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Qualifying was dominated by the [[Honda F1|Honda]] powered [[Williams FW11|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 Engineering|March]] team, who went into the race with a modified [[Formula 3000]] car for F1 rookie [[Ivan Capelli]] due to their [[March 871|new car]] not being ready, ran out of [[Cosworth DFZ]]s, blowing their last in the Sunday morning warm-up and there were only 22 starters. |
Qualifying was dominated by the [[Honda F1|Honda]] powered [[Williams FW11|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 Engineering|March]] team, who went into the race with a modified [[Formula 3000]] car for F1 rookie [[Ivan Capelli]] due to their [[March 871|new car]] not being ready, ran out of [[Cosworth DFZ]]s, blowing their last in the Sunday morning warm-up and there were only 22 starters. |
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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 though 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 {{Convert|280|bhp|kW PS|0|abbr=on}}) while [[Benetton Formula|Benetton]]'s [[Thierry Boutsen]] told that the two valves on his [[Cosworth#The GBA V6|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 [[Techniques d'Avant Garde|TAG]]-[[Porsche in Formula One|Porsche]] engines to just 3.6 Bar of pressure throughout the weekend, thus never allowing the valves to come into play.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Roebuck |first1=Nigel |authorlink1=Nigel Roebuck |last2=Henry |first2=Alan |authorlink2=Alan Henry |year=1987 |journal=Grand Prix |volume=3 |page=40 |title=Round 1:Brazil The More Things Change... |location=Glen Waverly, Victoria |publisher=Garry Sparke & Associates |editor1-first=Barry |editor1-last=Naismith |isbn=0-908081-27-8}}</ref> One un-named team mechanic was reported to have said that the valves were the only crude piece of engineering on a modern grand prix car |
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 though 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 {{Convert|280|bhp|kW PS|0|abbr=on}}) while [[Benetton Formula|Benetton]]'s [[Thierry Boutsen]] told that the two valves on his [[Cosworth#The GBA V6|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 [[Techniques d'Avant Garde|TAG]]-[[Porsche in Formula One|Porsche]] engines to just 3.6 Bar of pressure throughout the weekend, thus never allowing the valves to come into play.<ref name="The More Things Change">{{cite journal |last1=Roebuck |first1=Nigel |authorlink1=Nigel Roebuck |last2=Henry |first2=Alan |authorlink2=Alan Henry |year=1987 |journal=Grand Prix |volume=3 |page=40 |title=Round 1:Brazil The More Things Change... |location=Glen Waverly, Victoria |publisher=Garry Sparke & Associates |editor1-first=Barry |editor1-last=Naismith |isbn=0-908081-27-8}}</ref> One un-named team mechanic was reported to have said that the valves were the only crude piece of engineering on a modern grand prix car |
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The [[Equipe Ligier|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 in Formula One|Alfa Romeo]] engine for the season and were to use the Alfa Romeo 890T [[V8 engine|V8]] turbo for the first race while debuting the new Alfa 415T in the second round in [[1987 San Marino Grand Prix|San Marino]]. 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 [[BMW M12|Megatron]] turbo's from the [[Arrows Grand Prix International|Arrows]] team sponsors [[USF&G]] and would use them from San Marino until the end of the season. |
The [[Equipe Ligier|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 in Formula One|Alfa Romeo]] engine for the season and were to use the Alfa Romeo 890T [[V8 engine|V8]] turbo for the first race while debuting the new Alfa 415T in the second round in [[1987 San Marino Grand Prix|San Marino]]. 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 [[BMW M12|Megatron]] turbo's from the [[Arrows Grand Prix International|Arrows]] team sponsors [[USF&G]] and would use them from San Marino until the end of the season. |
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==Race== |
==Race== |
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At the start Piquet was fastest, taking the lead from Senna, while Mansell made a bad start; the [[Benetton B187]]s 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.<ref |
At the start Piquet was fastest, taking the lead from Senna, while Mansell made a bad start; the [[Benetton B187]]s 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.<ref name="The More Things Change"/> 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. |
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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. |
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. |
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Revision as of 09:37, 23 December 2015
| 1987 Brazilian Grand Prix | |||
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| Race 1 of 16 in the 1987 Formula One World Championship | |||
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| Race details | |||
| Date | April 12, 1987 | ||
| Official name | 16º Grande Premio do Brasil | ||
| Location |
Jacarepaguá Circuit, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 5.031 km (3.126 miles) | ||
| Distance | 61 laps, 306.891 km (190.70 miles) | ||
| Weather | Sunny | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Williams-Honda | ||
| Time | 1:26.128 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Nelson Piquet | Williams-Honda | |
| Time | 1:33.861 on lap 41 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | McLaren-TAG | ||
| Second | Williams-Honda | ||
| Third | McLaren-TAG | ||
The 1987 Brazilian Grand Prix was a Formula One race held on April 12, 1987 at the Jacarepaguá Circuit in Rio de Janeiro. It was the first race of the 1987 Formula One season. It was the sixteenth Brazilian Grand Prix and the eighth to be held at the Rio circuit. It was held over 61 laps of the flat 5.031 km (3.126 mi) circuit for a race distance of 306.891 km (190.70 mi).
The race was won by the reigning world champion, Frenchman Alain Prost driving a McLaren MP4/3. It was Prost's fourth victory in the Brazilian Grand Prix, expanding his own record. Prost won the race by 40 seconds over local hero Nelson Piquet driving a Williams FW11B. Third was Prost's new Swedish team mate Stefan Johansson.
Qualifying
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 in 1986 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 F1 rookie 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 though 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 (209 kW; 284 PS)) 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.[1] One un-named team mechanic was reported to have said that the valves were the only crude piece of engineering on a modern grand prix car
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 and were to use the Alfa Romeo 890T V8 turbo for the first race while debuting the new Alfa 415T in the second round in San Marino. 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.[1] 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' 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 of 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
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 |
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| 1 | 1 |  Alain Prost
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McLaren-TAG | 61 | 1:39:45.141 | 5 | 9 |
| 2 | 6 | Nelson Piquet
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Williams-Honda | 61 | + 40.547 | 2 | 6 |
| 3 | 2 |  Stefan Johansson
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McLaren-TAG | 61 | + 56.758 | 10 | 4 |
| 4 | 28 |  Gerhard Berger
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Ferrari | 61 | + 1:39.235 | 7 | 3 |
| 5 | 20 |  Thierry Boutsen
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Benetton-Ford | 60 | + 1 Lap | 6 | 2 |
| 6 | 5 |  Nigel Mansell
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Williams-Honda | 60 | + 1 Lap | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | 11 |  Satoru Nakajima
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Lotus-Honda | 59 | + 2 Laps | 12 | |
| 8 | 27 |  Michele Alboreto
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Ferrari | 58 | Spun Off | 9 | |
| 9 | 10 |  Christian Danner
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Zakspeed | 58 | + 3 Laps | 17 | |
| 10 (1) | 3 | Jonathan Palmer
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Tyrrell-Ford | 58 | + 3 Laps | 18 | |
| 11 (2) | 4 | Philippe Streiff
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Tyrrell-Ford | 57 | + 4 Laps | 20 | |
| 12 (3) | 14 | Pascal Fabre
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AGS-Ford | 55 | + 6 Laps | 22 | |
| Ret | 18 |  Eddie Cheever
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Arrows-Megatron | 52 | Overheating | 14 | |
| Ret | 12 | Ayrton Senna
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Lotus-Honda | 50 | Engine | 3 | |
| Ret | 7 | Riccardo Patrese
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Brabham-BMW | 48 | Electrical | 11 | |
| Ret | 8 | Andrea de Cesaris
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Brabham-BMW | 21 | Differential | 13 | |
| Ret | 17 | Derek Warwick
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Arrows-Megatron | 20 | Engine | 8 | |
| Ret | 21 | Alex Caffi
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Osella-Alfa Romeo | 20 | Withdrew | 21 | |
| Ret | 24 | Alessandro Nannini
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Minardi-Motori Moderni | 17 | Suspension | 15 | |
| Ret | 9 | Martin Brundle
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Zakspeed | 15 | Turbo | 19 | |
| Ret | 19 | Teo Fabi
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Benetton-Ford | 9 | Turbo | 4 | |
| DSQ | 23 |  Adrián Campos
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Minardi-Motori Moderni | 3 | Disqualified | 16 | |
| DNS | 16 | Ivan Capelli
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March-Ford | 0 | Non Starter | 23 | |
Source:[2]
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Standings after the race
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- Note: Only the top five positions are included for all four sets of standings.
References
- ^ a b Roebuck, Nigel; Henry, Alan (1987). Naismith, Barry (ed.). "Round 1:Brazil The More Things Change...". Grand Prix. 3. Glen Waverly, Victoria: Garry Sparke & Associates: 40. ISBN 0-908081-27-8.
- ^ "1987 Brazilian Grand Prix". formula1.com. Archived from the original on 3 November 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2015.