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Race details
Race 10 of 16 in the 1987 Formula One season
The Österreichring (last modified in 1977)
The Österreichring (last modified in 1977)
Date August 16, 1987
Official name XX Holiday Großer Preis von Osterreich
Location Österreichring, Spielberg, Styria, Austria
Course Permanent racing facility
5.942 km (3.692 mi)
Distance 52 laps, 308.984 km (191.984 mi)
Weather Dry
Pole position
Driver 25px Brazil Nelson Piquet Williams-Honda
Time 1:23.357
Fastest lap
Driver 25px UK Nigel Mansell Williams-Honda
Time 1:28.318 on lap 31
Podium
First 25px UK Nigel Mansell Williams-Honda
Second 25px Brazil Nelson Piquet Williams-Honda
Third 25px Italy Teo Fabi Benetton-Ford

The 1987 Austrian Grand Prix was a Formula One race held at Österreichring on August 16, 1987. It was the tenth round of the 1987 Formula One season. It was the twentieth Austrian Grand Prix and the last to be held at the Österreichring for ten years. It was held over 52 laps of the six kilometre circuit for a race distance of 309 kilometres.

The race was won by British driver Nigel Mansell driving a Williams FW11B. He led home team mate Brazilian driver Nelson Piquet by 56 seconds. It was Mansell's third win of the season, and Williams' fifth consecutive win. Teo Fabi finished third in the best result of the season so far for the Benetton team. It was however the first of only two podiums for Benetton for the 1987 season. It was also the second and final podium of Fabi's Formula One career having previously had a third place at the 1984 Detroit Grand Prix.

Race summary[]

The race was plagued with accidents. The first major incident came when Stefan Johansson hit a deer with his McLaren MP4/3 after it wandered on to the circuit during Friday practice.[1] Johansson was fortunate to escape with little more than a headache. Piquet had collided with Pascal Fabre ending with the Williams impacting in the wall. The first race start ended quickly after the Zakspeed 871 of Martin Brundle crashed, then the two Tyrrells of Jonathan Palmer and Philippe Streiff collided in the ensuing chaos with Piercarlo Ghinzani also crashing his Ligier JS29C. The second attempt to start was more serious. Mansell on the front row crawled away with clutch problems and the grid compacted behind him. The Österreichring's narrow front straight saw to the rest when Eddie Cheever (Arrows A10) and Riccardo Patrese (Brabham BT56) collided and half the grid, including Johansson, Alex Caffi (Osella FA1H), Ivan Capelli (March 871), Pascal Fabre (AGS JH22), Philippe Alliot (Lola LC87), and both Zakspeeds of Brundle and Christian Danner were involved in the ensuing pile-up.

For the third start Streiff was missing. Tyrrell had run out of usable cars and Palmer got the use of the surviving Tyrrell DG016. Several drivers were in repaired cars or in spare cars, including Ayrton Senna after a CV joint failed in his Lotus 99T during the second start. The third start, over two hours late, continued to claim cars. Alain Prost had an electrical failure as the warm-up lap began. McLaren mechanics got the car going and Prost started from pitlane along with Senna and the Ferrari F1/87 of Michele Alboreto. The third attempt to start had no problems although Johansson soon pitted with a puncture then had a tyre fall off on his out lap after a chaotic pitstop. Johansson made it back to the pits and resumed.

Piquet led early from Thierry Boutsen in his Benetton and Mansell. Boutsen pitted with gear linking problem and Mansell leapt past Piquet during pitstops. Fabi was a lap down in third ahead of Boutsen in a season best result for Benetton. Recovering from their difficulties Senna, Prost and Johansson finished fifth, sixth and seventh. Ghinzani was eighth for Ligier ahead of Danner and René Arnoux in the second Ligier. Sixteen cars finished although Fabre had not completed enough laps to be classified and 14th placed Brundle would be disqualified for a bodywork infringement on the spare Zakspeed 871 pressed into service after the startline collisions.

Classification[]

Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 5 25px UK Nigel Mansell Williams-Honda 52 1:18:44.898 2 9
2 6 25px Brazil Nelson Piquet Williams-Honda 52 + 55.704 1 6
3 19 25px Italy Teo Fabi Benetton-Ford 51 +1 Lap 5 4
4 20 25px Belgium Thierry Boutsen Benetton-Ford 51 +1 Lap 4 3
5 12 25px Brazil Ayrton Senna Lotus-Honda 50 +2 Laps 7 2
6 1 25px France Alain Prost McLaren-TAG 50 +2 Laps 9 1
7 2 25px Sweden Stefan Johansson McLaren-TAG 50 +2 Laps 14  
8 26 25px Italy Piercarlo Ghinzani Ligier-Megatron 50 +2 Laps 18  
9 10 25px Germany Christian Danner Zakspeed 49 +3 Laps 20  
10 25 25px France René Arnoux Ligier-Megatron 49 +3 Laps 16  
11 (1) 16 25px Italy Ivan Capelli March-Ford 49 +3 Laps 23  
12 (2) 30 25px France Philippe Alliot Lola-Ford 49 +3 Laps 22  
13 11 25px Japan Satoru Nakajima Lotus-Honda 49 +3 Laps 13  
DSQ 9 25px UK Martin Brundle Zakspeed 48 Disqualified 17  
14 (3) 3 25px UK Jonathan Palmer Tyrrell-Ford 47 +5 Laps 24  
NC 14 25px France Pascal Fabre AGS-Ford 45 Not Classified 26  
Ret 7 25px Italy Riccardo Patrese Brabham-BMW 43 Engine 8  
Ret 27 25px Italy Michele Alboreto Ferrari 42 Turbo 6  
Ret 8 25px Italy Andrea de Cesaris Brabham-BMW 35 Engine 10  
Ret 17 25px UK Derek Warwick Arrows-Megatron 35 Engine 11  
Ret 18 25px USA Eddie Cheever Arrows-Megatron 31 Tyre 12  
Ret 28 25px Austria Gerhard Berger Ferrari 5 Turbo 3  
Ret 23 25px Spain Adrián Campos Minardi-Motori Moderni 3 Electrical 19  
Ret 24 25px Italy Alessandro Nannini Minardi-Motori Moderni 1 Engine 15  
Ret 21 25px Italy Alex Caffi Osella-Alfa Romeo 0 Electrical 21  
Ret 4 25px France Philippe Streiff Tyrrell-Ford 0 Accident 25  

Notes[]

  • Numbers in brackets refer to positions of normally aspirated entrants competing for the Jim Clark Trophy.

Standings after the race[]

Drivers' Championship standings
Pos Driver Points
1 25px Brazil Nelson Piquet 54
2 25px Brazil Ayrton Senna 43
3 25px Great Britain Nigel Mansell 39
4 25px France Alain Prost 31
5 25px Sweden Stefan Johansson 19
Constructors' Championship standings
Pos Constructor Points
1 25px Great Britain Williams-Honda 93
2 25px Great Britain McLaren-TAG 50
3 25px Great Britain Lotus-Honda 49
4 25px Italy Ferrari 17
5 25px Great Britain Benetton-Ford 15
Jim Clark Trophy standings
Pos Driver Points
1 25px Great Britain Jonathan Palmer 61
2 25px France Philippe Streiff 45
3 25px France Pascal Fabre 35
4 25px France Philippe Alliot 25
5 25px Italy Ivan Capelli 19
Colin Chapman Trophy standings
Pos Constructor Points
1 25px Great Britain Tyrrell-Ford 106
2 25px France AGS-Ford 35
3 25px France Lola-Ford 25
4 25px Great Britain March-Ford 19
  • Note: Only the top five positions are included for all four sets of standings.

References[]



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1987 Hungarian Grand Prix
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1987 Italian Grand Prix
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