1986 Brazilian Grand Prix

 1986 Brazilian Grand Prix

Racing data
1st of 16 races in the 1986 Formula 1 World Championship
Surname:	XV Grande Prêmio do Brasil
Date:	March 23, 1986
Place:	Rio de Janeiro
Course:	Jacarepaguá
Length:	306.891 km in 61 laps of 5.031 km
Weather:	sunny and hot
Spectator:	~ 80,000
Pole position
Driver:	Ayrton Senna	lotus
Time:	1: 25.501 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Nelson Piquet	Williams
Time:	1: 33.546 min
Podium
First:	Nelson Piquet	Williams
Second:	Ayrton Senna	lotus
Third:	Jacques Laffite	Ligier

The 1986 Brazilian Grand Prix took place in Rio de Janeiro on March 23rd and was the first race of the 1986 Formula 1 World Championship .

Reports

background

Apart from Ferrari , no team competed with the driver combination from the previous year . Renault and Alfa Romeo had ended their engagements as factory teams and in 1986 only appeared as engine suppliers.

New team mate of reigning world champion Alain Prost at McLaren was after the retirement of Niki Lauda , the former Williams -Pilot Keke Rosberg , whose place alongside Nigel Mansell of Nelson Piquet was taken. Brabham then completely repositioned itself with Riccardo Patrese and Elio de Angelis .

Ayrton Senna prevented the originally intended Derek Warwick from becoming his new teammate in Team Lotus . Instead, the British debutant Johnny Dumfries was hired .

The Toleman team was completely taken over by its former main sponsor Benetton and from then on entered the new team under his name. Teo Fabi was taken over and Gerhard Berger hired as the second driver. BMW was signed as an engine supplier and thus equipped a third team alongside Brabham and Arrows .

While Minardi , Haas and Osella expanded their commitment to two cars each, Zakspeed started the season with just one vehicle. Most of the teams used new or significantly improved racing cars. The unusually flat Brabham BT55 , which was designed by Gordon Murray , caught the eye .

A few days before the first race of the season, team boss Frank Williams was seriously injured in a car accident in southern France and has been paraplegic ever since.

training

Lotus driver Ayrton Senna qualified for pole position in front of the two Williams FW11s driven by Nelson Piquet and Nigel Mansell and the two Ligier drivers René Arnoux and Jacques Laffite .

run

After getting off to a better start, Mansell tried to overtake Senna. This prevented this and Mansell slipped into the track barrier. His team-mate Piquet showed a little more patience and overtook Senna on the third lap. Michele Alboreto , who had overtaken René Arnoux shortly before, followed in third place . Alboreto's team-mate Stefan Johansson finished fifth after Keke Rosberg retired due to an engine failure.

Prost fought his way to the top by the 20th lap. When he made a pit stop on lap 27, Piquet, who like Senna had already stopped, took the lead. Three laps later, Prost had to give up due to electrical damage.

In front of their home crowd, the two Brazilians Piquet and Senna finished first and second in front of Jacques Laffite, René Arnoux, Martin Brundle and Gerhard Berger. For Brundle it was the first point in his career.

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Marlboro McLaren International	1	Alain Prost	McLaren MP4 / 2C	TAG / Porsche TTE PO1 1.5 V6 t	G
	2	Keke Rosberg
Data General Team Tyrrell	3	Martin Brundle	Tyrrell 014	Renault EF15 1.5 V6 t	G
	4th	Philippe Streiff
Canon Williams Honda Team	5	Nigel Mansell	Williams FW11	Honda RA166E 1.5 V6 t	G
	6th	Nelson Piquet
Motor Racing Developments	7th	Riccardo Patrese	Brabham BT55	BMW M12 / 13 1.5 L4 t	P
	8th	Elio de Angelis
John Player Special Team Lotus	11	Johnny Dumfries	Lotus 98T	Renault EF15B 1.5 V6 t	G
	12	Ayrton Senna
West Zakspeed Racing	14th	Jonathan Palmer	Zakspeed 861	Zakspeed 1500/4 1.5 L4 t	G
Team Haas (USA) Ltd	15th	Alan Jones	Lola THL1	Hart 415T 1.5 L4 t	G
	16	Patrick Tambay
Barclay Arrows BMW	17th	Marc Surer	Arrows A8	BMW M12 / 13 1.5 L4 t	G
	18th	Thierry Boutsen
Benetton Formula Ltd	19th	Teo Fabi	Benetton B186		P
	20th	Gerhard Berger
Osella Squadra Corse	21st	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Osella FA1G	Alfa Romeo 890T 1.5 V8 t	P
	22nd	Christian Danner	Osella FA1F
Minardi F1 team	23	Andrea de Cesaris	Minardi M185B	Motori Moderni 615-90 1.5 V6 t	P
	24	Alessandro Nannini
Team Ligier	25th	René Arnoux	Ligier JS27	Renault EF15 1.5 V6 t	P
	26th	Jacques Laffite
Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC	27	Michele Alboreto	Ferrari F1 / 86	Ferrari 032 1.5 V6 t	G
	28	Stefan Johansson

Classifications

Qualifying

Item	driver	constructor	Qualification training 1		Qualification training 2		begin
			time	Ø speed	time	Ø speed
01	Ayrton Senna	Lotus Renault	1: 26.983	208.220 km / h	1: 25.501	211.829 km / h	01
02	Nelson Piquet	Williams-Honda	1: 26.266	209.951 km / h	1: 26.755	208.767 km / h	02
03	Nigel Mansell	Williams-Honda	1: 27.046	208.069 km / h	1: 26.749	208.782 km / h	03
04th	René Arnoux	Ligier-Renault	1: 30.563	199.989 km / h	1: 27.133	207.862 km / h	04th
05	Jacques Laffite	Ligier-Renault	1: 30.175	200.849 km / h	1: 27.190	207.726 km / h	05
06th	Michele Alboreto	Ferrari	1: 30.156	200.892 km / h	1: 27.485	207.025 km / h	06th
07th	Keke Rosberg	McLaren TAG Porsche	1: 28.763	204.044 km / h	1: 27.705	206.506 km / h	07th
08th	Stefan Johansson	Ferrari	1: 30.363	200.432 km / h	1: 27.711	206.492 km / h	08th
09	Alain Prost	McLaren TAG Porsche	1: 28.467	204.727 km / h	1: 28.099	205.582 km / h	09
10	Riccardo Patrese	Brabham-BMW	no time	-	1: 29.294	202.831 km / h	10
11	Johnny Dumfries	Lotus Renault	1: 30.452	200.234 km / h	1: 29.503	202.357 km / h	11
12	Teo Fabi	Benetton BMW	1: 31.138	198.727 km / h	1: 29.748	201.805 km / h	12
13	Patrick Tambay	Lola-Hart	1: 31.429	198.095 km / h	1: 30.594	199.921 km / h	13
14th	Elio de Angelis	Brabham-BMW	1: 31.682	197.548 km / h	1: 31.074	198.867 km / h	14th
15th	Thierry Boutsen	Arrows BMW	1: 32.911	194.935 km / h	1: 31.244	198.496 km / h	15th
16	Gerhard Berger	Benetton BMW	1: 31.653	197.611 km / h	1: 31.313	198.346 km / h	16
17th	Martin Brundle	Tyrrell Renault	1: 32.983	194.784 km / h	1: 32.009	196.846 km / h	17th
18th	Philippe Streiff	Tyrrell Renault	1: 35.669	189.315 km / h	1: 32.388	196.038 km / h	18th
19th	Alan Jones	Lola-Hart	1: 33.664	193.368 km / h	1: 33.236	194.255 km / h	19th
20th	Marc Surer	Arrows BMW	1: 33.781	193.127 km / h	1: 34.144	192.382 km / h	20th
21st	Jonathan Palmer	Zakspeed	1: 35.119	190.410 km / h	1: 33.784	193.120 km / h	21st
22nd	Andrea de Cesaris	Minardi-Motori Moderni	1: 37.835	185.124 km / h	1: 34.646	191.361 km / h	22nd
23	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Osella-Alfa Romeo	1: 38.165	184.502 km / h	1: 35.988	188.686 km / h	23
24	Christian Danner	Osella-Alfa Romeo	1: 39.389	182.229 km / h	1: 36.558	187.572 km / h	24
25th	Alessandro Nannini	Minardi-Motori Moderni	1: 40.739	179.787 km / h	1: 37.466	185.825 km / h	25th

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	Nelson Piquet	Williams-Honda	61	2	1: 39: 32.583	02	1: 33.546
02	Ayrton Senna	Lotus Renault	61	1	+ 34.827	01	1: 34.785
03	Jacques Laffite	Ligier-Renault	61	0	+ 59.759	05	1: 35.767
04th	René Arnoux	Ligier-Renault	61	0	+1: 28.429	04th	1: 36.414
05	Martin Brundle	Tyrrell Renault	60	0	+ 1 lap	17th	1: 37.869
06th	Gerhard Berger	Benetton BMW	59	0	+ 2 rounds	16	1: 36.958
07th	Philippe Streiff	Tyrrell Renault	59	0	+ 2 rounds	18th	1: 39.651
08th	Elio de Angelis	Brabham-BMW	58	1	+ 3 rounds	14th	1: 35.121
09	Johnny Dumfries	Lotus Renault	58	2	+ 3 rounds	11	1: 35.033
10	Teo Fabi	Benetton BMW	56	1	+ 5 rounds	12	1: 33.998
-	Thierry Boutsen	Arrows BMW	37	0	DNF	15th	1: 38.591	defective exhaust system
-	Michele Alboreto	Ferrari	35	0	DNF	06th	1: 35.532	defective fuel pump
-	Alain Prost	McLaren TAG Porsche	30th	1	DNF	09	1: 35.381	Electrical damage
-	Christian Danner	Osella-Alfa Romeo	29	0	DNF	24	1: 43.712	Engine failure
-	Stefan Johansson	Ferrari	26th	0	DNF	08th	1: 36.983	Brake defect
-	Patrick Tambay	Lola-Hart	24	0	DNF	13	1: 38.674	defective ignition
-	Riccardo Patrese	Brabham-BMW	21st	0	DNF	10	1: 38,409	broken water pipe
-	Jonathan Palmer	Zakspeed	20th	0	DNF	21st	1: 41.849	defective suction collector
-	Marc Surer	Arrows BMW	19th	0	DNF	20th	1: 39.970	Engine failure
-	Alessandro Nannini	Minardi-Motori Moderni	18th	0	DNF	25th	1: 40.461	Gearbox damage
-	Andrea de Cesaris	Minardi-Motori Moderni	16	0	DNF	22nd	1: 36.475	Oil loss
-	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Osella-Alfa Romeo	16	0	DNF	23	1: 43.412	Engine failure
-	Keke Rosberg	McLaren TAG Porsche	06th	0	DNF	07th	1: 38.027	Engine failure
-	Alan Jones	Lola-Hart	05	0	DNF	19th	1: 38.710	defective ignition
-	Nigel Mansell	Williams-Honda	00	0	DNF	03	-	Driving error

World Cup stands after the race

The first six of the race got 9, 6, 4, 3, 2 and 1 point (s) respectively.

Driver ranking

Item driver constructor Points 01  Nelson Piquet Williams 9 02  Ayrton Senna lotus 6th 03  Jacques Laffite Ligier 4th

Item driver constructor Points 04th  René Arnoux Ligier 3 05  Martin Brundle Tyrrell 2 06th  Gerhard Berger Benetton 1

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  Williams 9 02  Ligier 7th 03  lotus 6th

Item constructor Points 04th  Tyrrell 2 05  Benetton 1

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Background" (accessed on May 19, 2013)
2. ↑ Fight at the limit. The Formula 1 Chronicle 1950–2000 , ed. v. Willy Knupp, RTL book edition: Zeitgeist Verlag: Düsseldorf / Gütersloh 2000, ISBN 3-89748-277-0 , p. 258
3. ^ "Overview" ( Memento from May 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (Motorsportarchiv.de; accessed on May 19, 2013)
4. ^ "Report" (accessed on May 19, 2013)
5. ^ "World Cup stands" ( Memento from January 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (Motorsportarchiv.de; accessed on May 19, 2013)

Web links

• Race result on the official Formula 1 website