Williams FW11-07 Honda

Key facts
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Year
1986
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Country
Great Britain
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Capacity
1,494cc
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Cylinders
V6
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Valves
Double overhead camshaft
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Output
800-1,200bhp at 12,000rpm
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Maximum speed
Over 200mph
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Performance
0-60mph 2.6 seconds
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Price new
Not marketed
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Loaned by
Private Owner
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Manufacturer
Williams Racing, Grove, Oxfordshire
The FW11 was the Williams team’s challenger for the 1986 F1 season. Their main rival was the dominant McLaren MP4/2. The turbo-charged 1.5 litre Honda V6 engine was, at the time, the most powerful in F1, developing 800bhp in race trim and a staggering 1,200bhp for qualifying. The team’s drivers that year were Nelson Piquet and Nigel Mansell.
The 1986 season developed into a four-way battle between Piquet, Mansell, Ayrton Senna (Lotus-Renault) and Alain Prost (McLaren-TAG), who between them won all but one of the season’s sixteen races. The championship was decided at the last race in Australia. A blown tyre on Mansell’s Williams, while doing 180mph on the sixty-fifth lap, handed Alain Prost his second consecutive World Championship. Nine wins (five for Mansell, four for Piquet), out of a total of nineteen podium finishes, secured the Constructors’ Championship for Williams.
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