Elio de Angelis
The full circus arrived in Kent and Elio de Angelis placed his Lotus-Renault 94T on pole position; the race was 76 laps/199 miles long which Nelson Piquet in the Brabham-BMW BT52B won at 124.411 mph. Alain Prost followed him home 6 sec later in the Renault RE40 with Nigel Mansell in the second Lotus in third.