1987 Mexican Grand Prix

The 1987 Mexican Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City on 18 October 1987. It was the fourteenth race of the 1987 Formula One World Championship. It was the 11th Mexican Grand Prix and the second since the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez was renovated and returned to the World Championship calendar.

1987 Mexican Grand Prix
Race 14 of 16 in the 1987 Formula One World Championship
Race details
Date	18 October 1987
Official name	Gran Premio de México
Location	Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Mexico City, Mexico
Course	Permanent circuit
Course length	4.421 km (2.747 miles)
Distance	63 laps, 278.523 km (173.066 miles)
Weather	Sunny and hot
Pole position
Driver	Nigel Mansell	Williams-Honda
Time	1:18.383
Fastest lap
Driver	Nelson Piquet	Williams-Honda
Time	1:19.132 on lap 57
Podium
First	Nigel Mansell	Williams-Honda
Second	Nelson Piquet	Williams-Honda
Third	Riccardo Patrese	Brabham-BMW
Lap leaders

The race was held over a total of 63 laps of the 4.42-kilometre (2.75 mi) circuit for a race distance of 278.5 kilometres (173.1 mi). The race was divided into two heats after British driver Derek Warwick crashed his Arrows A10 heavily exiting the high-speed Peraltada corner on lap 31 after a rear suspension failure; the Arrows car's rear suspension was weakened by Satoru Nakajima crashing his Lotus-Honda straight into the back of Warwick's car at the end of the main straight earlier in the race. The results of the first 30 laps were combined with the results of the second race of 33 laps to create a combined result.

The race was won by British driver Nigel Mansell driving a Williams FW11B. Mansell's combined time over the 63 laps was 26 seconds faster than his Brazilian teammate and eventual 1987 World Champion, Nelson Piquet. Piquet actually took the chequered flag first at the end of the second heat, but Mansell's lead over Piquet at the time of Warwick's accident was substantially larger. Piquet had been delayed after a collision with Alain Prost (McLaren MP4/3) on the first lap.

It was Mansell's sixth and last Grand Prix victory for the 1987 season. Riccardo Patrese finished third driving a Brabham BT56. It was Patrese's best result since finishing third in the 1984 Italian Grand Prix. It was just the second podium of the year for Brabham. Brabham would only score one more podium before it would fold in 1992.

Attrition bit heavily into the race with just fifteen cars taking the second race start. Nine survived to the finish. Naturally aspirated Jim Clark Trophy cars climbed into the points with Philippe Alliot (Lola LC87) taking his third top six result for the year.

Ayrton Senna was fined $15,000 for punching a corner marshal after they refused to push his stalled car.

Mansell's victory allowed him to close to within twelve points of his championship leading teammate. With just two races left, only the Williams drivers had enough points to win the championship.

Classification

Qualifying

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Q1	Q2	Gap
1	5	Nigel Mansell	Williams-Honda	1:20.696	1:18.383
2	28	Gerhard Berger	Ferrari	1:19.992	1:18.426	+0.043
3	6	Nelson Piquet	Williams-Honda	1:20.701	1:18.463	+0.080
4	20	Thierry Boutsen	Benetton-Ford	1:20.766	1:18.691	+0.308
5	1	Alain Prost	McLaren-TAG	1:20.572	1:18.742	+0.359
6	19	Teo Fabi	Benetton-Ford	1:22.666	1:18.992	+0.609
7	12	Ayrton Senna	Lotus-Honda	1:21.361	1:19.089	+0.706
8	7	Riccardo Patrese	Brabham-BMW	1:21.720	1:19.889	+1.506
9	27	Michele Alboreto	Ferrari	1:21.290	1:19.967	+1.584
10	8	Andrea de Cesaris	Brabham-BMW	1:22.930	1:20.141	+1.758
11	17	Derek Warwick	Arrows-Megatron	1:23.347	1:21.664	+3.281
12	18	Eddie Cheever	Arrows-Megatron	1:24.445	1:21.705	+3.322
13	9	Martin Brundle	Zakspeed	1:25.184	1:21.711	+3.328
14	24	Alessandro Nannini	Minardi-Motori Moderni	1:26.055	1:22.035	+3.652
15	2	Stefan Johansson	McLaren-TAG	1:22.185	1:22.382	+3.802
16	11	Satoru Nakajima	Lotus-Honda	1:23.750	1:22.214	+3.831
17	10	Christian Danner	Zakspeed	1:23.992	1:22.593	+4.210
18	25	René Arnoux	Ligier-Megatron	1:24.299	1:23.053	+4.670
19	23	Adrián Campos	Minardi-Motori Moderni	1:27.798	1:23.955	+5.572
20	16	Ivan Capelli	March-Ford	1:27.161	1:24.404	+6.021
21	26	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Ligier-Megatron	1:27.059	1:24.553	+6.170
22	3	Jonathan Palmer	Tyrrell-Ford	1:27.306	1:24.723	+6.340
23	29	Yannick Dalmas	Lola-Ford	1:28.156	1:24.745	+6.362
24	30	Philippe Alliot	Lola-Ford	1:27.184	1:25.096	+6.713
25	4	Philippe Streiff	Tyrrell-Ford	1:27.011	1:26.305	+7.922
26	21	Alex Caffi	Osella-Alfa Romeo	1:27.670	1:30.010	+9.287
DNQ	14	Pascal Fabre	AGS-Ford	1:30.285	1:28.655	+10.272
Source:[1][2][3]

Race

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	63	1:26:24.207	1	9
2	6	Nelson Piquet	Williams-Honda	63	+ 26.176	3	6
3	7	Riccardo Patrese	Brabham-BMW	63	+ 1:26.879	8	4
4	18	Eddie Cheever	Arrows-Megatron	63	+ 1:41.352	12	3
5	19	Teo Fabi	Benetton-Ford	61	+ 2 laps	6	2
6 (1)	30	Philippe Alliot	Lola-Ford	60	+ 3 laps	24	1
7 (2)	3	Jonathan Palmer	Tyrrell-Ford	60	+ 3 laps	22
8 (3)	4	Philippe Streiff	Tyrrell-Ford	60	+ 3 laps	25
9 (4)	29	Yannick Dalmas	Lola-Ford	59	+ 4 laps	23
Ret	12	Ayrton Senna	Lotus-Honda	54	Clutch	7
Ret	16	Ivan Capelli	March-Ford	51	Water leak	20
Ret	21	Alex Caffi	Osella-Alfa Romeo	50	Engine	26
Ret	26	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Ligier-Megatron	43	Water leak	21
Ret	23	Adrián Campos	Minardi-Motori Moderni	32	Transmission	19
Ret	25	René Arnoux	Ligier-Megatron	29	Overheating	18
Ret	17	Derek Warwick	Arrows-Megatron	26	Accident	11
Ret	8	Andrea de Cesaris	Brabham-BMW	22	Accident	10
Ret	28	Gerhard Berger	Ferrari	20	Turbo	2
Ret	20	Thierry Boutsen	Benetton-Ford	15	Electrical	4
Ret	24	Alessandro Nannini	Minardi-Motori Moderni	13	Turbo	14
Ret	27	Michele Alboreto	Ferrari	12	Engine	9
Ret	9	Martin Brundle	Zakspeed	3	Turbo	13
Ret	2	Stefan Johansson	McLaren-TAG	1	Collision	15
Ret	11	Satoru Nakajima	Lotus-Honda	1	Collision	16
Ret	10	Christian Danner	Zakspeed	1	Collision	17
Ret	1	Alain Prost	McLaren-TAG	0	Collision	5
Source:[4]

Championship standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 Nelson Piquet 73 (76) 2 Nigel Mansell 61 3 Ayrton Senna 51 4 Alain Prost 46 5 Stefan Johansson 26 Source: [5]

Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 1 Williams-Honda 137 2 McLaren-TAG 72 3 Lotus-Honda 57 4 Ferrari 26 5 Benetton-Ford 22 Source: [5]

Jim Clark Trophy standings Pos Driver Points 1 Jonathan Palmer 77 2 Philippe Streiff 68 3 Philippe Alliot 43 4 Ivan Capelli 38 5 Pascal Fabre 35

Colin Chapman Trophy standings Pos Constructor Points 1 Tyrrell-Ford 145 2 Lola-Ford 43 3 March-Ford 38 4 AGS-Ford 35

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

References

1. "1987 Mexican Grand Prix - QUALIFYING 1". formula1.com. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
2. "1987 Mexican Grand Prix - QUALIFYING 2". formula1.com. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
3. "1987 Mexican Grand Prix - OVERALL QUALIFYING". formula1.com. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
4. "1987 Mexican Grand Prix". formula1.com. Archived from the original on 3 November 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
5. "Mexico 1987 - Championship • STATS F1". www.statsf1.com. Retrieved 19 March 2019.

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