1986 Brazilian Grand Prix

The 1986 Brazilian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Jacarepaguá in Rio de Janeiro on 23 March 1986. It was the opening race of the 1986 Formula One World Championship. It was the 15th Brazilian Grand Prix and the seventh to be held at Jacarepaguá. The race was held over 61 laps of the Template:Convert circuit for a race distance of Template:Convert.

The race was won by local driver Nelson Piquet, driving a Williams-Honda, after he started from second position. Compatriot Ayrton Senna took pole position in his Lotus-Renault, but Piquet overtook him on lap 3 and went on to win from him by 34 seconds. Frenchman Jacques Laffite finished third in a Ligier-Renault.

Summary

The new season had seen many driver changes, the most significant was Piquet's arrival at Williams after seven years at Brabham, while Keke Rosberg left Williams to join McLaren and Elio de Angelis joined Brabham after several seasons at Lotus. Senna used his influence at Lotus to ensure they hired a driver that would not interfere with his campaign which left Derek Warwick out of a seat, although that would prove to be temporary. Williams was missing their team principal, Frank Williams who had had a car accident in pre-season testing that left him a quadriplegic.<ref name="Guardian">Template:Cite web</ref>

Senna led from pole position but was soon under threat from the Williams pair. Nigel Mansell spun off the track on the opening lap after contact with Senna, but Piquet was in the lead by lap three. As pitstops began it started to look as though Alain Prost (McLaren MP4/2C) might pull a surprise by only pitting once and snatching the win away from the Brazilians<ref name="Guardian"/> but that came to an end along with Prost's TAG-Porsche engine just past half-distance.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

There was no threat to the Brazilian pair after that with Piquet retaking the lead from Senna after the latter's final tyre stop. Behind Laffite was his Ligier teammate René Arnoux. Fifth place was taken by the Tyrrell 014-Renault of Martin Brundle for his first official points finish since his debut season two years previously (Brundle had scored several points in Template:F1 including 2 points on debut in Brazil and a 2nd placing at Detroit, but had lost all points when Tyrrell were disqualified for the season). Gerhard Berger finished sixth in his Benetton B186-BMW on the debut for the new team which had taken over the Toleman team during the off-season. Philippe Streiff in the second Tyrrell, Elio de Angelis (Brabham BT55), Johnny Dumfries (Lotus 98T) and Teo Fabi (Benetton B186) were the only other finishers in a day of high attrition where Mansell had been the only non-mechanical retirement.

Classification

Qualifying

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Q1	Q2	Gap
1	12	Template:Flagicon Ayrton Senna	Lotus-Renault	1:26.893	1:25.501
2	6	Template:Flagicon Nelson Piquet	Williams-Honda	1:26.266	1:26.755	+0.765
3	5	Template:Flagicon Nigel Mansell	Williams-Honda	1:27.406	1:26.749	+1.248
4	25	Template:Flagicon René Arnoux	Ligier-Renault	1:30.563	1:27.133	+1.632
5	26	Template:Flagicon Jacques Laffite	Ligier-Renault	1:30.175	1:27.190	+1.689
6	27	Template:Flagicon Michele Alboreto	Ferrari	1:30.156	1:27.485	+1.984
7	2	Template:Flagicon Keke Rosberg	McLaren-TAG	1:28.763	1:27.705	+2.204
8	28	Template:Flagicon Stefan Johansson	Ferrari	1:30.363	1:27.711	+2.210
9	1	Template:Flagicon Alain Prost	McLaren-TAG	1:28.467	1:28.099	+2.598
10	7	Template:Flagicon Riccardo Patrese	Brabham-BMW		1:29.294	+3.793
11	11	Template:Flagicon Johnny Dumfries	Lotus-Renault	1:30.452	1:29.503	+4.002
12	19	Template:Flagicon Teo Fabi	Benetton-BMW	1:31.138	1:29.748	+4.247
13	16	Template:Flagicon Patrick Tambay	Lola-Hart	1:31.429	1:30.594	+5.093
14	8	Template:Flagicon Elio de Angelis	Brabham-BMW	1:31.682	1:31.074	+5.573
15	18	Template:Flagicon Thierry Boutsen	Arrows-BMW	1:32.911	1:31.244	+5.743
16	20	Template:Flagicon Gerhard Berger	Benetton-BMW	1:31.653	1:31.313	+5.812
17	3	Template:Flagicon Martin Brundle	Tyrrell-Renault	1:32.983	1:32.009	+6.508
18	4	Template:Flagicon Philippe Streiff	Tyrrell-Renault	1:35.669	1:32.388	+6.887
19	15	Template:Flagicon Alan Jones	Lola-Hart	1:33.664	1:33.236	+7.735
20	17	Template:Flagicon Marc Surer	Arrows-BMW	1:33.781	1:34.144	+8.280
21	14	Template:Flagicon Jonathan Palmer	Zakspeed	1:35.199	1:33.784	+8.283
22	23	Template:Flagicon Andrea de Cesaris	Minardi-Motori Moderni	1:37.835	1:34.646	+9.145
23	21	Template:Flagicon Piercarlo Ghinzani	Osella-Alfa Romeo	1:38.165	1:35.980	+10.479
24	22	Template:Flagicon Christian Danner	Osella-Alfa Romeo	1:39.389	1:36.558	+11.057
25	24	Template:Flagicon Alessandro Nannini	Minardi-Motori Moderni	1:40.739	1:37.466	+11.965

Race

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	6	Template:Flagicon Nelson Piquet	Williams-Honda	61	1:39:32.583	2	9
2	12	Template:Flagicon Ayrton Senna	Lotus-Renault	61	+ 34.827	1	6
3	26	Template:Flagicon Jacques Laffite	Ligier-Renault	61	+ 59.759	5	4
4	25	Template:Flagicon René Arnoux	Ligier-Renault	61	+ 1:28.429	4	3
5	3	Template:Flagicon Martin Brundle	Tyrrell-Renault	60	+ 1 lap	17	2
6	20	Template:Flagicon Gerhard Berger	Benetton-BMW	59	+ 2 laps	16	1
7	4	Template:Flagicon Philippe Streiff	Tyrrell-Renault	59	+ 2 laps	18
8	8	Template:Flagicon Elio de Angelis	Brabham-BMW	58	+ 3 laps	14
9	11	Template:Flagicon Johnny Dumfries	Lotus-Renault	58	+ 3 laps	11
10	19	Template:Flagicon Teo Fabi	Benetton-BMW	56	+ 5 laps	12
Ret	18	Template:Flagicon Thierry Boutsen	Arrows-BMW	37	Exhaust	15
Ret	27	Template:Flagicon Michele Alboreto	Ferrari	35	Fuel system	6
Ret	1	Template:Flagicon Alain Prost	McLaren-TAG	30	Engine	9
Ret	22	Template:Flagicon Christian Danner	Osella-Alfa Romeo	29	Engine	24
Ret	28	Template:Flagicon Stefan Johansson	Ferrari	26	Brakes	8
Ret	16	Template:Flagicon Patrick Tambay	Lola-Hart	24	Battery	13
Ret	7	Template:Flagicon Riccardo Patrese	Brabham-BMW	21	Water leak	10
Ret	14	Template:Flagicon Jonathan Palmer	Zakspeed	20	Engine	21
Ret	17	Template:Flagicon Marc Surer	Arrows-BMW	19	Engine	20
Ret	24	Template:Flagicon Alessandro Nannini	Minardi-Motori Moderni	18	Clutch	25
Ret	23	Template:Flagicon Andrea de Cesaris	Minardi-Motori Moderni	16	Turbo	22
Ret	21	Template:Flagicon Piercarlo Ghinzani	Osella-Alfa Romeo	16	Engine	23
Ret	2	Template:Flagicon Keke Rosberg	McLaren-TAG	6	Engine	7
Ret	15	Template:Flagicon Alan Jones	Lola-Hart	5	Injection	19
Ret	5	Template:Flagicon Nigel Mansell	Williams-Honda	0	Spun off	3
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Championship standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings

Pos	Driver	Points
1	Template:Flagicon Nelson Piquet	9
2	Template:Flagicon Ayrton Senna	6
3	Template:Flagicon Jacques Laffite	4
4	Template:Flagicon René Arnoux	3
5	Template:Flagicon Martin Brundle	2
Source:<ref name="champ">Template:Cite web</ref>

Constructors' Championship standings

Pos	Constructor	Points
1	Template:Flagicon Williams-Honda	9
2	Template:Flagicon Ligier-Renault	7
3	Template:Flagicon Lotus-Renault	6
4	Template:Flagicon Tyrrell-Renault	2
5	Template:Flagicon Benetton-BMW	1
Source:<ref name="champ"/>

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