1987 British Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 7 of 16 in the 1987 Formula One season | |||
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| Date | 12 July 1987 | ||
| Official name | XL Shell Oils British Grand Prix | ||
| Location | Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone, Great Britain | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 4.778 km (2.969 mi) | ||
| Distance | 65 laps, 310.570 km (192.979 mi) | ||
| Weather | Sunny and warm | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Williams-Honda | ||
| Time | 1:07.110 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Nigel Mansell
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Williams-Honda | |
| Time | 1:09.832 on lap 58 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Williams-Honda | ||
| Second | Williams-Honda | ||
| Third | Lotus-Honda | ||
The 1987 British Grand Prix (formally the XL Shell Oils British Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 12 July 1987 at the Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone. It was the seventh race of the 1987 Formula One season. It was the 42nd British Grand Prix and the 23rd to be held at Silverstone. The race was held over 65 laps of the five kilometre circuit for race distance of 311 kilometres.
British driver Nigel Mansell won his third race for the year in his Williams FW11B. For the second time in eight days Mansell hunted down his more illustrious team mate Brazilian two-time World Champion Nelson Piquet to take victory. This time though Mansell was a lot further back with less time than at the French Grand Prix. In one of the most memorable performances in Formula One, Mansell took the lead from Piquet with two laps remaining. Ayrton Senna finished third in his Lotus 99T.
Mansell's win put him into second place in the championship, tied with Piquet and one point behind Senna.
As usual, Honda-powered cars dominated the qualifying sessions, with Nelson Piquet taking pole position from Williams team-mate Nigel Mansell by seven-hundredths of a second, and Ayrton Senna third in his Lotus despite being a full second slower than Mansell. Alain Prost was fourth in his McLaren, while the Benettons of Thierry Boutsen and Teo Fabi were fifth and sixth, and the Ferraris of Michele Alboreto and Gerhard Berger seventh and eighth. Completing the top ten were Andrea de Cesaris in the Brabham and Stefan Johansson in the second McLaren.
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