1000 km race on the Nürburgring in 1987

Eddie Cheever won with partner Raul Boesel at the Nürburgring in 1987

Porsche 962 with GTi body, as used by Richard Lloyd Racing

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

• Race results at wsrp

Previous race Brands Hatch 1000km race 1987

Sports car world championship

Successor to the 1000 km race at Spa-Francorchamps in 1987