McLaren, a British constructor, competed in the 1986 Formula 1 season with Alain Prost and Keke Rosberg.
McLaren finished 2nd in the 1986 constructors' championship with 96 points, 4 wins and 12 podiums – 45 points behind champions Williams. McLaren won 4 Grands Prix, the last of them the Australian Grand Prix, and scored 1 one-two finish.
Final 1986 results after 16 rounds. Data: Jolpica F1 API.
Share of the team's points (race and sprint).
Race and sprint points per round, stacked by driver (Prost, Rosberg: darker to lighter).
Shared Grand Prix only. Qualifying uses the qualifying classification.
16 shared GPs
Both cars, every round. S = sprint result.
Short answers about McLaren in 1986.
Alain Prost and Keke Rosberg drove for McLaren in the 1986 Formula 1 season.
McLaren scored 96 points in 1986 and finished 2nd in the constructors' championship, 45 points behind champions Williams.
McLaren won 4 of 16 Grands Prix in 1986, with 12 podium finishes and 1 one-two.
McLaren was founded by New Zealander Bruce McLaren and first raced in Formula 1 in 1966. It has won ten constructors’ championships and produced drivers’ champions from Emerson Fittipaldi and James Hunt through Niki Lauda, Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna and Mika Häkkinen to Lewis Hamilton in 2008. After a lean decade, the team won back-to-back constructors’ titles in 2024 and 2025, and Lando Norris took the 2025 drivers’ crown.
McLaren is based at the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking and uses Mercedes power units. Andrea Stella has been team principal since 2023. The 2026 drivers are reigning world champion Lando Norris, who carries the number 1, and Oscar Piastri.
| 1 | DNF | DNF | 0 |
| 2 | P3 | P4 | 7 |
| 3 | P1 | P5 | 11 |
| 4 | P1 | P2 | 15 |
| 5 | P6 | DNF | 1 |
| 6 | P2 | P4 | 9 |
| 7 | P3 | DNF | 4 |
| 8 | P2 | P4 | 9 |
| 9 | P3 | DNF | 4 |
| 10 | P6 | P5 | 3 |
| 11 | DNF | DNF | 0 |
| 12 | P1 | P9 | 9 |
| 13 | DSQ | P4 | 3 |
| 14 | P2 | DNF | 6 |
| 15 | P2 | DNF | 6 |
| 16 | P1 | DNF | 9 |