1986 British Grand Prix

 1986 British Grand Prix

Racing data
9th of 16 races in the 1986 Formula 1 World Championship
Surname:	XXXIX British Grand Prix
Date:	July 13, 1986
Place:	Fawkham
Course:	Brands Hatch Circuit
Length:	315.525 km in 75 laps of 4.207 km
Weather:	cloudy but warm
Spectator:	~ 100,000
Pole position
Driver:	Nelson Piquet	lotus
Time:	1: 06.961 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Nigel Mansell	Williams
Time:	1: 09.593 min
Podium
First:	Nigel Mansell	Williams
Second:	Nelson Piquet	Williams
Third:	Alain Prost	McLaren

The 1986 British Grand Prix took place on July 13th at the Brands Hatch Circuit and was the ninth race of the 1986 Formula 1 World Championship .

Reports

background

Jacques Laffite broke the previous record set by Graham Hill at the 1975 Brazilian Grand Prix with his 176th Grand Prix participation .

For the first time since his serious car accident in March, team boss Frank Williams was able to watch a race right on the track.

training

The two Williams drivers Nelson Piquet and Nigel Mansell dominated the training and thus qualified for the two starting positions in the front row in front of Ayrton Senna and Gerhard Berger and the two McLaren teammates Keke Rosberg and Alain Prost .

run

At the start, Mansell lost a few places due to a technical problem on his Williams FW11 . Further down the field, an accident occurred that was triggered by Thierry Boutsen losing control of his Arrows A8 , deviating from the track to the left and bouncing back after hitting the guardrails. Stefan Johansson unintentionally pushed Jacques Laffite off the track during an abrupt evasive attempt, so that he crashed head-on into the guardrails. Piercarlo Ghinzani , Christian Danner , Allen Berg as well as both Minardi pilots and both Zakspeed drivers collided with Boutsen's car. The race was canceled. Despite the proximity of the accident site to the pit lane, driver colleague Jonathan Palmer , who was also involved in the accident, was the first doctor to take care of the injured Laffite. He was brought to the hospital by helicopter with severe broken legs. Since his recovery took several months, this was the end of his Formula 1 career.

After around an hour and a half of cleaning up and waiting for the rescue helicopter to return, the race was restarted. Mansell took part in a T-Car and finished the first lap in third behind Piquet and Berger. On the third lap he overtook the Austrian and henceforth reduced the gap to his team-mate Piquet. After his team-mate Rosberg retired, Prost was fifth behind Senna.

On lap 23, Piquet made a mistake while shifting gears, which Mansell promptly took advantage of to take the lead. He defended this position to the finish and thereby took the lead in the world championship. He was unable to complete the lap of honor due to a lack of fuel and was brought to the podium in a safety vehicle, where he almost collapsed, visibly exhausted, and therefore had to be supported.

Prost finished third behind Piquet. René Arnoux came fourth ahead of the two Tyrrell drivers Martin Brundle and Philippe Streiff .

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 015	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 BT54	BMW M12 / 13 1.5 L4 t	P
	8th	Derek Warwick	Brabham BT55
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
	29	Huub Rothengatter
Team Haas (USA) Ltd	15th	Alan Jones	Lola THL2	Ford Cosworth GBA 1.5 V6 t	G
	16	Patrick Tambay
Barclay Arrows BMW	17th	Christian Danner	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 FA1H	Alfa Romeo 890T 1.5 V8 t	P
	22nd	Allen mountain	Osella FA1G
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	Nelson Piquet	Williams-Honda	1: 07.690	223.744 km / h	1: 06.961	226.179 km / h	01
02	Nigel Mansell	Williams-Honda	1: 08.818	220.076 km / h	1: 07.399	224.710 km / h	02
03	Ayrton Senna	Lotus Renault	1: 09.042	219.362 km / h	1: 07.524	224.294 km / h	03
04th	Gerhard Berger	Benetton BMW	1: 08.196	222.083 km / h	1: 09.008	219.470 km / h	04th
05	Keke Rosberg	McLaren TAG Porsche	1: 09.479	217.982 km / h	1: 08.477	221.172 km / h	05
06th	Alain Prost	McLaren TAG Porsche	1: 09.779	217.045 km / h	1: 09.334	218.438 km / h	06th
07th	Teo Fabi	Benetton BMW	1: 11.819	210.880 km / h	1: 09,409	218.202 km / h	07th
08th	René Arnoux	Ligier-Renault	1: 09.971	216.450 km / h	1: 09.543	217.782 km / h	08th
09	Derek Warwick	Brabham-BMW	1: 12.403	209.179 km / h	1: 10.209	215.716 km / h	09
10	Johnny Dumfries	Lotus Renault	1: 10.304	215.424 km / h	1: 10.583	214.573 km / h	10
11	Martin Brundle	Tyrrell Renault	1: 11.432	212.023 km / h	1: 10.334	215.333 km / h	11
12	Michele Alboreto	Ferrari	1: 11.662	211.342 km / h	1: 10.338	215.320 km / h	12
13	Thierry Boutsen	Arrows BMW	1: 12.333	209.382 km / h	1: 10.941	213.490 km / h	13
14th	Alan Jones	Lola Ford	1: 12.060	210.175 km / h	1: 11.121	212.950 km / h	14th
15th	Riccardo Patrese	Brabham-BMW	1: 12.513	208.862 km / h	1: 11.267	212.514 km / h	15th
16	Philippe Streiff	Tyrrell Renault	1: 11.682	211.283 km / h	1: 11.450	211.969 km / h	16
17th	Patrick Tambay	Lola Ford	1: 13.376	206.405 km / h	1: 11.458	211.945 km / h	17th
18th	Stefan Johansson	Ferrari	1: 11,500	211.821 km / h	1: 11.568	211.620 km / h	18th
19th	Jacques Laffite	Ligier-Renault	1: 12.715	208.282 km / h	1: 12.281	209.532 km / h	19th
20th	Alessandro Nannini	Minardi-Motori Moderni	1: 12.848	207.901 km / h	1: 13.496	206.068 km / h	20th
21st	Andrea de Cesaris	Minardi-Motori Moderni	1: 14.366	203.658 km / h	1: 12.980	207.525 km / h	21st
22nd	Jonathan Palmer	Zakspeed	1: 14.678	202.807 km / h	1: 13.009	207.443 km / h	22nd
23	Christian Danner	Arrows BMW	1: 13.261	206.729 km / h	1: 13.421	206.279 km / h	23
24	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Osella-Alfa Romeo	1: 16.440	198.132 km / h	1: 16.134	198.928 km / h	24
25th	Huub Rothengatter	Zakspeed	1: 17.357	195.783 km / h	1: 16.854	197.065 km / h	25th
26th	Allen mountain	Osella-Alfa Romeo	1: 18.319	193.378 km / h	no time	-	26th

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	Nigel Mansell	Williams-Honda	75	1	1: 30: 38.471	02	1: 09.593
02	Nelson Piquet	Williams-Honda	75	1	+ 5.574	01	1: 09.805
03	Alain Prost	McLaren TAG Porsche	74	0	+ 1 lap	06th	1: 10.827
04th	René Arnoux	Ligier-Renault	73	0	+ 2 rounds	08th	1: 12.790
05	Martin Brundle	Tyrrell Renault	72	0	+ 3 rounds	11	1: 13.386
06th	Philippe Streiff	Tyrrell Renault	72	0	+ 3 rounds	16	1: 13.553
07th	Johnny Dumfries	Lotus Renault	72	0	+ 3 rounds	10	1: 13.077
08th	Derek Warwick	Brabham-BMW	72	0	+ 3 rounds	09	1: 12.926
09	Jonathan Palmer	Zakspeed	69	0	+ 6 rounds	22nd	1: 16.985
-	Thierry Boutsen	Arrows BMW	62	0	NC	13	1: 17.103	Unrated
-	Patrick Tambay	Lola Ford	60	0	DNF	17th	1: 13.460	Gearbox damage
-	Michele Alboreto	Ferrari	51	0	DNF	12	1: 12.741	Turbocharger damage
-	Alessandro Nannini	Minardi-Motori Moderni	50	0	DNF	20th	1: 16.427	broken semi-axis
-	Teo Fabi	Benetton BMW	45	0	DNF	07th	1: 12.644	Fuel pressure drop
-	Riccardo Patrese	Brabham-BMW	39	0	DNF	15th	1: 12.422	Engine failure
-	Ayrton Senna	Lotus Renault	27	0	DNF	03	1: 14.024	Gearbox damage
-	Huub Rothengatter	Zakspeed	24	0	DNF	25th	1: 17.814	Engine failure
-	Andrea de Cesaris	Minardi-Motori Moderni	23	0	DNF	21st	1: 16.380	Electrical damage
-	Alan Jones	Lola Ford	22nd	0	DNF	14th	1: 14.992	defective throttle cable
-	Gerhard Berger	Benetton BMW	22nd	0	DNF	04th	1: 13.247	Electrical damage
-	Stefan Johansson	Ferrari	20th	0	DNF	18th	1: 15.490	Turbocharger damage
-	Keke Rosberg	McLaren TAG Porsche	07th	0	DNF	05	1: 14.639	Engine failure
-	Jacques Laffite	Ligier-Renault	00	0	DNF	19th	-	collision
-	Christian Danner	Arrows BMW	00	0	DNF	23	-	collision
-	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Osella-Alfa Romeo	00	0	DNF	24	-	collision
-	Allen mountain	Osella-Alfa Romeo	00	0	DNF	26th	-	collision

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  Nigel Mansell Williams 47 02  Alain Prost McLaren 43 03  Ayrton Senna lotus 36 04th  Nelson Piquet Williams 29 05  Keke Rosberg McLaren 17th 06th  Jacques Laffite Ligier 14th 07th  René Arnoux Ligier 11

Item driver constructor Points 08th  Stefan Johansson Ferrari 7th 09  Michele Alboreto Ferrari 6th 10  Gerhard Berger Benetton 6th 11  Martin Brundle Tyrrell 4th 12  Riccardo Patrese Brabham 2 13  Teo Fabi Benetton 2 14th  Philippe Streiff Tyrrell 1

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  Williams 76 02  McLaren 60 03  lotus 36 04th  Ligier 25th

Item constructor Points 05  Ferrari 13 06th  Benetton 8th 07th  Tyrrell 5 08th  Brabham 2

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Training"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Motorsportarchiv.de; accessed on May 19, 2013)  
2. ^ "Report" (accessed on May 19, 2013)
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Web links

• Race result on the official Formula 1 website
• Video of the launch accident
• Video of the finish line, the lap of honor and the award ceremony