1987 Spanish Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 13 of 16 in the 1987 Formula One season | |||
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| Date | September 27, 1987 | ||
| Location | Circuito Permanente de Jerez, Jerez de la Frontera, Spain | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 4.218 km (2.620 mi) | ||
| Distance | 72 laps, 303.696 km (188.708 mi) | ||
| Weather | Sunny and hot | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Williams-Honda | ||
| Time | 1:22.461 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Gerhard Berger
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Ferrari | |
| Time | 1:26.986 on lap 49 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Williams-Honda | ||
| Second | McLaren-TAG | ||
| Third | McLaren-TAG | ||
The 1987 Spanish Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Jerez on September 27, 1987. It was the thirteenth round of the 1987 Formula One season. It was the 29th Spanish Grand Prix and the second to be held at Jerez. The race was held over 72 laps of the four kilometre venue for a race distance of 304 kilometres.
The race was won by British driver Nigel Mansell driving a Williams FW11B. Mansell took victory by 22 seconds over Frenchman Alain Prost driving a McLaren MP4/3. Prost's Swedish team mate Stefan Johansson finished third. It was Mansell's fifth victory of the 1987 season. That win, along with Nelson Piquet's fourth place, secured for the WilliamsF1 team their third constructors' championship with three races still remaining in the season. The gap between Williams and McLaren was fifty points.
Mansell's win, the beginning of a late season charge, dragged him back into championship contention. He trimmed the gap to Piquet back to 18 points, passing Ayrton Senna for second in the standings as he did so.
11th placed Martin Brundle described his drive to 11th in the Zakspeed 871 as "the time I got out the car thinking no human could have done [any] better".
Nelson Piquet secured his 24th and final F1 pole position in his Williams-Honda with Nigel Mansell completing an all-Williams front row. The race was comfortably won by Mansell who passed Piquet at the end of the first lap and was never headed. The battle for third (then second) was led for much of the time by Ayrton Senna, who like the previous year tried to complete the race without changing tyres. Both Senna and Lotus were of the opinion that the 99T's computerised active suspension system would help preserve his tyres throughout the race.
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