1986 1000 km of Nürburgring

For 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]

Thierry 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]

Low 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]

Please 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)

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