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Berger and Benetton put their first win on the board
Phillip van Osten
12/10/2025 at 12:3012/10/2025 at 10:06 40 SHARES Share on.. Share on.. Share on.. Gerhard Berger and the Benetton squad each conquered on this day in 1986 in Mexico City their very first Grand Prix win. The Austrian, who had qualified fourth at the wheel of the colorful and massively powerful Benetton-BMW B186, took the lead from Lotus's Ayrton Senna at around the half-way point of the race and never looked back. It was the first of Berger's ten Grand Prix wins, one that was achieved in just his second full season of F1 and which set him on course for a move to Ferrari the following year. In 1997, eleven years after his Mexican triumph, Berger would come full circle, at...
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