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1987 Italian Grand Prix

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1987 Italian Grand Prix
Race 11 of 16 in the 1987 Formula One World Championship
Race details
Date 6 September 1987
Official name 58º Gran Premio d'Italia[1]
Location Autodromo Nazionale di Monza, Monza
Course Permanent racing facility
Course length 5.800 km (3.604 miles)
Distance 50 laps, 290.00 km (180.2 miles)
Weather Dry
Pole position
Driver
Williams-Honda
Time 1:23.460
Fastest lap
Driver Brazil Ayrton Senna Lotus-Honda
Time 1:26.796 on lap 49
Podium
First
Williams-Honda
Second
Lotus-Honda
Third
Williams-Honda
Lap leaders

The 1987 Italian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Monza on 6 September 1987. It was the eleventh race of the 1987 Formula One World Championship. It was the 57th Italian Grand Prix and the 52nd to be held at Monza. The race was held over 50 laps of the 5.8-kilometre (3.6 mi) circuit for a race distance of 290 kilometres (180 mi).

The race was won from pole position by Brazilian driver Nelson Piquet, driving a Williams-Honda. Piquet took his third victory of the season by 1.8 seconds from compatriot Ayrton Senna, who led in his Lotus-Honda before running wide at the Parabolica with eight laps to go. Piquet's British team-mate, Nigel Mansell, finished third, nearly 50 seconds adrift. It was also the sixth consecutive victory for the Williams team, a run of wins that had begun at the French Grand Prix in early July.

French Tyrrell driver Philippe Streiff was the first naturally aspirated Jim Clark Trophy car to finish in 12th, three laps down on Piquet.

The win strengthened Piquet's championship points lead to 14 points over Senna and 20 over Mansell.

During qualifying, Piquet recorded a speed of 352.135 km/h (218.807 mph), the fastest achieved by a Formula One car during the first turbo era of the sport (1977-88). Like Lotus, Williams had been working on their own computer controlled Active suspension. However, unlike Lotus who had been running theirs all season on the 99T in a bid to try and gain a technical advantage, this was the debut Grand Prix for the Williams version, called "Williams Reactive Ride" (Lotus allegedly had a legal copyright on the Active Suspension name), with Williams Technical Director Patrick Head preferring to get the system right before trying to figure it out on the run in the limited time available during a race meeting. Nigel Mansell had little faith in the system after disastrous results with the original Lotus Active Suspension in 1982–1983. Piquet's faith in the suspension system however was absolute after completing a full race distance test session at Imola (albeit on a virtually deserted track), finishing 3 minutes faster than Mansell's win there earlier in the year. By using the Reactive car, Piquet was able to run less wing than his team mate and was over 5 mph (8.0 km/h) faster through the speed trap than Mansell in the passive FW11B.[2]

Due to the entries of AGS and Coloni, for the first time in the 1987 season, there would be drivers who would fail to qualify for the race - in this case, it was to be Nicola Larini in the Coloni and Pascal Fabre in the AGS.

Classification

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Qualifying

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Pos No Driver Constructor Q1 Q2 Gap
1 6 Brazil Nelson Piquet Williams-Honda 1:24.617 1:23.460
2 5 United Kingdom Nigel Mansell Williams-Honda 1:24.350 1:23.559 +0.099
3 28 Austria Gerhard Berger Ferrari 1:25.211 1:23.933 +0.473
4 12 Brazil Ayrton Senna Lotus-Honda 1:25.535 1:24.907 +1.447
5 1 France Alain Prost McLaren-TAG 1:25.340 1:24.946 +1.486
6 20 Belgium Thierry Boutsen Benetton-Ford 1:25.250 1:25.004 +1.544
7 19 Italy Teo Fabi Benetton-Ford 1:26.894 1:25.020 +1.560
8 27 Italy Michele Alboreto Ferrari 1:25.290 1:25.247 +1.787
9 7 Italy Riccardo Patrese Brabham-BMW 1:26.453 1:25.525 +2.065
10 8 Italy Andrea de Cesaris Brabham-BMW 1:40.285 1:26.802 +3.342
11 2 Sweden Stefan Johansson McLaren-TAG 1:27.420 1:27.031 +3.571
12 17 United Kingdom Derek Warwick Arrows-Megatron 1:27.543 1:28.083 +4.083
13 18 United States Eddie Cheever Arrows-Megatron 1:29.273 1:28.022 +4.562
14 11 Japan Satoru Nakajima Lotus-Honda 1:28.463 1:28.160 +4.700
15 25 France René Arnoux Ligier-Megatron 1:28.946 no time +5.486
16 10 West Germany Christian Danner Zakspeed 1:30.389 1:29.465 +6.005
17 9 United Kingdom Martin Brundle Zakspeed 1:30.144 1:29.725 +6.265
18 24 Italy Alessandro Nannini Minardi-Motori Moderni 1:29.738 1:31.069 +6.278
19 26 Italy Piercarlo Ghinzani Ligier-Megatron 1:29.898 no time +6.438
20 23 Spain Adrián Campos Minardi-Motori Moderni 1:31.094 1:30.782 +7.322
21 21 Italy Alex Caffi Osella-Alfa Romeo 1:32.768 1:31.029 +7.569
22 3 United Kingdom Jonathan Palmer Tyrrell-Ford 1:34.218 1:33.028 +9.568
23 30 France Philippe Alliot Lola-Ford 1:34.748 1:33.170 +9.710
24 4 France Philippe Streiff Tyrrell-Ford 1:34.760 1:33.264 +9.804
25 16 Italy Ivan Capelli March-Ford 1:34.205 1:33.311 +9.851
26 22 Switzerland Franco Forini Osella-Alfa Romeo 1:34.467 1:33.816 +10.356
DNQ 32 Italy Nicola Larini Coloni-Ford 1:38.460 1:35.721 +12.261
DNQ 14 France Pascal Fabre AGS-Ford 1:39.393 1:36.679 +13.219
Source:[3][4][5]

Race

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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 6 Brazil Nelson Piquet Williams-Honda 50 1:14:47.707 1 9
2 12 Brazil Ayrton Senna Lotus-Honda 50 + 1.806 4 6
3 5 United Kingdom Nigel Mansell Williams-Honda 50 + 49.036 2 4
4 28 Austria Gerhard Berger Ferrari 50 + 57.979 3 3
5 20 Belgium Thierry Boutsen Benetton-Ford 50 + 1:21.319 6 2
6 2 Sweden Stefan Johansson McLaren-TAG 50 + 1:28.787 11 1
7 19 Italy Teo Fabi Benetton-Ford 49 + 1 lap 7  
8 26 Italy Piercarlo Ghinzani Ligier-Megatron 48 + 2 laps 19  
9 10 West Germany Christian Danner Zakspeed 48 + 2 laps 16  
10 25 France René Arnoux Ligier-Megatron 48 + 2 laps 15  
11 11 Japan Satoru Nakajima Lotus-Honda 47 + 3 laps 14  
12 (1) 4 France Philippe Streiff Tyrrell-Ford 47 + 3 laps 24  
13 (2) 16 Italy Ivan Capelli March-Ford 47 + 3 laps 25  
14 (3) 3 United Kingdom Jonathan Palmer Tyrrell-Ford 47 + 3 laps 22  
15 1 France Alain Prost McLaren-TAG 46 + 4 laps 5  
16 24 Italy Alessandro Nannini Minardi-Motori Moderni 45 + 5 laps 18  
Ret 9 United Kingdom Martin Brundle Zakspeed 43 Gearbox 17  
Ret 30 France Philippe Alliot Lola-Ford 37 Spun off 23  
Ret 23 Spain Adrián Campos Minardi-Motori Moderni 34 Engine 20  
Ret 18 United States Eddie Cheever Arrows-Megatron 27 Halfshaft 13  
Ret 22 Switzerland Franco Forini Osella-Alfa Romeo 27 Turbo 26  
Ret 21 Italy Alex Caffi Osella-Alfa Romeo 16 Suspension 21  
Ret 27 Italy Michele Alboreto Ferrari 13 Turbo 8  
Ret 17 United Kingdom Derek Warwick Arrows-Megatron 9 Electrical 12  
Ret 8 Italy Andrea de Cesaris Brabham-BMW 7 Suspension 10  
Ret 7 Italy Riccardo Patrese Brabham-BMW 5 Engine 9  
Source:[6]

Championship standings after the race

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

References

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  1. ^ "Motor Racing Programme Covers: 1987". The Programme Covers Project. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
  2. ^ Nigel Roebuck, John Townsend (1988). Grand Prix - 1987 Formula One World Championship (1st ed.). Glen Waverly, Victoria, Australia: Garry Sparke & Associates. pp. 116–119. ISBN 0 908081 27 8.
  3. ^ "1987 Italian Grand Prix - QUALIFYING 1". formula1.com. Retrieved 5 May 2018.
  4. ^ "1987 Italian Grand Prix - QUALIFYING 2". formula1.com. Retrieved 5 May 2018.
  5. ^ "1987 Italian Grand Prix - OVERALL QUALIFYING". formula1.com. Retrieved 5 May 2018.
  6. ^ "1987 Italian Grand Prix". formula1.com. Archived from the original on 3 November 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  7. ^ a b "Italy 1987 - Championship • STATS F1". www.statsf1.com. Retrieved 18 March 2019.


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