Race · Round 4 of 16 · 11 May 1986

1986 Monaco Grand Prix

Alain Prost won for McLaren from pole at Circuit de Monaco. 8 of the starters were not classified.

Dry · High of 20 °C, no rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

ERA5's reanalysis, through Open-Meteo, of the circuit's whole local day and not the race's hours, for the grid cell the circuit sits in and not the track, so a shower can be missing from it. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.

Circuit: Circuit de MonacoMonte Carlo, Monaco
Winner: Alain ProstMcLaren
Pole: Alain Prost
Fastest lap: Alain Prost
Entries: 2612 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Alain Prost	McLaren	MP4/2C	1	78	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Keke Rosberg	McLaren	MP4/2C	9	78	Finished	6
3	Ayrton Senna	Team Lotus	98T	3	78	Finished	4
4	Nigel Mansell	Williams	FW11	2	78	Finished	3
5	Rene Arnoux	Ligier	JS27	12	77	Finished	2
6	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	JS27	7	77	Finished	1
7	Nelson Piquet	Williams	FW11	11	77	Finished	0
8	Thierry Boutsen	Arrows	—	14	75	Finished	0
9	Marc Surer	Arrows	—	17	75	Finished	0
10	Stefan Johansson	Ferrari	F1/86	15	75	Finished	0
11	Philippe Streiff	Tyrrell	—	13	74	Finished	0
12	Jonathan Palmer	Zakspeed	861	19	74	Finished	0
DNF	Martin Brundle	Tyrrell	—	10	67	Collision	0
DNF	Patrick Tambay	Lola	THL2	8	67	Collision	0
DNF	Gerhard Berger	Benetton	B186	5	42	Steering	0
DNF	Michele Alboreto	Ferrari	F1/86	4	38	Turbo	0
DNF	Riccardo Patrese	Brabham	—	6	38	Fuel pump	0
DNF	Elio de Angelis	Brabham	—	20	31	Engine	0
DNF	Teo Fabi	Benetton	B186	16	17	Brakes	0
DNF	Alan Jones	Lola	THL2	18	2	Accident	0
DNQ	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Osella	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Johnny Dumfries	Team Lotus	98T	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Huub Rothengatter	Zakspeed	861	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Christian Danner	Osella	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Andrea de Cesaris	Minardi	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Alessandro Nannini	Minardi	—	—	—	DNQ	0

A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.

F1DB layout monaco-5 · 3.328 km · 20 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Alain Prost	1	1	78
Keke Rosberg	9	2	78
Ayrton Senna	3	3	78
Nigel Mansell	2	4	78
Rene Arnoux	12	5	77
Jacques Laffite	7	6	77
Nelson Piquet	11	7	77
Thierry Boutsen	14	8	75
Marc Surer	17	9	75
Stefan Johansson	15	10	75
Philippe Streiff	13	11	74
Jonathan Palmer	19	12	74
Martin Brundle	10	DNF	67
Patrick Tambay	8	DNF	67
Gerhard Berger	5	DNF	42
Michele Alboreto	4	DNF	38
Riccardo Patrese	6	DNF	38
Elio de Angelis	20	DNF	31
Teo Fabi	16	DNF	17
Alan Jones	18	DNF	2

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Alain Prost	McLaren	1	1:22.627	—	0 m	—
2	Nigel Mansell	Williams	5	1:23.047	+0.420	17 m	+0.420
3	Ayrton Senna	Team Lotus	12	1:23.175	+0.548	22 m	+0.128
4	Michele Alboreto	Ferrari	27	1:23.904	+1.277	51 m	+0.729
5	Gerhard Berger	Benetton	20	1:23.960	+1.333	54 m	+0.056
6	Riccardo Patrese	Brabham	7	1:24.102	+1.475	59 m	+0.142
7	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:24.402	+1.775	71 m	+0.300
8	Patrick Tambay	Lola	16	1:24.686	+2.059	83 m	+0.284
9	Keke Rosberg	McLaren	2	1:24.701	+2.074	84 m	+0.015
10	Martin Brundle	Tyrrell	3	1:24.860	+2.233	90 m	+0.159
11	Nelson Piquet	Williams	6	1:25.287	+2.660	107 m	+0.427
12	Rene Arnoux	Ligier	25	1:25.538	+2.911	117 m	+0.251
13	Philippe Streiff	Tyrrell	4	1:25.720	+3.093	125 m	+0.182
14	Thierry Boutsen	Arrows	18	1:25.832	+3.205	129 m	+0.112
15	Stefan Johansson	Ferrari	28	1:25.907	+3.280	132 m	+0.075
16	Teo Fabi	Benetton	19	1:25.926	+3.299	133 m	+0.019
17	Marc Surer	Arrows	17	1:26.300	+3.673	148 m	+0.374
18	Alan Jones	Lola	15	1:26.456	+3.829	154 m	+0.156
19	Jonathan Palmer	Zakspeed	14	1:26.644	+4.017	162 m	+0.188
20	Elio de Angelis	Brabham	8	1:27.191	+4.564	184 m	+0.547
21	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Osella	21	1:27.288	+4.661	188 m	+0.097
22	Johnny Dumfries	Team Lotus	11	1:27.826	+5.199	209 m	+0.538
23	Huub Rothengatter	Zakspeed	29	1:28.060	+5.433	219 m	+0.234
24	Christian Danner	Osella	22	1:28.132	+5.505	222 m	+0.072
25	Andrea de Cesaris	Minardi	23	1:28.962	+6.335	255 m	+0.830
26	Alessandro Nannini	Minardi	24	1:29.447	+6.820	275 m	+0.485

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Pit stops

Pit stops are recorded from 1994. F1DB, the source of every stop here, holds none before then, so this race has no stints to draw.

Practice sessions Warm-up

Warm-up

Warm-up
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Alain Prost	McLaren	1	1:26.316	—	0 m	—	—
2	Riccardo Patrese	Brabham	7	1:27.154	+0.838	32 m	+0.838	—
3	Rene Arnoux	Ligier	25	1:27.777	+1.461	56 m	+0.623	—
4	Keke Rosberg	McLaren	2	1:27.797	+1.481	57 m	+0.020	—
5	Elio de Angelis	Brabham	8	1:28.214	+1.898	73 m	+0.417	—
6	Ayrton Senna	Team Lotus	12	1:28.376	+2.060	79 m	+0.162	—
7	Nelson Piquet	Williams	6	1:28.395	+2.079	80 m	+0.019	—
8	Nigel Mansell	Williams	5	1:28.406	+2.090	81 m	+0.011	—
9	Patrick Tambay	Lola	16	1:28.552	+2.236	86 m	+0.146	—
10	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:28.625	+2.309	89 m	+0.073	—
11	Michele Alboreto	Ferrari	27	1:29.013	+2.697	104 m	+0.388	—
12	Gerhard Berger	Benetton	20	1:29.052	+2.736	105 m	+0.039	—
13	Stefan Johansson	Ferrari	28	1:29.190	+2.874	111 m	+0.138	—
14	Alan Jones	Lola	15	1:30.042	+3.726	144 m	+0.852	—
15	Jonathan Palmer	Zakspeed	14	1:30.492	+4.176	161 m	+0.450	—
16	Thierry Boutsen	Arrows	18	1:30.592	+4.276	165 m	+0.100	—
17	Marc Surer	Arrows	17	1:31.119	+4.803	185 m	+0.527	—
18	Martin Brundle	Tyrrell	3	1:31.611	+5.295	204 m	+0.492	—
19	Teo Fabi	Benetton	19	1:35.310	+8.994	347 m	+3.699	—
20	Philippe Streiff	Tyrrell	4	1:36.263	+9.947	384 m	+0.953	—

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

The cars in this race

The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.

Lotus 98T
Senna Brands 1986 · Peterhanna · CC BY-SA 3.0 · unchecked

Zakspeed 861
Zakspeed-861-f1-1986 · CAR blueprints · CC BY-SA 4.0

A photograph marked unchecked has a file name that does not name the car it is shown for. Most are still the right car, filed under the driver rather than the machine — but nobody has confirmed these one by one.

Where this comes from

Round: 4 of 1986
Grand Prix: Monaco Grand Prix
Dates: 11 May 1986
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: McLaren
Entrant: McLaren-TAG
Confidence: reference

No layout is recorded for this round: this register has no layout timeline for the circuit, and a blank here is better than a guess.