1000 km race on the Nürburgring in 1987
The 32nd 1000 km race on the Nürburgring , also Int. ADAC 1000 km race, Nürburgring , took place on August 30, 1987 at the Nürburgring and was the eighth round of the sports car world championship of that year.
The race
With another success in the standings - after the success of the 360-km race at Jarama , the 1000 km race at Jerez and the 1,000-km race at Monza , Silverstone and Brands Hatch - the factory team was Jaguar under with Tom Walkinshaw's leadership at the Nürburgring to secure the overall ranking in the 1987 Sports Car World Championship .
After the 24-hour race at Le Mans, Porsche withdrew from the sports car world championship and passed the 3-liter, 6-cylinder turbo engines, which had previously only been reserved for works cars, on to the customer teams. However, this process met with criticism from some customer team bosses. On the one hand, it was criticized that Porsche did not also pass on the factory chassis and, on the other hand, the poorer response of the 3-liter engine compared to the conventional 2.8-liter unit was criticized. When Richard Lloyd were dispensed with the 3-liter engine, yet scored Mauro Baldi in the Porsche 962 GTi with 1.24.430 minutes, the fastest time in training.
Klaus Ludwig had the best start in the Joest -962C, who took the lead. While Eddie Cheever had an early start in the Jaguar XJR-8 and was penalized with a minute, Derek Bell was unable to start the second Joest Porsche on time and was the last to start the race.
After 28 laps the Jaguar with starting number 5, in which Jan Lammers was at the wheel, broke down with a crack in the engine block. After 118 laps, Klaus Ludwig, who had been in the lead for a long time, had to give up the race due to a broken shift fork, and the way was clear for Raul Boesel and Eddie Cheever to win in their second Jaguar, who thus won the world championship title for the British brand.
In the C2 class, the favorites dropped out after a dramatic race due to a lack of petrol. Ray Mallock in the Ecosse C286 no longer made it to the pits for the last pit stop, but stopped just before the entrance with no fuel. Gordon Spice , in the Spice SE87C, came to the pits, but there the car could not be started and had to be pushed, which resulted in the disqualification. The class win went to Costas Los and Dudley Wood , who drove a Tiga GC287.
Klaus Ludwig drove the fastest race lap in the third lap, lapping the new Nürburgring in 1.29.510 minutes.
Results
Final ranking
Item | class | No. | team | driver | vehicle | Round | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | C1 | 4th | Silk Cut Jaguar |
Raul Boesel Eddie Cheever |
Jaguar XJR-8 | 221 | ||
2 | C1 | 7th | Joest Racing |
Derek Bell Hans-Joachim Stuck |
Porsche 962C | 218 | ||
3 | C1 | 2 | Brun Motorsport |
Jochen Mass Oscar Larrauri |
Porsche 962C | 216 | ||
4th | C1 | 8th | Joest Racing |
Frank Jelinski Louis Krages Stanley Dickens |
Porsche 962C | 212 | ||
5 | C1 | 15th | Britten-Lloyd Racing |
Mauro Baldi Jonathan Palmer |
Porsche 962C GTi | 211 | ||
6th | C1 | 3 | Brun Motorsport |
Hans-Peter Kaufmann Franz Hunkeler Jesús Pareja |
Porsche 962C | 208 | ||
7th | C1 | 72 | Primagaz Compétition |
Jürgen Lässig, Cathy Muller, Bernard de Dryver |
Porsche 962C | 208 | ||
8th | C1 | 31 | Duration racing |
Jochen duration Harald Grohs |
Porsche 962C | 207 | ||
9 | C2 | 121 | Cosmic GP Motorsport |
Dudley Wood Costas Los |
Tiga GC287 | 198 | ||
10 | C2 | 106 | Kelmar Racing |
Pasquale Barberio Vito Veninata Ranieri Randaccio |
Tiga GC85 | 198 | ||
11 | C2 | 101 | Swiftair Ecurie Ecosse |
Mike Wilds Win Percy |
Ecosse C286 | 197 | ||
12 | C1 | 1 | Brun Motorsport |
Walter Brun Uwe Schäfer |
Porsche 962C | 191 | ||
13 | C2 | 104 | URD Junior Team |
Rudi Seher Hellmut Mundas
|
URD C81 / 2 | 186 | ||
14th | C1 | 10 | Kremer Porsche Racing |
Volker Weidler Kris Nissen |
Porsche 962C | 183 | ||
15th | C2 | 198 | Roy Baker Racing |
Max Cohen-Olivar David Andrews Chris Ashmore
|
Tiga GC286 | 182 | ||
16 | C2 | 127 | Chamberlain Engineering |
Nick Adams Bob Juggins
|
Spice SE86C | 170 | ||
Not classified | ||||||||
17th | C2 | 114 | Team Tiga Ford Denmark |
Thorkild Thyrring Peter Elgaard
|
Tiga GC287 | 149 | ||
18th | C2 | 118 | Olindo Iacobelli |
Jean-Louis Ricci Olindo Iacobelli Georges Tessier
|
Spice SE86C | 141 | ||
19th | C2 | 123 | Charles Ivy Racing |
John Sheldon Philippe de Henning |
Tiga GC287 | 116 | ||
Disqualified | ||||||||
20th | C2 | 111 | Spice engineering |
Fermín Vélez Gordon Spice |
Spice SE87C | 200 | ||
Failed | ||||||||
21st | C2 | 102 | Swiftair Ecurie Ecosse |
Ray Mallock David Leslie |
Ecosse C286 | 194 | ||
22nd | C1 | 61 | Kouros Racing Team |
Mike Thackwell Johnny Dumfries Henri Pescarolo |
Clean C9 | 138 | ||
23 | C1 | 42 | Noël del Bello |
Jean-Pierre Jaussaud Noël del Bello Lucien Rossiaud |
Clean C8 | 138 | ||
24 | C1 | 9 | Joest Racing |
Bob Wollek Klaus Ludwig |
Porsche 962C | 117 | ||
25th | C2 | 117 | Team Lucky Strike Schanche |
Will Hoy Martin Schanche |
Argo KM19B | 86 | ||
26th | C2 | 177 | Automobiles Louis Descartes |
Dominique Lacaud Louis Descartes Gérard Tremblay |
ALD 03 | 29 | ||
27 | C1 | 5 | Silk Cut Jaguar |
Jan Lammers John Watson |
Jaguar XJR-8 | 28 | ||
28 | C2 | 200 | Dahm Cars Racing Team |
Peter Fritsch Kenneth Leim Dieter Heinzelmann
|
Argo JM19 | 11 | ||
29 | C2 | 20th | Tiga team |
Tim Lee-Davey Evan Clements |
Tiga GC87 | 9 | ||
Not started | ||||||||
30th | C1 | 62 | Kouros Racing |
Johnny Dumfries Manuel Reuter |
Clean C9 | 1 | ||
31 | C2 | 178 | Automobiles Louis Descartes |
Bruno Sotty Gérard Tremblay
|
ALD 02 | 2 | ||
32 | C2 | 188 | Ark Racing |
Lawrie Hickman Max Payne
|
Ceekar 83J-1 | 3 | ||
33 | C1 | 4T | Silk Cut Jaguar | Jaguar XJR-8 | 4th |
1 Accident during training 2 Accident during training 3 Engine damage during training 4 Training car
Only in the entry list
Here you will find teams, drivers and vehicles that were originally registered for the race but did not take part for a variety of reasons.
Item | class | No. | team | driver | chassis |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
34 | C1 | Kremer Racing | Porsche 962C | ||
35 | C1 | 34 | Walter Lechner Racing School | Walter Lechner | Porsche 962C |
36 | C2 | 103 | John Bartlett Racing | John Bartlett | Bardon DB1 / 2 |
37 | C2 | 125 | Patrick Oudet |
Bruno Sotty Jean-Claude Ferrarin |
Tiga GC85 |
38 | C2 | 140 | Walter Lechner Racing School |
Günter Gebhardt Walter Lechner Ernst Franzmaier
|
Gebhardt JC873 |
39 | C2 | 141 | Pierre-Alain Lombardi | Pierre-Alain Lombardi | Rondeau M379C |
40 | C2 | 181 | Dune Motorsport |
Duncan Bain Neil Crang Jean Krucker
|
Tiga GC287 |
Class winner
class | driver | driver | vehicle | Placement in the overall ranking |
---|---|---|---|---|
C1 | Raul Boesel | Eddie Cheever | Jaguar XJR-8 | Overall victory |
C2 | Costa's lot | Dudley Wood | Tiga GC287 | Rank 9 |
Racing data
- Registered: 40
- Started: 29
- Valued: 16
- Race classes: 2
- Spectators: 15,000
- Race day weather: warm and dry
- Route length: 4.542 km
- Driving time of the winning team: 5: 55: 53.120 hours
- Total laps of the winning team: 221
- Total distance of the winning team: 1003.782 km
- Winner's average: 169.231 km / h
- Pole position: Mauro Baldi - Porsche 962C GTi (# 15) - 1.24.430 - 191.399 km / h
- Fastest race lap: Klaus Ludwig - Porsche 962C (# 9) - 1.29.510 - 182.675 km / h
- Racing series: Round 8 of the 1987 World Sports Car Championship
literature
- Peter Higham: The Guinness Guide to International Motor Racing. A complete Reference from Formula 1 to Touring Car. Guinness Publishing Ltd., London 1995, ISBN 0-85112-642-1 .
- Thomas Nehlert: Group C. The sports car races 1982–1992. Petrolpics, Bonn 2011, ISBN 3-940306-14-2 .
- Michael Behrndt, Jörg-Thomas Födisch, Matthias Behrndt: ADAC 1000 km race. HEEL Verlag, Königswinter 2008, ISBN 978-3-89880-903-0 .
Web links
Previous race Brands Hatch 1000km race 1987 |
Sports car world championship |
Successor to the 1000 km race at Spa-Francorchamps in 1987 |