1986 in Sports - Motor Racing

Motor Racing

  • Stock car racing –
    • February- Geoff Bodine won the Daytona 500
    • NASCAR Championship - Dale Earnhardt
  • CART Racing - Bobby Rahal
    • June - Indianapolis 500 - Bobby Rahal Note: this race was run on a Saturday 6 days after the race was rained out.
  • Formula One Championship - Alain Prost of France
  • 24 hours of Le Mans – the team of Derek Bell / Hans-Joachim Stuck / Al Holbert won, driving a Porsche 962C
  • Rally racing - Juha Kankkunen in a Peugeot won the World Rally Championship
    • the team of Henri Toivonen / Sergio Cresto won the Monte Carlo Rally driving a Lancia Delta S4
  • Drag racing –
    • Don Garlits won the NHRA "Top Fuel" championship
    • Darrell Gwynn won Top Fuel at the NHRA Winston Finals
  • Air Racing –
    • Reno Air Races
        • Rick Brickert wins the unlimited gold race in the Hawker Sea Fury 'Dreadnought' at 434.488 mph.
        • Jon Sharpe wins the formula 1 gold in 'Bilbo' at 229.614 mph.
        • Eddie Van Fossen wins the T-6 class in 'Miss TnT' at 223.450 mph.
        • Alan Preston wins the Bi-plane class in 'Miss Lake Tahoe' at 192.665 mph.

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