1987 British Grand Prix

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  1987 British Grand Prix

Race details
Race 7 of 16 in the 1987 Formula One season.
Date	July 12, 1987
Official name	Shell Oils British Grand Prix
Location	Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone, Great Britain
Course	Permanent racing facility 2.969 mi / 4.778 km
Distance	65 laps, 192.979 mi / 310.570 km
Weather	Sunny and warm
Pole position
Driver	Nelson Piquet	Williams-Honda
Time	1:07.110
Fastest lap
Driver	Nigel Mansell	Williams-Honda
Time	1:09.832 on lap 58
Podium
First	Nigel Mansell	Williams-Honda
Second	Nelson Piquet	Williams-Honda
Third	Ayrton Senna	Lotus-Honda

The 1987 British Grand Prix was a Formula One race held on July 12, 1987 at the Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone. It was the 7th race of the 1987 Formula One season.

Contents 1 Race summary 2 Classification 3 Notes 4 References

[edit] Race summary

As usual, Honda powered cars dominated the qualyfing sessions, with Nelson Piquet on Williams beating his teammate Nigel Mansell by less than a tenth of second; Ayrton Senna was third on Lotus, and fourth was the McLaren of Alain Prost. During the qualyfing, Piercarlo Ghinzani's Ligier ran out of fuel: his mechanics refuelled him on the track and then push-started him, but the stewards ruled against this action and he was excluded from the rest of the event.
At the start, Prost was the quickest and got the lead, only to be passed by Piquet at the second corner; Mansell soon followed his teammate. The race then became a close fight between the two Williams drivers, as Senna and Prost were no match for them. Piquet led most of the race, carving a lead of 20 seconds by lap 45, but in the final stages of the race Mansell's determination, and shot tyres on Piquet's car, brought him to close the gap in just 15 laps. After Piquet tried to stop him, at lap 63 the British overtook his teammate at the Stowe corner, after performing a "double-shuffle" manoeuver, and went on to win the race. On the slowing down lap Mansell ran out of fuel.

[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	65	1:19:11.780	2	9
2	6	Nelson Piquet	Williams-Honda	65	+ 1.918	1	6
3	12	Ayrton Senna	Lotus-Honda	64	+ 1 Lap	3	4
4	11	Satoru Nakajima	Lotus-Honda	63	+ 2 Laps	12	3
5	17	Derek Warwick	Arrows-Megatron	63	+ 2 Laps	13	2
6	19	Teo Fabi	Benetton-Ford	63	+ 2 Laps	6	1
7	20	Thierry Boutsen	Benetton-Ford	62	+ 3 Laps	5
8 (1)	3	Jonathan Palmer	Tyrrell-Ford	60	+ 5 Laps	23
9 (2)	14	Pascal Fabre	AGS-Ford	59	+ 6 Laps	25
Ret	4	Philippe Streiff	Tyrrell-Ford	57	Engine	22
NC	9	Martin Brundle	Zakspeed	54	Not Classified	17
Ret	1	Alain Prost	McLaren-TAG	53	Engine	4
Ret	27	Michele Alboreto	Ferrari	52	Suspension	7
Ret	18	Eddie Cheever	Arrows-Megatron	45	Engine	14
Ret	23	Adrián Campos	Minardi-Motori Moderni	34	Fuel System	19
Ret	21	Alex Caffi	Osella-Alfa Romeo	32	Engine	20
Ret	10	Christian Danner	Zakspeed	32	Gearbox	18
Ret	7	Riccardo Patrese	Brabham-BMW	28	Turbo	11
Ret	2	Stefan Johansson	McLaren-TAG	18	Engine	10
Ret	24	Alessandro Nannini	Minardi-Motori Moderni	10	Engine	15
Ret	8	Andrea de Cesaris	Brabham-BMW	8	Turbo	9
Ret	28	Gerhard Berger	Ferrari	7	Accident	8
Ret	30	Philippe Alliot	Larrousse-Ford	7	Gearbox	21
Ret	25	René Arnoux	Ligier-Megatron	3	Electrical	16
Ret	16	Ivan Capelli	March-Ford	3	Accident	24
EX	26	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Ligier-Megatron	0	Excluded	19

[edit] Notes

• Piercarlo Ghinzani was excluded from the race due to refuelling his car on the track.
• Viewers of BBC's coverage may recall Murray Walker cheering in the background of the English commentary after Mansell overtook Piquet.

[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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