Fuji 1000km race in 1987
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 | ||
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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
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
Previous race 1000 km from Spa-Francorchamps 1987 |
Sports car world championship |
Successor 800 km race in Jerez 1988 |