On 13 April 1986 Ayrton Senna, Lotus driver, beat Nigel Mansell, Williams driver, to win the Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez by 0.014 seconds, the third-tightest finish in Formula 1 history.
The new Jerez circuit had opened four months earlier and the race was the second round of the 1986 season. Senna led for much of the race while Mansell, who had dropped back early due to fuel-consumption concerns, made a late tyre change and closed rapidly to finish 0.014 seconds adrift.
At the time the result was the closest since Peter Gethin’s 0.01s win at the 1971 Italian Grand Prix, and the 2002 United States Grand Prix later produced a 0.011s margin. Nigel Mansell joked they "should give us seven-and-a-half points each" and Mansell went on to lose the 1986 title to Alain Prost by two points after a tyre explosion in the season finale.
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