1986 British Grand Prix

The XXXIX Shell Oils British Grand Prix, otherwise known as the 1986 British Grand Prix, was the ninth round of the FIA Formula One World Championship, staged at Brands Hatch in Kent, UK, on the 13 July 1986.'British GP, 1986', grandprix.com, (Inside F1 Inc., 2015), http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/rr429.html, (Accessed 29/03/2019) The race, which was the last British Grand Prix to be staged anywhere other than Silverstone, would see Nigel Mansell claim victory and the Championship lead.
Qualifying proved to be a benefit, with Nelson Piquet sweeping to pole ahead of teammate Mansell. Best of the rest would be pilot Ayrton Senna, while Championship leader Alain Prost would start from sixth.
Unfortunately the start of the race would prove to be chaotic, with Mansell sprinting into the lead, only for his Williams to stop in the middle of Paddock Hill Bend. The resulting melee caused by the limping Williams would see Thierry Boutsen spin, prompting Stefan Johansson to jink his right into the side of Jacques Laffite.
The Frenchman was powerless to prevent his from bouncing into the barriers, an accident that broke both of his legs. Jonathan Palmer, a qualified doctor of medicine, stopped his collision damaged to help extract the Frenchman, who needed to be cut from the remains of the Ligier, with the race duly stopped for an hour for clean-up.
With Laffite en-route to hospital via helicopter the race was restarted, with the field reset to grid order and several drivers, including Mansell, in their spare cars. Unsurprisingly the second start was for more tame, with Piquet easing into the lead from pole, while Gerhard Berger leapt ahead of a cautious Mansell.
It was not long, however, before the #5 Williams moved back into second, with the Brit quickly sprinting away to chase Piquet. Behind, Senna was unable to make progress forward as he was being harassed by both s, while Michele Alboreto was up to sixth for Ferrari.
Prost's bid for victory was effectively ended by an early stop for fresh tyres, while failures for Berger and Senna saw them drop out completely. Mansell, meanwhile, would have to wait for Piquet to make a mistake before claiming the lead, sneaking through at one third distance when the Brazilian missed a gear.
With that the race was effectively over, with Mansell establishing an eight seconds lead over Piquet before the end of the race. Third eventually went to Prost, who overhauled René Arnoux in the closing stages, while claimed a double points finish courtesy of Martin Brundle and Philippe Alliot.
That victory would put Mansell into the lead of the Championship, four ahead of former leader Prost. Senna had retained third but was now eleven off the lead, while, in the Constructors' Championship, Williams-Honda had built a sixteen point lead over McLaren-TAG Porsche.
==Background==
Second place in France had been enough to hand the Championship lead back to Alain Prost at the halfway point in the season, although the race victory for Nigel Mansell had ensured that the Brit was just a point behind. Indeed, even former leader Ayrton Senna had not lost too much ground in France despite slipping to third, remaining just three off the lead, before a huge thirteen point gap to Nelson Piquet. Further back, Keke Rosberg had lost more ground in fifth ahead of Jacques Laffite, while René Arnoux had crept up the table to seventh.
In the Constructors Championship it was who had ended the first half of the season on top, having concluded the French Grand Prix with a five point lead. were their closest challengers, sat on 56 points, while were beginning to fall out of the fight in third, arriving in the UK twenty behind McLaren. Indeed, the effort from Ethel were being punished for only having one consistent point scoring driver, with Johnny Dumfries yet to threaten the points at all in 1986.
===Entry list===
The full entry list for the is outlined below:
No. 	Driver 	Entrant 	Constructor 	Chassis 	Engine 	Model 	Tyre
1 	Alain Prost 	Marlboro McLaren International 	 	MP4/2C 	 	TTE PO1 1.5 V6t 	
2 	Keke Rosberg 	Marlboro McLaren International 	 	MP4/2C 	 	TTE PO1 1.5 V6t 	
3 	Martin Brundle 	Data General Team Tyrrell 	 	015 	 	EF15 1.5 V6t 	
4 	Philippe Alliot 	Data General Team Tyrrell 	 	015 	 	EF15 1.5 V6t 	
5 	Nigel Mansell 	Canon Williams Honda Team 	 	FW11 	 	RA166E 1.5 V6t 	
6 	Nelson Piquet 	Canon Williams Honda Team 	 	FW11 	 	RA166E 1.5 V6t 	
7 	Riccardo Patrese 	Motor Racing Developments Ltd. 	 	BT55 	 	M12/13/1 1.5 L4t 	
8 	Derek Warwick 	Motor Racing Developments Ltd. 	 	BT55 	 	M12/13/1 1.5 L4t 	
11 	Johnny Dumfries 	John Player Special Team Lotus 	 	98T 	 	EF15B 1.5 V6t 	
12 	Ayrton Senna 	John Player Special Team Lotus 	 	98T 	 	EF15B 1.5 V6t 	
14 	Jonathan Palmer 	West Zakspeed Racing 	 	861 	 	1500/4 1.5 L4t 	
15 	Alan Jones 	Team Haas (USA) Ltd. 	 	THL2 	 	GBA 1.5 V6t 	
16 	Patrick Tambay 	Team Haas (USA) Ltd. 	 	THL2 	 	GBA 1.5 V6t 	
17 	Christian Danner 	Barclay Arrows BMW 	 	A8 	 	M12/13 1.5 L4t 	
18 	Thierry Boutsen 	Barclay Arrows BMW 	 	A8 	 	M12/13 1.5 L4t 	
19 	Teo Fabi 	Benetton Formula 	 	B186 	 	M12/13 1.5 L4t 	
20 	Gerhard Berger 	Benetton Formula 	 	B186 	 	M12/13 1.5 L4t 	
21 	Piercarlo Ghinzani 	Osella Squadra Corse 	 	FA1G 	 	890T 1.5 V8t 	
22 	Allen Berg 	Osella Squadra Corse 	 	FA1H 	 	890T 1.5 V8t 	
23 	Andrea de Cesaris 	Minardi Team SpA 	 	M185B 	 	615-90 1.5 V6t 	
24 	Alessandro Nannini 	Minardi Team SpA 	 	M185B 	 	615-90 1.5 V6t 	
25 	René Arnoux 	Equipe Ligier 	 	JS27 	 	EF15 1.5 V6t 	
26 	Jacques Laffite 	Equipe Ligier 	 	JS27 	 	EF15 1.5 V6t 	
27 	Michele Alboreto 	Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC 	 	F1/86 	 	032 1.5 V6t 	
28 	Stefan Johansson 	Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC 	 	F1/86 	 	032 1.5 V6t 	
29 	Huub Rothengatter 	West Zakspeed Racing 	 	861 	 	1500/4 1.5 L4t 	
Source:'Britain 1986: Entrants', statsf1.com, (Stats F1, 2015), https://www.statsf1.com/en/1986/grande-bretagne/engages.aspx, (Accessed 29/03/2019)	Source:'Britain 1986: Entrants', statsf1.com, (Stats F1, 2015), https://www.statsf1.com/en/1986/grande-bretagne/engages.aspx, (Accessed 29/03/2019)	Source:'Britain 1986: Entrants', statsf1.com, (Stats F1, 2015), https://www.statsf1.com/en/1986/grande-bretagne/engages.aspx, (Accessed 29/03/2019)	Source:'Britain 1986: Entrants', statsf1.com, (Stats F1, 2015), https://www.statsf1.com/en/1986/grande-bretagne/engages.aspx, (Accessed 29/03/2019)	Source:'Britain 1986: Entrants', statsf1.com, (Stats F1, 2015), https://www.statsf1.com/en/1986/grande-bretagne/engages.aspx, (Accessed 29/03/2019)	Source:'Britain 1986: Entrants', statsf1.com, (Stats F1, 2015), https://www.statsf1.com/en/1986/grande-bretagne/engages.aspx, (Accessed 29/03/2019)	Source:'Britain 1986: Entrants', statsf1.com, (Stats F1, 2015), https://www.statsf1.com/en/1986/grande-bretagne/engages.aspx, (Accessed 29/03/2019)	Source:'Britain 1986: Entrants', statsf1.com, (Stats F1, 2015), https://www.statsf1.com/en/1986/grande-bretagne/engages.aspx, (Accessed 29/03/2019)
==Practice Overview==
==Qualifying==
===Friday Qualifying===
===Saturday Qualifying===
===Qualifying Results===
The full qualifying results for the are outlined below:
Pos. 	No. 	Driver 	Constructor 	Time 	Time 	Gap
Pos. 	No. 	Driver 	Constructor 	Q1 	Q2 	Gap
1 	6 	Nelson Piquet 	 	1:07.690 	1:06.961 	—
2 	5 	Nigel Mansell 	 	1:08.818 	1:07.399 	+0.438s
3 	12 	Ayrton Senna 	 	1:09.042 	1:07.524 	+0.563s
4 	20 	Gerhard Berger 	 	1:09.916 	1:08.196 	+1.235s
5 	2 	Keke Rosberg 	 	1:09.479 	1:08.477 	+1.516s
6 	1 	Alain Prost 	 	1:09.779 	1:09.334 	+2.373s
7 	19 	Teo Fabi 	 	1:11.819 	1:09.409 	+2.448s
8 	25 	René Arnoux 	 	1:09.971 	1:09.543 	+2.582s
9 	8 	Derek Warwick 	 	1:12.403 	1:10.209 	+3.248s
10 	11 	Johnny Dumfries 	 	1:10.304 	1:10.583 	+3.343s
11 	3 	Martin Brundle 	 	1:11.432 	1:10.334 	+3.373s
12 	27 	Michele Alboreto 	 	1:11.662 	1:10.338 	+3.377s
13 	18 	Thierry Boutsen 	 	1:12.333 	1:10.941 	+3.980s
14 	15 	Alan Jones 	 	1:12.060 	1:11.121 	+4.160s
15 	7 	Riccardo Patrese 	 	1:12.513 	1:11.267 	+4.306s
16 	4 	Philippe Streiff 	 	1:11.682 	1:11.450 	+4.489s
17 	16 	Patrick Tambay 	 	1:13.376 	1:11.458 	+4.497s
18 	28 	Stefan Johansson 	 	1:11.500 	1:11.568 	+4.539s
19 	26 	Jacques Laffite 	 	1:12.715 	1:12.281 	+5.320s
20 	24 	Alessandro Nannini 	 	1:12.848 	1:13.496 	+5.887s
21 	23 	Andrea de Cesaris 	 	1:14.366 	1:12.980 	+6.019s
22 	14 	Jonathan Palmer 	 	1:14.678 	1:13.009 	+6.048s
23 	17 	Christian Danner 	 	1:13.261 	1:13.421 	+6.300s
24 	21 	Piercarlo Ghinzani 	 	1:16.440 	1:16.134 	+9.173s
25 	29 	Huub Rothengatter 	 	— 	1:16.854 	+9.917s
26 	22 	Allen Berg 	 	1:18.319 	— 	+11.738s
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*T Indicates a driver used their test/spare car to set their best time in that session.
*Bold indicates a driver's best/qualifying time.
===Grid===
** Nannini would take both the start and the restart from the pit lane.
==Race==
===Report===
===Results===
The full results for the are outlined below:
Pos. 	No. 	Driver 	Constructor 	Laps 	Time/Retired 	Grid 	Points
1 	5T 	Nigel Mansell 	 	75 	1:30:38.471 	2 	9
2 	6 	Nelson Piquet 	 	75 	+5.574s 	1 	6
3 	1 	Alain Prost 	 	74 	+1 Lap 	6 	4
4 	25 	René Arnoux 	 	73 	+2 Laps 	8 	3
5 	3 	Martin Brundle 	 	72 	+3 Laps 	11 	2
6 	4 	Philippe Streiff 	 	72 	+3 Laps 	16 	1
7 	11 	Johnny Dumfries 	 	72 	+3 Laps 	10 	
8 	8 	Derek Warwick 	 	72 	+3 Laps 	9 	
9 	14T 	Jonathan Palmer 	 	69 	+6 Laps 	22 	
NC* 	18 	Thierry Boutsen 	 	62 	+13 Laps 	13 	
Ret 	16 	Patrick Tambay 	 	60 	Gearbox 	17 	
Ret 	27 	Michele Alboreto 	 	51 	Turbo 	12 	
Ret 	24 	Alessandro Nannini 	 	50 	Steering 	PL 	
Ret 	19 	Teo Fabi 	 	45 	Fuel system 	7 	
Ret 	7 	Riccardo Patrese 	 	39 	Engine 	15 	
Ret 	12 	Ayrton Senna 	 	27 	Gearbox 	3 	
Ret 	29 	Huub Rothengatter 	 	24 	Engine 	25 	
Ret 	23T 	Andrea de Cesaris 	 	23 	Electrical 	21 	
Ret 	20 	Gerhard Berger 	 	22 	Electrical 	4 	
Ret 	15 	Alan Jones 	 	22 	Throttle 	14 	
Ret 	28T 	Stefan Johansson 	 	20 	Engine 	18 	
Ret 	2 	Keke Rosberg 	 	7 	Gearbox 	5 	
Ret 	26 	Jacques Laffite 	 	0 	Collision 	19 	
Ret 	17 	Christian Danner 	 	0 	Collision 	23 	
Ret 	21 	Piercarlo Ghinzani 	 	0 	Collision 	24 	
Ret 	22 	Allen Berg 	 	0 	Collision 	26 	
Source:'Britain 1986: Result', statsf1.com, (Stats F1, 2016), https://www.statsf1.com/en/1986/grande-bretagne/classement.aspx, (Accessed 29/03/2019)	Source:'Britain 1986: Result', statsf1.com, (Stats F1, 2016), https://www.statsf1.com/en/1986/grande-bretagne/classement.aspx, (Accessed 29/03/2019)	Source:'Britain 1986: Result', statsf1.com, (Stats F1, 2016), https://www.statsf1.com/en/1986/grande-bretagne/classement.aspx, (Accessed 29/03/2019)	Source:'Britain 1986: Result', statsf1.com, (Stats F1, 2016), https://www.statsf1.com/en/1986/grande-bretagne/classement.aspx, (Accessed 29/03/2019)	Source:'Britain 1986: Result', statsf1.com, (Stats F1, 2016), https://www.statsf1.com/en/1986/grande-bretagne/classement.aspx, (Accessed 29/03/2019)	Source:'Britain 1986: Result', statsf1.com, (Stats F1, 2016), https://www.statsf1.com/en/1986/grande-bretagne/classement.aspx, (Accessed 29/03/2019)	Source:'Britain 1986: Result', statsf1.com, (Stats F1, 2016), https://www.statsf1.com/en/1986/grande-bretagne/classement.aspx, (Accessed 29/03/2019)	Source:'Britain 1986: Result', statsf1.com, (Stats F1, 2016), https://www.statsf1.com/en/1986/grande-bretagne/classement.aspx, (Accessed 29/03/2019)
*T Indicates a driver used their test/spare car.
** Boutsen was unable to be classified as he failed to complete 90% of the race distance.
==Milestones==
* Last British Grand Prix to be held at a venue other than Silverstone.
* 176th and final Grand Prix for Jacques Laffite.'9. Britain 1986', statsf1.com, (Stats F1, 2014), https://www.statsf1.com/en/1986/grande-bretagne.aspx, (Accessed 29/03/2019)
** Laffite hence equalled Graham Hill's record for most starts.
** Laffite also set a new record for race entries - 180.'1986 British GP', chicanef1.com, (Chicane F1, 2015), http://www.chicanef1.com/racetit.pl?year=1986&gp=British%20GP&r=1, (Accessed 29/03/2019)
* Alain Prost entered his 100th Grand Prix.
* appeared at their 50th Grand Prix as a registered constructor.
* Thierry Boutsen made his 50th start.
* Twentieth pole position for Nelson Piquet.
** Also the twentieth pole for a car using #6 as its race number.
* Sixth career victory for Nigel Mansell.
* 27th win for a chassis.
** claimed their twelfth victory as an engine supplier.
* Piquet secured the 25th podium finish for a Honda engine.
* registered their 130th podium as a constructor.
==Standings==
Victory on home soil propelled Nigel Mansell to the top of the Championship fight, with the Brit leaving Brands Hatch with a four point lead. Alain Prost, former leader, had slipped to second, ending the weekend on 43, while the third man in the truel, Ayrton Senna had slipped eleven points behind after failing to score again. Indeed, the Brazilian's miserable recent form had allowed Nelson Piquet to draw him in, although the #6 Williams pilot was still seven off the back of his compatriot.
In the Constructors Championship it had been a very productive day for , with the Anglo-Japanese squad ending the afternoon on 76 points. They hence moved sixteen clear of closest challengers , before a huge 24 point gap back to in third. Indeed, with seven races to go it seemed as if Lotus were out of the fight, and were instead being caught, albeit slowly, by in fourth.
 
World Championship for Drivers	World Championship for Drivers	World Championship for Drivers	World Championship for Drivers
Pos. 	Driver 	Pts. 	+/-
1 	Nigel Mansell 	47 	1
2 	Alain Prost 	43 	1
3 	Ayrton Senna 	36 	
4 	Nelson Piquet 	29 	
5 	Keke Rosberg 	17 	
6 	Jacques Laffite 	14 	
7 	René Arnoux 	11 	
8 	Stefan Johansson 	7 	
9 	Gerhard Berger 	6 	
10 	Michele Alboreto 	6 	
11 	Martin Brundle 	4 	1
12 	Teo Fabi 	2 	1
13 	Riccardo Patrese 	2 	
14 	Philippe Streiff 	1 	1
World Championship for Constructors	World Championship for Constructors	World Championship for Constructors	World Championship for Constructors
Pos. 	Team 	Pts. 	+/-
1 	 	76 	
2 	 	60 	
3 	 	36 	
4 	 	25 	
5 	 	13 	
6 	 	8 	
7 	 	5 	
8 	 	2 	
Only point scoring drivers and constructors are shown.
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