San Marino Grand Prix

Date
Sun 27th April 1986 (UTC)
Sun 27th April 1986 (Local)

Timestamp
1986-04-27T00:00:00

Time

00:00:00 UTC (00:00:00 Local)

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League
Formula 1

Season
1986

Round
3

Status

Location
Imola Circuit

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Description

The 1986 San Marino Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Imola on 27 April 1986. The race was the third round of the year's World Championship. As with the previous year's event, fuel consumption was a big issue, changing the points finishers in the closing laps.
Alain Prost (McLaren-TAG) dominated the race after Ayrton Senna (Lotus-Renault) and Nigel Mansell (Williams-Honda) retired early, before almost running out of fuel, three corners from the chequered flag. Frantically weaving the car back and forth to slosh the last drops of fuel into the pickup, he managed to keep it running just long enough to creep over the line and win the race (his McLaren teammate Keke Rosberg was classified 5th despite running dry 2 laps from the finish, a problem attributed to Rosberg using too much boost). Nelson Piquet brought his Williams home in second place only 7.645 seconds behind Prost, while Austrian Gerhard Berger finished third to score his and the Benetton team's first Formula One podium finish

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Result List

01	Alain Prost	1:32:28.408
02	Nelson Piquet	+0:07.645
03	Gerhard Berger	+1 Lap
04	Stefan Johansson	+1 Lap
05	Keke Rosberg	DNF
06	Riccardo Patrese	DNF
07	Thierry Boutsen	+2 Laps
08	Martin Brundle	+2 Laps
09	Marc Surer	+3 Laps
10	Michele Alboreto	DNF
11	Piercarlo Ghinzani	DNF
12	René Arnoux	DNF
13	Philippe Streiff	DNF
14	Teo Fabi	DNF
15	Jonathan Palmer	DNF
16	Christian Danner	DNF
17	Alan Jones	DNF
18	Andrea De Cesaris	DNF
19	Elio de Angelis	DNF
20	Jacques Laffite	DNF
21	Ayrton Senna	DNF
22	Nigel Mansell	DNF
23	Johnny Dumfries	DNF
24	Huub Rothengatter	DNF
25	Patrick Tambay	DNF
26	Alessandro Nannini	DNF