1985 1000 km of Mosport

The 1985 Budweiser GT was the sixth round of the 1985 World Endurance Championship. Several teams from the Camel GT Championship also participated, under the GTP, GTO, and GTU classes. It took place at Mosport Park, Canada on August 11, 1985.

Winkelhock accident

In the early portions of the race, Manfred Winkelhock was driving the Kremer Racing Porsche 962C after taking over from teammate Marc Surer. At the beginning of the car's 69th lap, Winkelhock's Porsche went off course during the long downhill Turn 2. The car hit the concrete barrier at the bottom of the hill head-on. Caution came out immediately and lasted for 56 minutes as safety crews attempted to extract Winkelhock from the wreckage.

Winkelhock was flown by medical helicopter to Sunnybrook Medical Centre near Toronto suffering from severe head trauma while the race resumed. Winkelhock died the following day after failing to recover from surgery.[1]

Official results

Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 75% of the winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).

Pos Class No Team Drivers Chassis Tyre Laps
Engine
1 C1 2 Rothmans Porsche Hans-Joachim Stuck
Derek Bell
Porsche 956 D 253
Porsche Type-935 2.6 L Turbo Flat-6
2 C1 1 Rothmans Porsche Jochen Mass
Jacky Ickx
Porsche 962C D 253
Porsche Type-935 2.6 L Turbo Flat-6
3 C1 52 TWR Jaguar Jean-Louis Schlesser
Mike Thackwell
Martin Brundle
Jaguar XJR-6 D 234
Jaguar 6.2 L V12
4 C1 11 Porsche Kremer Racing Ludwig Heimrath, Sr.
Ludwig Heimrath, Jr.
Kees Kroesemeijer
Porsche 956 G 234
Porsche Type-935 2.6 L Turbo Flat-6
5 C2 70 Spice Engineering Gordon Spice
Ray Bellm
Spice-Tiga GC85 A 231
Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3 L V8
6 C2 74 Gebhardt Motorsport Frank Jelinski
John Graham
Gebhardt JC853 A 225
Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 L V8
7 GTP 18 Bieri Racing
Fomfor Racing
"Fomfor"
Uli Bieri
Matt Gysler
Sauber C7 G 211
Chevrolet 6.0 L V8
8 C2 88 Ark Racing David Andrews
Max Payne
Ceekar 83J A 203
Ford Cosworth BDX 2.0 L I4
9 GTO 165 Gerry English Gerry English
Jerry Thompson
Chevrolet Camaro H 199
Chevrolet 6.0 L V8
10 GTU 154 Zwiren Racing Steve Zwiren
Peter Dawe
Robert Peters
Mazda RX-7 H 184
Mazda 13B 1.3 L 2-Rotor
11
DSQ
C2 80 Carma F.F. Carlo Facetti
Martino Finotto
Jean-Pierre Frey
Alba AR6 A 218
Carma FF 1.9 L Turbo I4
12
NC
C2 82 Grifo Autoracing Pasquale Barberio
Maurizio Gellini
Alba AR3 D 157
Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3 L V8
13
NC
C1 34 Cosmik Racing Christian Danner
Costas Los
Mikael Nabrink
March 84G Y 148
Porsche Type-956 2.6 L Turbo Flat-6
14
NC
C2 98 Roy Baker Promotions Joe DeMarco
Chuck Grantham
Tiga GC285 A 146
Ford Cosworth BDT 1.8 L Turbo I4
15
DNF
GTO 153 No Team Name Rudy Bartling
Fritz Hochreuter
Porsche Carrera RSR ? 125
Porsche 3.0 L Flat-6
16
DNF
GTO 139 R & H Racing Rainer Brezinka
Jack Burnett
John Centano
Porsche Carrera RSR ? 103
Porsche 3.0 L Flat-6
17
DNF
C1 9 Porsche Kremer Racing Manfred Winkelhock
Marc Surer
Porsche 962C G 69
Porsche Type-935 2.6 L Turbo Flat-6
18
DNF
C2 100 John Barlett Racing Stanley Dickens
Robin Smith
Max Cohen-Olivar
Chevron B62 A 27
Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3 L V8
19
DNF
C1 51 TWR Jaguar Martin Brundle
Mike Thackwell
Jaguar XJR-6 D 12
Jaguar 6.2 L V12

† - #80 Carma F.F. was disqualified after completing the final lap of the race too slowly.

Statistics

  • Pole Position - #2 Rothmans Porsche - 1:09.775
  • Fastest Lap - #2 Rothmans Porsche - 1:12.915
  • Average Speed - 168.886 km/h

References

  1. Rainer Nyberg and Mattijs Diepraam (February 2000). "German's single top F1 drive". 8W. Archived from the original on 4 August 2008. Retrieved 2008-06-30.
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