was the inaugural season of the series and replaced F2 as the official feeder series to F1. It was scheduled over 12 rounds and contested over 11 rounds. 14 different teams tried their luck with 33 different drivers and 7 different chassis. The series was won by the German Christian Danner driving for BS Automotive.^[1]

Danner, who was laying second in the championship at the time, would graduate to Formula One when he made his Grand Prix debut for the German Zakspeed team at the 1985 Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps on 15 September, a week before he won the final round of the F3000 championship at Donington Park to clinch the title from Mike Thackwell.

Danner had the dubious honour of being the first in a long line of Formula 3000 champions who would fail to make an impact on Formula One, despite the championship being seen as the highest level FIA single seater championship behind Grand Prix racing. Only future champions Jean Alesi, Olivier Panis and Juan Pablo Montoya would actually go on to win a Formula One Grand Prix.

Drivers and teams

Team	Chassis	Engine	No.	Drivers	Rounds
Ralt Racing Ltd	Ralt RT20	Cosworth	1	Mike Thackwell	All
Ralt Racing Ltd	Ralt RT20	Cosworth	2	John Nielsen	All
Equipe Oreca	March 85B	Cosworth	3	Michel Ferté	All
			4	Pierre Chauvet	1, 10
				Olivier Grouillard	2-9
				Pascal Fabre	11
			35	Alain Ferté	11
Automobiles Gonfaronnaises Sportives	AGS JH20	Cosworth	5	Philippe Streiff	All
BS Automotive	March 85B	Cosworth	7	Tomas Kaiser	1-4, 8-11
				Jean-Philippe Grand	5-6
				Philippe Alliot	7
			8	Christian Danner	All
Onyx	March 85B	Cosworth	9	Emanuele Pirro	All
			10	Johnny Dumfries	1-4
			10	Mario Hytten	5-11
Sanremo Racing	March 85B	Cosworth	13	Gabriele Tarquini	All
			14	Alessandro Santin	1-4, 8-11
				Ivan Capelli	5
				Aldo Bertuzzi	7
			33	Roberto Del Castello	2-4
			33	Guido Daccò	5-11
Lola Motorsport	Lola T950	Cosworth	15	Alain Ferté	1-4
				Johnny Dumfries	6-7
				Philippe Streiff	8
				James Weaver	9-10
				Val Musetti	11
			16	Mario Hytten	1
			16	Fulvio Ballabio	11
PMC Motorsport	Williams FW08	Cosworth	17	Thierry Tassin	1-2
PMC Motorsport	Williams FW08	Cosworth	18	Lamberto Leoni	1-2, 4-7
Barron Racing	Tyrrell 012	Cosworth	19	Claudio Langes	1-2
Barron Racing	Tyrrell 012	Cosworth	20	Roberto Moreno	1-4
Corbari Italia	Lola T950	Cosworth	21	Juan Manuel Fangio II	2-6
	Lola T950		22	Mario Hytten	2-4
	March 85B		21	Juan Manuel Fangio II	7-8
				Max Busslinger	9-10
				Stefano Livio	11
			22	Alain Ferté	5-7
			22	Lamberto Leoni	8-11
Ekström Racing	March 85B	Cosworth	23	Eric Lang	2, 11
Eddie Jordan Racing	March 85B	Cosworth	25	Thierry Tassin	3, 6-7, 9-11
Roger Cowman	Arrows A6	Cosworth	26	Slim Borgudd	2, 4, 6, 11
Genoa Racing	March 85B	Cosworth	34	Ivan Capelli	4, 6-11

Season review

Rnd	Track	Date	Laps	Distance	Time	Speed	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Race Winner
1	Silverstone	24 March	44	207.64 km	1'07:41.01	183.976 km/h	Michel Ferté	John Nielsen	Mike Thackwell
2	Thruxton	7 April	54	204.768 km	1'05:00.83	188.912 km/h	Mike Thackwell	Christian Danner	Emanuele Pirro
3	Estoril	21 April	47	204.45 km	1'12:44.424	168.640 km/h	Mike Thackwell	Mike Thackwell	John Nielsen
	Nürburgring	28 April	cancelled due to snow
4	Vallelunga	12 May	65	208.0 km	1'15:14.83	165.53 km/h	Mike Thackwell	Emanuele Pirro	Emanuele Pirro
5	Pau	27 May	72	198.72 km	1.30:28.63	131.781 km/h	Emanuele Pirro	Christian Danner	Christian Danner
6	Spa-Francorchamps	2 June	29	201.521 km	1'11:56.510	167.852 km/h	Michel Ferté	Mike Thackwell	Mike Thackwell
7	Dijon	30 June	55	209.0 km	1'08:54.10	181.998 km/h	John Nielsen	Thierry Tassin	Christian Danner
8	Pergusa-Enna	28 July	40	198.0 km	1'01:58.99	191,664 km/h	Mike Thackwell	Christian Danner	Mike Thackwell
9	Zeltweg	17 August	31	184.202 km	0'53:56.114	204.915 km/h	Christian Danner	Mike Thackwell	Ivan Capelli
10	Zandvoort	24 August	48	204.096 km	1'15:19.023	162.589 km/h	Christian Danner	Christian Danner	Christian Danner
11	Donington Park	22 September	40	160.920 km	0'59:17.83	160.954 km/h	Mike Thackwell	Ivan Capelli	Christian Danner

Championship standings

Scoring system

Points are awarded to the top 6 classified finishers.

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th
Points	9	6	4	3	2	1

Final point standings

Pos	Driver	Car(s)	SIL	THR	EST	VAL	PAU	SPA	DIJ	PER	ZEL	ZAN	DON	Pts
1	Christian Danner	March 85B-Cosworth	4	6	9	3	1	3	1	3	16	1	1	51 (52)
2	Mike Thackwell	Ralt RT20-Cosworth	1	2	NC	Ret	Ret	1	2	1	9	2	Ret	45
3	Emanuele Pirro	March 85B-Cosworth	7	1	4	1	2	Ret	Ret	2	4	5	Ret	38
4	John Nielsen	Ralt RT20-Cosworth	2	NC	1	2	Ret	Ret	3	Ret	2	4	13	34
5	Michel Ferté	March 85B-Cosworth	3	3	2	Ret	Ret	Ret	8	Ret	Ret	Ret	4	17
6	Gabriele Tarquini	March 85B-Cosworth	5	5	3	Ret	DNS	4	13	4	13	Ret	Ret	14
7	Ivan Capelli	March 85B-Cosworth				Ret		Ret	Ret	Ret	1	DNS	3	13
8	Philippe Streiff	AGS JH20-Cosworth	Ret	Ret	10	5	5	Ret	9	Ret	5	3	5	12
9	Alain Ferté	Lola T950-Cosworth	8	12	7	Ret								10
9	Alain Ferté	March 85B-Cosworth					Ret	2	4				6	10
10	Mario Hytten	Lola T950-Cosworth	9	10	Ret	Ret								8
10	Mario Hytten	March 85B-Cosworth					Ret	Ret	12	5	10	Ret	2	8
11	Lamberto Leoni	Williams FW08-Cosworth	NC	16		Ret	3	Ret	15					8
11	Lamberto Leoni	March 85B-Cosworth								Ret	3	11	11	8
12	Olivier Grouillard	March 85B-Cosworth		8	6	4	4	Ret	7	8	8			7
13	Guido Daccò	March 85B-Cosworth					DNS	5	5	6	12	6	7	6
14	Tomas Kaiser	March 85B-Cosworth	10	4	DSQ	8				Ret	11	9	8	3
15	Roberto Moreno	Tyrrell 012-Cosworth	6	Ret	5	9								3
16	Johnny Dumfries	March 85B-Cosworth	Ret	7	Ret	6								1
16	Johnny Dumfries	Lola T950-Cosworth							Ret	10				1
17	Thierry Tassin	Williams FW08-Cosworth	NC	13										1
17	Thierry Tassin	March 85B-Cosworth			Ret			Ret	Ret		6	8	Ret	1
18	Juan Manuel Fangio II	Lola T950-Cosworth		Ret	11	Ret	Ret	6						1
18	Juan Manuel Fangio II	March 85B-Cosworth							14	Ret				1
19	Philippe Alliot	March 85B-Cosworth							6					1
—	Alessandro Santin	March 85B-Cosworth	Ret	9	Ret	Ret				7	7	7	9	0
—	Roberto Del Castello	March 85B-Cosworth		14	8	7								0
—	James Weaver	Lola T950-Cosworth									14	10		0
—	Slim Borgudd	Arrows A6		DNQ		10		Ret					Ret	0
—	Pascal Fabre	March 85B-Cosworth											10	0
—	Eric Lang	March 85B-Cosworth		11									12	0
—	Aldo Bertuzzi	March 85B-Cosworth							11					0
—	Max Busslinger	March 85B-Cosworth									15	12		0
—	Fulvio Ballabio	Lola T950-Cosworth											14	0
—	Claudio Langes	Tyrrell 012-Cosworth	Ret	15										0
—	Val Musetti	Lola T950-Cosworth											15	0
—	Stefano Livio	March 85B-Cosworth											16	0
—	Pierre Chauvet	March 85B-Cosworth	Ret									Ret		0
—	Jean-Philippe Grand	March 85B-Cosworth					DNS	Ret						0
Pos	Driver	Car(s)	SIL	THR	EST	VAL	PAU	SPA	DIJ	PER	ZEL	ZAN	DON	Pts

Colour	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	2nd place
Bronze	3rd place
Green	Points finish
Blue	Non-points finish
Blue	Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple	Retired (Ret)
Red	Did not qualify (DNQ)
Red	Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black	Disqualified (DSQ)
White	Did not start (DNS)
	Withdrew (WD)
	Race cancelled (C)
Blank	Did not participate (DNP)
Blank	Excluded (EX)

Notes

Results in bold indicate pole position.
Results in italics indicate fastest lap.

References

↑ "1985 Formula 30000 season". F3000 results. Retrieved 10 February 2013.

FIA International Formula 3000

Seasons	Formula Two 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 GP2 Series

Non-championship races	1985 Curaçao Grand Prix 1992 World Cup 1993 World Cup 1994 World Cup 1995 Birkin Cars/TVR Invitational Race 2004 Grand Prix of Portorož

List of drivers

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