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1985 Australian Grand Prix

As the Group A race was scheduled for late on the Saturday afternoon after F1 qualifying had finished, Berger had to obtain permission from the FIA, FOCA and his Arrows team to race the BMW (as it turned out, his touring car race lasted 3 laps before he was punted into the gravel trap at the end of the pit straight by the Holden Dealer Team Commodore V8 of local star John Harvey).

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Jones also had the honor of having a section of track named after him, with the Rundle Road section of the track, a 350 metre straight between turns 9 and 10, renamed as the "Jones Straight" when the circuit was in use.

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The slowest qualifier for the race, Huub Rothengatter in the Osella-Alfa Romeo, was 10.473 seconds slower than Senna with a time of 1:30.319.

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