1986 French Grand Prix
The French Grand Prix 1986 was held on July 6 at the Circuit Paul Ricard in Le Castellet place and was the eighth race of the Formula 1 season 1986.
- 3.1 qualifying
- 3.2 race
- 4.1 Drivers' Championship
- 4.2 Constructors' Championship
Reports
Background
As a result of the fatal accident of Elio de Angelis in May had decided to stage the Grand Prix of France on a shortened version of the Circuit Paul Ricard, which did not include the stretch where the accident had occurred and also the almost two whole kilometer-long Mistral straight, were achieved on the very high speeds, halved.
Patrick Tambay returned after a three-week injury break back into the peloton.
Training
Ayrton Senna secured the fifth time this season the pole position. Again came the Williams drivers Nigel Mansell and Nelson Piquet in a grid positions two and three. René Arnoux qualified in fourth ahead of Alain Prost and Michele Alboreto.
Race
While Alboreto fell back due to an error at startup on the 24th place, ahead of Senna, Mansell left and Arnoux lead. During the first round of Teo Fabi and Derek Warwick collided. Both had for repairs to their vehicles to the pits.
In the fourth round Senna came on oil, which had lost Minardi M185B by Andrea de Cesaris due to an engine failure, to slide, hit the crash barriers and retired. Mansell led by well ahead of Arnoux. In third place, at this time Gerhard Berger has been set by the two McLaren drivers Alain Prost and Keke Rosberg under pressure and could withstand this until the ninth round. Shortly after he had dropped back behind the two opponents, he collided with Christian Danner and had to make an unscheduled pit stop, which threw him back to 16th place.
Until the 18th round, both McLaren drivers came to pass Arnoux, who were second and third respectively. As Mansell had to change his tires in the pits, Prost took the lead, but regained the British in the 37th round, where he exploited the advantages of the new tires. He eventually won ahead of Prost and Piquet. Rosberg was fourth ahead of the two Ligier drivers René Arnoux and Jacques Laffite.
Message list
Classifications
Qualifying
Race
WM stands after the race
The first six of the race were 9, 6, 4, 3, 2 and 1 point (s).