1985 Swedish motorcycle Grand Prix

  1985 Swedish Grand Prix

Race details
Race 11 of 12 races in the 1985 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	11 August 1985
Official name	Swedish TT [1] [2] [3]
Location	Scandinavian Raceway
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.031 km (2.505 mi)
500 cc
Pole position Rider Freddie Spencer Time 1:36.460 Fastest lap Rider Unknown Podium First Freddie Spencer Second Eddie Lawson Third Ron Haslam
250 cc
Pole position Rider Carlos Lavado Time 1:41.260 Fastest lap Rider Unknown Podium First Anton Mang Second Carlos Lavado Third Fausto Ricci
125 cc
Pole position Rider Fausto Gresini Time 1:44.190 Fastest lap Rider Unknown Podium First August Auinger Second Pier Paolo Bianchi Third Fausto Gresini
80 cc
Pole position Rider No 80cc was held Fastest lap Rider No 80cc was held Podium First No 80cc was held Second No 80cc was held Third No 80cc was held

The 1985 Swedish motorcycle Grand Prix was the eleventh round of the 1985 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 9–11 August at the Scandinavian Raceway.

This was the last victory for the American Freddie Spencer.

Classification

500 cc

Pos.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Time/Retired	Points
1	Freddie Spencer	Rothmans Team HRC	Honda	49'26.730	15
2	Eddie Lawson	Marlboro Team Agostini	Yamaha	+22.800	12
3	Ron Haslam	Rothmans Honda Britain	Honda	+37.910	10
4	Christian Sarron	Sonauto Gauloises Yamaha	Yamaha	+52.240	8
5	Randy Mamola	Rothmans Honda Mamola	Honda	+1'06.480	6
6	Didier de Radiguès	'Honda Benelux Elf	Honda	+1'08.540	5
7	Mike Baldwin		Honda	+1'09.370	4
8	Raymond Roche	Marlboro Team Agostini	Yamaha	+1'31.700	3
9	Thierry Espié		Chevallier	+1 lap	2
10	Massimo Messere	Team Italia	Honda	+1 lap	1
11	Eero Hyvärinen		Honda	+1 lap
12	Dave Petersen	Kreepy Krauly Racing	Honda	+1 lap
13	Peter Linden		Honda	+1 lap
14	Boet van Dulmen	Shell-Toshiba Racing Team	Honda	+1 lap
15	Rob Punt	Oud Bier	Suzuki	+1 lap
16	Esko Kuparinen		Suzuki	+1 lap
17	Simon Buckmaster	Sid Griffiths Racing	Suzuki	+2 laps
18	Maarten Duyzers		Suzuki	+2 laps
19	Geir Hestman	Team Italia	Honda	+2 laps
20	David Griffith		Suzuki	+2 laps
21	Andreas Leuthe		Honda	+3 laps
22	Fabio Biliotti	Team Italia	Honda	+4 laps
23	Christian Le Liard	Team ROC	Honda	+11 laps
24	Lars Johansson		Suzuki	+13 laps
Ret	Wayne Gardner	Rothmans Honda Britain	Honda	Retired
Ret	Rob McElnea	Skoal Bandit Heron Suzuki	Suzuki	Accident
Ret	Franco Uncini	HB Suzuki GP Team	Suzuki	Accident
Ret	Kjeld Sorensen		Suzuki	Retired
Ret	Michael Jansberg		Suzuki	Retired
Ret	Armando Errico	Team Italia	Honda	Retired
Ret	Wolfgang Von Muralt	Frankonia-Suzuki	Suzuki	Retired
Ret	Peter Sköld		Bakker-Honda	Retired
Ret	Gustav Reiner	Zwafink & Wilberts Racing	Honda	Accident
Ret	Sito Pons	HB Suzuki GP Team	Suzuki	Retired
DNS	Claus Wulff		Suzuki	Did not start
DNS	Neil Robinson	Jim Finlay Racing	Suzuki	Did not start
DNS	Gunnar Bruhn		Suzuki	Did not start
DNQ	Helmut Schütz		Suzuki	Did not qualify
DNQ	Erich Sanders		Suzuki	Did not qualify
Sources: [4] [5]

References

1. "Grand Prix uitslagen en bijzonderheden 1985". Archive.today. 25 July 2015. Archived from the original on 25 July 2015. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
2. Mitchell, Malcolm. "1985 500cc Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". www.progcovers.com.
3. Mitchell, Malcolm. "Anderstorp Raceway - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
4. "1985 Swedish MotoGP". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
5. "motogp.com · SWEDISH GRAND PRIX · 500cc Race Classification 1985". www.motogp.com.

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