1986 Austrian Grand Prix

F1 Austria Austrian Österreichring 1977-1987.svg The Österreichring (last modified in 1977) 17 August 1986 XXIV Großer Preis von Osterreich 12 16 ÖsterreichringSpielberg, Styria, Austria Permanent racing facility 3.692 5.942 52 191.984 308.984 Dry Teo Fabi Benetton-BMW 1:23.549 Italy Gerhard Berger Benetton-BMW 1:29.444 49 Austria Alain Prost McLaren-TAG France Michele Alboreto Ferrari Italy Stefan Johansson Ferrari Sweden AUT The 1986 Austrian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Österreichring on 17 August 1986. It was the twelfth race of the 1986 Formula One World Championship. The 52-lap race was won by Alain Prost, driving a McLaren-TAG, with Ferrari drivers Michele Alboreto and Stefan Johansson second and third respectively. With Drivers' Championship challengers Nigel Mansell, Nelson Piquet and Ayrton Senna all retiring, Prost moved into second place in the Championship, two points behind Mansell. Qualifying Qualifying report Qualifying saw several surprises as the Benetton-BMWs of Teo Fabi and Gerhard Berger filled the front row, Fabi just under 0.2 seconds ahead, while Riccardo Patrese took fourth in his Brabham despite a crash, just behind Keke Rosberg's McLaren. The four Drivers' Championship challengers occupied fifth to eighth in the order of Alain Prost's McLaren, the two Williams of Nigel Mansell and Nelson Piquet, and Ayrton Senna's Lotus. Completing the top ten were Michele Alboreto's Ferrari and Derek Warwick in the second Brabham. Pat Symonds would later claim that following Benetton's front-row lockout, the head of BMW Motorsport, Paul Rosche, demanded to inspect the engine control unit chips installed in the team's engines to see if they had been tampered with in breach of contract (Benetton were using customer engines that were the original upright configuration rather than the special, tilted BMWs Brabham were using. Under the terms of their contract the team was not allowed to modify the engines or their ECUs in any way from the factory supplied settings). However, the team had wisely kept their supply of original BMW Motorsport chips for just such an occurrence and were able to provide Rosche with those rather than the modified ones they had actually been using.Why a decades-old tradition had to be curtailed https://www.autosport.com/f1/feature/10732/why-a-decadesold-tradition-had-to-be-curtailed subscription GP Racing 24 October 2020 The modified chips were said to give the Benetton-BMWs an alleged 1400 bhp kW PS 0 on, some 50 bhp kW PS 0 on over the official factory units used by Brabham. In fact, 1986 was the high watermark for power figures in Formula One with the BMW, Honda, Renault, Ferrari and TAG-Porsche turbo's all allegedly pumping out over 1000 bhp kW PS 0 on in qualifying trim. Derek Warwick in his lowline Brabham BT55 was the quickest car through the speed trap heading into the high speed Bosch Kurve being recorded during qualifying at 344 km/h mph 0 on. The low line Brabhams with their factory BMW turbos were proving to be far more effective on the high speed Österreichring where the Hella-Licht chicane was the only really slow section of the track. Showing the difference in car set up (and it must be said, drivers'), Patrese, running more wing than his team mate was some 1.682 seconds faster around the circuit even though his recorded top speed was 7 km/h mph 0 on slower. Qualifying classification Pos No Driver Constructor Q1 Q2 Gap 1 19 ITA Teo Fabi Benetton-BMW 1:26.421 1:23.549 2 20 AUT Gerhard Berger Benetton-BMW 1:25.638 1:23.743 +0.194 3 2 FIN Keke Rosberg McLaren-TAG 1:23.956 1:23.903 +0.354 4 7 ITA Riccardo Patrese Brabham-BMW 1:26.648 1:24.044 +0.495 5 1 FRA Alain Prost McLaren-TAG 1:24.346 1:25.285 +0.797 6 5 GBR Nigel Mansell Williams-Honda 1:25.515 1:24.635 +1.086 7 6 BRA 1968 Nelson Piquet Williams-Honda 1:25.090 1:24.697 +1.148 8 12 BRA 1968 Ayrton Senna Lotus-Renault 1:26.650 1:25.249 +1.700 9 27 ITA Michele Alboreto Ferrari 1:26.152 1:25.561 +2.012 10 8 GBR Derek Warwick Brabham-BMW 1:26.892 1:25.726 +2.177 11 26 FRA Philippe Alliot Ligier-Renault 1:26.999 1:25.917 +2.368 12 25 FRA René Arnoux Ligier-Renault 1:26.797 1:26.312 +2.763 13 16 FRA Patrick Tambay Lola-Ford 1:27.628 1:26.489 +2.940 14 28 SWE Stefan Johansson Ferrari 1:27.263 1:26.646 +3.097 15 11 GBR Johnny Dumfries Lotus-Renault 1:27.212 1:27.833 +3.663 16 15 AUS Alan Jones Lola-Ford 1:27.420 1:27.476 +3.871 17 3 GBR Martin Brundle Tyrrell-Renault 1:28.572 1:28.018 +4.469 18 18 BEL Thierry Boutsen Arrows-BMW 1:29.155 1:28.598 +5.049 19 24 ITA Alessandro Nannini Minardi-Motori Moderni 1:31.974 1:28.645 +5.096 20 4 FRA Philippe Streiff Tyrrell-Renault 1:31.455 1:28.951 +5.402 21 14 GBR Jonathan Palmer Zakspeed 1:29.073 1:29.583 +5.524 22 17 FRG Christian Danner Arrows-BMW 1:29.430 1:40.236 +5.881 23 23 ITA Andrea de Cesaris Minardi-Motori Moderni 1:33.263 1:29.615 +6.066 24 29 NED Huub Rothengatter Zakspeed 2:21.202 1:32.512 +8.963 25 21 ITA Piercarlo Ghinzani Osella-Alfa Romeo 1:35.070 1:33.988 +10.439 26 22 CAN Allen Berg Osella-Alfa Romeo 1:38.731 1:36.150 +12.601 Race Race report Warwick was a non-starter in bizarre circumstances. After the Englishman's car was repaired following a gearbox failure in the morning warm-up, the two Brabhams went to the grid, Patrese in the spare car following his qualifying crash. Then, as Patrese took his place on the grid, his own gearbox broke. As the Italian driver was six places ahead of Warwick, the decision was made on the grid to hand him Warwick's car for the rest of the race. Warwick later admitted that team owner Bernie Ecclestone had to physically drag him from the car as he refused to hand it over. When the race got underway, local driver Berger took the lead from Fabi, while Rosberg and Patrese made slow starts and were overtaken by Prost, Mansell and Piquet. Patrese retired after two laps with an engine failure, while the same fate befell Senna after 13 laps. On lap 17, Fabi overtook Berger at the Bosch-Kurve, only for his own engine to fail seconds later. Mansell moved into second place when Prost made a pit stop for tyres, then the lead shortly afterwards when Berger pitted with a battery problem. Prost took the lead when Mansell made his own pit stop, before both Williams retired within three laps of each other, Piquet with an overheating engine and Mansell with a broken driveshaft. This left Prost around half a minute clear of team-mate Rosberg, with Alboreto up to third. Five laps from the end, Rosberg suffered an electrical failure, leaving Prost to win by a full lap from Alboreto with a further lap back to the second Ferrari of Stefan Johansson in third; the top six was completed by the two Haas Lolas of Alan Jones and Patrick Tambay and the Arrows of Christian Danner. Berger, having lost four laps as a result of his battery problem, made a charge to finish close behind Danner, setting the fastest lap of the race in the process. Alan Jones was actually aided by a slipping clutch in his Lola-Ford as it meant much less wheelspin, thus he was able to complete the race (albeit 2 laps down on Prost) without having to stop to change his Goodyears. His 4th place and Tambay's 5th were cause for celebration in the Haas Lola camp as it was their first ever World Championship points and the first for the Cosworth designed and built Ford turbo engine. With the win, Prost moved from fourth to second in the Drivers' Championship and cut Mansell's lead to two points, 55 to 53, with Senna on 48 and Piquet on 47. In the post race press conference, Alboreto was asked if the podiums were the start of a Ferrari revival, though he was reluctant to agree, instead pointing out that it was more through on the day reliability over most of their faster rivals than any great leap forward in speed by the F1/86. Race classification Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 1 France Alain Prost McLaren-TAG 52 1:21:22.531 5 9 2 27 Italy Michele Alboreto Ferrari 51 + 1 Lap 9 6 3 28 Sweden Stefan Johansson Ferrari 50 + 2 Laps 14 4 4 15 Australia Alan Jones Lola-Ford 50 + 2 Laps 16 3 5 16 France Patrick Tambay Lola-Ford 50 + 2 Laps 13 2 6 17 Germany Christian Danner Arrows-BMW 49 + 3 Laps 22 1 7 20 Austria Gerhard Berger Benetton-BMW 49 + 3 Laps 2   8 29 Netherlands Huub Rothengatter Zakspeed 48 + 4 Laps 24   9 2 Finland Keke Rosberg McLaren-TAG 47 Electrical 3   10 25 France René Arnoux Ligier-Renault 47 + 5 Laps 12   11 21 Italy Piercarlo Ghinzani Osella-Alfa Romeo 46 + 6 Laps 25   Ret Retired 5 UK Nigel Mansell Williams-Honda 32 Halfshaft 6   Ret Retired 6 Brazil 1968 Nelson Piquet Williams-Honda 29 Engine 7   Ret Retired 18 Belgium Thierry Boutsen Arrows-BMW 25 Turbo 18   Ret Retired 19 Italy Teo Fabi Benetton-BMW 17 Engine 1   Ret Retired 26 France Philippe Alliot Ligier-Renault 16 Engine 11   Ret Retired 24 Italy Alessandro Nannini Minardi-Motori Moderni 13 Suspension 19   Ret Retired 23 Italy Andrea de Cesaris Minardi-Motori Moderni 13 Clutch 23   Ret Retired 12 Brazil 1968 Ayrton Senna Lotus-Renault 13 Engine 8   Ret Retired 3 UK Martin Brundle Tyrrell-Renault 12 Turbo 17   Ret Retired 4 France Philippe Streiff Tyrrell-Renault 10 Engine 20   Ret Retired 11 UK Johnny Dumfries Lotus-Renault 9 Engine 15   Ret Retired 14 UK Jonathan Palmer Zakspeed 8 Engine 21   Ret Retired 22 Canada Allen Berg Osella-Alfa Romeo 6 Electrical 26   Ret Retired 7 Italy Riccardo Patrese Brabham-BMW 2 Engine 4   DNS Did not start 8 UK Derek Warwick Brabham-BMW 0 Car raced by Patrese 10  Source:http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1986/258/ 1986 Austrian Grand Prix formula1.com 23 December 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20141113052444/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1986/258/ 13 November 2014 Championship standings after the race Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 GBR Nigel Mansell 55 2 FRA Alain Prost 53 3 BRA 1968 Ayrton Senna 48 4 BRA 1968 Nelson Piquet 47 5 FIN Keke Rosberg 19Source:https://www.statsf1.com/en/1986/autriche/championnat.aspx Austria 1986 - Championship • STATS F1 www.statsf1.com 7 March 2019 Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 1 GBR Williams-Honda 102 2 GBR McLaren-TAG 72 3 GBR Lotus-Renault 50 4 FRA Ligier-Renault 28 5 ITA Ferrari 26Source: Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. 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