Race · Round 1 of 16 · 12 April 1987

1987 Brazilian Grand Prix

Alain Prost won for McLaren from 5th on the grid at Jacarepagua. 10 of the starters were not classified.

Dry · High of 33 °C, no rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

ERA5's reanalysis, through Open-Meteo, of the circuit's whole local day and not the race's hours, for the grid cell the circuit sits in and not the track, so a shower can be missing from it. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.

Circuit: JacarepaguaRio de Janeiro, Brazil
Winner: Alain ProstMcLaren
Pole: Nigel Mansell
Fastest lap: Nelson Piquet
Entries: 2312 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Alain Prost	McLaren	MP4/3	5	61	Finished	9
2	Nelson Piquet	Williams	FW11B	2	61	Finished	6	fastest lap
3	Stefan Johansson	McLaren	MP4/3	10	61	Finished	4
4	Gerhard Berger	Ferrari	F1/87	7	61	Finished	3
5	Thierry Boutsen	Benetton	B187	6	60	Finished	2
6	Nigel Mansell	Williams	FW11B	1	60	Finished	1
7	Satoru Nakajima	Team Lotus	99T	12	59	Finished	0
8	Michele Alboreto	Ferrari	F1/87	9	58	Spun off	0
9	Christian Danner	Zakspeed	—	17	58	Finished	0
10	Jonathan Palmer	Tyrrell	DG016	18	58	Finished	0
11	Philippe Streiff	Tyrrell	DG016	20	57	Finished	0
12	Pascal Fabre	AGS	JH22	22	55	Finished	0
NC	Eddie Cheever	Arrows	A10	14	52	NC	0
DNF	Ayrton Senna	Team Lotus	99T	3	50	Engine	0
DNF	Riccardo Patrese	Brabham	BT56	11	48	Electrical	0
DNF	Andrea de Cesaris	Brabham	BT56	13	21	Differential	0
DNF	Derek Warwick	Arrows	A10	8	20	Engine	0
DNF	Alex Caffi	Osella	—	21	20	Withdrew	0
DNF	Alessandro Nannini	Minardi	M187	15	17	Suspension	0
DNF	Martin Brundle	Zakspeed	—	19	15	Turbo	0
DNF	Teo Fabi	Benetton	B187	4	9	Turbo	0
DSQ	Adrián Campos	Minardi	M187	16	3	Incorrect starting procedure	0
DNS	Ivan Capelli	March	—	23	—	DNS	0

A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.

F1DB layout jacarepagua-1 · 5.031 km · 11 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Alain Prost	5	1	61
Nelson Piquet	2	2	61
Stefan Johansson	10	3	61
Gerhard Berger	7	4	61
Thierry Boutsen	6	5	60
Nigel Mansell	1	6	60
Satoru Nakajima	12	7	59
Michele Alboreto	9	8	58
Christian Danner	17	9	58
Jonathan Palmer	18	10	58
Philippe Streiff	20	11	57
Pascal Fabre	22	12	55
Eddie Cheever	14	NC	52
Ayrton Senna	3	DNF	50
Riccardo Patrese	11	DNF	48
Andrea de Cesaris	13	DNF	21
Derek Warwick	8	DNF	20
Alex Caffi	21	DNF	20
Alessandro Nannini	15	DNF	17
Martin Brundle	19	DNF	15
Teo Fabi	4	DNF	9
Adrián Campos	16	DSQ	3

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Nigel Mansell	Williams	5	1:26.128	—	0 m	—
2	Nelson Piquet	Williams	6	1:26.567	+0.439	26 m	+0.439
3	Ayrton Senna	Team Lotus	12	1:28.408	+2.280	133 m	+1.841
4	Teo Fabi	Benetton	19	1:28.417	+2.289	134 m	+0.009
5	Alain Prost	McLaren	1	1:29.175	+3.047	178 m	+0.758
6	Thierry Boutsen	Benetton	20	1:29.450	+3.322	194 m	+0.275
7	Gerhard Berger	Ferrari	28	1:30.357	+4.229	247 m	+0.907
8	Derek Warwick	Arrows	17	1:30.467	+4.339	253 m	+0.110
9	Michele Alboreto	Ferrari	27	1:30.468	+4.340	254 m	+0.001
10	Stefan Johansson	McLaren	2	1:30.476	+4.348	254 m	+0.008
11	Riccardo Patrese	Brabham	7	1:31.179	+5.051	295 m	+0.703
12	Satoru Nakajima	Team Lotus	11	1:32.276	+6.148	359 m	+1.097
13	Andrea de Cesaris	Brabham	8	1:32.402	+6.274	366 m	+0.126
14	Eddie Cheever	Arrows	18	1:32.769	+6.641	388 m	+0.367
15	Alessandro Nannini	Minardi	24	1:33.729	+7.601	444 m	+0.960
16	Adrián Campos	Minardi	23	1:33.825	+7.697	450 m	+0.096
17	Christian Danner	Zakspeed	10	1:35.212	+9.084	531 m	+1.387
18	Jonathan Palmer	Tyrrell	3	1:36.091	+9.963	582 m	+0.879
19	Martin Brundle	Zakspeed	9	1:36.160	+10.032	586 m	+0.069
20	Philippe Streiff	Tyrrell	4	1:36.274	+10.146	593 m	+0.114
21	Alex Caffi	Osella	21	1:38.770	+12.642	738 m	+2.496
22	Pascal Fabre	AGS	14	1:39.816	+13.688	800 m	+1.046
23	Ivan Capelli	March	16	1:43.580	+17.452	1,019 m	+3.764

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Pit stops

Pit stops are recorded from 1994. F1DB, the source of every stop here, holds none before then, so this race has no stints to draw.

Practice sessions Warm-up

Warm-up

Warm-up
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Alain Prost	McLaren	1	1:33.161	—	0 m	—	—
2	Michele Alboreto	Ferrari	27	1:33.432	+0.271	15 m	+0.271	—
3	Ayrton Senna	Team Lotus	12	1:33.547	+0.386	21 m	+0.115	—
4	Nigel Mansell	Williams	5	1:33.595	+0.434	23 m	+0.048	—
5	Nelson Piquet	Williams	6	1:34.126	+0.965	52 m	+0.531	—
6	Teo Fabi	Benetton	19	1:34.615	+1.454	79 m	+0.489	—
7	Derek Warwick	Arrows	17	1:35.030	+1.869	101 m	+0.415	—
8	Thierry Boutsen	Benetton	20	1:35.424	+2.263	122 m	+0.394	—
9	Gerhard Berger	Ferrari	28	1:35.639	+2.478	134 m	+0.215	—
10	Riccardo Patrese	Brabham	7	1:35.780	+2.619	141 m	+0.141	—
11	Andrea de Cesaris	Brabham	8	1:35.816	+2.655	143 m	+0.036	—
12	Stefan Johansson	McLaren	2	1:36.468	+3.307	179 m	+0.652	—
13	Satoru Nakajima	Team Lotus	11	1:37.435	+4.274	231 m	+0.967	—
14	Eddie Cheever	Arrows	18	1:38.302	+5.141	278 m	+0.867	—
15	Martin Brundle	Zakspeed	9	1:39.438	+6.277	339 m	+1.136	—
16	Christian Danner	Zakspeed	10	1:40.046	+6.885	372 m	+0.608	—
17	Adrián Campos	Minardi	23	1:40.667	+7.506	405 m	+0.621	—
18	Alex Caffi	Osella	21	1:41.093	+7.932	428 m	+0.426	—
19	Jonathan Palmer	Tyrrell	3	1:41.529	+8.368	452 m	+0.436	—
20	Pascal Fabre	AGS	14	1:43.442	+10.281	555 m	+1.913	—
21	Ivan Capelli	March	16	1:43.474	+10.313	557 m	+0.032	—
22	Philippe Streiff	Tyrrell	4	1:44.308	+11.147	602 m	+0.834	—

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

The cars in this race

The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.

A photograph marked unchecked has a file name that does not name the car it is shown for. Most are still the right car, filed under the driver rather than the machine — but nobody has confirmed these one by one.

1 more photograph

Where this comes from

Round: 1 of 1987
Grand Prix: Brazilian Grand Prix
Dates: 12 Apr 1987
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: McLaren
Entrant: McLaren-TAG
Confidence: reference

No layout is recorded for this round: this register has no layout timeline for the circuit, and a blank here is better than a guess.