The 1986 ADAC Kouros 1000 km Nürburgring was the seventh round of the 1986 World Sports-Prototype Championship. It took place at the Nürburgring, West Germany on August 24, 1986.[1]
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Report
editEntry
editFor this round, a total of 41 entered for the race, however only 34 of these arrived in the Eifel mountains for the practice and qualifying.[1]
Qualifying
editThierry Boutsen took pole position for Brun Motorsport, in their Porsche 956 he shared with the team's owner, Walter Brun, averaging a speed of 117.102 mph.[2]
Race
editLow cloud and rain fell on the circuit throughout the beginning of the race, causing a multitude of accidents and spins. Although the Sauber C8 generally lacked effective ground effects, it was reliable but off the pace of the Porsches and Jaguars, but the poor weather allowed Mike Thackwell to drive brilliantly on his Goodyear rain tyres to pass Hans-Joachim Stuck in the works Porsche 962C, leading the race on merit. However, a collision between the Argo-Zakspeed of Martin Schanche and the Tiga-Ford of Roy Baker, which required the deployment of the safety car on Lap 22. As the safety car was deployed however, low visibility and confusion over the state of the caution led to the two works Rothmans Porsches of Stuck and Jochen Mass colliding on the front stretch, heavily damaging both cars. Due to the amount of debris littering the track, the event was stopped for two hours.[3]
Believing the track to be unsafe in the continuing wet conditions, three Porsche teams chose to withdraw from the event. These included the three Brun cars, as well as the Joest and Kremer car. The race was restarted behind the pace car, but timing was on aggregate.[4]
At the restart, Thackwell kept control of the race, and although Derek Warwick’s Jaguar passed him as the circuit dried out, the British car later retired with a broken oil line. The remaining Porsche teams were unable to keep up with the Sauber or Jaguar. There was nothing, then to Henri Pescarolo from completing the shorten race distance giving Sauber its first-ever World Championship success. It also, marked the first victory by a Mercedes-Benz in the World Championship since the 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans.[3][4]
The Sauber triumphed in a time of 3hr 42:30.020, averaging a speed of 92.626mph. Second place went to the Liqui Moly Equipe pairing of Klaus Niedzwiedz and Mauro Baldi aboard the Porsche 956 GTi, who was two laps adrift. The podium was completed by the Spanish partnership of Emilio de Villota and Fermín Vélez in their John Fitzpatrick Racing prepared Porsche 956.[5]
Classification
editOfficial results
editPlease note that the result was declared after 121 laps (598.6 km), instead of the full race distance. Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 75% of the winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).
Pos | Class | No | Team | Drivers | Chassis | Tyre | Laps |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Engine | |||||||
1 | C1 | 61 | Kouros Racing Team | Henri Pescarolo Mike Thackwell |
Sauber C8 | G | 121 |
Mercedes-Benz M117 5.0 L Turbo V8 | |||||||
2 | C1 | 14 | Liqui Moly Equipe | Klaus Niedzwiedz Mauro Baldi |
Porsche 956 GTi | G | 119 |
Porsche Type-935 2.8 L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
3 | C1 | 33 | Danone Porsche España John Fitzpatrick Racing |
Emilio de Villota Fermín Vélez |
Porsche 956B | G | 119 |
Porsche Type-935 2.6 L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
4 | C1 | 9 | Obermaier Racing Team | Jürgen Lässig Fulvio Ballabio Harald Grohs |
Porsche 956 | G | 115 |
Porsche Type-935 2.6 L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
5 | C2 | 79 | Ecurie Ecosse | Ray Mallock Marc Duez |
Ecosse C286 | A | 115 |
Rover V64V 3.0 L V6 | |||||||
6 | C2 | 74 | Gebhardt Motorsport | Walter Lechner Ernst Franzmaier |
Gebhardt JC853 | A | 112 |
Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3 L V8 | |||||||
7 | C2 | 70 | Spice Engineering | Gordon Spice Ray Bellm |
Spice SE86C | A | 110 |
Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3 L V8 | |||||||
8 | C2 | 75 | ADA Engineering | Evan Clements Ian Harrower |
Gebhardt JC843 | A | 107 |
Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3 L V8 | |||||||
9 | C2 | 90 | Jens Winther Denmark | Jens Winther Angelo Pallavicini |
URD C83 | A | 107 |
BMW M88 3.5 L I6 | |||||||
10 | C1 | 66 | Cosmic Racing | Costas Los Volker Weidler |
March 84G | A | 106 |
Porsche Type-935 2.6 L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
11 | C1 | 20 | Tiga Team | Tim Lee-Davey Neil Crang |
Tiga GC86 | D | 105 |
Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3 L Turbo V8 | |||||||
12 | C2 | 95 | Roland Bassaler | Dominique Lacaud Roland Bassaler |
Sauber SHS C6 | A | 101 |
BMW M88 3.5 L I6 | |||||||
13 | C2 | 99 | Roy Baker Promotions | Duncan Bain Thorkild Thyrring |
Tiga GC286 | A | 99 |
Ford Cosworth BDT 1.7 L Turbo I4 | |||||||
14 | C2 | 92 | Automobiles Louis Descartes | Louis Descartes Jacques Heuclin Hubert Striebig |
ALD 02 | A | 98 |
BMW M88 3.5 L I6 | |||||||
15 DNF |
C1 | 53 | Silk Cut Jaguar | Jan Lammers Derek Warwick Gianfranco Brancatelli |
Jaguar XJR-6 | D | 92 |
Jaguar 6.5 L V12 | |||||||
16 DNF |
B | 151 | MK Motorsport | Helmut Gall Harald Becker Michael Krankenberg |
BMW M1 | D | 68 |
BMW M88 3.5 L I6 | |||||||
17 DNF |
C2 | 72 | John Bartlett Racing with Goodman Sound | David Mercer Kenneth Leim |
Bardon DB1 | ? | 60 |
Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3 L V8 | |||||||
18 DNF |
C2 | 105 | Kelmar Racing | Pasquale Barberio Maurizio Gellini |
Tiga GC85 | A | 59 |
Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3 L V8 | |||||||
19 DNF |
C1 | 1 | Rothmans Porsche | Hans-Joachim Stuck Derek Bell |
Porsche 962C | D | 22 |
Porsche Type-935 3.0 L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
20 DNF |
C1 | 7 | Joest Racing | "John Winter" Kris Nissen Piercarlo Ghinzani |
Porsche 956B | G | 22 |
Porsche Type-935 2.8 L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
21 DNF |
C1 | 17 | Brun Motorsport | Thierry Boutsen Walter Brun |
Porsche 962C | M | 22 |
Porsche Type-935 2.8 L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
22 DNF |
C1 | 2 | Rothmans Porsche | Jochen Mass Bob Wollek |
Porsche 962C | D | 21 |
Porsche Type-935 3.0 L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
23 DNF |
C1 | 10 | Porsche Kremer Racing | Alessandro Nannini James Weaver |
Porsche 962C | Y | 21 |
Porsche Type-935 2.8 L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
24 DNF |
C1 | 18 | Brun Motorsport | Oscar Larrauri Jesús Pareja |
Porsche 962C | M | 21 |
Porsche Type-935 2.8 L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
25 DNF |
C1 | 19 | Brun Motorsport | Stanley Dickens Frank Jelinski |
Porsche 956 | M | 21 |
Porsche Type-935 2.8 L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
26 DNF |
C2 | 89 | Martin Schanche Racing | Martin Schanche Torgye Kleppe "Pierre Chauvet" |
Argo JM19 | G | 19 |
Zakspeed 1.9 L Turbo I4 | |||||||
27 DNF |
C2 | 98 | Roy Baker Promotions | Max Cohen-Olivar David Andrews |
Tiga GC286 | A | 16 |
Ford Cosworth BDT 1.7 L Turbo I4 | |||||||
28 DNF |
GTP | 21 | Richard Cleare Racing | Richard Cleare David Leslie |
March 85G | G | 11 |
Porsche Type-962 3.2 L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
29 DNF |
C2 | 104 | Jean-Claude Ferrarin | Jean-Claude Ferrarin Philippe Mazué |
Isolia 001 | ? | 9 |
Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 L V8 | |||||||
30 DNF |
C1 | 51 | Silk Cut Jaguar | Jean-Louis Schlesser Eddie Cheever Hans Heyer |
Jaguar XJR-6 | D | 6 |
Jaguar 6.5 L V12 | |||||||
31 DNF |
C1 | 63 | Ernst Schuster | Ernst Schuster Rudi Seher Siegfried Brunn |
Porsche 936C | D | 4 |
Porsche Type-962 2.8 L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
DNS | C1 | 52 | Silk Cut Jaguar | Jan Lammers Derek Warwick |
Jaguar XJR-6 | D | - |
Jaguar 6.5 L V12 | |||||||
DNS | GTP | 174 | Erwin Derichs | Martin Wegenstetter Kurt Hild |
Derichs TCS | ? | - |
Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 L V8 |
- Fastest Lap: Klaus Niedzwiedz, 1:34.820secs (107.778 mph)
References
edit- ^ a b c "Nürburgring 1000 Kilometres 1986 - Racing Sports Cars".
- ^ "Nürburgring 1000 Kilometres 1986 - Grid - Racing Sports Cars".
- ^ a b Mike Cotton, "Directory of World Sportscars Group C and IMSA Cars from 1982" (Aston Publications, ISBN 0-946627-38-X, 1988)
- ^ a b 1987 R7 Nurburgring. Retrieved 2008-06-26.
- ^ a b "Nürburgring 1000 Kilometres 1986 - Race Results - Racing Sports Cars".
- "FIA World Sports-Prototype Championship 1986 - 1000 km Nürburgring". World Sports Racing Prototypes. 2 October 2005. Archived from the original on 26 June 2008. Retrieved 2008-06-26.
- "Nürburgring 1000 Kilometres 1986". Racing Sports Cars. 2004-05-16. Retrieved 2008-06-26.