Silverstone 1000km race 1987

Silverstone Circuit with the 1987 layout

The Jaguar XJR-8 with starting number 4; Eddie Cheever and Raul Boesel's winning car

The Silverstone 1000 km race 1987 , also Autoglas 1000 kms, Silverstone Grand Prix Circuit , took place on May 10th in Silverstone and was the fourth round of the sports car world championship of that year.

The race

The Jaguar works team , led by Tom Walkinshaw , came to the fourth world championship round of the year in Silverstone as a three-time winner of the season. Jan Lammers and John Watson in the Jaguar XJR-8 won the first race of the season, the 360 km race in Jarama, and they also won the third race, the 1000 km race in Monza . The second race of the year, the 1000 km race in Jerez , was won by Eddie Cheever and Raul Boesel , also on an XJR-8.

The best training time the group C1 but scored Hans-Joachim Stuck on a plant - Porsche 962 . The German achieved a time of 1.15.110 minutes, which corresponds to an average of 229.014 km / h. Compared to Formula 1 , eight seconds were missing over one lap. At the British Grand Prix in July of the same year, Nelson Piquet set a pole position time of 1: 07: 110 minutes in the Williams FW11B .

The race ended with a Jaguar one-two. Eddie Cheever and Raul Boesel won with a lead of six seconds over teammates Jan Lammers and John Watson. In Group C2, Ray Mallock and David Leslie remained victorious in an Ecosse C286 , who were 19 laps behind the first-placed Jaguar at the finish. Only one vehicle was registered in the GTP class. James Weaver , Andrew Gilbert-Scott and Richard Cleare finished ninth overall on a March 85G .

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	C1	4th	Silk Cut Jaguar Team	Eddie Cheever Raul Boesel	Jaguar XJR-8	210
2	C1	5	Silk Cut Jaguar Team	Jan Lammers John Watson	Jaguar XJR-8	210
3	C1	17th	Porsche AG	Hans-Joachim Stuck Derek Bell	Porsche 962C	210
4th	C1	18th	Porsche AG	Jochen Mass Bob Wollek	Porsche 962C	202
5	C1	1	Brun Motorsport	Walter Brun Uwe Schäfer Jesús Pareja	Porsche 962C	200
6th	C2	102	Swiftair Ecosse	Ray Mallock David Leslie	Ecosse C286	191
7th	C2	111	Spice engineering	Gordon Spice Fermín Vélez	Spice SE86C	191
8th	C2	101	Swiftair Ecosse	Mike Wilds Johnny Dumfries	Ecosse C286	190
9	GTP	21st	Richard Cleare Racing	James Weaver Andrew Gilbert-Scott Richard Cleare	March 85G	187
10	C2	106	Kelmar	Ranieri Randaccio Pasquale Barberio Maurizio Gellini	Tiga GC85	184
11	C2	123	Charles Ivy Racing	Ian Taylor Peter Lovett	Tiga GC287	179
12	C2	181	Dune Motorsport	Duncan Bain Neil Crang Jean Krucker	Tiga GC287	177
13	C2	104	URD Junior Team	Rudi Seher Hellmut Mundas Rudi Thomann	URD C81 / 2	150
14th	C2	178	Automobiles Louis Descartes	Dominique Lacaud Gérard Tremblay Sylvain Boulay	ALD 02	148
Not classified
15th	C2	121	Cosmik Racing with GP Motorsport	Dudley Wood Costas Los	Tiga GC287	123
16	C2	199	Roy Baker Racing	John Sheldon Robert Peters	Tiga GC286	87
Failed
17th	C1	2	Brun Motorsport	Oscar Larrauri Massimo Sigala	Porsche 962C	165
18th	C1	6th	Silk Cut Jaguar Team	Martin Brundle John Nielsen	Jaguar XJR-8 LM	165
19th	C2	125	Oudet Racing	Jean-Claude Justice Bruno Sotty Patrick Oudet	Tiga CG84 / 5	132
20th	C2	103	John Bartlett Racing with Goodmans Sound	John Bartlett Val Musetti Kenneth Leim	Bardon DB1 / 2	123
21st	C1	10	Kremer Porsche Racing	Volker Weidler Kris Nissen Allen Berg	Porsche 962C	122
22nd	C1	61	Kouro's Mercedes	Mike Thackwell Henri Pescarolo	Clean C9	108
23	C2	127	Chamberlain Engineering	Nick Adams Graham Duxbury	Spice SE86C	105
24	C2	198	Roy Baker Racing	Max Cohen-Olivar David Andrews	Tiga GC286	42
25th	C1	13	Primiagaz Compétiton	Hervé Regout Yves Courage	Cougar C20	35
26th	C1	15th	Liqui Moly Equipe	Jonathan Palmer Mauro Baldi	Porsche 962C GTi	25th
Not started
27	C2	117	Team Lucky Strike Schanche	Will Hoy Martin Schanche	Argo JM19B	1
28	C1	4T	Silk Cut Jaguar Team	Jan Lammers	Jaguar XJR-8	2
29	C1	17T	Porsche AG	Bob Wollek Jochen Mass	Porsche 962C	3
30th	C1	61T	Kouros Motorsport	Henri Pescarolo	Porsche 962C	4th
Not qualified
31	C2	117	Automobiles Louis Descartes	Jacques Heuclin Louis Descartes	ALD 03	5

¹ engine failure ² training car ³ training car ⁴ training car ⁵ engine failure

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	7th	Joest Racing	Louis Krages Klaus Ludwig	Porsche 962C
33	C1	8th	Joest Racing		Porsche 962C
34	C1	20th	Tiga team	Tim Lee-Davey James Weaver	Tiga CG87
35	C1	22nd	Portman Lamborghini		Lamborghini Countach QVX
36	C2	114	Team Tiga Ford DK	Thorkild Thyrring John Sheldon	Tiga GC287
37	C2	116	Techno racing	Luigi Taverna Tony Palma	Alba AR3

Class winner

class	driver	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
C1	Eddie Cheever	Raul Boesel		Jaguar XJR-8	Overall victory
C2	Ray Mallock	David Leslie		Ecosse C286	Rank 6
GTP	James Weaver	Andrew Gilbert-Scott	Richard Cleare	March 85G	Rank 9

Racing data

• Registered: 34
• Started: 26
• Valued: 14
• Race classes: 3
• Spectators: 23,000
• Race day weather: cold and windy
• Route length: 4.778 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 5: 03: 06.220 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 210
• Total distance of the winning team: 1003.410 km
• Winner's average: 198.627 km / h
• Pole position: Hans-Joachim Stuck - Porsche 962C (# 17) - 1.15.110 - 229.014 km / h
• Fastest race lap: Eddie Cheever - Jaguar XJR-8 (# 4) 1.18.120 - 220.191 km / h
• Racing series: 4th round 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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Starting grid for the Great Britain Grand Prix in 1987

Previous race at the Monza 1000 km race in 1987

Sports car world championship

Successor to the 24 Hours of Le Mans 1987