1987 San Marino Grand Prix

  1987 San Marino Grand Prix

Race details
Race 2 of 16 in the 1987 Formula One season
Date	May 3, 1987
Official name	7° Gran Premio di San Marino
Location	Autodromo Dino Ferrari, Imola, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Course	Permanent racing facility 5.040 km (3.131 mi)
Distance	59 laps, 297.360 km (184.770 mi)
Weather	Sunny, warm
Pole position
Driver	Ayrton Senna	Lotus-Honda
Time	1:25.826
Fastest lap
Driver	Teo Fabi	Benetton-Ford
Time	1:29.246 on lap 51
Podium
First	Nigel Mansell	Williams-Honda
Second	Ayrton Senna	Lotus-Honda
Third	Michele Alboreto	Ferrari

The 1987 San Marino Grand Prix was a Formula One race held on May 3, 1987 at the Autodromo Dino Ferrari, Imola. It was the second race of the 1987 Formula One season. It was the seventh San Marino Grand Prix and it was held over 59 laps of the five kilometre circuit for a race distance of 297 kilometres.

The race was won by British driver Nigel Mansell driving a Williams FW11B. It was Mansell's eighth Grand Prix victory, his first (of two) at the Imola circuit. Mansell finished 27 seconds ahead of Brazilian driver Ayrton Senna driving a Lotus 99T. Third was Italian driver Michele Alboreto driving a Ferrari F1/87. The win gave Mansell a one point lead in the championship over French McLaren driver Alain Prost.

Race summary

In Friday practice, championship contender Nelson Piquet was eliminated from the race after an accident at the Tamburello corner. A tyre of his Williams FW11B failed, which resulted in a violent impact against the wall. Whilst in his opinion he had only sustained a sore ankle, he was taken to the nearby Bellaria-Igea Marina hospital, and after medical checks he was forbidden to start by FIA Medical Delegate Sid Watkins.

Alarmed by excessive blistering and the suggestion that Piquet's accident may have been caused by a tyre deflation, Goodyear withdrew all the tyres issued to teams. A replacement selection was flown in and despite the lack of Customs officials due to an Italian public holiday, the new rubber was available for all teams to race on by Sunday.

Saturday's qualifying went on smoothly, with Ayrton Senna claiming pole position on his Lotus 99T, with Nigel Mansell, in his Williams FW11B, aside him in the front row. The second row was occupied by Teo Fabi in the Benetton B187 and Alain Prost's McLaren MP4/3; "home" team Ferrari took the whole third row with Michele Alboreto ahead of Gerhard Berger.
The race required two starts as Martin Brundle (Zakspeed 871), Thierry Boutsen (Benetton B187) and Eddie Cheever (Arrows A10) stalled on the original grid. Satoru Nakajima started from the pit lane owing to a faulty battery in his Lotus 99T, and René Arnoux failed to take the second start after the suspension of his Ligier JS29B failed.

On the second start, Senna led off the line but Mansell overtook him on lap two, at the Tosa corner, and went on to dominate the race. Prost got the second place overtaking Senna on lap 6; the Brazilian was then engaged in a battle with the two Ferraris, and got back second when Prost retired with an alternator failure on lap 15. Berger retired with turbo boost failure on lap 17, and by that time Alboreto passed Senna to take second place.
On lap 22, Mansell pitted early due to a loose wheel balance weight and for three laps Alboreto led the race. Senna retook first position with Alboreto's pit stop, then before Mansell returned to the front when the Brazilian stopped. Riccardo Patrese in his Brabham BT56 was now holding second place but he retired when his alternator failed on lap 57. Simultaneously, Teo Fabi retired with engine problems. Fabi's race had been wrecked by front wing damage sustained on the first lap when he collided with Cheever, although his attempted fight back did produce the fastest lap.

Mansell took a comfortable win with Senna holding second after Alboreto's turbo experienced problems. Stefan Johansson (McLaren MP4/3) was in fourth place whilst Derek Warwick's late race retirement after his Arrows A10 ran out of fuel, handed fifth to Brundle. It was Zakspeed's first and only Formula One point score. Nakajima rounded off the points in sixth place, which meant he was the first Japanese driver to score a world championship point.

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	59	1:31:24.076	2	9
2	12	Ayrton Senna	Lotus-Honda	59	+ 27.545	1	6
3	27	Michele Alboreto	Ferrari	59	+ 39.144	6	4
4	2	Stefan Johansson	McLaren-TAG	59	+ 1:00.588	8	3
5	9	Martin Brundle	Zakspeed	57	+ 2 Laps	14	2
6	11	Satoru Nakajima	Lotus-Honda	57	Out of fuel	12	1
7	10	Christian Danner	Zakspeed	57	+ 2 Laps	17
8 (1)	4	Philippe Streiff	Tyrrell-Ford	57	+ 2 Laps	20
9	7	Riccardo Patrese	Brabham-BMW	57	+ 2 Laps / Alternator	7
10 (2)	30	Philippe Alliot	Lola-Ford	56	+ 3 Laps	21
11	17	Derek Warwick	Arrows-Megatron	55	Out of fuel	10
12	21	Alex Caffi	Osella-Alfa Romeo	54	Out of fuel	19
13 (3)	14	Pascal Fabre	AGS-Ford	53	+ 6 Laps	24
Ret	19	Teo Fabi	Benetton-Ford	51	Turbo	4
Ret	20	Thierry Boutsen	Benetton-Ford	48	Engine	11
Ret	18	Eddie Cheever	Arrows-Megatron	48	Clutch	9
Ret	3	Jonathan Palmer	Tyrrell-Ford	48	Clutch	23
Ret	8	Andrea de Cesaris	Brabham-BMW	39	Spun Off	13
Ret	23	Adrián Campos	Minardi-Motori Moderni	30	Gearbox	16
Ret	22	Gabriele Tarquini	Osella-Alfa Romeo	26	Gearbox	25
Ret	24	Alessandro Nannini	Minardi-Motori Moderni	25	Turbo	15
Ret	16	Ivan Capelli	March-Ford	18	Engine	22
Ret	28	Gerhard Berger	Ferrari	16	Electrical	5
Ret	1	Alain Prost	McLaren-TAG	14	Electrical	3
Ret	26	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Ligier-Megatron	7	Handling	18
DNS	25	René Arnoux	Ligier-Megatron	0	Suspension
DNS	6	Nelson Piquet	Williams-Honda		Injury

Standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 Nigel Mansell 10 2 Alain Prost 9 3 Stefan Johansson 7 4= Nelson Piquet 6 4= Ayrton Senna 6

Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 1= Williams-Honda 16 1= McLaren-TAG 16 3= Lotus-Honda 7 3= Ferrari 7 5 Benetton-Ford 2

Jim Clark Trophy standings Pos Driver Points 1 Philippe Streiff 15 2 Jonathan Palmer 9 3 Pascal Fabre 8 4 Philippe Alliot 6

Colin Chapman Trophy standings Pos Constructor Points 1 Tyrrell-Ford 24 2 AGS-Ford 8 3 Lola-Ford 6

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for all four sets of standings.

References

• Unless otherwise indicated, all race results are taken from "The Official Formula 1 website". http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1987/280/. Retrieved 2007-07-08. 

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