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.
Report
Entry
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.
Qualifying
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.
Race
Low clouds 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, 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.Mike Cotton, "Directory of World Sportscars Group C and IMSA Cars from 1982" (Aston Publications, , 1988)
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 cars. The race was restarted behind the pace car, but timing was on aggregate.
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 shortened 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.
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.
Classification
Official results
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 121 Mercedes-Benz M117 5.0 L Turbo V8 2 C1 14 Liqui Moly Equipe Klaus Niedzwiedz Mauro Baldi Porsche 956 GTi 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 119 Porsche Type-935 2.6 L Turbo Flat-6 4 C1 9 Obermaier Racing Team Jürgen Lässig Fulvio Ballabio Harald Grohs Porsche 956 115 Porsche Type-935 2.6 L Turbo Flat-6 5 C2 79 Ecurie Ecosse Ray Mallock Marc Duez Ecosse C286 115 Rover V64V 3.0 L V6 6 C2 74 Gebhardt Motorsport Walter Lechner Ernst Franzmaier Gebhardt JC853 112 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3 L V8 7 C2 70 Spice Engineering Gordon Spice Ray Bellm Spice SE86C 110 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3 L V8 8 C2 75 ADA Engineering Evan Clements Ian Harrower Gebhardt JC843 107 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3 L V8 9 C2 90 Jens Winther Denmark Jens Winther Angelo Pallavicini URD C83 107 BMW M88 3.5 L I6 10 C1 66 Cosmic Racing Costas Los Volker Weidler March 84G 106 Porsche Type-935 2.6 L Turbo Flat-6 11 C1 20 Tiga Team Tim Lee-Davey Neil Crang Tiga GC86 105 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3 L Turbo V8 12 C2 95 Roland Bassaler Dominique Lacaud Roland Bassaler Sauber SHS C6 101 BMW M88 3.5 L I6 13 C2 99 Roy Baker Promotions Duncan Bain Thorkild Thyrring Tiga GC286 99 Ford Cosworth BDT 1.7 L Turbo I4 14 C2 92 Automobiles Louis Descartes Louis Descartes Jacques Heuclin Hubert Striebig ALD 02 98 BMW M88 3.5 L I6 15DNF C1 53 Silk Cut Jaguar Jan Lammers Derek Warwick Gianfranco Brancatelli Jaguar XJR-6 92 Jaguar 6.5 L V12 16DNF B 151 MK Motorsport Helmut Gall Harald Becker Michael Krankenberg BMW M1 68 BMW M88 3.5 L I6 17DNF C2 72 John Bartlett Racing with Goodman Sound David Mercer Kenneth Leim Bardon DB1 ? 60 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3 L V8 18DNF C2 105 Kelmar Racing Pasquale Barberio Maurizio Gellini Tiga GC85 59 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3 L V8 19DNF C1 1 Rothmans Porsche Hans-Joachim Stuck Derek Bell Porsche 962C 22 Porsche Type-935 3.0 L Turbo Flat-6 20DNF C1 7 Joest Racing "John Winter" Kris Nissen Piercarlo Ghinzani Porsche 956B 22 Porsche Type-935 2.8 L Turbo Flat-6 21DNF C1 17 Brun Motorsport Thierry Boutsen Walter Brun Porsche 962C 22 Porsche Type-935 2.8 L Turbo Flat-6 22DNF C1 2 Rothmans Porsche Jochen Mass Bob Wollek Porsche 962C 21 Porsche Type-935 3.0 L Turbo Flat-6 23DNF C1 10 Porsche Kremer Racing Alessandro Nannini James Weaver Porsche 962C 21 Porsche Type-935 2.8 L Turbo Flat-6 24DNF C1 18 Brun Motorsport Oscar Larrauri Jesús Pareja Porsche 962C 21 Porsche Type-935 2.8 L Turbo Flat-6 25DNF C1 19 Brun Motorsport Stanley Dickens Frank Jelinski Porsche 956 21 Porsche Type-935 2.8 L Turbo Flat-6 26DNF C2 89 Martin Schanche Racing Martin Schanche Torgye Kleppe "Pierre Chauvet" Argo JM19 19 Zakspeed 1.9 L Turbo I4 27DNF C2 98 Roy Baker Promotions Max Cohen-Olivar David Andrews Tiga GC286 16 Ford Cosworth BDT 1.7 L Turbo I4 28DNF GTP 21 Richard Cleare Racing Richard Cleare David Leslie March 85G 11 Porsche Type-962 3.2 L Turbo Flat-6 29DNF C2 104 Jean-Claude Ferrarin Jean-Claude Ferrarin Philippe Mazué Isolia 001 ? 9 Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 L V8 30DNF C1 51 Silk Cut Jaguar Jean-Louis Schlesser Eddie Cheever Hans Heyer Jaguar XJR-6 6 Jaguar 6.5 L V12 31DNF C1 63 Ernst Schuster Ernst Schuster Rudi Seher Siegfried Brunn Porsche 936C 4 Porsche Type-962 2.8 L Turbo Flat-6 DNS C1 52 Silk Cut Jaguar Jan Lammers Derek Warwick Jaguar XJR-6 - 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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