Jarama 360 km race in 1987

Circuito del Jarama

The 360 km race of Jarama 1987 , also Grand Premio Fortuna, Jarama , took place on March 22nd on the Circuito del Jarama and was the first race of the sports car world championship of that year.

The race

The sports car world championship of that year began in March 1987 with the 360 ​​km race in Jarama . The race near Madrid had the shortest distance of all season races with only 360 kilometers and was therefore only slightly longer than a Formula 1 Grand Prix . The Swiss racing team Brun Motorsport , which last year won the World Cup, came with three cars to Spain. The Porsche 962C were driven by Oscar Larrauri / Jesús Pareja , Massimo Sigala / Gianfranco Brancatelli as well as Frank Jelinski and the team owner Walter Brun himself. Another 962C was reported by the Porsche works team.

During training, the superiority of the new Jaguar XJR-8 , which replaced the previous Jaguar emergency vehicle, the XJR-6 , was already evident . Eddie Cheever set the fastest lap time of 1.14.451 minutes, which corresponded to an average of 159.957 km / h.

However, the race ended with one of the tightest runs in sports car history. Jan Lammers and John Watson won by 1.6 seconds over the Porsche of Hans-Joachim Stuck and Derek Bell . Fermín Vélez and Gordon Spice won group C2 on a Spice SE86C .

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	C1	5	Silk Cut Jaguar	Jan Lammers John Watson	Jaguar XJR-8	109
2	C1	17th	Rothmans Porsche	Hans-Joachim Stuck Derek Bell	Porsche 962C	109
3	C1	4th	Silk Cut Jaguar	Eddie Cheever Raul Boesel	Jaguar XJR-8	109
4th	C1	10	Kremer Porsche Racing	Volker Weidler Kris Nissen	Porsche 962C	106
5	C1	3	Brun Motorsport	Oscar Larrauri Jesús Pareja	Porsche 962C	106
6th	C1	2	Brun Motorsport	Massimo Sigala Gianfranco Brancatelli	Porsche 962C	105
7th	C1	1	Brun Motorsport	Frank Jelinski Walter Brun	Porsche 962C	105
8th	C1	15th	Britten-Lloyd Racing	Mauro Baldi Jonathan Palmer	Porsche 962C	104
9	C2	111	Spice engineering	Fermín Vélez Gordon Spice	Spice SE86C	100
10	C1	11	Porsche Kremer Racing	Emilio de Villota Paco Romero	Porsche 962C	99
11	C2	101	Ecurie Ecosse	David Leslie Ray Mallock	Ecosse C286	99
12	C2	114	Team Tiga Ford DK	Thorkild Thyrring Leif Lindström	Tiga GC287	98
13	C2	115	Ada engineering	Mike Wilds Ian Harrower	Gebhardt JC843	98
14th	C2	104	URD Junior Team	Rudi Seher Hellmut Mundas	URD C81 / 2	98
Failed
15th	C2	117	Team Lucky Strike Schanche	Will Hoy Martin Schanche	Argo JM19B	81
16	C2	198	Cosmik Roy Baker Racing	Costas Los Pasquale Barberio	Tiga GC286	81
17th	C2	123	Charles Ivy Racing	Dudley Wood Mark Newby	Tiga GC287	4th
Not qualified
18th	C2	116	Techno racing	Jean-Pierre Frey Luigi Taverna	Alba AR3	1
19th	C1	4T	Silk Cut Jaguar	Eddie Cheever Raul Boesel Jan Lammers John Watson	Jaguar XJR-8	2

¹ engine failure in training ² 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
20th	C1	17T	Rothmans Porsche		Porsche 962C
21st	C2	103	John Bartlett Racing	Ian Khan Kenneth Leim	Bardon DB1 / 2
22nd	C2	125	Bruno Sotty	Bruno Sotty Noël del Bello	Tiga GC286
23	C2	127	Chamberlain Engineering		Spice SE86C
24	C2	192	Louis Descartes	Jacques Heuclin Gérard Tremblay	ALD 02
25th	C2	196	Patrick Oudet	Patrick Oudet Jean-Claude Justice	GKW 862P
26th	C2	199	Kelmar Racing	Maurizio Gellini	Tiga GC85

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 SE86C	Rank 9

Racing data

• Registered: 26
• Started: 17
• Valued: 14
• Race classes: 2
• Spectators: 20,000
• Race day weather: warm and dry
• Route length: 3,312 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 2: 29: 56.303 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 109
• Distance of the winning team: 361.012 km
• Winner's average: 144.464 km / h
• Pole position: Eddie Cheever - Jaguar XJR-8 (# 4) - 1.14.531 - 159.957 km / h
• Fastest race lap: Hans-Joachim Stuck - Porsche 962C (17) - 1.17.871 - 153.117 km / h
• Racing series: 1st 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 wspr

Previous race Fuji 1000km race 1986

Sports car world championship

Successor 1000 km race of Jerez 1987