1986 IndyCar season

1986 American Championship Car season
Series  : IndyCar
Champion : Bobby Rahal
Previous: 1985	Next: 1987

The 1986 IndyCar season, the eighth in the CART era of U.S. open-wheel racing, consisted of 17 races, beginning in Avondale, Arizona on April 6 and concluding in Miami, Florida on November 11. The PPG Indy Car World Series Drivers' Champion and Indianapolis 500 winner was Bobby Rahal. Rookie of the Year was Chip Robinson. The 70th Indianapolis 500 was sanctioned by the USAC, but counted in the CART points standings.

Drivers and Teams

The following teams and drivers competed in the 1986 Indy Car World Series season. All cars used Goodyear tires.

Team	Chassis	Engine	No*	Drivers	Sponsor	Notes
Cotter	March 86C	Cosworth TC	2 (5)	Roberto Guerrero	True Value/Emerson	DNS Due to engine at Long Beach
Curb	March 86C	Cosworth TC	33	Tom Sneva	Skoal
			66	Ed Pimm		Daly at Mid-Ohio, Sanair and Elkhart Lake, not entered at Toronto, and Pimm at all other events.
				Derek Daly
Dick Simon Racing	Lola T8600	Cosworth TC	22	Raúl Boesel	Duracell Coppertop
			23	Dick Simon		Simon at Indianapolis, Cleveland, Pocono and Sanair, Robinson at Meadowlands, Cleveland and Miami, and Ashley at Toronto, Mid-Ohio and Elkhart Lake
				Chip Robinson
				Ian Ashley
Galles Racing	Lola T8600/March 86C	Cosworth TC/Honda	8	Geoff Brabham	Valvoline Spirit	March 86C at Phoenix 1, Honda at 8 events
	Lola T8600	Cosworth TC	9	Roberto Moreno	Valvoline Spirit/Five Star Marketing	Carter at Sanair, Moreno at all other races after Indianapolis
				Pancho Carter	Five Star Marketing
			15		Coors Light	Indianapolis, Michigan 1 and Pocono only
Hemelgarn Racing	March 86C	Cosworth TC/ Buick	71	Scott Brayton	Living Well/ Hardee's/ SPA*erobics/ Driesbach	Hardee's and Buick at Indianapolis only, Brayton at Phoenix 1, Indianapolis, Michigan 1, Pocono and Michigan 2, Villeneuve at all other events.
		Cosworth TC		Jacques Villeneuve	Living Well/ SPA*erobics/ Labatt/ Canadian Tire/ Val-Pak
			81		Living Well/ Hemelgarn	Indianapolis only
Kraco Racing	March 86C	Cosworth TC	18	Michael Andretti	Kraco
Leader Cards Racing	March 86C	Cosworth TC	24	Gary Bettenhausen	Leader Card	Betenhausen on ovals, Dobson on road and street courses
				Dominic Dobson
	March 85C		42	Phil Krueger	Squirt/Moran	Indianapolis only
Machinists Union Racing	March 86C	Cosworth TC	55	Josele Garza	Schaefer/Machinists Union	Parsons at Sanair, Michigan 2, and Phoenix 2, Wilson at Elkhart Lake and Laguna Seca, Garza at all other races
				Johnny Parsons
				Desiré Wilson
			59		Schaefer/Machinists Union	Ganassi at Phoenix 1 and Indianapolis, Parsons at Milwaukee, Cleveland, Michigan 1 and Pocono and Wilson at Mid-Ohio
				Chip Ganassi	Bryant/Schaefer/Machinists Union
				Johnny Parsons	Schaefer/Machinists Union
			95		Pizza Hut/Machinists Union	Indianapolis Only
Alex Morales Racing	March 86C	Cosworth TC	6	Rich Vogler	Byrd's Kentucky Fried Chicken	Indianapolis Only
			21	Johnny Rutherford	Vermont American
Newman/Haas Racing	Lola T8600	Cosworth TC	5 (2)	Mario Andretti	Hanna Car Wash
Patrick Racing	March 86C	Cosworth TC	7	Kevin Cogan	7-Eleven
			20	Emerson Fittipaldi	Marlboro
Penske Racing	March 86C/ PC-15	Cosworth TC/ Chevy A	1/ 86 (4)	Rick Mears	Pennzoil Z-7	#86 at Phoenix 1, PC-15 at 4 events, Chevy A at 8 events
			4 (1)	Danny Sullivan	Miller American	PC-15/Chevy A at Miami only, March 86C/Cosworth TC at all other events
		Chevy A	11	Al Unser	Hertz	Phoenix 1, Indianapolis, Michigan 1, Pocono and Miami only. PC-15 at Phoenix 1 and Indianapolis, March 86C at Michigan 1, Pocono and Miami
Doug Shierson Racing	Lola T8600	Cosworth TC	30	Al Unser, Jr.	Domino's Pizza
Truesports	March 86C	Cosworth TC	3	Bobby Rahal	Budweiser
Part-time entries
A. J. Foyt Enterprises	March 86C	Cosworth TC	14	A. J. Foyt	Copenhagen-Gilmore	Phoenix 1, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Michigan 1, Pocono, Michigan 2, Phoenix 2 and Miami only
		Chevy V6	44	Mike Nish		Indianapolis only, DNQ
		Cosworth TC	84	George Snider	Calumet Farms/ Gilmore/ Copenhagen	Snider at Indianapolis and Michigan 1, Swindell at Pocono
				Sammy Swindell	Gilmore/ Copenhagen
Arciero Racing	March 86C/ March 85C	Cosworth TC	12	Randy Lanier	Arciero Wines	Lanier at Phoenix 1, Long Beach, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Portland, Meadowlands, Cleveland, Toronto and Michigan 1, MacPherson at Mid-Ohio, Elkhart Lake, Laguna Seca and Phoenix 2, Chassey at Michigan 2 and Cheever at Miami. March 85C at Michigan 2 and Mid-Ohio, March 86C at all other races.
				Steve Chassey
				Eddie Cheever
				Jeff MacPherson	Arciero Wines/ MacHoward Leasing
Bettenhausen Motorsports	March 86C	Cosworth TC	16	Tony Bettenhausen, Jr.	Bettenhausen Racing	Indianapolis only
	Lola T8600/ March 86C		61	Arie Luyendyk	Race for Life/ MCI/ Provimi Veal Canada/ Scot Lad Foods	All events except Portland and Sanair
Dale Coyne Racing	DC-1	Chevy	19	Dale Coyne	Dale Coyne Racing	Attempted all events except Indianapolis and Milwaukee
Gohr Racing	March 86C	Buick/ Cosworth TC	56	Steve Chassey	Genesee Beer Wagon	Chassey at Indianpolis, Milwaukee and Michigan 1, Moran at Meadowlands, Cleveland, Pocono, Mid-Ohio, Michigan 2, Elkhart Lake, Laguna Seca, Phoenix 2 and Miami and Morton at Toronto. Buick engine until Mid-Ohio, Cosworth the remainder of the season.
				Rocky Moran
				John Morton
	March 85C	Buick	65	Rupert Keegan		Indianapolis only, DNQ
J.P. Racing	Lola T900	Cosworth TC	10	Spike Gehlhausen	Mountain Computer	Indianapolis, Michigan 1, Pocono and Michigan 2 only
March Engineering	March 86C	Buick	25	Danny Ongais	GM Goodwrench	Indianapolis only
			31	Jim Crawford	ASC Buick
Mosquito Autosport	March 85C	Cosworth TC	16 (19)	Rick Miaskiewicz	R.C.V. Corp	Long Beach, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Meadowlands, Cleveland and Toronto only.
Pace Racing	Lola T8600	Cosworth TC	36	Randy Lewis	Raychem/ Raynor	Lewis at Long Beach, Meadowlands, Cleveland, Toronto, Mid-Ohio, Elkhart Lake, Laguna Seca, and Miami, Firestone at Indianapolis, Michigan 1, Pocono, Sanair, Michigan 2 and Phoenix 2
				Dennis Firestone	Raynor/ Pace Electronics
Team Menard	March 86C	Cosworth TC	28	Herm Johnson	Menard Lumber	Indianapolis only, DNQ
				Derek Daly

• - The number in parenthesis is the number the car used at the Indianapolis 500, if a different number was used.

Race winners

Round	Date	Location	Winner
1	April 6	Phoenix International Raceway	Kevin Cogan
2	April 13	Long Beach, California	Michael Andretti
3	May 31	Indianapolis	Bobby Rahal
4	June 8	Milwaukee Mile	Michael Andretti
5	June 15	Portland International Raceway	Mario Andretti
6	June 29	Meadowlands Sports Complex	Danny Sullivan
7	July 6	Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport	Danny Sullivan
8	July 20	Toronto, Ontario	Bobby Rahal
9	August 2	Michigan International Speedway	Johnny Rutherford
10	August 17	Pocono Raceway	Mario Andretti
11	August 31	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Bobby Rahal
12	September 7	Sanair Super Speedway	Bobby Rahal
13	September 27	Michigan International Speedway	Bobby Rahal
14	October 4	Road America	Emerson Fittipaldi
15	October 12	Laguna Seca Raceway	Bobby Rahal
16	October 19	Phoenix International Raceway	Michael Andretti
17	November 9	Tamiami Park	Al Unser, Jr.

  Oval/Speedway

  Road Course/Street Circuit

• Indianapolis was USAC-sanctioned but counted towards the CART title.

Full Series results

Drivers

Pos Driver PIR1 LB IND MIL POR MEA CLE TOR MIC1 POC MDO SAN MIC2 ROA LAG PIR2 MIA Pts 1 Bobby Rahal 16 18 1 6 20 3 15 1 10* 14 1 1* 1 5 1* 3 8 179 2 Michael Andretti 15* 1* 6 1 * 2* 20 2 19 11 11 * 10 6 2* 2* 3 1* 18 171 3 Danny Sullivan 4 11 9 11 11 1 1 * 2 25 16 3* 5 12 6 2 2 26 147 4 Al Unser Jr. 12 2 5 8 3 9 8 4* 8 6 5 2 21 11 23 6 1 137 5 Mario Andretti 7 5 32 5 1 24 3 3 21 1 24 8 10 9 4 4 11 136 6 Kevin Cogan 1 17 2 12 14 21 23 5 22 2 4 4 4 20 9 14 4 115 7 Emerson Fittipaldi 3 16 7 24 12 2 13 17 20 19 21 3 3 1 7 5 20 103 8 Rick Mears 19 20 3 * 3 16 19 4 8 12 8 17 18 8 3 17 20 3 89 9 Roberto Guerrero 8 DNS 4 18 13 4* 17 20 24 21 2 17 22 4 5 12 2 * 87 10 Tom Sneva 2 4 DNS 2 4 17 5 9 18 15 12 13 5 12 22 18 22 82 11 Johnny Rutherford 5 9 8 4 15 7 10 10 1 18 8 16 9 14 12 9 12 78 12 Geoff Brabham 10 3 12 21 7 22 14 14 4 12 20 11 11 22 6 8 5 64 13 Raúl Boesel 13 19 13 14 8 23 6 7 5 5 7 9 15 8 14 13 19 54 14 Josele Garza 23 7 18 7 17 8 7 23 2 7 14 24 45 15 Jacques Villeneuve 8 20 15 5 5 19 24 11 19 10 19 16 6 38 16 Roberto Moreno 20 6 19 13 18 18 25 18 6 10 16 6 16 20 10 17 30 17 Arie Luyendyk 6 15 15 9 16 24 6 23 17 18 13 7 10 15 21 29 18 Ed Pimm 22 22 17 10 6 12 15 24 7 11 7 10 29 19 Pancho Carter 16 3 3 15 28 20 Randy Lanier 11 13 10 20 9 6 9 21 19 21 21 A.J. Foyt 17 24 19 9 4 16 22 23 16 22 Jan Lammers 9 14 DNQ 8 23 9 13 23 Derek Daly DNQ 6 10 13 11 24 Johnny Parsons 27 22 21 16 29 7 23 11 8 25 Randy Lewis 10 10 20 11 15 24 18 14 8 26 Chip Robinson 14 7 6 27 Spike Gehlhausen DNQ 7 22 18 6 28 Ian Ashley 15 9 23 4 29 Sammy Swindell 9 4 30 Mike Nish DNQ DNS 10 24 22 3 31 Dominic Dobson 12 19 11 18 16 19 18 21 13 3 32 Rick Miaskiewicz 21 DNQ 16 15 11 13 DNS 2 33 Gary Bettenhausen 21 11 23 26 13 21 20 19 2 34 Dale Coyne DNQ 23 21 DNQ 12 DNQ DNQ 26 23 12 DNQ 17 DNS DNQ 25 2 35 John Morton 12 1 36 Rocky Moran 13 16 25 25 DNQ 21 15 21 16 0 37 Jeff MacPherson 22 15 13 DNQ 0 38 Desiré Wilson 13 19 16 0 39 Scott Brayton 24 30 13 27 19 0 40 Dennis Firestone DNQ 17 28 14 14 17 0 41 Al Unser 18 22 14 20 15 0 42 Dick Simon 14 22 23 20 0 43 Chip Ganassi 14 21 0 44 Steve Chassey DNQ 17 28 17 0 45 Danny Ongais 23 0 46 Tom Phillips 24 0 47 Rich Vogler 25 0 48 George Snider 26 27 0 49 Eddie Cheever 27 0 50 Tony Bettenhausen, Jr. 28 0 51 Jim Crawford 29 0 52 Phil Krueger 31 0 - Rupert Keegan DNQ - - Herm Johnson DNQ - - John Paul, Jr. DNQ - - Steve Bren DNP - - Pete Halsmer DNP - Pos Driver PIR1 LB IND MIL POR MEA CLE TOR MIC1 POC MDO SAN MIC2 ROA LAG PIR2 MIA Pts

Color Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green 4th & 5th place (Top 5) Light Blue 6th–10th place (Top 10) Dark Blue Finished (Outside Top 10) Purple Did not finish (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Brown Withdrew (WD) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Blank Did not participate (DNP) Driver replacement (Rpl) Injured (Inj) Race not held (NH) Not competing In-line notation Bold Pole position Italics Ran fastest race lap * Led most race laps Rookie of the Year Rookie

Point Scoring System:

• Points are awarded based on each driver's resulting place (regardless of whether the car is running at the end of the race):

Position	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
Points	20	16	14	12	10	8	6	5	4	3	2	1

Bonus Points:

• 1 For Pole Position
• 1 For Leading The Most Laps Of The Race

References

• Åberg, Andreas. "PPG Indy Car World Series 1986". Driver Database. http://www.driverdb.com/standings/5-1986/. Retrieved June 11, 2013. 

• "1986 PPG Indy Car World Series". Champ Car Stats. http://www.champcarstats.com/year/1986.htm. Retrieved June 11, 2013. 

• "Official Box Score: 70th Indianapolis 500-Mile Race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway". Indianapolis Motor Speedway. http://www.indy500.com/stats/view/boxscore/year/1986/. Retrieved 2009-05-19. 

• "Champ Car > Standings after Beatrice Indy Challange [sic]". Champ Car World Series. October 22, 2008. Archived from the original on October 22, 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20081022080247/http://www.champcar.ws/Results/Standings.asp?Year=1986. Retrieved June 11, 2013. 

See also

• 1986 Indianapolis 500
• 1986 in Indy Lights

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