Australian Grand Prix

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Date & Time
Sun 26th October 1986 12:00am Local
Sun 26th October 1986 12:00am UTC

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League
Formula 1

Season
1986

Round
Round 16

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Adelaide Street Circuit

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The 1986 Australian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 26 October 1986 at the Adelaide Street Circuit, Adelaide, Australia. It was the sixteenth and final race of the 1986 Formula One World Championship. The race decided a three-way battle for the Drivers' Championship between Brit Nigel Mansell, driving a Williams-Honda; his Brazilian teammate Nelson Piquet; and Frenchman Alain Prost, driving a McLaren-TAG.
Mansell took pole position for the race, but a poor start off the grid enabled teammate Piquet, Ayrton Senna and Keke Rosberg to overtake him and demote him to fourth by the end of the first lap.
A few laps into the race, Finland's Keke Rosberg, in his final Grand Prix, took the lead from Piquet. However, the Finn retired with a puncture on lap 63, handing the lead back to Piquet and elevating Mansell into third place, which would have been sufficient to secure the championship. One lap later, Mansell's race ended as his left-rear tyre exploded on the main straight with 19 laps remaining.
The title was then between Piquet and Prost with the latter needing to finish ahead of the former to successfully defend his title. Following the tyre failures of Rosberg and Mansell, the Williams team called Piquet in for a precautionary tyre change leaving him 15 seconds behind. He made a late charge to close the gap to 4.2 seconds but Prost took victory to win his second of four titles.

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Result List

01	Alain Prost	McLaren Formula 1 Team	1:54:20.388
02	Nelson Piquet	Williams Racing	+0:04.205
03	Stefan Johansson	Scuderia Ferrari HP	+1 Lap
04	Martin Brundle	Tyrrell Racing	+1 Lap
05	Philippe Streiff	Tyrrell Racing	DNF
06	Johnny Dumfries	Lotus F1	+2 Laps
07	René Arnoux	Ligier	+3 Laps
08	Philippe Alliot	Ligier	+3 Laps
09	Jonathan Palmer	Zakspeed	+5 Laps
10	Teo Fabi	Benetton Formula	+5 Laps
11	Patrick Tambay	MasterCard Lola	DNF
12	Nigel Mansell	Williams Racing	DNF
13	Riccardo Patrese	Brabham	DNF
14	Keke Rosberg	McLaren Formula 1 Team	DNF
15	Allen Berg	Osella	DNF
16	Derek Warwick	Brabham	DNF
17	Christian Danner	Arrows Grand Prix International	DNF
18	Thierry Boutsen	Arrows Grand Prix International	DNF
19	Ayrton Senna	Lotus F1	DNF
20	Andrea De Cesaris	Minardi	DNF
21	Gerhard Berger	Benetton Formula	DNF
22	Huub Rothengatter	Zakspeed	DNF
23	Alan Jones	MasterCard Lola	DNF
24	Alessandro Nannini	Minardi	DNF
25	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Osella	DNF
26	Michele Alboreto	Scuderia Ferrari HP	DNF