1987 Japanese Grand Prix

1987 Japanese Grand Prix
Race 15 of 16 in the 1987 Formula One World Championship
Race details
Date 1 November 1987
Official name XIII Fuji Television Japanese Grand Prix
Location Suzuka Circuit, Suzuka, Japan
Course Permanent racing facility
Course length 5.860 km (3.641[1] miles)
Distance 51 laps, 298.860 km (185.703 miles)
Weather Dry
Attendance 247,000[2]
Pole position
Driver Ferrari
Time 1:40.042
Fastest lap
Driver France Alain Prost McLaren-TAG
Time 1:43.844 on lap 35
Podium
First Ferrari
Second Lotus-Honda
Third McLaren-TAG
Lap leaders

The 1987 Japanese Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Suzuka on 1 November 1987. It was the fifteenth and penultimate race of the 1987 Formula One World Championship.

The race was won by Austrian driver Gerhard Berger driving a Ferrari F1/87. It was the end of a 38-race losing streak for Formula One's most famous team and Berger's second Grand Prix victory having won the Mexican Grand Prix the previous year driving for Benetton. Berger won by 17 seconds over Brazilian driver Ayrton Senna driving a Lotus 99T. Third was the McLaren MP4/3 of Swedish driver Stefan Johansson. This would turn out to be Team Lotus's last second place finish.

  1. ^ "1987 Japanese Grand Prix | Motorsport Database".
  2. ^ "Formula 1 Honda Japanese Grand Prix 2022 – Media Kit" (PDF). Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. 5 October 2022. Retrieved 5 October 2022.

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