The last and fastest Group B season. The deaths in Portugal and Corsica led to the ban on Group B from 1987. Juha Kankkunen became champion after the FIA annulled the Sanremo result.
Every round of the 1986 World Rally Championship has its own page, with the route, the key entries, how the rally unfolded, the top-10 result and the most important retirements. For the season story, standings and the main players, see the 1986 season overview .
Monte Carlo Rally 1986 Henri Toivonen and Sergio Cresto won the Monte Carlo Rally in the Lancia Delta S4, despite a collision with a non-competing car on a road section. Read more → Swedish Rally 1986 Juha Kankkunen won his first rally for Peugeot, and the Ford RS200 finished third on its world championship debut. Read more → Rally de Portugal 1986 The rally where Group B’s crowd problem became a tragedy. Joaquim Santos’s Ford RS200 crashed into spectators on the first stage, killing three people and injuring many more. The works teams withdrew; Joaquim Moutinho won. Read more → Safari Rally 1986 Björn Waldegård led a Toyota one-two in Kenya, with Lars-Erik Torph second and Markku Alén third. Read more → Tour de Corse 1986 Henri Toivonen and Sergio Cresto were killed when their Lancia Delta S4 left the road on stage 18 and caught fire. Bruno Saby won; within hours, the sport’s governing body announced the end of Group B. Read more → Acropolis Rally 1986 Juha Kankkunen won the Acropolis, with Miki Biasion second for Lancia. It was the first rally after the Group B ban was announced. Read more → Rally New Zealand 1986 Kankkunen beat Alén by 1 minute 40 seconds in New Zealand, his third win of the season. Read more → Rally Argentina 1986 Miki Biasion won his first world championship rally, leading from start to finish. Markku Alén was second, just 24 seconds behind. Read more → 1000 Lakes Rally 1986 Timo Salonen won the 1000 Lakes by 24 seconds from Kankkunen, after Alén had led for 34 stages. Read more → Ivory Coast Rally 1986 Toyota took the top three places in the Ivory Coast: Waldegård, Torph and Weber. Read more → Rallye Sanremo 1986 The rally that does not count. Peugeot’s 205 T16s were excluded during the event, Lancia finished one-two-three — and in December the FIA annulled the entire result. Read more → RAC Rally 1986 Timo Salonen won the last RAC Rally of the Group B era, with Alén second and Kankkunen third. Read more → Olympus Rally 1986 Markku Alén won the last world championship rally for Group B cars — and briefly became world champion, until the FIA annulled the Sanremo result. Read more → Other seasons: 1982 · 1983 · 1984 · 1985 · All rallies 1982–1986 — filterable index
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