Fuji 1000km race in 1987

The Alpha-Advan-Porsche 962C which was driven in Fuji in 1987 by Kunimitsu Takahashi, Kenny Acheson and Kazuo Mogi in eleventh place in the overall standings

The 1000 km race of Fuji 1987 , also WEC in Japan, 1987 World Sports Prototype Car Championship, Fuji Speedway , took place on September 27th at Fuji Speedway and was the tenth and final race of the sports car world championship of that year. At the same time, the race was the fifth round of the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship and the third of the Fuji Long Distance Series.

The race

The Fuji 1000 km race was the final event of the 1987 World Sports Car Championship . Because the race was also one of two Japanese sports car championships, the second-best field after the 24-hour race at Le Mans came up. Toyota launched the 87C-L for the last time . Mazdaspeed and Nissan Motorsports International were also represented with factory cars. The fastest lap time in practice was achieved by Takao Wada in the factory Nissan R86V with 1,19,021 minutes .

Despite the strong competition from Japanese and European teams, the race victory went back to Jaguar, who were already world champions. Jan Lammers and John Watson won ahead of their teammates Raul Boesel and Johnny Dumfries and the Porsche 962C GTi driven by Mauro Baldi and Mike Thackwell .

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	C1	5	Silk Cut Jaguar	Jan Lammers John Watson	Jaguar XJR-8	224
2	C1	4th	Silk Cut Jaguar	Raul Boesel Johnny Dumfries	Jaguar XJR-8	224
3	C1	15th	Britten-Lloyd Racing	Mauro Baldi Mike Thackwell	Porsche 962C GTi	221
4th	C1	1	Brun Motorsport	Jochen Mass Oscar Larrauri	Porsche 962C	218
5	C1	8th	Joest Racing	Frank Jelinski Louis Krages Bob Wollek	Porsche 962C	218
6th	C1	99	Rothmans Porsche Team Schuppan	Derek Bell Geoff Brabham	Porsche 962C	218
7th	GTP	202	Mazdaspeed	Takashi Yorino Dave Kennedy	Mazda 757	213
8th	C2	111	Spice engineering	Fermín Vélez Gordon Spice	Spice SE87C	210
9	C1	27	From A Racing	Hideki Okada John Nielsen	Porsche 962C	209
10	C1	100	Trust Racing Team	Vern Schuppan Keiichi Suzuki James Weaver	Porsche 962C	209
11	C1	25th	Advan Alpha Nova	Kunimitsu Takahashi Kenny Acheson Kazuo Mogi	Porsche 962C	208
12	C1	10	Porsche Kremer Racing	Franz Konrad George Fouché	Porsche 962C	207
13	C1	28	Person's Racing Team	Takao Wada Anders Olofsson	Nissan R86V	206
14th	C2	102	Swiftair Ecurie Ecosse	Ray Mallock David Leslie	Ecosse C286	203
15th	C2	101	Swiftair Ecurie Ecosse	Mike Wilds Marc Duez	Ecosse C286	203
16	C1	23	Nissan Motorsports International	Kazuyoshi Hoshino Kenji Takahashi Dave Scott	Nissan R87E	202
17th	C1	50	SARD	Tsunehisa Asai David Sears Syuuroku Sasaki	SARD MC87S	197
18th	C2	127	Chamberlain Engineering	Graham Duxbury Ian Khan	Spice SE86C	194
19th	C1	55	Alpha Cubic Racing Team renoma	Naoki Nagasaka Chiyomi Totani Hitoshi Ogawa	Porsche 962C	188
20th	C2	114	Team Tiga Ford Denmark	Thorkild Thyrring Peter Elgaard	Tiga GC287	184
21st	C1	77	Best House Racing Team	Osamu Nakako Maurizio Sandro Sala	LM 07	166
22nd	GTP	285	Shizumatsu Racing	Tetsuji Shiratori Kaneyuki Okamoto	Mazda 737C	164
Not classified
23	C1	11	Leyton House with Porsche Kremer	Kris Nissen Volker Weidler	Porsche 962C	218
Failed
24	C2	121	Cosmic GP Motorsport	Chris Hodgett's Costas Los	Tiga GC287	131
25th	C2	118	Chamberlain Engineering	Jean-Louis Ricci Olindo Iacobelli	Spice SE86C	120
26th	GTP	201	Mazdaspeed	Yōjirō Terada Pierre Dieudonné Yoshimi Katayama	Mazda 757	114
27	C1	36	Toyota Team Tom's	Geoff Lee's Alan Jones Masanori Sekiya	Toyota 87C-L	100
28	C1	7th	Joest Racing	Bob Wollek Harald Grohs	Porsche 962C	81
29	C1	2	Brun Motorsport	Jesús Pareja Uwe Schäfer Manuel Reuter	Porsche 962C	65
30th	C1	20th	Team Tiga	Tim Lee-Davey Tetsuya Ota	Tiga GC87	65
31	C1	45	Auto Beaurex Motorsport	Kaoru Hoshino Will Hoy	Tom's 86C	60
32	C2	170	Ba-Tsu Racing Team	Kazuhiko Oda Syuuji Fujii Ichirou Mizuno	MCS March	58
33	C2	151	British Barn Racing Team	Jirou Yoneyama Hideshi Matsuda Kiyoshi Misaki	JTK 62C	41
34	C2	198	Roy Baker Racing	Patrick de Radiguès David Andrews	Tiga GC286	38
35	C2	104	URD Junior Team	Hellmut Mundas Robin Smith	URD C81 / 83	22nd
36	C1	38	Dome Motorsport	Eje Elgh Ross Cheever	Dome 87C-L	15th
37	C1	32	Nissan Motorsports International	Masahiro Hasemi Aguri Suzuki	Nissan R87E	2
Not started
38	C1	37	Tom's Team Toyota	Nobuhide Tachi Masanori Sekiya	Toyota 87C-L	1

¹ 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
39	C2	103	John Bartlett Racing	John Bartlett Jim Rothbarth	Bardon DB2
40	C2	106	Kelmar Racing	Pasquale Barberio Ranieri Randaccio	Tiga GC85
41	C2	116	Techno racing	Luigi Taverna Jean-Pierre Frey	Alba AR3
42	C2	117	Team Lucky Strike Schanche	Martin Schanche	Argo JM19B
43	GTX	300	Mazda Sport Car Club	Iwao Sugai Hiroshi Sugai	Mazda RX-7

Class winner

class	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
C1	Jan Lammers	John Watson	Jaguar XJR-8	Overall victory
C2	Fermín Vélez	Gordon Spice	Spice SE87C	Rank 8
GTP	Takashi Yorino	Dave Kennedy	Mazda 757	Rank 7

Racing data

• Registered: 43
• Started: 37
• Valued: 22
• Race classes: 3
• Spectators: 78,500
• Race day weather: warm and dry
• Route length: 4,470 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 5:40: 55.634 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 224
• Total distance of the winning team: 1001.280 km
• Winner's average: 176.216 km / h
• Pole position: Takao Wada - Nissan R86V (# 28) - 1,19.021 - 203.642 km / h
• Fastest race lap: Geoff Lees - Toyota 87C-L (# 36) - 1.23.096 - 193.656 km / h
• Racing series: 10th round of the 1987 World Sports Car Championship
• Race series: 5th round of the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship
• Race series: 3rd run of the Fuji Long Distance Series

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 1000 km from Spa-Francorchamps 1987

Sports car world championship

Successor 800 km race in Jerez 1988