1987 Mexican Grand Prix

F1 Mexico Mexican Gran Premio de México 18 October 1987 Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez.svg 14 16 Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Mexico City, Mexico Permanent circuit 2.747 4.421 63 173.066 278.523 Sunny and hot Nigel Mansell Williams-Honda 1:18.383 UK Nelson Piquet Williams-Honda 1:19.132 57 Brazil 1968 Nigel Mansell Williams-Honda UK Nelson Piquet Williams-Honda Brazil 1968 Riccardo Patrese Brabham-BMW Italy MEX The 1987 Mexican Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City on 18 October 1987. It was the fourteenth race of the 1987 Formula One World Championship. It was the 11th Mexican Grand Prix and the second since the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez was renovated and returned to the World Championship calendar. The race was held over a total of 63 laps of the 4.42 km mi on circuit for a race distance of 278.5 km mi. The race was divided into two heats after British driver Derek Warwick crashed his Arrows A10 heavily exiting the high-speed Peraltada corner on lap 31 after a rear suspension failure; the Arrows car's rear suspension was weakened by Satoru Nakajima crashing his Lotus-Honda straight into the back of Warwick's car at the end of the main straight earlier in the race. The results of the first 30 laps were combined with the results of the second race of 33 laps to create a combined result. The race was won by British driver Nigel Mansell driving a Williams FW11B. Mansell's combined time over the 63 laps was 26 seconds faster than his Brazilian teammate and eventual 1987 World Champion, Nelson Piquet. Piquet actually took the chequered flag first at the end of the second heat, but Mansell's lead over Piquet at the time of Warwick's accident was substantially larger. Piquet had been delayed after a collision with Alain Prost (McLaren MP4/3) on the first lap. It was Mansell's sixth and last Grand Prix victory for the 1987 season. Riccardo Patrese finished third driving a Brabham BT56. It was Patrese's best result since finishing third in the 1984 Italian Grand Prix. It was just the second podium of the year for Brabham. Brabham would only score one more podium before it would fold in 1992. Attrition bit heavily into the race with just fifteen cars taking the second race start. Nine survived to the finish. Naturally aspirated Jim Clark Trophy cars climbed into the points with Philippe Alliot (Lola LC87) taking his third top six result for the year. Ayrton Senna was fined $15,000 for punching a corner marshal after they refused to push his stalled car. Mansell's victory allowed him to close to within twelve points of his championship leading teammate. With just two races left, only the Williams drivers had enough points to win the championship. Classification During Saturday morning's 90 minute free practice session, a number of the turbo teams ran their cars at the 2.5 bar boost limit that would be enforced in 1988. To the surprise of many, lap times actually proved faster than they would in the afternoon's qualifying session when the cars were running their full 4.0 bar boost settings with BBC commentator Murray Walker later attributing it to the fact that at 2.5 bar the drivers had more useable power whereas the high horsepower figures (900-1000 bhp kW PS 0 was largely wasted in anything but a straight line where the faster turbo cars were regularly speed trapped at over 210 mph km/h 0 on on the circuit's 1.2 km mi on long main straight during qualifying.Nigel Roebuck John Townsend Grand Prix - 1987 Formula One World Championship 1988 Garry Sparke & Associates Glen Waverly, Victoria, Australia 0 908081 27 8 138–141 1st Qualifying Pos No Driver Constructor Q1 Q2 Gap 1 5 UK Nigel Mansell Williams-Honda 1:20.696 1:18.383 2 28 Austria Gerhard Berger Ferrari 1:19.992 1:18.426 +0.043 3 6 Brazil 1968 Nelson Piquet Williams-Honda 1:20.701 1:18.463 +0.080 4 20 Belgium Thierry Boutsen Benetton-Ford 1:20.766 1:18.691 +0.308 5 1 France Alain Prost McLaren-TAG 1:20.572 1:18.742 +0.359 6 19 Italy Teo Fabi Benetton-Ford 1:22.666 1:18.992 +0.609 7 12 Brazil 1968 Ayrton Senna Lotus-Honda 1:21.361 1:19.089 +0.706 8 7 Italy Riccardo Patrese Brabham-BMW 1:21.720 1:19.889 +1.506 9 27 Italy Michele Alboreto Ferrari 1:21.290 1:19.967 +1.584 10 8 Italy Andrea de Cesaris Brabham-BMW 1:22.930 1:20.141 +1.758 11 17 UK Derek Warwick Arrows-Megatron 1:23.347 1:21.664 +3.281 12 18 USA Eddie Cheever Arrows-Megatron 1:24.445 1:21.705 +3.322 13 9 UK Martin Brundle Zakspeed 1:25.184 1:21.711 +3.328 14 24 Italy Alessandro Nannini Minardi-Motori Moderni 1:26.055 1:22.035 +3.652 15 2 Sweden Stefan Johansson McLaren-TAG 1:22.185 1:22.382 +3.802 16 11 Japan 1947 Satoru Nakajima Lotus-Honda 1:23.750 1:22.214 +3.831 17 10 West Germany Christian Danner Zakspeed 1:23.992 1:22.593 +4.210 18 25 France René Arnoux Ligier-Megatron 1:24.299 1:23.053 +4.670 19 23 Spain Adrián Campos Minardi-Motori Moderni 1:27.798 1:23.955 +5.572 20 16 Italy Ivan Capelli March-Ford 1:27.161 1:24.404 +6.021 21 26 Italy Piercarlo Ghinzani Ligier-Megatron 1:27.059 1:24.553 +6.170 22 3 UK Jonathan Palmer Tyrrell-Ford 1:27.306 1:24.723 +6.340 23 29 France Yannick Dalmas Lola-Ford 1:28.156 1:24.745 +6.362 24 30 France Philippe Alliot Lola-Ford 1:27.184 1:25.096 +6.713 25 4 France Philippe Streiff Tyrrell-Ford 1:27.011 1:26.305 +7.922 26 21 Italy Alex Caffi Osella-Alfa Romeo 1:27.670 1:30.010 +9.287DNQ Did not qualify 14 France Pascal Fabre AGS-Ford 1:30.285 1:28.655 +10.272Source:1987 Mexican Grand Prix - QUALIFYING 1 https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/1987/races/524/mexico/qualifying-1.html formula1.com 11 May 20181987 Mexican Grand Prix - QUALIFYING 2 https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/1987/races/524/mexico/qualifying-2.html formula1.com 11 May 20181987 Mexican Grand Prix - OVERALL QUALIFYING https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/1987/races/524/mexico/qualifying-0.html formula1.com 11 May 2018 Race Numbers in brackets refer to positions of normally aspirated entrants competing for the Jim Clark Trophy. Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 5 UK Nigel Mansell Williams-Honda 63 1:26:24.207 1 9 2 6 Brazil 1968 Nelson Piquet Williams-Honda 63 + 26.176 3 6 3 7 Italy Riccardo Patrese Brabham-BMW 63 + 1:26.879 8 4 4 18 USA Eddie Cheever Arrows-Megatron 63 + 1:41.352 12 3 5 19 Italy Teo Fabi Benetton-Ford 61 + 2 laps 6 2 6 (1) 30 France Philippe Alliot Lola-Ford 60 + 3 laps 24 1 7 (2) 3 UK Jonathan Palmer Tyrrell-Ford 60 + 3 laps 22   8 (3) 4 France Philippe Streiff Tyrrell-Ford 60 + 3 laps 25   9 (4) 29 France Yannick Dalmas Lola-Ford 59 + 4 laps 23   Ret Retired 12 Brazil 1968 Ayrton Senna Lotus-Honda 54 Clutch 7   Ret Retired 16 Italy Ivan Capelli March-Ford 51 Water leak 20   Ret Retired 21 Italy Alex Caffi Osella-Alfa Romeo 50 Engine 26   Ret Retired 26 Italy Piercarlo Ghinzani Ligier-Megatron 43 Water leak 21   Ret Retired 23 Spain Adrián Campos Minardi-Motori Moderni 32 Transmission 19   Ret Retired 25 France René Arnoux Ligier-Megatron 29 Overheating 18   Ret Retired 17 UK Derek Warwick Arrows-Megatron 26 Accident 11   Ret Retired 8 Italy Andrea de Cesaris Brabham-BMW 22 Accident 10   Ret Retired 28 Austria Gerhard Berger Ferrari 20 Turbo 2   Ret Retired 20 Belgium Thierry Boutsen Benetton-Ford 15 Electrical 4   Ret Retired 24 Italy Alessandro Nannini Minardi-Motori Moderni 13 Turbo 14   Ret Retired 27 Italy Michele Alboreto Ferrari 12 Engine 9   Ret Retired 9 UK Martin Brundle Zakspeed 3 Turbo 13   Ret Retired 2 Sweden Stefan Johansson McLaren-TAG 1 Collision 15   Ret Retired 11 Japan 1947 Satoru Nakajima Lotus-Honda 1 Collision 16   Ret Retired 10 West Germany Christian Danner Zakspeed 1 Collision 17   Ret Retired 1 France Alain Prost McLaren-TAG 0 Collision 5  Source:1987 Mexican Grand Prix http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1987/292/ formula1.com https://web.archive.org/web/20141103143559/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1987/292/ 3 November 2014 23 December 2015 Championship standings after the race Drivers' Championship standings PosDriverPoints 1 BRA 1968 Nelson Piquet 73 (76) 2 GBR Nigel Mansell 61 3 BRA 1968 Ayrton Senna 51 4 FRA Alain Prost 46 5 SWE Stefan Johansson 26Source:Mexico 1987 - Championship • STATS F1 https://www.statsf1.com/en/1987/mexique/championnat.aspx www.statsf1.com 19 March 2019 Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 1 GBR Williams-Honda137 2 GBR McLaren-TAG72 3 GBR Lotus-Honda57 4 ITA Ferrari26 5 GBR Benetton-Ford22Source: Jim Clark Trophy standings PosDriverPoints 1 GBR Jonathan Palmer 77 2 FRA Philippe Streiff 68 3 FRA Philippe Alliot 43 4 ITA Ivan Capelli 38 5 FRA Pascal Fabre 35 Colin Chapman Trophy standings Pos Constructor Points 1 GBR Tyrrell-Ford145 2 FRA Lola-Ford43 3 GBR March-Ford38 4 FRA AGS-Ford35 Note: Only the top five positions are included for all four sets of standings. References Mexican Grand Prix 1987 1987 Spanish Grand Prix 1987 Japanese Grand Prix 1986 Mexican Grand Prix 1988 Mexican Grand Prix Mexican Grand Prix Category:Mexican Grand Prix Grand Prix Category:October 1987 sports events in Mexico