1986 Brazilian Grand Prix

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1986 Brazilian Grand Prix
Race 1 of 16 in the 1986 Formula One World Championship
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Race details
Date23 March 1986
Official name 15º Grande Premio Brasil de Fórmula 1
Location Jacarepaguá Circuit, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Course Permanent racing facility
Course length 5.031 km (3.126 miles)
Distance 61 laps, 306.891 km (190.693 miles)
Weather Hot, dry and sunny
Pole position
Driver Lotus-Renault
Time 1:25.501
Fastest lap
Driver Flag of Brazil (1968-1992).svg Nelson Piquet Williams-Honda
Time 1:33.546 on lap 46
Podium
First Williams-Honda
Second Lotus-Renault
Third Ligier-Renault
Lap leaders
  • 1986 Brazilian Grand Prix

The 1986 Brazilian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Jacarepaguá in Rio de Janeiro on 23 March 1986. It was the opening race of the 1986 Formula One World Championship. It was the 15th Brazilian Grand Prix and the seventh to be held at Jacarepaguá. The race was held over 61 laps of the 5.03-kilometre (3.13 mi) circuit for a race distance of 306.9 kilometres (190.7 mi).

Contents

The race was won by local driver Nelson Piquet, driving a Williams-Honda, after he started from second position. Compatriot Ayrton Senna took pole position in his Lotus-Renault, but Piquet overtook him on lap 3 and went on to win from him by 34 seconds. Frenchman Jacques Laffite finished third in a Ligier-Renault.

Summary

The new season had seen many driver changes, the most significant was Piquet's arrival at Williams after seven years at Brabham, while Keke Rosberg left Williams to join McLaren and Elio de Angelis joined Brabham after several seasons at Lotus. Senna used his influence at Lotus to ensure they hired a driver that would not interfere with his campaign which left Derek Warwick out of a seat, although that would prove to be temporary. Williams was missing their team principal, Frank Williams who had had a car accident in pre-season testing that left him a quadriplegic. [1]

Senna led from pole position but was soon under threat from the Williams pair. Nigel Mansell spun off the track on the opening lap after contact with Senna, but Piquet was in the lead by lap three. As pitstops began it started to look as though Alain Prost (McLaren MP4/2C) might pull a surprise by only pitting once and snatching the win away from the Brazilians [1] but that came to an end along with Prost's TAG-Porsche engine just past half-distance. [2]

There was no threat to the Brazilian pair after that with Piquet retaking the lead from Senna after the latter's final tyre stop. Behind Laffite was his Ligier teammate René Arnoux. Fifth place was taken by the Tyrrell 014-Renault of Martin Brundle for his first official points finish since his debut season two years previously (Brundle had scored several points in 1984 including 2 points on debut in Brazil and a 2nd placing at Detroit, but had lost all points when Tyrrell were disqualified for the season). Gerhard Berger finished sixth in his Benetton B186-BMW on the debut for the new team which had taken over the Toleman team during the off-season. Philippe Streiff in the second Tyrrell, Elio de Angelis (Brabham BT55), Johnny Dumfries (Lotus 98T) and Teo Fabi (Benetton B186) were the only other finishers in a day of high attrition where Mansell had been the only non-mechanical retirement.

Classification

Qualifying

PosNoDriverConstructorQ1Q2Gap
112 Flag of Brazil (1968-1992).svg Ayrton Senna Lotus-Renault 1:26.8931:25.501
26 Flag of Brazil (1968-1992).svg Nelson Piquet Williams-Honda 1:26.2661:26.755+0.765
35 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Nigel Mansell Williams-Honda 1:27.4061:26.749+1.248
425 Flag of France.svg René Arnoux Ligier-Renault 1:30.5631:27.133+1.632
526 Flag of France.svg Jacques Laffite Ligier-Renault 1:30.1751:27.190+1.689
627 Flag of Italy.svg Michele Alboreto Ferrari 1:30.1561:27.485+1.984
72 Flag of Finland.svg Keke Rosberg McLaren-TAG 1:28.7631:27.705+2.204
828 Flag of Sweden.svg Stefan Johansson Ferrari 1:30.3631:27.711+2.210
91 Flag of France.svg Alain Prost McLaren-TAG 1:28.4671:28.099+2.598
107 Flag of Italy.svg Riccardo Patrese Brabham-BMW 1:29.294+3.793
1111 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Johnny Dumfries Lotus-Renault 1:30.4521:29.503+4.002
1219 Flag of Italy.svg Teo Fabi Benetton-BMW 1:31.1381:29.748+4.247
1316 Flag of France.svg Patrick Tambay Lola-Hart 1:31.4291:30.594+5.093
148 Flag of Italy.svg Elio de Angelis Brabham-BMW 1:31.6821:31.074+5.573
1518 Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Thierry Boutsen Arrows-BMW 1:32.9111:31.244+5.743
1620 Flag of Austria.svg Gerhard Berger Benetton-BMW 1:31.6531:31.313+5.812
173 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Martin Brundle Tyrrell-Renault 1:32.9831:32.009+6.508
184 Flag of France.svg Philippe Streiff Tyrrell-Renault 1:35.6691:32.388+6.887
1915 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Alan Jones Lola-Hart 1:33.6641:33.236+7.735
2017 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Marc Surer Arrows-BMW 1:33.7811:34.144+8.280
2114 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Jonathan Palmer Zakspeed 1:35.1991:33.784+8.283
2223 Flag of Italy.svg Andrea de Cesaris Minardi-Motori Moderni 1:37.8351:34.646+9.145
2321 Flag of Italy.svg Piercarlo Ghinzani Osella-Alfa Romeo 1:38.1651:35.980+10.479
2422 Flag of Germany.svg Christian Danner Osella-Alfa Romeo 1:39.3891:36.558+11.057
2524 Flag of Italy.svg Alessandro Nannini Minardi-Motori Moderni 1:40.7391:37.466+11.965

Race

PosNoDriverConstructorLapsTime/RetiredGridPoints
16 Flag of Brazil (1968-1992).svg Nelson Piquet Williams-Honda 611:39:32.58329
212 Flag of Brazil (1968-1992).svg Ayrton Senna Lotus-Renault 61+ 34.82716
326 Flag of France.svg Jacques Laffite Ligier-Renault 61+ 59.75954
425 Flag of France.svg René Arnoux Ligier-Renault 61+ 1:28.42943
53 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Martin Brundle Tyrrell-Renault 60+ 1 lap172
620 Flag of Austria.svg Gerhard Berger Benetton-BMW 59+ 2 laps161
74 Flag of France.svg Philippe Streiff Tyrrell-Renault 59+ 2 laps18 
88 Flag of Italy.svg Elio de Angelis Brabham-BMW 58+ 3 laps14 
911 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Johnny Dumfries Lotus-Renault 58+ 3 laps11 
1019 Flag of Italy.svg Teo Fabi Benetton-BMW 56+ 5 laps12 
Ret18 Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Thierry Boutsen Arrows-BMW 37Exhaust15 
Ret27 Flag of Italy.svg Michele Alboreto Ferrari 35Fuel system6 
Ret1 Flag of France.svg Alain Prost McLaren-TAG 30Engine9 
Ret22 Flag of Germany.svg Christian Danner Osella-Alfa Romeo 29Engine24 
Ret28 Flag of Sweden.svg Stefan Johansson Ferrari 26Brakes8 
Ret16 Flag of France.svg Patrick Tambay Lola-Hart 24Battery13 
Ret7 Flag of Italy.svg Riccardo Patrese Brabham-BMW 21Water leak10 
Ret14 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Jonathan Palmer Zakspeed 20Engine21 
Ret17 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Marc Surer Arrows-BMW 19Engine20 
Ret24 Flag of Italy.svg Alessandro Nannini Minardi-Motori Moderni 18Clutch25 
Ret23 Flag of Italy.svg Andrea de Cesaris Minardi-Motori Moderni 16Turbo22 
Ret21 Flag of Italy.svg Piercarlo Ghinzani Osella-Alfa Romeo 16Engine23 
Ret2 Flag of Finland.svg Keke Rosberg McLaren-TAG 6Engine7 
Ret15 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Alan Jones Lola-Hart 5Injection19 
Ret5 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Nigel Mansell Williams-Honda 0Spun off3 
Source: [3]

Championship standings after the race

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