Portuguese GP 1986

Portuguese GP, 1986

The field was as it had been at Monza except that Allen Berg was back in the second Osella after the car had been driven by Alex Caffi in Italy. Pirelli announced that it was withdrawing from Grand Prix racing at the end of the year and Renault said that it too had decided not to continue supplying F1 engines for the 1987 season. Ferrari had also announced that it had signed up Gerhard Berger to replace Stefan Johansson.

Qualifying resulted in another pole position for Ayrton Senna's Lotus-Renault while Nigel Mansell was second fastest in his Williams-Honda with Alain Prost third for McLaren and Berger fourth in his Benetton. Then came Teo Fabi (Benetton), Nelson Piquet (Williams-Honda), Keke Rosberg (McLaren), Stefan Johansson (Ferrari), Riccardo Patrese (Brabham) and Rene Arnoux (Ligier).

At the start Mansell went into the lead and he remained there for the rest of the afternoon to win an impressive victory. Senna followed him and only dropped from second when he stopped for tires in the mid-race. On the last lap, however, he started to run out of fuel and dropped from second to fourth, promoting Prost to second and Piquet to third. The two Ferraris of Johansson and Michele Alboreto picked up fifth and sixth.

POSNODRIVERENTRANTLAPSTIME/RETIREMENTQUAL POS
1 5 Nigel Mansell Williams-Honda  70 1h37m21.900s  2 
2 1 Alain Prost McLaren-TAG Porsche  70 1h37m40.672s  3 
3 6 Nelson Piquet Williams-Honda  70 1h38m.11.174s  6 
4r 12 Ayrton Senna Lotus-Renault  69 Out Of Fuel 1 
5 27 Michele Alboreto Ferrari  69  13 
6 28 Stefan Johansson Ferrari  69  2 
7 25 Rene Arnoux Ligier-Renault  69  10 
8 19 Teo Fabi Benetton-BMW  68  5 
9 11 Johnny Dumfries Lotus-Renault  68  15 
10 18 Thierry Boutsen Arrows-BMW  67  21 
11 17 Christian Danner Arrows-BMW  67  22 
12 14 Jonathan Palmer Zakspeed  67  20 
13 22 Allen Berg Osella-Alfa Romeo  63  27 
r 7 Riccardo Patrese Brabham-BMW  62 Engine 9 
nc 16 Patrick Tambay Lola-Hart  62  14 
r 24 Alessandro Nannini Minardi-Motori Moderni  60 Gearbox 18 
r 20 Gerhard Berger Benetton-BMW  44 Accident 4 
r 23 Andrea de Cesaris Minardi-Motori Moderni  43 Accident 16 
r 2 Keke Rosberg McLaren-TAG Porsche  41 Engine 7 
r 8 Derek Warwick Brabham-BMW  41 Electrics 12 
r 26 Philippe Alliot Ligier-Renault  39 Engine 11 
r 4 Philippe Streiff Tyrrell-Renault  28 Engine 23 
r 3 Martin Brundle Tyrrell-Renault  18 Engine 19 
r 15 Alan Jones Lola-Hart  10 Brakes/spin 17 
r 29 Huub Rothengatter Zakspeed  9 Crown Wheel & Pinion 26 
r 21 Piercarlo Ghinzani Osella-Alfa Romeo  8 Electrics 24 
r 31 Ivan Capelli AGS-Motori Moderni  6 Gearbox 25