1985 South African Grand Prix
Qualifying
Pole position went to Nigel Mansell, averaging 236.898 km/h (147.201 mph).

1985 South African Grand Prix

Section Title: Qualifying
Table Section Text: Pole position went to Nigel Mansell, averaging 236.898 km/h (147.201 mph).

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Q1	Q2	Gap

1	5	United Kingdom Nigel Mansell	Williams-Honda	1:03.188	1:02.366	—

2	7	Brazil Nelson Piquet	Brabham-BMW	1:03.844	1:02.490	+0.124

3	6	Finland Keke Rosberg	Williams-Honda	1:03.073	1:02.504	+0.138

4	12	Brazil Ayrton Senna	Lotus-Renault	1:04.517	1:02.825	+0.459

5	8	Switzerland Marc Surer	Brabham-BMW	1:05.411	1:04.088	+1.722

6	11	Italy Elio de Angelis	Lotus-Renault	1:04.611	1:04.129	+1.763

7	19	Italy Teo Fabi	Toleman-Hart	1:06.083	1:04.215	+1.849

8	1	Austria Niki Lauda	McLaren-TAG	1:05.357	1:04.283	+1.917

9	2	France Alain Prost	McLaren-TAG	1:05.757	1:04.376	+2.010

10	18	Belgium Thierry Boutsen	Arrows-BMW	1:05.079	1:04.518	+2.152

11	17	Austria Gerhard Berger	Arrows-BMW	1:06.546	1:04.780	+2.414

12	22	Italy Riccardo Patrese	Alfa Romeo	1:06.386	1:04.948	+2.582

13	20	Italy Piercarlo Ghinzani	Toleman-Hart	1:07.800	1:05.114	+2.748

14	23	United States Eddie Cheever	Alfa Romeo	1:07.159	1:05.260	+2.894

15	27	Italy Michele Alboreto	Ferrari	1:05.268	1:05.757	+2.902

16	28	Sweden Stefan Johansson	Ferrari	1:05.406	1:05.388	+3.022

17	3	United Kingdom Martin Brundle	Tyrrell-Renault	1:06.709	1:05.649	+3.283

18	4	France Philippe Streiff	Tyrrell-Renault	1:07.935	1:06.205	+3.839

19	29	Italy Pierluigi Martini	Minardi-Motori Moderni	1:10.025	1:08.658	+6.292

20	24	Netherlands Huub Rothengatter	Osella-Alfa Romeo	1:09.904	1:09.873	+7.507

DNS	33	Australia Alan Jones	Lola-Hart	1:07.144	1:05.731	+3.365

Sentence(s)

Mansell got the pole position with the time of 1:02.366.

final_sentence: Mansell got the pole position with the time of 1:02.366.