1987 San Marino Grand Prix

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  1987 San Marino Grand Prix

Race details
Race 2 of 16 in the 1987 Formula One season.
Date	May 3, 1987
Official name	7o Gran Premio di San Marino
Location	Autodromo Dino Ferrari, Imola, Italy
Course	Permanent racing facility 3.131 mi / 5.040 km
Distance	59 laps, 184.770 mi / 297.360 km
Weather	Sunny, warm
Pole position
Driver	Ayrton Senna	Lotus-Honda
Time	1:25.826
Fastest lap
Driver	Teo Fabi	Benetton-Ford
Time	1:29.246 on lap 51
Podium
First	Nigel Mansell	Williams-Honda
Second	Ayrton Senna	Lotus-Honda
Third	Michele Alboreto	Ferrari

The 1987 San Marino Grand Prix was a Formula One race held on May 3, 1987 at the Autodromo Dino Ferrari, Imola. It was the 2nd race of the 1987 Formula One season.

Contents 1 Race summary 2 Classification 3 Notes 4 References

[edit] Race summary

On Friday practice, championship contender Nelson Piquet was eliminated from the race after an accident at the Tamburello corner. A tyre of his Williams failed, which resulted in a violent impact against the wall. Whilst in his opinion he had only sustained a sore ankle, he was taken to the nearby Bellaria-Igea Marina hospital, and after medical checks he was forbidden to start by FIA Medical Delegate Sid Watkins.
Alarmed by excessive blistering and the suggestion that Piquet's accident may have been caused by a tyre deflation, Goodyear withdrew all the tyres issued to teams. A replacement selection was flown in and despite the lack of Customs officials due to an Italian public holiday, the new rubber was available for all teams to race on by Sunday.
Saturday's qualifing went on smoothly, with Ayrton Senna claiming pole position on his Lotus, with Nigel Mansell, on the second Williams, aside him in the front row. The second row was occupied by Teo Fabi on the Benetton and Alain Prost on McLaren; "home" team Ferrari took the whole third row with Michele Alboreto ahead of Gerhard Berger.
The race required two starts as Martin Brundle, Thierry Boutsen and Eddie Cheever stalled on the original grid. Satoru Nakajima started from the pit lane owing to a faulty battery, and René Arnoux failed to take the second start after the suspension of his Ligier failed. On the second start, Senna led off the line but Mansell overtook him on lap two, at the Tosa corner, and went on to dominate the race. Prost got the second place overtaking Senna on lap 6; the Brazilian was then engaged in a battle with the two Ferraris, and got back second when Prost retired with an alternator failure on lap 15. Berger retired with turbo boost failure on lap 17, and by that time Alboreto passed Senna to take the second place.
On lap 22, Mansell pitted early due to a loose wheel balance weight and for 3 laps Alboreto led the race. Senna retook first position with Alboreto's pit stop, then before Mansell returned to the front when the Brazilian stopped. Riccardo Patrese in a Brabham was now holding second place but he retired when his alternator failed on lap 51. Simultaneously, Teo Fabi retired with engine problems after a slow start including a stop to replace the front wing. He did however manage to set the fastest lap in the process.
Mansell took a comfortable win with Senna holding second after Alboreto's turbo experienced problems. Stefan Johansson was in fourth place whilst Derek Warwick's retirement (out of fuel) handed fifth to Brundle and first points ever to Zakspeed with Nakajima rounding off the points.

[edit] Classification

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	Nigel Mansell	Williams-Honda	59	1:31:24.076	2	9
2	12	Ayrton Senna	Lotus-Honda	59	+ 27.545	1	6
3	27	Michele Alboreto	Ferrari	59	+ 39.144	6	4
4	2	Stefan Johansson	McLaren-TAG	59	+ 1:00.588	8	3
5	9	Martin Brundle	Zakspeed	57	+ 2 Laps	14	2
6	11	Satoru Nakajima	Lotus-Honda	57	Out of fuel	12	1
7	10	Christian Danner	Zakspeed	57	+ 2 Laps	17
8 (1)	4	Philippe Streiff	Tyrrell-Ford	57	+ 2 Laps	20
9	7	Riccardo Patrese	Brabham-BMW	57	+ 2 Laps	7
10 (2)	30	Philippe Alliot	Larrousse-Ford	56	+ 3 Laps	21
11	17	Derek Warwick	Arrows-Megatron	55	Out of Fuel	10
12	21	Alex Caffi	Osella-Alfa Romeo	54	Out of fuel	19
13 (3)	14	Pascal Fabre	AGS-Ford	53	+ 6 Laps	24
Ret	19	Teo Fabi	Benetton-Ford	51	Turbo	4
Ret	20	Thierry Boutsen	Benetton-Ford	48	Engine	11
Ret	18	Eddie Cheever	Arrows-Megatron	48	Clutch	9
Ret	3	Jonathan Palmer	Tyrrell-Ford	48	Clutch	23
Ret	8	Andrea de Cesaris	Brabham-BMW	39	Spun Off	13
Ret	23	Adrián Campos	Minardi-Motori Moderni	30	Gearbox	16
Ret	22	Gabriele Tarquini	Osella-Alfa Romeo	26	Gearbox	25
Ret	24	Alessandro Nannini	Minardi-Motori Moderni	25	Turbo	15
Ret	16	Ivan Capelli	March-Ford	18	Engine	22
Ret	28	Gerhard Berger	Ferrari	16	Electrical	5
Ret	1	Alain Prost	McLaren-TAG	14	Electrical	3
Ret	26	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Ligier-Megatron	7	Handling	18
DNS	6	Nelson Piquet	Williams-Honda		Injury
DNS	25	René Arnoux	Ligier-Megatron	0	Suspension

[edit] Notes

• Finishing the race in sixth place, Nakajima became the first Japanese driver to score a World Championship point.

[edit] References

• Unless otherwise indicated, all race results are taken from The Official Formula 1 website. Retrieved on 2007-07-08.

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