1986 World Rally Championship
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The 1986 World Rally Championship was the 14th season of the
The 1986 season was notable for being the last World Rally Championship season driven with the popular Group B rally cars, which were banned after the fatal crashes at the
Summary
The season began with the
After veteran Swede Björn Waldegård's triumph at the extremely arduous and difficult Safari Rally in Kenya driving a Toyota Celica TCT over Alén and his Lancia 037 Evo (which was the S4's predecessor and used only by Lancia for the Safari Rally; the S4 was not used for the Safari Rally due to Lancia determining that it was too new and not developed enough for that rally), another fatal accident at the Tour de Corse on the French island of Corsica would change the course of rallying. Toivonen and his co-driver Sergio Cresto in their Lancia went off the side of the road, plunged down a ravine and landed on its roof. The aluminium fuel tank underneath the driver's seat was ruptured by the trees and exploded. Toivonen and Cresto had no time to get out and both men burned to death in their seats. The accident had no witnesses close enough to clearly see the accident.[3]
This caused Jean-Marie Balestre and the FISA to immediately freeze the development of the Group B cars and ban them from competing for the 1987 season. Audi and Ford decided to withdraw from competing, while other teams continued with their Group B models until the end of the season. Peugeot boss Jean Todt was outraged over the ban and pursued legal action against the federation.[4] After Lancia's remaining car retirement, the Tour de Corse was eventually won by Peugeot's Bruno Saby, which marked his career-first WRC victory. The Acropolis Rally in Greece and the New Zealand Rally were won consecutively by Kankkunen; and the third driver to take his debut win during the season was Lancia's Miki Biasion, who edged out teammate Alén to win the Rally Argentina.
Finnish drivers finished first, second and third in the Jyväskylä Rally (otherwise known as the Finnish Rally, the fastest race of the year), with Salonen and Kankkunen giving Peugeot a 1-2 result, with Alén coming in third for Lancia. This was not much of a surprise, as this rally had only ever been won by Finnish and Swedish drivers until 1990. The Ivory Coast Rally, which was considered to be the most demanding, gruelling and certainly the most attrition-filled rally of the year (a rally where drivers had an unbelievable one in ten chance of finishing) was skipped by all of the Group B teams except Toyota, and was won by Waldegård in his Celica, completing his World Championship African rally sweep. The season included more controversy when the organizers of the
1986 marked the only season in which the FIA issued the World Championship for Drivers of Group A Cars. Swede Kenneth Eriksson, driving a Volkswagen Golf GTI 16V took the title ahead of Austrian Rudi Stohl in his Audi Coupé Quattro, a lower powered version of the Group B Quattros. This championship became unnecessary in future years due to the elimination of Group B cars. From 1987 onwards, Group A cars would be the vehicles used by drivers competing for the main World Rally Championship for Drivers.
Teams and drivers
- Lancia ran out of time to build the safari version of the Delta S4
Events
Map
Black = Tarmac | Brown = Gravel | Blue = Snow/ice | Red = Mixed surface |
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Schedule and results
Standings
Drivers' championship
Manufacturers' championship
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1 | Peugeot | 17 | 20 | - | (10) | 20 | 20 | 20 | (14) | 20 | * | 20 | 137 |
2 | Lancia | 20 | 17 | - | (14) | - | 17 | 17 | 20 | 14 | * | 17 | 122 |
3 | Volkswagen | 9 | 10 | - | - | 9 | 11 | 12 | 14 | - | * | - | 65 |
4 | Audi | 14 | 15 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | * | - | 29 |
5 | Ford | - | 14 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | * | 10 | 24 |
6 | Toyota | - | - | - | 20 | - | - | - | - | - | * | - | 20 |
7 | Renault | - | - | - | - | 14 | - | - | - | - | * | - | 14 |
8 | Subaru | - | - | - | 13 | - | - | - | - | - | * | - | 13 |
9 | Austin Rover
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- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | * | 8 | 12 |
10 | Citroën | - | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | * | - | 10 |
11 | Mazda | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | * | 9 | 9 |
12 | Opel | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | - | * | - | 5 |
* - Note: San Remo Rally
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Pointscoring systems
Drivers' championship
Points awarded by finish | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th |
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20 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Manufacturers' championship
Points awarded by overall finish | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th |
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12 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Points awarded by group finish | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th |
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8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
References
- ^ "FIA World Rally Championship 1986". RallyBase. Archived from the original on 6 January 2007. Retrieved 2007-01-17.
- ^ Noakes, Andrew. "Group Therapy". PistonHeads.com. Retrieved 2007-01-17.
- ^ Maruszewska, Witolda. "Henri Toivonen biography". Post 14. Archived from the original on 31 December 2006. Retrieved 2007-01-17.
- ^ "Who is... Jean Todt?". Grandprix.com. Archived from the original on 18 September 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-22.
- ^ Biewer, Chris. "1986 World Rally Championship Summary". Rallye-Info.com. Retrieved 2007-01-17.
- ^ a b Event not included in the Manufacturers' Championship
External links
- FIA World Rally Championship 1986 at ewrc-results.com
- Season 1986 at juwra.com