1987 Brazilian Grand Prix

 1987 Brazilian Grand Prix

Racing data
1st of 16 races in the 1987 Formula 1 World Championship
Surname:	XVI Grande Prêmio do Brasil
Date:	April 12, 1987
Place:	Rio de Janeiro
Course:	Jacarepaguá
Length:	306.891 km in 61 laps of 5.031 km
Weather:	sunny and hot
Pole position
Driver:	Nigel Mansell	Williams
Time:	1: 26.128 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Nelson Piquet	Williams
Time:	1: 33.861 min
Podium
First:	Alain Prost	McLaren
Second:	Nelson Piquet	Williams
Third:	Stefan Johansson	McLaren

The 1987 Brazilian Grand Prix took place in Rio de Janeiro on April 12 and was the first race of the 1987 Formula 1 World Championship .

Reports

background

Since Keke Rosberg ended his Formula 1 career at the end of the 1986 season, a place at the side of the reigning world champion Alain Prost at McLaren became free. This was filled with Stefan Johansson , who had been dismissed from Scuderia Ferrari in favor of Gerhard Berger . Thierry Boutsen took his former place at Benetton . The team also took over the engine contract with Ford-Cosworth after the Haas-Lola team left . The Japanese engine manufacturer Honda , which had previously only equipped one team with Williams , from then on also supplied the Lotus team and enabled the Japanese Satoru Nakajima to make his Formula 1 debut alongside Ayrton Senna . In addition to Nakajima, Pascal Fabre at AGS and Adrián Campos at Minardi made two other debutants this weekend.

Jonathan Palmer moved from Zakspeed to Tyrrell . In return, Martin Brundle occupied the former cockpit of his compatriot. Christian Danner was signed as the second regular driver of what is still the only German team. With March , a big name returned to Formula 1. However, the team officially started under the name of the main sponsor Leyton House . A modified Formula 3000 racing car piloted by Ivan Capelli was used.

Renault no longer supplied engines. Even BMW significantly reduced its Formula 1 involvement. At Arrows , further developed BMW engines from the previous year were used under the name Megatron . Only Brabham continued to receive factory support from the Bavarian company. Alfa Romeo engines were originally intended to be used at Ligier . However, due to contractual problems with the new owner Fiat SpA , this did not materialize. The French team had to forego the first race because the racing cars had to be converted to fit Megatron engines.

Since the performance of the turbo engines was further reduced for safety and cost reasons, some teams were already using conventional naturally aspirated engines from Ford-Cosworth. These were allowed to have a displacement of 3500 cubic centimeters. Cosworth was the only naturally aspirated engine supplier that year. The Cosworth DFZ was a further development of the DFV from 1967.

After Pirelli withdrew , Goodyear was the sole tire supplier to Formula 1 for two years.

training

The two Williams drivers Nigel Mansell and Nelson Piquet qualified for the first row ahead of Ayrton Senna, Teo Fabi , Alain Prost and Thierry Boutsen , with lap times that were almost two seconds shorter than their fastest competitors .

run

After several engine failures during training and during the warm-up , the March team had no more replacement units available, so that only 22 vehicles started the race.

While Piquet took the lead, Mansell fell back to fifth behind Senna, Fabi and Boutsen. By the third lap, however, he came back up to third place. Adrián Campos was disqualified after driving three laps because he started the introductory lap late and afterwards did not go to the end of the field, but returned to his original starting position.

In the seventh lap, Piquet had to head for the pit because paper had got caught in the cooling inlets of his car. Senna took the lead. Piquet returned to the track in twelfth place. Shortly afterwards, the cooling vents of Mansell's second Williams FW11B also had to be cleaned in the pits.

With a pit stop by Senna, Prost took over the top position for four laps until Piquet had fought his way through the field again. When he made his second stop on lap 21, Alain Prost again took the lead and from then on defended it to the finish. Nelson Piquet finished second in front of Prost's new team-mate Stefan Johansson and Gerhard Berger, Thierry Boutsen and Nigel Mansell, who had been thrown back to ninth place after a puncture.

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Marlboro McLaren International	1	Alain Prost	McLaren MP4 / 3	TAG / Porsche TTE PO1 1.5 V6 t	G
	2	Stefan Johansson
Data General Team Tyrrell	3	Jonathan Palmer	Tyrrell DG016	Ford Cosworth DFZ 3.5 V8	G
	4th	Philippe Streiff
Canon Williams Honda Team	5	Nigel Mansell	Williams FW11B	Honda RA167E 1.5 V6 t	G
	6th	Nelson Piquet
Motor Racing Developments	7th	Riccardo Patrese	Brabham BT56	BMW M12 / 13 1.5 L4 t	G
	8th	Andrea de Cesaris
West Zakspeed Racing	9	Martin Brundle	Zakspeed 861	Zakspeed 1500/4 1.5 L4 t	G
	10	Christian Danner
Camel Team Lotus Honda	11	Satoru Nakajima	Lotus 99T	Honda RA166E 1.5 V6 t	G
	12	Ayrton Senna
Team El Charro AGS	14th	Pascal Fabre	AGS JH22	Ford Cosworth DFZ 3.5 V8	G
Leyton House March Racing Team	16	Ivan Capelli	March 87P		G
USF & G Arrows Megatron	17th	Derek Warwick	Arrows A10	Megatron M12 / 13 1.5 L4 t	G
	18th	Eddie Cheever
Benetton Formula Ltd	19th	Teo Fabi	Benetton B187	Ford Cosworth GBA 1.5 V6 t	G
	20th	Thierry Boutsen
Osella Squadra Corse	21st	Alex Caffi	Osella FA1G	Alfa Romeo 890T 1.5 V8 t	G
Minardi F1 team	23	Adrian Campos	Minardi M186	Motori Moderni 615-90 1.5 V6 t	G
	24	Alessandro Nannini
Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC	27	Michele Alboreto	Ferrari F1 / 87	Ferrari 033D 1.5 V6 t	G
	28	Gerhard Berger

Classifications

Qualifying

Item	driver	constructor	1. Qualification training		2. Qualification training		begin
			time	Ø speed	time	Ø speed
01	Nigel Mansell	Williams-Honda	1: 27.901	206.045 km / h	1: 26.128	210.287 km / h	01
02	Nelson Piquet	Williams-Honda	1: 27.822	206.231 km / h	1: 26.567	209.221 km / h	02
03	Ayrton Senna	Lotus Honda	1: 29.002	203.497 km / h	1: 28.408	204.864 km / h	03
04th	Teo Fabi	Benetton-Ford	1: 30.439	200.263 km / h	1: 28.417	204.843 km / h	04th
05	Alain Prost	McLaren TAG Porsche	1: 29.522	202.315 km / h	1: 29.175	203.102 km / h	05
06th	Thierry Boutsen	Benetton-Ford	1: 30.166	200.870 km / h	1: 29.450	202.477 km / h	06th
07th	Gerhard Berger	Ferrari	1: 31.444	198.062 km / h	1: 30.357	200.445 km / h	07th
08th	Derek Warwick	Arrows-Megatron	1: 32.531	195.735 km / h	1: 30.467	200,201 km / h	08th
09	Michele Alboreto	Ferrari	1: 31.218	198.553 km / h	1: 30.468	200.199 km / h	09
10	Stefan Johansson	McLaren TAG Porsche	1: 31.343	198.281 km / h	1: 30.476	200.181 km / h	10
11	Riccardo Patrese	Brabham-BMW	1: 32.001	196.863 km / h	1: 31.179	198.638 km / h	11
12	Satoru Nakajima	Lotus Honda	1: 34.445	191.769 km / h	1: 32.276	196.276 km / h	12
13	Andrea de Cesaris	Brabham-BMW	1: 32.402	196.009 km / h	1: 34.115	192.441 km / h	13
14th	Eddie Cheever	Arrows-Megatron	1: 33.084	194.573 km / h	1: 32.769	195.233 km / h	14th
15th	Alessandro Nannini	Minardi-Motori Moderni	1: 33.980	192.718 km / h	1: 33.729	193.234 km / h	15th
16	Adrian Campos	Minardi-Motori Moderni	no time	-	1: 33.825	193.036 km / h	16
17th	Christian Danner	Zakspeed	1: 36.178	188.313 km / h	1: 35.212	190.224 km / h	17th
18th	Jonathan Palmer	Tyrrell-Ford	1: 37.488	185.783 km / h	1: 36.091	188.484 km / h	18th
19th	Martin Brundle	Zakspeed	1: 37.235	186.266 km / h	1: 36.160	188.349 km / h	19th
20th	Philippe Streiff	Tyrrell-Ford	1: 38.822	183.275 km / h	1: 36.274	188.126 km / h	20th
21st	Alex Caffi	Osella-Alfa Romeo	1: 39.931	181.241 km / h	1: 38.770	183.371 km / h	21st
22nd	Pascal Fabre	AGS-Ford	1: 44.126	173.939 km / h	1: 39.816	181.450 km / h	22nd
23	Ivan Capelli	March-Ford	1: 43.580	174.856 km / h	2: 02.966	147.289 km / h	DNS

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	Alain Prost	McLaren TAG Porsche	61	1	1: 39: 45.141	05	1: 35.811
02	Nelson Piquet	Williams-Honda	61	2	+ 40.547	02	1: 33.861
03	Stefan Johansson	McLaren TAG Porsche	61	0	+ 56.758	10	1: 35.299
04th	Gerhard Berger	Ferrari	61	2	+1: 39.235	07th	1: 35.769
05	Thierry Boutsen	Benetton-Ford	60	1	+ 1 lap	06th	1: 35.737
06th	Nigel Mansell	Williams-Honda	60	2	+ 1 lap	01	1: 34.602
07th	Satoru Nakajima	Lotus Honda	59	0	+ 2 rounds	12	1: 38.482
08th	Michele Alboreto	Ferrari	58	1	DNF	09	1: 35.773	Lathe operator
09	Christian Danner	Zakspeed	58	1	+ 3 rounds	17th	1: 40.112
10	Jonathan Palmer	Tyrrell-Ford	58	0	+ 3 rounds	18th	1: 41.495
11	Philippe Streiff	Tyrrell-Ford	57	0	+ 4 rounds	20th	1: 43.049
12	Pascal Fabre	AGS-Ford	55	0	+ 6 rounds	22nd	1: 43.129
-	Eddie Cheever	Arrows-Megatron	52	0	DNF	14th	1: 33.978	Gearbox damage
-	Ayrton Senna	Lotus Honda	50	1	DNF	03	1: 35.312	Engine failure
-	Riccardo Patrese	Brabham-BMW	48	0	DNF	11	1: 36.846	defective battery
-	Andrea de Cesaris	Brabham-BMW	21st	0	DNF	13	1: 38.194	defective power transmission
-	Derek Warwick	Arrows-Megatron	20th	0	DNF	08th	1: 36.553	Engine failure
-	Alex Caffi	Osella-Alfa Romeo	20th	0	DNF	21st	1: 44.130	task
-	Alessandro Nannini	Minardi-Motori Moderni	17th	0	DNF	15th	1: 39.108	Suspension problems
-	Martin Brundle	Zakspeed	15th	0	DNF	19th	1: 40.683	Turbocharger damage
-	Teo Fabi	Benetton-Ford	09	0	DNF	04th	1: 36.511	Engine failure
-	Adrian Campos	Minardi-Motori Moderni	03	0	DSQ	16	1: 40.714	disqualified

World Cup stands after the race

The first six of the race got 9, 6, 4, 3, 2 and 1 point (s) respectively.

Driver ranking

Item driver constructor Points 01  Alain Prost McLaren 9 02  Nelson Piquet Williams 6th 03  Stefan Johansson McLaren 4th

Item driver constructor Points 04th  Gerhard Berger Ferrari 3 05  Thierry Boutsen Benetton 2 06th  Nigel Mansell Williams 1

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  McLaren 13 02  Williams 7th

Item constructor Points 03  Ferrari 3 04th  Benetton 2

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Training"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Motorsportarchiv.de; accessed on June 2, 2013)  
2. ^ "Report" (accessed on June 2, 2013)
3. ↑ "World Cup stands"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Motorsportarchiv.de; accessed on June 2, 2013)  

Web links

• Race result on the official Formula 1 website
• Race result on "Motorsportarchiv.de"