Brands Hatch 1000km race 1987

Brands Hatch Circuit

The 1987 Brands Hatch 1000 km race , also known as the Shell Gemini 1000 kms, Brands Hatch Grand Prix Circuit, took place on July 26th at the Brands Hatch circuit and was the seventh round of the World Sports Car Championship of that year.

The race

The Brands Hatch 1000 km race had an impressive field of starters. Although the Porsche works team announced their withdrawal from the 1987 sports car world championship before the 200-mile race in Nuremberg , five Porsche 962s were at the start. The fastest training time was achieved by the Dutchman Jan Lammers in a Jaguar XJR-8 , which lapped the 4.207-kilometer racetrack in 1.14.400 minutes, which corresponds to an average lap of 203.416 km / h.

In the race, the Porsche could not quite keep up with the high speed of the factory Jaguar . Mauro Baldi and Johnny Dumfries had to admit defeat in the Liqui-Moly-962 to the fastest Jaguar of Raul Boesel and John Nielsen at the finish by more than a minute.

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	C1	4th	Silk Cut Jaguar	Raul Boesel John Nielsen	Jaguar XJR-8	238
2	C1	15th	Liqui Moly Equipe	Mauro Baldi Johnny Dumfries	Porsche 962C GTi	238
3	C1	5	Silk Cut Jaguar	Jan Lammers John Watson	Jaguar XJR-8	229
4th	C1	7th	Joest Racing	Hans-Joachim Stuck Derek Bell	Porsche 962C	228
5	C1	2	Brun Motorsport	Jochen Mass Oscar Larrauri	Porsche 962C	228
6th	C1	10	Porsche Kremer Racing	Kris Nissen Volker Weidler	Porsche 962C	225
7th	C2	102	Swiftair Ecurie Ecosse	Ray Mallock David Leslie	Ecosse C286	221
8th	C2	111	Spice engineering	Gordon Spice Fermín Vélez	Spice SE87C	220
9	C1	1T	Brun Motorsport	Jesús Pareja Walter Brun	Porsche 962C	219
10	C2	101	Swiftair Ecurie Ecosse	Marc Duez Mike Wilds	Ecosse C286	219
11	C2	117	Team Lucky Strike Schanche	Will Hoy Martin Schanche	Argo JM19B	213
12	C2	106	Kelmar Racing Team	Ranieri Randaccio Maurizio Gellini Pasquale Barberio	Tiga CG85	211
13	C2	118	Chamberlain Engineering	John Nicholson Jean-Louis Ricci Olindo Iacobelli	Spice SE86C	201
14th	C2	114	Team Tiga Ford DK	Thorkild Thyrring Val Musetti	Tiga GC287	182
15th	C2	127	Chamberlain Engineering	Nick Adams John Foulston	Spice SE86C	181
16	C2	171	Cee Sport Racing	John Fyda Laurence Jacobsen Stefano Sebastiani	Tiga GC286	171
Not classified
17th	C2	178	Louis Descartes	Rudi Thomann Jean-Claude Ferrarin Gérard Tremblay	ALD 02	144
18th	C2	198	RBR	David Andrews Mike Kimpton Jeremy Rossiter	Tiga GC286	139
Failed
19th	C2	123	Charle Ivy Racing	John Sheldon Philippe de Henning	Tiga GC287	187
20th	C2	121	Cosmik GP Motorsport	Dudley Wood Costas Los James Weaver	Tiga GC287	150
21st	C2	177	Louis Descartes	Jacques Heuclin Dominique Lacaud Louis Descartes	ALD 03	117
22nd	C2	104	URD Junior Team	Hellmut Mundas Sean Walker Rudi Seher	URD C81	97
23	C2	115	Ada engineering	Tiff Needell Ian Harrower	ADA 02	90
24	C2	116	Techno racing	Jean-Pierre Frey Luigi Taverna Giovanni Lavaggi	Alba AR3	82
25th	C2	200	Dahm Cars Racing	Kenneth Leim Robin Donovan	Argo JM19	54
26th	C2	188	Ark Racing with Arthur Hough	Lawrie Hickman Max Payne	Ceekar 83J-1	10
27	C2	191	PC Automotive	Richard Piper Max Catlow	Royale RP40	6th
Not started
28	C1	42	del Bello Racing	Jean-Pierre Jaussaud Gilles Lempereur Lucien Rossiaud	Clean C8	1
29	C1	1	Brun Motorsport	Walter Brun Jésus Pareja	Porsche 962C	2
30th	C1	4T	Silk Cut Jaguar	John Watson Jan Lammers John Nielsen	Jaguar XJR-8	3
31	C1	7T	Joest Racing	Hans-Joachim Stuck Derek Bell	Porsche 962C	4th

¹ accident during training ² accident during training ³ training cars ⁴ training cars

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
32	C1	8th	Joest Racing	Bob Wollek Klaus Ludwig Louis Krages Stanley Dickens	Porsche 962C
33	C2	20th	Team Tiga	Tim Lee-Davey	Tiga GC87
34	C1	31	Jochen duration	Jochen duration Johnny Dumfries	Porsche 962C
35	C2	103	John Bartlett	John Bartlett	Bardon DB1 / 2
36	C2	120	Pierre-Alain Lombardi	Pierre-Alain Lombardi Jean-Jacques Stauffer	Rondeau M379C
37	C2	125	Vetir Racing	Bruno Sotty Patrick Oudet Jean-Claude Justice	Tiga GC85
38	C2	150	Jean-Claude Ferrarin	Jean-Claude Ferrarin Philippe Mazué	Isolia 003
39	C2	181	Dune Motorsport	Duncan Bain Neil Crang	Tiga GC287

Class winner

class	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
C1	Raul Boesel	John Nielsen	Jaguar XJR-8	Overall victory
C2	Ray Mallock	David Leslie	Ecosse C286	Rank 7

Racing data

• Registered: 39
• Started: 27
• Valued: 16
• Race classes: 2
• Spectators: 35,000
• Race day weather: warm and dry
• Route length: 4.207 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 5:33: 48.510 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 238
• Total distance of the winning team: 1001.071 km
• Winner's average: 179.936 km / h
• Pole position: Jan Lammers - Jaguar XJR-8 (# 5) - 1: 40.440 = 203.416 km / h
• Fastest race lap: Jan Lammers - Jaguar XJR-8 (# 5) - 1: 16.440 = 198.092 km / h
• Racing series: Round 7 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 .

Web links

• Race results at WSRP

Previous race in the Nuremberg 200-mile race in 1987

Sports car world championship

Successor 1000 km race on the Nürburgring in 1987