1987 Mexican Grand Prix

  1987 Mexican Grand Prix

Race details
Race 14 of 16 in the 1987 Formula One season
Date	October 18, 1987
Official name	Gran Premio de Mexico
Location	Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, Mexico City, Mexico
Course	Permanent circuit
Course length	4.421 km (2.747 mi)
Distance	63 laps, 278.523 km (173.061 mi)
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

The 1987 Mexican Grand Prix was a Formula One race held at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez on October 18, 1987. It was the fourteenth round of the 1987 Formula One season. It was the 11th Mexican Grand Prix and the second since the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez was renovated and returned to the World Championship calendar.

The race was held over a total of 63 laps of the four kilometre circuit for a race distance of 279 kilometres. The race was unintentionally divided into two heats after British driver Derek Warwick crashed his Arrows A10 heavily exiting the high-speed Peraltada corner on lap 31. 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 team mate 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) in the early running.

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.

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

Classification

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
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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

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

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.

Notes

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

References

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