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Micgigan 500

Saturday, August 2, 1986


Track:   Brooklyn, MI
Track Type:   Paved Oval Lap Distance: 2.000 Miles
Race Distance:   500 Miles Margin of Victory: 1.820 sec.
Pole Pos.:   Rick Mears 223.401 mph  

  Rank   SP   Car   Driver   Chassis   Q.Time   Laps   Reason
              Sponsor   Engine   Q.Spd.  
  1   14   21   Johnny Rutherford   March 86C   0:33.870   250   3:38:45.32 137.139
  Vermont-American Tools   CoswTC   212.578 mph  
  2   22   55   Josele Garza   March 86C   0:34.596   250   3:38:47.14 137.120
  Schaefer-Machinists Union   CoswTC   208.117 mph  
  3   15   15   Pancho Carter   Lola T8600   0:33.947   248   Flagged
  Coors Light   CoswTC   212.095 mph  
  4   28   8   Geoff Brabham   Lola T8600   0:33.927   239   Wrecked
  Valvoline Spirit   Judd   212.220 mph  
  5   24   22   Raul Boesel   Lola T8600   0:34.783   239   Flagged
  Coppertop-Duracell   CoswTC   206.998 mph  
  6   19   9   Roberto Moreno   Lola T8600   0:34.115   238   Flagged
  Five Star Marketing   CoswTC   211.051 mph  
  7   27   10   Spike Gehlhausen   Lola T900   0:37.876   237   Flagged
  Mountain Computer   CoswTC   190.094 mph  
  8   20   30   Al Unser, Jr   Lola T8600   0:34.208   235   Flagged
  Domino's Pizza   CoswTC   210.477 mph  
  9   11   14   A.J. Foyt   March 86C   0:33.768   229   Engine
  Copenhagen-Gilmore   CoswTC   213.220 mph  
  10   3   3   Bobby Rahal   March 86C   0:32.913   219   Engine
  Budweiser-TrueSport   CoswTC   218.759 mph  
  11   6   18   Michael Andretti   March 86C   0:33.136   195   Engine
  Kraco-STP-Lean Machine   CoswTC   217.286 mph  
  12   1   1   Rick Mears   March 86C   0:32.229   181   Engine
  Pennzoil Z-7   CoswTC   223.401 mph  
  13   17   71   Scott Brayton   March 86C   0:33.953   167   CV Joint
  Living Well-Driesbach   CoswTC   212.058 mph  
  14   2   11   Al Unser   March 86C   0:32.794   164   Engine
  Hertz   ChevyA   219.552 mph  
  15   7   66   Ed Pimm   March 86C   0:33.272   163   Engine
  Skoal Longcut   CoswTC   216.398 mph  
  16   18   59   Johnny Parsons   March 86C   0:33.958   126   Wrecked
  Schaefer-Machinists Union   CoswTC   212.027 mph  
  17   21   36   Dennis Firestone   Lola T8600   0:34.317   123   Engiine
  Raynor   CoswTC   209.809 mph  
  18   8   33   Tom Sneva   March 86C   0:33.304   110   Wrecked
  Skoal Bandit   CoswTC   216.190 mph  
  19   5   12   Randy Lanier   March 86C   0:33.083   98   Wrecked
  Arciero Wines   CoswTC   217.634 mph  
  20   13   20   Emerson Fittipaldi   March 86C   0:33.862   82   Engine
  Marlboro   CoswTC   212.628 mph  
  21   10   5   Mario Andretti   Lola T8600   0:33.745   69   Wrecked
  Newman-Haas   CoswTC   213.365 mph  
  22   12   7   Kevin Cogan   March 86C   0:33.786   63   Handling
  7-Eleven   CoswTC   213.106 mph  
  23   16   61   Arie Luyendyk   March 86C   0:33.951   50   Oil leak
  MCI-Race For Life   CoswTC   212.070 mph  
  24   4   2   Roberto Guerrero   March 86C   0:33.033   47   Wrecked
  True Value-Emerson   CoswTC   217.964 mph  
  25   9   4   Danny Sullivan   March 86C   0:33.514   33   Broken suspension
  Miller-American   CoswTC   214.836 mph  
  26   23   24   Gary Bettenhausen   March 86C   0:34.694   15   Lack of oil
  Leader Card   CoswTC   207.529 mph  
  27   25   84   George Snider   March 86C   0:34.952   9   Poor handling
  Gilmore-Copenhagen   CoswTC   205.997 mph  
  28   26   56   Steve Chassey   March 86C   0:35.554   2   Wrecked
  Genesee Beer Wagon   Buick   202.509 mph  
          19   Dale Coyne   DC-1   : .   0   DNQ
  Dale Coyne Racing   Chevy      

Race Information

1) Yellow flags: 3-6 Chassey wreck Turn 2 14-18 Bettenhausen blew engine 18 Red flag, rain 19-21 Restart after rain 47-61 Guerrero wreck Turn 3 70-77 Mario Andretti wreck T2 90-108 Lanier wreck, Turn 3 111-115 Sneva wreck Turn 2 127-132 Parsons wreck BS 181-185 Mears smoking 242-243 Brabham and Al Unser Jr made contact

Lap Leaders

Driver Total Laps Led Laps Led
Emerson Fittipaldi 1 48
Randy Lanier 1 76
Tom Sneva 12 71-75,100-106
Roberto Guerrero 13 8-9,37-47
Rick Mears 50 1-7,10-21,49-62,120-136
Michael Andretti 53 22-36,117-119,156-168,173-182,184-195
Johnny Rutherford 56 183,196-250
Bobby Rahal 64 63-70,77-99,107-116,137-155,169-172
Data prepared by Phil Harms - Page created by Omega Timing - All rights reserved

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