1986 German Grand Prix

1986 German Grand Prix
Race 10 of 16 in the 1986 Formula One World Championship
Race details
Date 27 July 1986
Official name XLVIII Großer Preis von Deutschland
Location Hockenheimring
Hockenheim, West Germany
Course Permanent racing facility
Course length 6.797 km (4.223 mi)
Distance 45 laps, 299.068 km (185.832 mi)
Weather Dry
Pole position
Driver
McLaren-TAG
Time 1:42.013
Fastest lap
Driver Austria Gerhard Berger Benetton-BMW
Time 1:46.604 on lap 35
Podium
First
Williams-Honda
Second
Lotus-Renault
Third
Williams-Honda

The 1986 German Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Hockenheimring on 27 July 1986. It was the tenth race of the 1986 FIA Formula One World Championship.

The 45-lap race was won by Brazilian driver Nelson Piquet, driving a Williams-Honda. Compatriot Ayrton Senna was second in a Lotus-Renault, with Englishman Nigel Mansell third in the other Williams-Honda. Frenchman Alain Prost was running third in his McLaren-TAG in the closing laps when he ran out of fuel, dropping him to sixth and thus allowing Mansell to extend his lead in the Drivers' Championship to seven points.

Pre-race

In the run-up to the race, Keke Rosberg announced that he would be retiring from Formula One at the end of the season, while Lotus announced that they would be using Honda engines in 1987, following Renault's withdrawal from the sport, with Japanese driver Satoru Nakajima replacing Johnny Dumfries. Meanwhile, Ligier drafted in Philippe Alliot to replace the injured Jacques Laffite.

Classification

Qualifying

PosNoDriverConstructorQ1Q2Gap
1 2 Finland Keke Rosberg McLaren-TAG 1:42.478 1:42.013 —
2 1 France Alain Prost McLaren-TAG 1:43.373 1:42.166 +0.153
3 12 Brazil Ayrton Senna Lotus-Renault 1:45.212 1:42.329 +0.316
4 20 Austria Gerhard Berger Benetton-BMW 1:44.493 1:42.541 +0.528
5 6 Brazil Nelson Piquet Williams-Honda 1:43.852 1:42.545 +0.532
6 5 United Kingdom Nigel Mansell Williams-Honda 1:42.696 1:43.086 +0.683
7 7 Italy Riccardo Patrese Brabham-BMW 1:46.094 1:43.348 +1.335
8 25 France René Arnoux Ligier-Renault 1:43.991 1:43.693 +1.680
9 19 Italy Teo Fabi Benetton-BMW 12:12.563 1:44.001 +1.998
10 27 Italy Michele Alboreto Ferrari 1:46.319 1:44.308 +2.295
11 28 Sweden Stefan Johansson Ferrari 1:46.847 1:44.346 +2.333
12 11 United Kingdom Johnny Dumfries Lotus-Renault 1:47.845 1:44.768 +2.755
13 16 France Patrick Tambay Lola-Ford 1:47.221 1:44.979 +2.966
14 26 France Philippe Alliot Ligier-Renault 1:45.047 1:45.905 +3.034
15 3 United Kingdom Martin Brundle Tyrrell-Renault 1:49.406 1:45.432 +3.419
16 14 United Kingdom Jonathan Palmer Zakspeed 1:47.167 1:45.887 +3.874
17 17 West Germany Christian Danner Arrows-BMW 1:49.439 1:46.355 +4.342
18 4 France Philippe Streiff Tyrrell-Renault 1:47.371 1:48.397 +5.358
19 15 Australia Alan Jones Lola-Ford 1:51.918 1:47.517 +5.505
20 8 United Kingdom Derek Warwick Brabham-BMW 1:48.206 53:52.766 +6.193
21 18 Belgium Thierry Boutsen Arrows-BMW 1:49.240 2:03.702 +7.227
22 24 Italy Alessandro Nannini Minardi-Motori Moderni 1:50.224 1:49.369 +7.356
23 23 Italy Andrea de Cesaris Minardi-Motori Moderni 1:50.900 1:50.066 +8.053
24 29 Netherlands Huub Rothengatter Zakspeed 1:52.461 1:50.918 +8.905
25 21 Italy Piercarlo Ghinzani Osella-Alfa Romeo 1:56.468 +14.455
26 22 Canada Allen Berg Osella-Alfa Romeo 1:56.959 +14.946

Race

PosNoDriverConstructorLapsTime/RetiredGridPoints
1 6 Brazil Nelson Piquet Williams-Honda 44 1:22:08.263 5 9
2 12 Brazil Ayrton Senna Lotus-Renault 44 + 15.437 3 6
3 5 United Kingdom Nigel Mansell Williams-Honda 44 + 44.580 6 4
4 25 France René Arnoux Ligier-Renault 44 + 1:15.176 8 3
5 2 Finland Keke Rosberg McLaren-TAG 43 Out of Fuel 1 2
6 1 France Alain Prost McLaren-TAG 43 Out of Fuel 2 1
7 8 United Kingdom Derek Warwick Brabham-BMW 43 + 1 Lap 20  
8 16 France Patrick Tambay Lola-Ford 43 + 1 Lap 13  
9 15 Australia Alan Jones Lola-Ford 42 + 2 Laps 19  
10 20 Austria Gerhard Berger Benetton-BMW 42 + 2 Laps 4  
11 28 Sweden Stefan Johansson Ferrari 41 Broken wing 11  
12 22 Canada Allen Berg Osella-Alfa Romeo 40 + 4 Laps 26  
Ret 17 West Germany Christian Danner Arrows-BMW 38 Turbo 17  
Ret 29 Netherlands Huub Rothengatter Zakspeed 38 Gearbox 24  
Ret 14 United Kingdom Jonathan Palmer Zakspeed 37 Engine 16  
Ret 3 United Kingdom Martin Brundle Tyrrell-Renault 34 Electrical 15  
Ret 7 Italy Riccardo Patrese Brabham-BMW 22 Turbo 7  
Ret 23 Italy Andrea de Cesaris Minardi-Motori Moderni 20 Gearbox 23  
Ret 24 Italy Alessandro Nannini Minardi-Motori Moderni 19 Overheating 22  
Ret 11 United Kingdom Johnny Dumfries Lotus-Renault 17 Water radiator[1] 12  
Ret 18 Belgium Thierry Boutsen Arrows-BMW 13 Turbo 21  
Ret 26 France Philippe Alliot Ligier-Renault 11 Engine 14  
Ret 21 Italy Piercarlo Ghinzani Osella-Alfa Romeo 10 Clutch 25  
Ret 4 France Philippe Streiff Tyrrell-Renault 7 Engine 18  
Ret 27 Italy Michele Alboreto Ferrari 6 Transmission 10  
Ret 19 Italy Teo Fabi Benetton-BMW 0 Collision 9  
Source:[2]

Notes

  • The McLarens of Keke Rosberg and Alain Prost both ran out of fuel on the final lap. Rosberg was running second, just behind Nelson Piquet's Williams, when his car stopped just after the Ostkurve chicane. Prost was running third, behind Piquet and Ayrton Senna's Lotus, when his car came to a halt on the finishing straight. The Frenchman got out of his car and tried to push it over the finish line, to great applause from the crowd, but was unsuccessful. Both drivers were passed by Nigel Mansell's Williams and René Arnoux's Ligier, who thus finished third and fourth respectively. Rosberg was eventually classified fifth with Prost sixth, as Rosberg had been ahead of Prost at the start of the final lap (although Prost had made it further around the final lap than Rosberg did), while the seventh-placed car, Derek Warwick's Brabham, was a lap behind.
  • Piquet and Senna were also running out of fuel at the end of the race: Piquet had to turn his Honda engine's boost way down after the Ostkurve chicane in order to get his car to the finish, while Senna had to swerve sideways on the finishing straight to get the last drops of fuel into his car's Renault engine.
  • The grid saw the first all-McLaren front row since Peter Revson and Denny Hulme at the 1972 Canadian Grand Prix. It was also Keke Rosberg's only pole position with the team, and the fifth and last pole of his F1 career.

Championship standings after the race

  • Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

References

  1. ↑ Pritchard, Anthony (March 2006). Lotus: The Competition Cars. Haynes Publishing. p. 246. ISBN 1-84425-006-7.
  2. ↑ "1986 German Grand Prix". formula1.com. Archived from the original on 13 November 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
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