1987 Brazilian Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 1 of 16 in the 1987 Formula One season | |||
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| Date | 12 April 1987 | ||
| Official name | 16º Grande Premio do Brasil | ||
| Location |
Jacarepaguá Circuit, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
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| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 5.031 km (3.126 mi) | ||
| Distance | 61 laps, 306.891 km (190.70 mi) | ||
| Weather | Sunny | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Williams-Honda | ||
| Time | 1:26.128 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Nelson Piquet
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Williams-Honda | |
| Time | 1:33.861 on lap 41 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | McLaren-TAG | ||
| Second | Williams-Honda | ||
| Third | McLaren-TAG | ||
The 1987 Brazilian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 12 April 1987 at the Jacarepaguá Circuit in Rio de Janeiro. The race, contested over 61 laps, was the sixteenth Brazilian Grand Prix and the eighth to be held at Jacarepaguá, and the first race of the 1987 Formula One season.
The race was won by defending World Champion Alain Prost, driving a McLaren-TAG. Local hero Nelson Piquet was second in a Williams-Honda, while Prost's new team-mate Stefan Johansson took third.
In almost a repeat of 1982, prior to the race there was talk of a drivers boycott due to the FIA's new Super Licence fees for 1987. Previously the fee for a drivers Super Licence had been US$825. However, from 1987 drivers who scored World Championship points in 1986 would be required to pay more (i.e. the more points a driver scored, the more he paid for his licence) with drivers such as World Champion Alain Prost and Williams pair Nigel Mansell and Nelson Piquet were all required to pay around $12,000 (while others such as Lotus rookie Satoru Nakajima only had to pay the basic fee). According to the drivers, it wasn't so about the money, it was the principle that a licence is a licence and that the fee should be the same for everyone. However, by the time the cars were ready for Friday morning's first practice session, everyone (or in some cases the teams) had paid the required licence fee.
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