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Australian Grand Prix

Date
Sun 26th October 1986 (UTC)
Sun 26th October 1986 (Local)

Timestamp
1986-10-26T00:00:00

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

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League
Formula 1

Season
1986

Round
16

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Location
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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01				Alain Prost	1:54:20.388
02				Nelson Piquet	+0:04.205
03				Stefan Johansson	+1 Lap
04				Martin Brundle	+1 Lap
05				Philippe Streiff	DNF
06				Johnny Dumfries	+2 Laps
07				René Arnoux	+3 Laps
08				Philippe Alliot	+3 Laps
09				Jonathan Palmer	+5 Laps
10				Teo Fabi	+5 Laps
11				Patrick Tambay	DNF
12				Nigel Mansell	DNF
13				Riccardo Patrese	DNF
14				Keke Rosberg	DNF
15				Allen Berg	DNF
16				Derek Warwick	DNF
17				Christian Danner	DNF
18				Thierry Boutsen	DNF
19				Ayrton Senna	DNF
20				Andrea De Cesaris	DNF
21				Gerhard Berger	DNF
22				Huub Rothengatter	DNF
23				Alan Jones	DNF
24				Alessandro Nannini	DNF
25				Piercarlo Ghinzani	DNF
26				Michele Alboreto	DNF

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