1986

Pos	Driver	Nat	Car	Pts	Wins	Share of the leader
1	Alain Prost	French	McLaren	72	4
2	Nigel Mansell	British	Williams	70	5
3	Nelson Piquet	Brazilian	Williams	69	4
4	Ayrton Senna	Brazilian	Team Lotus	55	2
5	Stefan Johansson	Swedish	Ferrari	23	0
6	Keke Rosberg	Finnish	McLaren	22	0
7	Gerhard Berger	Austrian	Benetton	17	1
8	Jacques Laffite	French	Ligier	14	0
9	Michele Alboreto	Italian	Ferrari	14	0
10	René Arnoux	French	Ligier	14	0
11	Martin Brundle	British	Tyrrell	8	0
12	AJAlan Jones	Australian	Lola	4	0
13	JDJohnny Dumfries	British	Team Lotus	3	0
14	Philippe Streiff	French	Tyrrell	3	0
15	Patrick Tambay	French	Lola	2	0
16	TFTeo Fabi	Italian	Benetton	2	0
17	Riccardo Patrese	Italian	Brabham	2	0
18	Christian Danner	German	Arrows / Osella	1	0
19	Philippe Alliot	French	Ligier	1	0
—	ABAllen Berg	Canadian	Osella	0	0
—	Thierry Boutsen	Belgian	Arrows	0	0
—	ACAlex Caffi	Italian	Osella	0	0
—	Ivan Capelli	Italian	AGS	0	0
—	Eddie Cheever	American	Lola	0	0
—	PGPiercarlo Ghinzani	Italian	Osella	0	0
—	ANAlessandro Nannini	Italian	Minardi	0	0
—	Jonathan Palmer	British	Zakspeed	0	0
—	Huub Rothengatter	Dutch	Zakspeed	0	0
—	Marc Surer	Swiss	Arrows	0	0
—	Derek Warwick	British	Brabham	0	0
—	Elio de Angelis	Italian	Brabham	0	0
—	Andrea de Cesaris	Italian	Minardi	0	0

Read from the season’s final standings row, never summed from the race results. 13 of 32 entries in this table carry no championship position and are ruled below the placed field, ordered by points.

Read from the season’s final constructor standings row. A constructor scores through both of its cars, so these totals are not the sum of any one driver’s line above.

Both championship tables on this page are read from the season’s standings rows at round 16, the last round loaded, and neither is derived by adding up the race results. That distinction is the whole point: for most of the sport’s history only a driver’s best few results counted toward the title, a race stopped short paid half points, and a driver could be excluded from a championship he had scored in, so a table built by summing the results column would disagree with the championship as it was actually awarded. Positions are the source’s own; where it recorded none, the row prints a dash and sits below the placed field rather than being given a place it never held or dropped from the page. A points total is printed as it is stored, to two decimals where it needs them, because the sport has awarded half points and split shared drives since the 1950s and those fractions are real. The calendar is every round in the archive for 1986, in round order, with the winner taken from the classification code the source prints rather than from its sort key; three of the 1,161 races loaded were won by a shared car, and for those the calendar names one driver while the race classification credits both. The Cars column counts the rows in each race’s classification, which includes cars that retired, so it is entries with a recorded result rather than a count of cars that took the start. The drivers and constructors counted in the masthead are those that appear in a race result for 1986, not those that entered. The constructors’ championship has been awarded since 1958, so both tables exist for this season. 1986 is complete: all 16 rounds are loaded and both tables are final.