1987 Brazilian Grand Prix

January 2021 F1 Brazil Brazilian 16º Grande Premio do Brasil Autódromo_de_Jacarepaguá_1978-1995.png 12 April 1987 1 16 Jacarepaguá Circuit,Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Permanent racing facility 3.126 5.031 61 190.693 306.891 Sunny Nigel Mansell Williams-Honda 1:26.128 GBR Nelson Piquet Williams-Honda 1:33.861 41 BRA 1968 Alain Prost McLaren-TAG FRA Nelson Piquet Williams-Honda BRA 1968 Stefan Johansson McLaren-TAG SWE BRA The 1987 Brazilian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 12 April 1987 at the Jacarepaguá Circuit in Rio de Janeiro. The race, contested over 61 laps, was the sixteenth Brazilian Grand Prix and the eighth to be held at Jacarepaguá, and the first race of the 1987 Formula One season. The race was won by defending World Champion Alain Prost, driving a McLaren-TAG. Local hero Nelson Piquet was second in a Williams-Honda, while Prost's new teammate Stefan Johansson took third. Qualifying March Engineering returned to Formula One for the first time since the 1982 Caesars Palace Grand Prix, entering a single car driven by Ivan Capelli. In almost a repeat of 1982, prior to the race there was talk of a drivers boycott due to the FIA's new Super Licence fees for 1987. Previously the fee for a drivers Super Licence had been US$825. However, from 1987 drivers who scored World Championship points the previous season would be required to pay more (i.e. the more points a driver scored, the more he paid for his licence) with drivers such as World Champion Alain Prost and Williams pair Nigel Mansell and Nelson Piquet were all required to pay around $12,000 (while others such as Lotus rookie Satoru Nakajima only had to pay the basic fee). According to the drivers, it wasn't so about the money, it was the principle that a licence is a licence and that the fee should be the same for everyone. However, by the time the cars were ready for Friday morning's first practice session, everyone (or in some cases the teams) had paid the required licence fee. Qualifying was dominated by the Honda powered Williams, with Mansell ahead of Piquet. Third was Ayrton Senna with his Lotus. The Lotus 99T, now in the Yellow and Blue colours of new sponsors Camel Cigarettes, was using the computer-controlled active suspension for the first time in the hope that its advantages (keeping the car at the optimum ride height) would give them an edge over the rest of the field. The total number of cars entered for the event was 23, but on race day the March team, who went into the race with a modified Formula 3000 car for young F1 Italian driver Ivan Capelli due to their new car not being ready, ran out of Cosworth DFZs, blowing their last in the Sunday morning warm-up and there were only 22 starters. Qualifying also saw the FIA's controversial pop-off valves used for the first time on the turbocharged cars. The valves limited turbo boost pressure to 4.0 Bar where previously boost was only limited to what the engineers felt the engines could take. The valves were far from popular with the teams and drivers, however, with some drivers complaining throughout the weekend that they were cutting in too early and not allowing enough boost. Arrows driver Derek Warwick told that at times his valve was opening at just 2.6 Bar (a loss of approximately 280 bhp kW PS 0 on) while Benetton's Thierry Boutsen told that the two valves on his Ford V6 were both opening at different levels and both well below the 4 Bar limit. McLaren got around the pop-off valve problem by limiting turbo boost on their TAG-Porsche engines to just 3.6 Bar of pressure throughout the weekend, thus never allowing the valves to come into play.Roebuck Nigel Nigel Roebuck Henry Alan Alan Henry 1987 Grand Prix 3 40 Round 1:Brazil The More Things Change... Glen Waverly, Victoria Garry Sparke & Associates Barry Naismith 0-908081-27-8 One unnamed team mechanic was reported to have said that the valves were the only crude piece of engineering on a modern Grand Prix car.November 2017 The Ligier team was absent from Rio, missing their first race since the French boycott of the 1985 South African Grand Prix. The team had been set to use a new 4-cylinder, turbocharged Alfa Romeo engine for the season. However, during pre-season testing lead driver René Arnoux compared the new 415T to used food. This gave Alfa's parent company Fiat the excuse they wanted to pull out of its association with the team leaving Ligier without an engine for the season, though Ligier were able to secure a supply of Megatron turbo's from the Arrows team sponsors USF&G and would use them from San Marino until the end of the season. Race At the start Piquet was fastest, taking the lead from Senna, while Mansell made a bad start; the Benetton B187s of Boutsen and Teo Fabi out dragged Mansell and Prost. Adrián Campos was disqualified for an incorrect starting procedure, he had forgotten his ear plugs and by the time he had fitted them on the grid the rest of the field had moved away on the warm-up lap. Campos resumed his grid position instead of starting at the rear, and race officials removed him for his rookie mistake. Piquet's lead did not last long: on lap 7, he had to pit with engine overheating caused by litter on the track getting into the radiator sidepods. He rejoined back in eleventh position, leaving Senna to lead Mansell (who in the meantime fought back to second) although he too entered in the pits to have his radiators cleared. He rejoined behind Piquet and the pair began to climb through the field. Senna pitted because of handling troubles of his Lotus 99T and so Prost went into the lead. When Prost stopped for fresh tyres the lead was briefly passed to Thierry Boutsen, who was performing admirably with his Benetton-Ford, but his lead lasted less than half a lap before Piquet went back to first before his second stop, on lap 21. Prost then went ahead again and led for the rest of the race, never looking threatened as he preserved his tyres to only require two stops, while his rivals Senna and Piquet had three. Mansell's race was compromised late in the race by a tyre puncture, who sent him back to seventh place. On lap 51 Senna suffered an engine failure, causing him to retire from the second place he held for much of the race despite problems with the Lotus's active suspensions. Senna, who pulled off the track in front of the pits, reported that his engine had not actually blown, but that he could feel it was seizing and felt it would be better to retire rather than to destroy the engine. Prost won ahead of Piquet, his teammate Stefan Johansson, Gerhard Berger (who battled for the whole race with handling problems of his Ferrari F1/87), Boutsen and Mansell, who caught the last point. Satoru Nakajima's first Grand Prix, saw him finish just outside the points in seventh in his Lotus. This was Prost's 26th victory, which made him the second most successful Grand Prix winner at the time, moving him ahead of Jim Clark and just one win behind tying with Jackie Stewart as the most successful. Classification Qualifying Pos No Driver Constructor Q1 Q2 Gap 1 5 GBR Nigel Mansell Williams-Honda 1:27.901 1:26.128 — 2 6 BRA 1968 Nelson Piquet Williams-Honda 1:27.822 1:26.567 +0.439 3 12 BRA 1968 Ayrton Senna Lotus-Honda 1:29.002 1:28.408 +2.280 4 19 ITA Teo Fabi Benetton-Ford 1:30.439 1:28.417 +2.289 5 1 FRA Alain Prost McLaren-TAG 1:29.522 1:29.175 +3.047 6 20 BEL Thierry Boutsen Benetton-Ford 1:30.166 1:29.450 +3.322 7 28 AUT Gerhard Berger Ferrari 1:31.444 1:30.357 +4.229 8 17 GBR Derek Warwick Arrows-Megatron 1:32.531 1:30.467 +4.339 9 27 ITA Michele Alboreto Ferrari 1:31.218 1:30.468 +4.340 10 2 SWE Stefan Johansson McLaren-TAG 1:31.343 1:30.476 +4.348 11 7 ITA Riccardo Patrese Brabham-BMW 1:32.001 1:31.179 +5.051 12 11 JPN 1947 Satoru Nakajima Lotus-Honda 1:34.445 1:32.276 +6.148 13 8 ITA Andrea de Cesaris Brabham-BMW 1:32.402 1:34.115 +6.274 14 18 USA Eddie Cheever Arrows-Megatron 1:33.084 1:32.769 +6.641 15 24 ITA Alessandro Nannini Minardi-Motori Moderni 1:33.980 1:33.729 +7.601 16 23 ESP Adrián Campos Minardi-Motori Moderni — 1:33.825 +7.697 17 10 FRG Christian Danner Zakspeed 1:36.178 1:35.212 +9.084 18 3 GBR Jonathan Palmer Tyrrell-Ford 1:37.488 1:36.091 +9.963 19 9 GBR Martin Brundle Zakspeed 1:37.235 1:36.160 +10.032 20 4 FRA Philippe Streiff Tyrrell-Ford 1:38.822 1:36.274 +10.146 21 21 ITA Alex Caffi Osella-Alfa Romeo 1:39.931 1:38.770 +12.642 22 14 FRA Pascal Fabre AGS-Ford 1:44.126 1:39.816 +13.688 23 16 ITA Ivan Capelli March-Ford 1:43.580 2:02.966 +17.452Source:https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/1987/races/5/brazil/qualifying-1.html 1987 Brazilian Grand Prix - QUALIFYING 1 formula1.com 15 September 2017https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/1987/races/5/brazil/qualifying-2.html 1987 Brazilian Grand Prix - QUALIFYING 2 formula1.com 15 September 2017https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/1987/races/5/brazil/qualifying-0.html 1987 Brazilian Grand Prix - OVERALL QUALIFYING formula1.com 15 September 2017 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 1 FRA Alain Prost McLaren-TAG 61 1:39:45.141 5 9 2 6 BRA 1968 Nelson Piquet Williams-Honda 61 + 40.547 2 6 3 2 SWE Stefan Johansson McLaren-TAG 61 + 56.758 10 4 4 28 AUT Gerhard Berger Ferrari 61 + 1:39.235 7 3 5 20 BEL Thierry Boutsen Benetton-Ford 60 + 1 Lap 6 2 6 5 GBR Nigel Mansell Williams-Honda 60 + 1 Lap 1 1 7 11 JPN 1947 Satoru Nakajima Lotus-Honda 59 + 2 Laps 12   8 27 ITA Michele Alboreto Ferrari 58 Spun Off 9   9 10 FRG Christian Danner Zakspeed 58 + 3 Laps 17   10 (1) 3 GBR Jonathan Palmer Tyrrell-Ford 58 + 3 Laps 18   11 (2) 4 FRA Philippe Streiff Tyrrell-Ford 57 + 4 Laps 20   12 (3) 14 FRA Pascal Fabre AGS-Ford 55 + 6 Laps 22   Ret Retired 18 USA Eddie Cheever Arrows-Megatron 52 Overheating 14   Ret Retired 12 BRA 1968 Ayrton Senna Lotus-Honda 50 Engine 3   Ret Retired 7 ITA Riccardo Patrese Brabham-BMW 48 Electrical 11   Ret Retired 8 ITA Andrea de Cesaris Brabham-BMW 21 Differential 13   Ret Retired 17 GBR Derek Warwick Arrows-Megatron 20 Engine 8   Ret Retired 21 ITA Alex Caffi Osella-Alfa Romeo 20 Withdrew 21   Ret Retired 24 ITA Alessandro Nannini Minardi-Motori Moderni 17 Suspension 15   Ret Retired 9 GBR Martin Brundle Zakspeed 15 Turbo 19   Ret Retired 19 ITA Teo Fabi Benetton-Ford 9 Turbo 4   DSQ Disqualified 23 ESP Adrián Campos Minardi-Motori Moderni 3 Incorrect starting procedure 16   DNS Did not start 16 ITA Ivan Capelli March-Ford 0 Non Starter 23  Source:http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1987/279/ 1987 Brazilian Grand Prix formula1.com 23 December 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20141103143452/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1987/279/ 3 November 2014 Championship standings after the race Drivers' Championship standings PosDriverPoints 1 FRA Alain Prost 9 2 BRA 1968 Nelson Piquet 6 3 SWE Stefan Johansson 4 4 AUT Gerhard Berger 3 5 BEL Thierry Boutsen 2Source:https://www.statsf1.com/en/1987/bresil/championnat.aspx Brazil 1987 - Championship • STATS F1 www.statsf1.com 13 March 2019 Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 1 GBR McLaren-TAG13 2 GBR Williams-Honda7 3 ITA Ferrari3 4 GBR Benetton-Ford2Source: Jim Clark Trophy standings PosDriverPoints 1 GBR Jonathan Palmer 9 2 FRA Philippe Streiff 6 3 FRA Pascal Fabre 4 Colin Chapman trophy standings Pos Constructor Points 1 GBR Tyrrell-Ford15 2 FRA AGS-Ford4 Note: Only the top five positions are included for all four sets of standings. References Brazilian Grand Prix 1987 1986 Australian Grand Prix 1987 San Marino Grand Prix 1986 Brazilian Grand Prix 1988 Brazilian Grand Prix Brazilian Grand Prix Category:Brazilian Grand Prix Grand Prix Brazilian Grand Prix