The 1986 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 38th F.I.M.Road Racing World Championship season.
This would be the last season where the Championship was held only in Europe until
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.
Season summary
A second world championship for the consistent
Eddie Lawson
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Freddie Spencer
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. However, once the season started, he began to suffer from
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. The talented American would never win another Grand Prix after his spectacular 1985 season. Australian
Wayne Gardner
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stepped up to become Honda's lead rider.
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, riding for the newly formed
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team continued to post good results and finished third in the points chase.
Venezuelan Carlos Lavado earned his second world championship for Yamaha with a strong performance. Garelli teammates
Fausto Gresini
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Luca Cadalora
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battled it out for the 125 title, each taking four wins with Cadalora coming out on top. Spain's Jorge Martinez ended Stefan Dörflinger's streak of title wins at four.
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announced he was retiring after twenty-three years in Grand Prix racing. He continued to be competitive up to the end with a second-place finish in the Italian 125 race and a second in Spain in the 80cc class. His 90 Grand Prix victories at the time ranked him second only to Giacomo Agostini.
For 125cc and 80cc, an additional post-season event on the Hockenheimring (located in the German state of
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The following Grands Prix were scheduled to take place in 1986:
Calendar changes
* The
South African Grand Prix
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was boycotted due to the
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policies in the country.
* The
German Grand Prix
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to the
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circuit.
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was added as a one-off race to replace the
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. Only the 80cc and 125cc participated in this race.
Results and standings
Grands Prix
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500cc participants
250cc participants
500cc riders' standings
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Pier Paolo Bianchi
Pier Paolo Bianchi (born 11 March 1952) is an Italian former Grand Prix motorcycle road racing World Champion.
He won consecutive FIM 125 cc world championships in 1976 and 1977. He won one more 125 championship in 1980
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Wilco Zeelenberg
Wilco Zeelenberg (born 19 August 1966) is a Dutch former professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and current race team manager with the Petronas Yamaha Sepang Racing Team.
Born in Bleiswijk, he began racing motorcycles in motocross compet ...
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Casal
Metalurgia Casal was the largest Portuguese motorcycle manufacturer, based in Aveiro. It was founded in 1964 with João Casal as the managing director and Robert Zipprich and other ex-Zundapp engineers as the technical managers. Its first p ...
Theo Timmer
Theo Timmer (born 6 March 1949) is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from the Netherlands. He had his best season in 1981 when he won the Czechoslovakian Grand Prix and finished the season in second place, behind Ricardo Tormo. In 1972 ...
Rudolf Kunz
Rudolf Kunz was a German former professional motorcycle road racer. He competed in Grand Prix motorcycle racing from 1964 to 1977.
In 1965, Kunz set a land speed record of riding a supercharged 50 cc Kreidler motorcycle at Bonneville Spee ...
Alex Barros
Alexandre Barros (born October 18, 1970) is a Brazilian former professional motorcycle road racer who is a 7-time 500cc/ MotoGP race winner and also a race winner in Superbike World Championship. After a long Grand Prix career, in 2006 he move ...
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Rieju
Rieju is a manufacturer of mopeds and motorcycles from Spain. It is based in Figueres. They specialise in small-displacement motorcycles (between 49 and 450cc) using Minarelli engines. Their products are available in almost all European countries ...
Henk Van Kessel
Henk van Kessel (born 25 June 1946, Mill) is a Dutch former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He won the 1974 F.I.M. 50 cc world championship
A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from ar ...
Domingo Gil
Domingo may refer to:
People
* Domingo (name), a Spanish name and list of people with that name
* Domingo (producer) (born 1970), American hip-hop producer
* Saint Dominic (1170–1221), Castilian Catholic priest, founder of the Friars popularly ...
Luis Miguel Reyes
Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archai ...