Race · Round 1 of 16 ·
1987 Brazilian Grand Prix
Alain Prost won for McLaren from 5th on the grid at Jacarepagua. 10 of the starters were not classified.
- Circuit
- JacarepaguaRio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Winner
- Alain ProstMcLaren
- Pole
- Nigel Mansell
- Fastest lap
- Nelson Piquet
- Entries
- 2312 classified
Classification
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | Chassis | Grid | Laps | Out | Points | FL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alain Prost | McLaren | MP4/3 | 5 | 61 | Finished | 9 | |
| 2 | Nelson Piquet | Williams | FW11B | 2 | 61 | Finished | 6 | fastest lap |
| 3 | Stefan Johansson | McLaren | MP4/3 | 10 | 61 | Finished | 4 | |
| 4 | Gerhard Berger | Ferrari | F1/87 | 7 | 61 | Finished | 3 | |
| 5 | Thierry Boutsen | Benetton | B187 | 6 | 60 | Finished | 2 | |
| 6 | Nigel Mansell | Williams | FW11B | 1 | 60 | Finished | 1 | |
| 7 | Satoru Nakajima | Team Lotus | 99T | 12 | 59 | Finished | 0 | |
| 8 | Michele Alboreto | Ferrari | F1/87 | 9 | 58 | Spun off | 0 | |
| 9 | Christian Danner | Zakspeed | — | 17 | 58 | Finished | 0 | |
| 10 | Jonathan Palmer | Tyrrell | DG016 | 18 | 58 | Finished | 0 | |
| 11 | Philippe Streiff | Tyrrell | DG016 | 20 | 57 | Finished | 0 | |
| 12 | Pascal Fabre | AGS | JH22 | 22 | 55 | Finished | 0 | |
| NC | Eddie Cheever | Arrows | A10 | 14 | 52 | NC | 0 | |
| DNF | Ayrton Senna | Team Lotus | 99T | 3 | 50 | Engine | 0 | |
| DNF | Riccardo Patrese | Brabham | BT56 | 11 | 48 | Electrical | 0 | |
| DNF | Andrea de Cesaris | Brabham | BT56 | 13 | 21 | Differential | 0 | |
| DNF | Derek Warwick | Arrows | A10 | 8 | 20 | Engine | 0 | |
| DNF | Alex Caffi | Osella | — | 21 | 20 | Withdrew | 0 | |
| DNF | Alessandro Nannini | Minardi | M187 | 15 | 17 | Suspension | 0 | |
| DNF | Martin Brundle | Zakspeed | — | 19 | 15 | Turbo | 0 | |
| DNF | Teo Fabi | Benetton | B187 | 4 | 9 | Turbo | 0 | |
| DSQ | Adrián Campos | Minardi | M187 | 16 | 3 | Incorrect starting procedure | 0 | |
| DNS | Ivan Capelli | March | — | 23 | — | DNS | 0 |
A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.
Grid to flag
Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.
Qualifying
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | No. | Time | Gap | Interval |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nigel Mansell | Williams | 5 | 1:26.128 | — | — |
| 2 | Nelson Piquet | Williams | 6 | 1:26.567 | +0.439 | +0.439 |
| 3 | Ayrton Senna | Team Lotus | 12 | 1:28.408 | +2.280 | +1.841 |
| 4 | Teo Fabi | Benetton | 19 | 1:28.417 | +2.289 | +0.009 |
| 5 | Alain Prost | McLaren | 1 | 1:29.175 | +3.047 | +0.758 |
| 6 | Thierry Boutsen | Benetton | 20 | 1:29.450 | +3.322 | +0.275 |
| 7 | Gerhard Berger | Ferrari | 28 | 1:30.357 | +4.229 | +0.907 |
| 8 | Derek Warwick | Arrows | 17 | 1:30.467 | +4.339 | +0.110 |
| 9 | Michele Alboreto | Ferrari | 27 | 1:30.468 | +4.340 | +0.001 |
| 10 | Stefan Johansson | McLaren | 2 | 1:30.476 | +4.348 | +0.008 |
| 11 | Riccardo Patrese | Brabham | 7 | 1:31.179 | +5.051 | +0.703 |
| 12 | Satoru Nakajima | Team Lotus | 11 | 1:32.276 | +6.148 | +1.097 |
| 13 | Andrea de Cesaris | Brabham | 8 | 1:32.402 | +6.274 | +0.126 |
| 14 | Eddie Cheever | Arrows | 18 | 1:32.769 | +6.641 | +0.367 |
| 15 | Alessandro Nannini | Minardi | 24 | 1:33.729 | +7.601 | +0.960 |
| 16 | Adrián Campos | Minardi | 23 | 1:33.825 | +7.697 | +0.096 |
| 17 | Christian Danner | Zakspeed | 10 | 1:35.212 | +9.084 | +1.387 |
| 18 | Jonathan Palmer | Tyrrell | 3 | 1:36.091 | +9.963 | +0.879 |
| 19 | Martin Brundle | Zakspeed | 9 | 1:36.160 | +10.032 | +0.069 |
| 20 | Philippe Streiff | Tyrrell | 4 | 1:36.274 | +10.146 | +0.114 |
| 21 | Alex Caffi | Osella | 21 | 1:38.770 | +12.642 | +2.496 |
| 22 | Pascal Fabre | AGS | 14 | 1:39.816 | +13.688 | +1.046 |
| 23 | Ivan Capelli | March | 16 | 1:43.580 | +17.452 | +3.764 |
Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.
Pit stops
Pit stops are recorded from 1994. F1DB, the source of every stop here, holds none before then, so this race has no stints to draw.
Practice sessions Warm-up
Warm-up
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | No. | Best lap | Gap | Interval | Laps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alain Prost | McLaren | 1 | 1:33.161 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Michele Alboreto | Ferrari | 27 | 1:33.432 | +0.271 | +0.271 | — |
| 3 | Ayrton Senna | Team Lotus | 12 | 1:33.547 | +0.386 | +0.115 | — |
| 4 | Nigel Mansell | Williams | 5 | 1:33.595 | +0.434 | +0.048 | — |
| 5 | Nelson Piquet | Williams | 6 | 1:34.126 | +0.965 | +0.531 | — |
| 6 | Teo Fabi | Benetton | 19 | 1:34.615 | +1.454 | +0.489 | — |
| 7 | Derek Warwick | Arrows | 17 | 1:35.030 | +1.869 | +0.415 | — |
| 8 | Thierry Boutsen | Benetton | 20 | 1:35.424 | +2.263 | +0.394 | — |
| 9 | Gerhard Berger | Ferrari | 28 | 1:35.639 | +2.478 | +0.215 | — |
| 10 | Riccardo Patrese | Brabham | 7 | 1:35.780 | +2.619 | +0.141 | — |
| 11 | Andrea de Cesaris | Brabham | 8 | 1:35.816 | +2.655 | +0.036 | — |
| 12 | Stefan Johansson | McLaren | 2 | 1:36.468 | +3.307 | +0.652 | — |
| 13 | Satoru Nakajima | Team Lotus | 11 | 1:37.435 | +4.274 | +0.967 | — |
| 14 | Eddie Cheever | Arrows | 18 | 1:38.302 | +5.141 | +0.867 | — |
| 15 | Martin Brundle | Zakspeed | 9 | 1:39.438 | +6.277 | +1.136 | — |
| 16 | Christian Danner | Zakspeed | 10 | 1:40.046 | +6.885 | +0.608 | — |
| 17 | Adrián Campos | Minardi | 23 | 1:40.667 | +7.506 | +0.621 | — |
| 18 | Alex Caffi | Osella | 21 | 1:41.093 | +7.932 | +0.426 | — |
| 19 | Jonathan Palmer | Tyrrell | 3 | 1:41.529 | +8.368 | +0.436 | — |
| 20 | Pascal Fabre | AGS | 14 | 1:43.442 | +10.281 | +1.913 | — |
| 21 | Ivan Capelli | March | 16 | 1:43.474 | +10.313 | +0.032 | — |
| 22 | Philippe Streiff | Tyrrell | 4 | 1:44.308 | +11.147 | +0.834 | — |
Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.
The cars in this race
The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.
McLaren MP4/3
McLaren MP4-3 · John Chapman ( Pyrope ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Williams FW11
Williams FW11 Honda Collection Hall · Morio · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ferrari F1/87
Ferrari F1-87 · Etienne (Li) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Lotus 99T
1987 Lotus 99T 2 · Calreyn88 · CC BY-SA 4.0
AGS JH22
Manoir de l'Automobile - 198 - AGS F1 JH 22 1986-1987 · Koreller · CC BY-SA 4.0 · unchecked
Arrows A10
Arrows A10 at the 2016 Goodwood Festival of Speed · Matthew Lamb · CC BY-SA 2.0A photograph marked unchecked has a file name that does not name the car it is shown for. Most are still the right car, filed under the driver rather than the machine — but nobody has confirmed these one by one.
1 more photograph
Brabham BT56
Brabham BT56 NEC Jan 1994 (51897762409) · Tony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK · CC BY 2.0Where this comes from
- Round
- 1 of 1987
- Grand Prix
- Brazilian Grand Prix
- Dates
- Layout raced
- —
- Format
- Standard weekend
- Constructor
- McLaren
- Entrant
- McLaren-TAG
- Confidence
- reference
No layout is recorded for this round: this register has no layout timeline for the circuit, and a blank here is better than a guess.