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.
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 962C 253 Porsche Type-935 2.6 L Turbo Flat-6 2 C1 1 Rothmans Porsche Jochen Mass Jacky Ickx Porsche 962C 253 Porsche Type-935 2.6 L Turbo Flat-6 3 C1 52 TWR Jaguar Jean-Louis Schlesser Mike Thackwell Martin Brundle Jaguar XJR-6 234 Jaguar 6.2 L V12 4 C1 11 Porsche Kremer Racing Ludwig Heimrath Sr. Ludwig Heimrath, Jr. Kees Kroesemeijer Porsche 956 234 Porsche Type-935 2.6 L Turbo Flat-6 5 C2 70 Spice Engineering Gordon Spice Ray Bellm Spice-Tiga GC85 231 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3 L V8 6 C2 74 Gebhardt Motorsport Frank Jelinski John Graham Gebhardt JC853 225 Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 L V8 7 GTP 18 Bieri Racing Fomfor Racing "Fomfor" Uli Bieri Matt Gysler Sauber C7 211 Chevrolet 6.0 L V8 8 C2 88 Ark Racing David Andrews Max Payne Ceekar 83J 203 Ford Cosworth BDX 2.0 L I4 9 GTO 165 Gerry English Gerry English Jerry Thompson Chevrolet Camaro 199 Chevrolet 6.0 L V8 10 GTU 154 Zwiren Racing Steve Zwiren Peter Dawe Robert Peters Mazda RX-7 184 Mazda 13B 1.3 L 2-Rotor 11DSQ† C2 80 Carma F.F. Carlo Facetti Martino Finotto Jean-Pierre Frey Alba AR6 218 Carma FF 1.9 L Turbo I4 12NC C2 82 Grifo Autoracing Pasquale Barberio Maurizio Gellini Alba AR3 157 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3 L V8 13NC C1 34 Cosmik Racing Christian Danner Costas Los Mikael Nabrink March 84G 148 Porsche Type-956 2.6 L Turbo Flat-6 14NC C2 98 Roy Baker Promotions Joe DeMarco Chuck Grantham Tiga GC285 146 Ford Cosworth BDT 1.8 L Turbo I4 15DNF GTO 153 No Team Name Rudy Bartling Fritz Hochreuter Porsche Carrera RSR ? 125 Porsche 3.0 L Flat-6 16DNF GTO 139 R & H Racing Rainer Brezinka Jack Burnett John Centano Porsche Carrera RSR ? 103 Porsche 3.0 L Flat-6 17DNF C1 10 Porsche Kremer Racing Manfred Winkelhock Marc Surer Porsche 962C 69 Porsche Type-935 2.6 L Turbo Flat-6 18DNF C2 100 John Barlett Racing Stanley Dickens Robin Smith Max Cohen-Olivar Chevron B62 27 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3 L V8 19DNF C1 51 TWR Jaguar Martin Brundle Mike Thackwell Jaguar XJR-6 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
External links 1985 Mosport 1000 Race Highlights (YouTube)