Motor Racing
- Stock car racing –
- Bill Elliott won the Daytona 500
- NASCAR Championship - Darrell Waltrip
- Ken Schrader enters NASCAR
- CART Racing - Al Unser Sr won the season championship
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- Indianapolis 500 - Danny Sullivan
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- Formula One Championship - Alain Prost of France
- 24 hours of Le Mans – the team of Klaus Ludwig / Paolo Barilla / "John Winter" (Louis Krages) won, driving a Porsche 956
- Rally racing - Timo Salonen in a Peugeot won the World Rally Championship
- the team of Ari Vatanen / Terry Harryman won the Monte Carlo Rally driving a Peugeot 205T16
- Drag racing –
- Don Garlits won the NHRA Top Fuel championship
- Gary Beck won Top Fuel at the NHRA World Finals
Read more about this topic: 1985 In Sports
Famous quotes containing the words motor and/or racing:
“What shall we do with country quiet now?
A motor drones insanely in the blue
Like a bad bird in a dream.”
—Babette Deutsch (1895–1982)
“Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don’t get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goat’s cheese ... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
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