1987 James Hardie 1000

1987 Bathurst 1000

Race details
Round 8 of 11 in the 1987 World Touring Car Championship at Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, Australia.
Date	4 October, 1987
Location	Bathurst, Australia
Course	Mount Panorama Circuit 6.213 kilometres (3.861 mi)
Race One
Laps 161 Pole position Driver Klaus Ludwig Ford Texaco Racing Team Time 2:16.969 Podium First Peter McLeod Peter Brock David Parsons HDT Racing Second Glenn Seton John Bowe Peter Jackson Nissan Racing Third George Fury Terry Shiel Peter Jackson Nissan Racing Fastest Lap Driver Andrew Miedecke Oxo Supercube Motorsport Time 2:22.50
Race Two
Podium Fastest Lap

Laps	161
Pole position
Driver		Klaus Ludwig	Ford Texaco Racing Team
Time		2:16.969
Podium
First		Peter McLeod Peter Brock David Parsons	HDT Racing
Second		Glenn Seton John Bowe	Peter Jackson Nissan Racing
Third		George Fury Terry Shiel	Peter Jackson Nissan Racing
Fastest Lap
Driver		Andrew Miedecke	Oxo Supercube Motorsport
Time		2:22.50

The 1987 James Hardie 1000 an endurance race for Group A Touring Cars, staged on 4 October 1987 at the Mount Panorama Circuit, near Bathurst, in New South Wales, Australia. The race was the eighth round of the inaugural World Touring Car Championship, and was the 28th in a sequence of Bathurst 1000 races, commencing with the 1960 Armstrong 500 held at Phillip Island.

The race was shortened from 163 laps to 161 for 1987, when the track was slightly lengthened by the addition of the Caltex Chase, a chicane which was built in response to the death of Mike Burgmann in an accident during the previous year's race.

The addition of the Chase saw lap times increased by approximately 4–5 seconds over those in 1986. The Chase was also meant to slow the cars down, but the speed of the new breed of Group A cars (specifically the turbocharged Ford Sierra RS500), saw the fastest cars (Eggenberger Motorsport) reaching higher speeds (276 km/h (171 mph)) on the shortened straight than had been achieved on the full length straight in 1986 (the fastest car on the full straight in 1986, the Holden VK Commodore SS Group A, was recorded at 275 km/h (171 mph)). The straight line speed of the new Sierras was comparable to those the Australian Group C cars were reaching by 1984.

The 1987 race was provisionally won by the Ford-supported Eggenberger Motorsport team, with Steve Soper and Pierre Dieudonné taking the chequered flag in their Ford Sierra RS500, two laps ahead of team mates Klaus Ludwig and Klaus Niedzwiedz. Third was the best of the locally based teams, the HDT Racing entered Holden VL Commodore SS Group A driven by Peter McLeod, Peter Brock and David Parsons.