1986 Belgian Grand Prix

F1 Belgium Belgian 25 May 1986 5 16 Circuit de Spa-FrancorchampsFrancorchamps, Wallonia, Belgium1986 Belgian GP https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/database/races/1986-belgian-grand-prix/ Motor Sport 30 May 2022 Spa 1996.jpg Permanent racing facility 4.312https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/database/races/1986-belgian-grand-prix/ 1986 Belgian Grand Prix | Motorsport Database 6.940 43 187.136 301.172 Dry Nelson Piquet Williams-Honda 1:54.331 Brazil 1968 Alain Prost McLaren-TAG 1:59.282 31 France Nigel Mansell Williams-Honda UK Ayrton Senna Lotus-Renault Brazil 1968 Stefan Johansson Ferrari Sweden BEL The 1986 Belgian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps on 25 May 1986. It was the fifth race of the 1986 FIA Formula One World Championship. The race was the 44th Belgian Grand Prix and the 32nd to be held at Spa-Francorchamps. It was held over 43 laps of the 7 km mi 2 on circuit for a total race distance of 301 km mi. The race was won by British driver Nigel Mansell, driving a Williams-Honda. It was Mansell's first victory of the season. Brazilian driver Ayrton Senna finished second in a Lotus-Renault, with Sweden's Stefan Johansson third in a Ferrari. Senna's result allowed him to take the lead of the Drivers' Championship from Frenchman Alain Prost, who could only manage sixth in his McLaren-TAG. Qualifying Brabham entered only one BT55, the car of Riccardo Patrese. Elio de Angelis had been killed in a testing accident at Circuit Paul Ricard just over a week before the race. Williams-Honda driver Nelson Piquet took pole late in the qualifying session using the team's spare car. Piquet's engine blew up in his race car during qualifying forcing him into the spare.https://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/25/sports/piquet-gains-pole-spot-for-belgian-grand-prix.html?scp=52&sq=gerhard%20berger&st=cse The New York Times Piquet Gains Pole Spot For Belgian Grand Prix May 25, 1986 Austrian Gerhard Berger scored his first front row start and the first for the BMW powered Benetton after being fastest in Friday qualifying. His Friday time of 1:54.468 was half a second faster than his Saturday time but still good enough for the front row. World Champion Alain Prost was third in his McLaren-TAG with the Lotus-Renault of Ayrton Senna completing the second row. Nigel Mansell qualified fifth in his Williams-Honda with Teo Fabi completing the top 6 in his Benetton-BMW. Race Piquet won the start and led the field into the La Source hairpin but behind him was chaos. Senna had made a good start from the 2nd row and when Berger's car twitched under brakes Senna went to the outside and then turned hard into the right hand corner. In doing so he squeezed out Berger who in turn squeezed out Prost while avoiding Senna. Prost, who had gone inside when the Benetton twitched, hit the inside barrier damaging the nose of his car with the right front wing drooping on the ground. He then drove over Berger's wheel launching the rear of his McLaren into the air. Other drivers were forced to take avoiding action with Berger's teammate Fabi having to stop to avoid hitting his teammates damaged car while Prost's teammate Keke Rosberg had to do a complete 180 degree turn the wrong way to avoid the Benettons. However, the only car that retired from the crash was the Lola-Ford of Patrick Tambay who went inside the stopped Fabi but hit his right rear with his left front wheel and damaged the left front suspension putting him out on the spot. Through it all Senna emerged unscathed in 2nd place followed by Mansell and the two Ferraris of Stefan Johansson and Michele Alboreto. Both Berger and Prost pitted at the end of lap 1 with Berger in for a long stop for repairs and Prost for a new nose cone, his rear suspension survived intact despite its unscheduled first corner flight. Mansell disposed of Senna on lap 2, but spun on lap 5,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOPNrUYzCT8 https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/jOPNrUYzCT8 2021-12-22 live Formula 1 1986 Mansell Spin GDH1981 21 April 2007 13 July 2016 YouTube falling back to 4th place. Piquet led until suffering turbo failure on lap 16, leaving Senna in front, ahead of Mansell, who shortly overtook Senna during pit stops. Prost emerged last on the road and only a few hundred metres in front of the leading Williams, on his way to being the last car on the lead lap and finishing in sixth place. He set a new lap record of 1:59.282 on lap 31. Nigel Mansell scored his first win of 1986 and the third win of his career. Senna, the cause of the first corner crash, finished 20 seconds behind in second, with Stefan Johansson finishing third after passing team leader Alboreto only two laps from home. Jacques Laffite finished fifth in his Ligier-Renault with Prost gaining a vital World Championship point for finishing sixth. Swiss driver Marc Surer finished ninth in his Arrows A8 in what would be the last Grand Prix of Surer's career – he would be seriously injured competing in the European Rally Championship a week later. Post race, Mansell dedicated his win to his friend and former team mate Elio de Angelis, who died just ten days prior to Spa in a testing accident at Paul Ricard. Classification Qualifying Pos No Driver Constructor Q1 Q2 Gap 1 6 BRA 1968 Nelson Piquet Williams-Honda 1:54.637 1:54.331 — 2 20 AUT Gerhard Berger Benetton-BMW 1:54.468 1:54.939 +0.137 3 1 FRA Alain Prost McLaren-TAG 1:55.039 1:54.501 +0.170 4 12 BRA 1968 Ayrton Senna Lotus-Renault 1:55.776 1:54.576 +0.245 5 5 GBR Nigel Mansell Williams-Honda 1:55.345 1:54.582 +0.251 6 19 ITA Teo Fabi Benetton-BMW 1:57.440 1:54.765 +0.434 7 25 FRA René Arnoux Ligier-Renault 1:57.269 1:55.576 +1.245 8 2 FIN Keke Rosberg McLaren-TAG 1:56.534 1:55.662 +1.331 9 27 ITA Michele Alboreto Ferrari 1:56.294 1:56.242 +1.911 10 16 FRA Patrick Tambay Lola-Ford 1:58.574 1:56.309 +1.978 11 28 SWE Stefan Johansson Ferrari 1:57.697 1:56.496 +2.165 12 3 GBR Martin Brundle Tyrrell-Renault 1:57.797 1:56.537 +2.206 13 11 GBR Johnny Dumfries Lotus-Renault 1:58.619 1:57.462 +3.131 14 18 BEL Thierry Boutsen Arrows-BMW 1:57.918 1:57.612 +3.281 15 7 ITA Riccardo Patrese Brabham-BMW 2:00.357 1:57.612 +3.281 16 15 AUS Alan Jones Lola-Ford 1:59.180 1:57.815 +3.484 17 26 FRA Jacques Laffite Ligier-Renault 1:58.238 2:27.817 +3.907 18 4 FRA Philippe Streiff Tyrrell-Renault 1:59.347 1:58.603 +4.272 19 23 ITA Andrea de Cesaris Minardi-Motori Moderni 2:00.984 1:59.960 +5.629 20 14 GBR Jonathan Palmer Zakspeed 2:02.307 2:00.148 +5.817 21 17 SWI Marc Surer Arrows-BMW 2:01.320 2:01.415 +4.661 22 24 ITA Alessandro Nannini Minardi-Motori Moderni 2:01.528 2:01.354 +7.023 23 29 NED Huub Rothengatter Zakspeed 2:06.006 2:03.842 +9.511 24 21 ITA Piercarlo Ghinzani Osella-Alfa Romeo 2:05.092 3:38.767 +10.761 25 22 FRG Christian Danner Osella-Alfa Romeo 2:09.465 2:06.219 +11.888 Race Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 5 UK Nigel Mansell Williams-Honda 43 1:27:57.925 5 9 2 12 Brazil 1968 Ayrton Senna Lotus-Renault 43 + 19.827 4 6 3 28 Sweden Stefan Johansson Ferrari 43 + 23.592 11 4 4 27 Italy Michele Alboreto Ferrari 43 + 29.634 9 3 5 26 France Jacques Laffite Ligier-Renault 43 + 1:10.690 17 2 6 1 France Alain Prost McLaren-TAG 43 + 2:17.772 3 1 7 19 Italy Teo Fabi Benetton-BMW 42 + 1 Lap 6   8 7 Italy Riccardo Patrese Brabham-BMW 42 + 1 Lap 15   9 17 Switzerland Marc Surer Arrows-BMW 41 + 2 Laps 21   10 20 Austria Gerhard Berger Benetton-BMW 41 + 2 Laps 2   11 15 Australia Alan Jones Lola-Ford 40 Out of Fuel 16   12 4 France Philippe Streiff Tyrrell-Renault 40 + 3 Laps 18   13 14 UK Jonathan Palmer Zakspeed 37 + 6 Laps 20   Ret Retired 23 Italy Andrea de Cesaris Minardi-Motori Moderni 35 Out of Fuel 19   Ret Retired 29 Netherlands Huub Rothengatter Zakspeed 25 Electrical 23   Ret Retired 3 UK Martin Brundle Tyrrell-Renault 25 Gearbox 12   Ret Retired 24 Italy Alessandro Nannini Minardi-Motori Moderni 24 Gearbox 22   Ret Retired 25 France René Arnoux Ligier-Renault 23 Engine 7   Ret Retired 6 Brazil 1968 Nelson Piquet Williams-Honda 16 Turbo 1   Ret Retired 18 Belgium Thierry Boutsen Arrows-BMW 7 Electrical 14   Ret Retired 11 UK Johnny Dumfries Lotus-Renault 7 Spun Off 13   Ret Retired 2 Finland Keke Rosberg McLaren-TAG 6 Engine 8   Ret Retired 21 Italy Piercarlo Ghinzani Osella-Alfa Romeo 3 Engine 24   Ret Retired 22 Germany Christian Danner Osella-Alfa Romeo 2 Engine 25   Ret Retired 16 France Patrick Tambay Lola-Ford 0 Accident 10  Source:http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1986/251/ 1986 Belgian Grand Prix formula1.com 23 December 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20141113051805/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1986/251/ 13 November 2014 Championship standings after the race Drivers' Championship standings PosDriverPoints 1 BRA 1968 Ayrton Senna 25 2 FRA Alain Prost 23 3 GBR Nigel Mansell 18 4 BRA 1968 Nelson Piquet 15 5 FIN Keke Rosberg 11Source:https://www.statsf1.com/en/1986/belgique/championnat.aspx Belgium 1986 - Championship • STATS F1 www.statsf1.com 13 March 2019 Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 1 GBR McLaren-TAG34 2 GBR Williams-Honda33 3 GBR Lotus-Renault25 4 FRA Ligier-Renault12 5 ITA Ferrari10Source: Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. 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