1986 Italian Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 13 of 16 in the 1986 Formula One season | |||
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| Date | September 7, 1986 | ||
| Official name | LVII Gran Premio d'Italia | ||
| Location | Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 5.800 km (3.60 mi) | ||
| Distance | 51 laps, 295.800 km (183.600 mi) | ||
| Weather | Dry | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Benetton-BMW | ||
| Time | 1:24.078 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Teo Fabi
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Benetton-BMW | |
| Time | 1:28.099 on lap 35 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Williams-Honda | ||
| Second | Williams-Honda | ||
| Third | Ferrari | ||
The 1986 Italian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Monza on September 7, 1986.
During the 2nd Qualifying session at Monza, Gerhard Berger's Benetton B186-BMW was speed trapped fastest of all cars at 352.22 km/h (219 mph), while teammate Teo Fabi was second having been clocked at 349.85 km/h (217 mph) on the long front straight. Interestingly, Berger's speed wasn't recorded on his fastest lap. The top 5 cars through the speed trap, the two Benettons, the two Brabhams (Derek Warwick and Riccardo Patrese), and the Arrows of Thierry Boutsen, were all powered by BMW. The fastest non-BMW powered car was the Williams-Honda of Nigel Mansell who was 10 km/h (6 mph) slower than Berger (as was Boutsen). In comparison, the Lola-Ford's of Patrick Tambay and Alan Jones were barely hitting 200 mph (322 km/h), slower than the Zakspeed of Jonathan Palmer and the Minardi-Motori Moderni of Alessandro Nannini.
Despite Patrese qualifying 4th in Austria and Warwick's car being the fastest through the speed trap at the Österreichring, the speed of the Brabhams surprised some in the paddock as the lowline design of Gordon Murray's Brabham BT55 had been seen as somewhat of a failure after dismal results. However, as Murray continually pointed out, the problems with the BT55 were engine and gearbox related and not because of the car's design (the normally upright 4 cyl engine was tilted 18° from horizontal which created oil surge and made worse the already poor throttle response of the BMW). The top speed achieved by Warwick (347 km/h (216 mph), 3 km/h faster than he had been in Austria) again showed that the concept worked as it created downforce but did not increase drag and hinder top speed and once again on a high speed circuit, the Brabhams were relatively high up on the grid with Warwick 7th and Patrese 10th, their only problems being the acceleration from the Variante del Rettifilio and Ascari chicanes as well as the Parabolica.
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