1987 Spanish Grand Prix

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Results from the 1987 Formula One Spanish Grand Prix held at Jerez on September 27, 1987.

Contents 1 Summary 2 Classification 3 Notes 4 References

[edit] Summary

The 1987 Spanish Grand Prix was won fairly comfortably by Nigel Mansell who took pole sitter Nelson Piquet at the end of the first lap and was never headed. What was memorable about the race was the battle for 3rd (then 2nd) which was held for much of the time by Ayrton Senna, who like the previous year tried to complete the race without changing tyres.

Senna had a queue of both Ferraris, Prost's McLaren and Boutsen's Benetton behind him, which was joined by Piquet after a long pit-stop. For lap after lap, Senna held off all-comers, similar to Gilles Villeneuve's performance at Jarama in 1981. However, Piquet's similarly powered Williams was able to get by (not before having a spin) followed by Boutsen and Prost. Senna faded to finish fifth, but the battle for second continued between Boutsen and Piquet - Boutsen went out avoiding Piquet who was rejoining the track after having gone off - and then by Piquet and Prost, which Prost won. Both Ferraris blew engines (in Alboreto's case, spectacularly).

[edit] Classification

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	5	Nigel Mansell	Williams-Honda	72	1:49:12.692	2	9
2	1	Alain Prost	McLaren-TAG	72	+ 22.225	7	6
3	2	Stefan Johansson	McLaren-TAG	72	+ 30.818	11	4
4	6	Nelson Piquet	Williams-Honda	72	+ 31.450	1	3
5	12	Ayrton Senna	Lotus-Honda	72	+ 1:13.507	5	2
6 (1)	30	Philippe Alliot	Larrousse-Ford	71	+ 1 Lap	17	1
7 (2)	4	Philippe Streiff	Tyrrell-Ford	71	+ 1 Lap	15
8	18	Eddie Cheever	Arrows-Megatron	70	Out of Fuel	13
9	11	Satoru Nakajima	Lotus-Honda	70	+ 2 Laps	18
10	17	Derek Warwick	Arrows-Megatron	70	+ 2 Laps	12
11	9	Martin Brundle	Zakspeed	70	+ 2 Laps	20
12 (3)	16	Ivan Capelli	March-Ford	70	+ 2 Laps	19
13	7	Riccardo Patrese	Brabham-BMW	68	+ 4 Laps	9
14	23	Adrián Campos	Minardi-Motori Moderni	68	+ 4 Laps	24
15	27	Michele Alboreto	Ferrari	67	Engine	4
16	20	Thierry Boutsen	Benetton-Ford	66	Accident	8
Ret	28	Gerhard Berger	Ferrari	62	Engine	3
Ret	3	Jonathan Palmer	Tyrrell-Ford	55	Collision	16
Ret	25	René Arnoux	Ligier-Megatron	55	Collision	14
Ret	10	Christian Danner	Zakspeed	50	Transmission	22
Ret	24	Alessandro Nannini	Minardi-Motori Moderni	45	Turbo	21
Ret	19	Teo Fabi	Benetton-Ford	40	Brakes	6
Ret	8	Andrea de Cesaris	Brabham-BMW	26	Gearbox	10
Ret	26	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Ligier-Megatron	24	Ignition	23
Ret	14	Pascal Fabre	AGS-Ford	10	Clutch	25
Ret	32	Nicola Larini	Coloni-Ford	8	Suspension	26
DNQ	21	Alex Caffi	Osella-Alfa Romeo

[edit] Notes

• Pole position: Nelson Piquet - 1:22.461^[1]
• Fastest lap: Gerhard Berger - 1:26.986 on lap 49^[1]
• Numbers in brackets refer to positions of normally-aspirated entrants competing for the Jim Clark Trophy.

[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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