Race · Round 8 of 16 ·
1987 German Grand Prix
Nelson Piquet won for Williams from 4th on the grid at Hockenheimring. 20 of the starters were not classified.
- Circuit
- HockenheimringHockenheim, Germany
- Winner
- Nelson PiquetWilliams
- Pole
- Nigel Mansell
- Fastest lap
- Nigel Mansell
- Entries
- 266 classified
Classification
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 | 1:42.616 | — | — |
| 2 | Ayrton Senna | Team Lotus | 12 | 1:42.873 | +0.257 | +0.257 |
| 3 | Alain Prost | McLaren | 1 | 1:43.202 | +0.586 | +0.329 |
| 4 | Nelson Piquet | Williams | 6 | 1:43.705 | +1.089 | +0.503 |
| 5 | Michele Alboreto | Ferrari | 27 | 1:43.921 | +1.305 | +0.216 |
| 6 | Thierry Boutsen | Benetton | 20 | 1:45.066 | +2.450 | +1.145 |
| 7 | Andrea de Cesaris | Brabham | 8 | 1:45.411 | +2.795 | +0.345 |
| 8 | Stefan Johansson | McLaren | 2 | 1:45.428 | +2.812 | +0.017 |
| 9 | Teo Fabi | Benetton | 19 | 1:45.497 | +2.881 | +0.069 |
| 10 | Gerhard Berger | Ferrari | 28 | 1:45.902 | +3.286 | +0.405 |
| 11 | Riccardo Patrese | Brabham | 7 | 1:46.096 | +3.480 | +0.194 |
| 12 | Rene Arnoux | Ligier | 25 | 1:46.323 | +3.707 | +0.227 |
| 13 | Derek Warwick | Arrows | 17 | 1:46.525 | +3.909 | +0.202 |
| 14 | Satoru Nakajima | Team Lotus | 11 | 1:46.760 | +4.144 | +0.235 |
| 15 | Eddie Cheever | Arrows | 18 | 1:47.780 | +5.164 | +1.020 |
| 16 | Alessandro Nannini | Minardi | 24 | 1:47.887 | +5.271 | +0.107 |
| 17 | Piercarlo Ghinzani | Ligier | 26 | 1:49.236 | +6.620 | +1.349 |
| 18 | Adrián Campos | Minardi | 23 | 1:49.668 | +7.052 | +0.432 |
| 19 | Martin Brundle | Zakspeed | 9 | 1:51.062 | +8.446 | +1.394 |
| 20 | Christian Danner | Zakspeed | 10 | 1:51.448 | +8.832 | +0.386 |
| 21 | Philippe Alliot | Lola | 30 | 1:52.760 | +10.144 | +1.312 |
| 22 | Philippe Streiff | Tyrrell | 4 | 1:53.528 | +10.912 | +0.768 |
| 23 | Jonathan Palmer | Tyrrell | 3 | 1:54.491 | +11.875 | +0.963 |
| 24 | Ivan Capelli | March | 16 | 1:54.616 | +12.000 | +0.125 |
| 25 | Pascal Fabre | AGS | 14 | 1:54.997 | +12.381 | +0.381 |
| 26 | Alex Caffi | Osella | 21 | 2:07.753 | +25.137 | +12.756 |
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 | 1:48.207 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Nigel Mansell | Williams | 5 | 1:48.216 | +0.009 | +0.009 | — |
| 3 | Michele Alboreto | Ferrari | 27 | 1:48.851 | +0.644 | +0.635 | — |
| 4 | Nelson Piquet | Williams | 6 | 1:49.038 | +0.831 | +0.187 | — |
| 5 | Teo Fabi | Benetton | 19 | 1:49.047 | +0.840 | +0.009 | — |
| 6 | Thierry Boutsen | Benetton | 20 | 1:49.484 | +1.277 | +0.437 | — |
| 7 | Ayrton Senna | Team Lotus | 12 | 1:49.718 | +1.511 | +0.234 | — |
| 8 | Gerhard Berger | Ferrari | 28 | 1:49.838 | +1.631 | +0.120 | — |
| 9 | Stefan Johansson | McLaren | 2 | 1:50.021 | +1.814 | +0.183 | — |
| 10 | Riccardo Patrese | Brabham | 7 | 1:50.347 | +2.140 | +0.326 | — |
| 11 | Andrea de Cesaris | Brabham | 8 | 1:50.417 | +2.210 | +0.070 | — |
| 12 | Derek Warwick | Arrows | 17 | 1:50.561 | +2.354 | +0.144 | — |
| 13 | Eddie Cheever | Arrows | 18 | 1:50.646 | +2.439 | +0.085 | — |
| 14 | Satoru Nakajima | Team Lotus | 11 | 1:50.702 | +2.495 | +0.056 | — |
| 15 | Rene Arnoux | Ligier | 25 | 1:51.291 | +3.084 | +0.589 | — |
| 16 | Piercarlo Ghinzani | Ligier | 26 | 1:51.796 | +3.589 | +0.505 | — |
| 17 | Alessandro Nannini | Minardi | 24 | 1:52.299 | +4.092 | +0.503 | — |
| 18 | Martin Brundle | Zakspeed | 9 | 1:53.142 | +4.935 | +0.843 | — |
| 19 | Christian Danner | Zakspeed | 10 | 1:53.434 | +5.227 | +0.292 | — |
| 20 | Philippe Alliot | Lola | 30 | 1:54.574 | +6.367 | +1.140 | — |
| 21 | Jonathan Palmer | Tyrrell | 3 | 1:55.637 | +7.430 | +1.063 | — |
| 22 | Philippe Streiff | Tyrrell | 4 | 1:56.000 | +7.793 | +0.363 | — |
| 23 | Adrián Campos | Minardi | 23 | 1:56.020 | +7.813 | +0.020 | — |
| 24 | Ivan Capelli | March | 16 | 1:57.126 | +8.919 | +1.106 | — |
| 25 | Pascal Fabre | AGS | 14 | 1:57.975 | +9.768 | +0.849 | — |
| 26 | Alex Caffi | Osella | 21 | 2:07.093 | +18.886 | +9.118 | — |
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.
Williams FW11
Williams FW11 Honda Collection Hall · Morio · CC BY-SA 3.0
McLaren MP4/3
McLaren MP4-3 · John Chapman ( Pyrope ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Lotus 99T
1987 Lotus 99T 2 · Calreyn88 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Lola LC87
Lola LC87 · GTHO · 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.
2 more photographs
Brabham BT56
Brabham BT56 NEC Jan 1994 (51897762409) · Tony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK · CC BY 2.0
Ferrari F1/87
Ferrari F1-87 · Etienne (Li) · CC BY-SA 3.0Where this comes from
- Round
- 8 of 1987
- Grand Prix
- German Grand Prix
- Dates
- Layout raced
- Forest circuit, Ostkurve chicane · 6.802 km · 16 turns
- Format
- Standard weekend
- Constructor
- Williams
- Entrant
- Williams-Honda
- Confidence
- reference
The layout raced and its figures are this register’s, from its own sources; the figures under the race’s drawing are F1DB’s, and at some circuits the two disagree.