1987 World Sportscar Championship

1987 World Sportscar Championship season
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The 1987 World Sportscar Championship season was the 35th season of FIA World Sportscar Championship racing. It featured the 1987 FIA World Sports Prototype Championship which was contested over a ten race series that commenced on 22 March and ended on 27 September. The championship was open to FIA Group C Sports Prototypes, FIA Group C2 Sports Prototypes and IMSA GTP cars. Raul Boesel won the Drivers Championship, Fermin Velez was awarded the FIA Cup for Group C2 Drivers, Silk Cut Jaguar won the Teams Championship and the FIA Cup for Group C2 Teams was awarded to Spice Engineering.^[1] Jaguar won 8 out of the 10 races and Porsche 2.

Schedule

Silk Cut Jaguar won the Teams Championship with the Jaguar XJR-8.

Rnd	Race	Circuit	Date
1	Grand Premio Fortuna (360 km)	Circuito Permanente Del Jarama	22 March
2	1000 km Jerez	Circuito Permanente de Jerez	29 March
3	1000km Monza	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	12 April
4	Autoglass 1000 Kilometres Silverstone	Silverstone Circuit	10 May
5	24 Hours of Le Mans	Circuit de la Sarthe	13 June 14 June
6	200 Meilen von Nürnberg	Norisring	28 June
7	Shell Gemini 1000 Kilometres Brands Hatch	Brands Hatch	26 July
8	International ADAC 1000km-Rennen	Nürburgring	30 August
9	Kouros 1000km Spa	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	13 September
10	Mount Fuji 1000 Kilometres	Fuji Speedway	27 September

Season results

Races

Rnd	Circuit	C1 Winning Team	C2 Winning Team	Results
		C1 Winning Drivers	C2 Winning Drivers
1	Jarama	Silk Cut Jaguar	Spice Engineering	Results
		Jan Lammers John Watson	Gordon Spice Fermin Velez
2	Jerez	Silk Cut Jaguar	Spice Engineering	Results
		Eddie Cheever Raul Boesel	Gordon Spice Fermin Velez
3	Monza	Silk Cut Jaguar	Spice Engineering	Results
		Jan Lammers John Watson	Gordon Spice Fermin Velez
4	Silverstone	Silk Cut Jaguar	Ecurie Ecosse	Results
		Eddie Cheever Raul Boesel	Ray Mallock David Leslie
5	La Sarthe	Rothmans Porsche AG	Spice Engineering	Results
		Hans Joachim Stuck Derek Bell Al Holbert	Gordon Spice Fermin Velez Philippe de Henning
6	Norisring	Richard Lloyd Racing	Spice Engineering	Results
		Mauro Baldi Jonathan Palmer	Gordon Spice Fermin Velez
7	Brands Hatch	Silk Cut Jaguar	Ecurie Ecosse	Results
		Raul Boesel John Nielsen	Ray Mallock David Leslie
8	Nürburgring	Silk Cut Jaguar	Cosmic GP Motorsports	Results
		Eddie Cheever Raul Boesel	Costas Los Dudley Wood
9	Spa-Francorchamps	Silk Cut Jaguar	Spice Engineering	Results
		Raul Boesel Martin Brundle Johnny Dumfries	Gordon Spice Fermin Velez
10	Fuji	Silk Cut Jaguar	Spice Engineering	Results
		Jan Lammers John Watson	Gordon Spice Fermin Velez

Drivers Championship

Points towards the 1987 World Sports-Prototype Championship for Drivers were awarded to the top 10 finishers in the order of 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1. Additionally, two bonus points were awarded to drivers of Group C2 cars finishing in the top ten outright positions.^[2] However, the following exceptions applied:

• Drivers failing to complete a specified percentage of the laps in a race were not awarded points.
• Drivers of cars which did not complete 90% of the number of laps completed by the winning car were not awarded points.

Only the best seven round results could be retained towards a driver's total.^[3]

The table below lists the top 36 placegetters.

Position [1]	Driver [1]	Car	Entrant	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	R10	Total [1]
1	Raul Boesel	Jaguar XJR-8	Silk Cut Jaguar	12	20	-	20	(8)	(10)	20	20	20	15	127
=2	Jan Lammers	Jaguar XJR-8	Silk Cut Jaguar	20	-	20	15	-	-	12	-	15	20	102
=2	John Watson	Jaguar XJR-8	Silk Cut Jaguar	20	-	20	15	-	-	12	-	15	20	102
4	Eddie Cheever	Jaguar XJR-8	Silk Cut Jaguar	12	20	-	20	8	10	-	20	10	-	100
=5	Hans Stuck	Porsche 962C	Porsche AG & Joest Racing	15	12	15	12	20	-	10	15	(8)	-	99
=5	Derek Bell	Porsche 962C	Porsche AG & Joest Racing	15	12	15	12	20	-	10	15	(8)	(6)	99
7	Oscar Larrauri	Porsche 962C	Brun Motorsport	8	4	-	-	-	15	8	12	12	10	69
=8	Mauro Baldi	Porsche 962C	Liqui Moly Equipe	3	-	-	-	-	20	15	8	-	12	58
=8	Jochen Mass	Porsche 962C	Porsche AG & Brun Motorsport	-	-	6	10	-	-	8	12	12	10	58
10	Johnny Dumfries	Ecosse C286 Ford, Porsche 962C, Jaguar XJR-8	Swiftair Ecurie Ecosse, Liqui Moly Equipe, Silk Cut Jaguar	-	-	-	5	-	-	15	-	20	15	55
=11	Fermin Velez	Spice SE86C & SE87C Ford	Spice Engineering	(4)	12	6	6	8	8	5	-	(3)	5	50
=11	Gordon Spice	Spice SE86C & SE87C Ford	Spice Engineering	(4)	12	6	6	8	8	5	-	(3)	5	50
13	Frank Jelinski	Porsche 962C	Brun Motorsport & Joest Racing Team	4	-	12	-	-	-	-	10	6	8	40
=14	David Leslie	Ecosse C286 Ford	Swiftair Ecurie Ecosse	-	10	5	8	5	6	6	-	-	-	40
=14	Ray Mallock	Ecosse C286 Ford	Swiftair Ecurie Ecosse	-	10	5	8	5	6	6	-	-	-	40
16	Jésus Pareja	Porsche 962C	Brun Motorsport	8	4	12	8	-	1	2	-	3	-	38
17	John Nielsen	Jaguar XJR-8 & Porsche 962C	Silk Cut Jaguar & From A Racing	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	-	10	2	32
18	Jonathan Palmer	Porsche 962C	Liqui Moly Equipe	3	-	-	-	-	20	-	8	-	-	31
=19	Volker Weidler	Porsche 962C	Kremer Porsche	10	15	-	-	-	-	6	-	-	-	31
=19	Kris Nissen	Porsche 962C	Kremer Porsche	10	15	-	-	-	-	6	-	-	-	31
=21	Jürgen Lässig	Porsche 962C	Primagaz Competition	-	-	-	-	15	8	-	-	-	-	23
=21	Pierre Yver	Porsche 962C	Primagaz Competition	-	-	-	-	15	8	-	-	-	-	23
23	John Winter	Porsche 962C	Joest Racing Team	-	-	10	-	-	12	-	-	-	-	22
=24	Martin Brundle	Jaguar XJR-8	Silk Cut Jaguar	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	-	20
=24	Al Holbert	Porsche 962C	Porsche AG	-	-	-	-	20	-	-	-	-	-	20
26	Stanley Dickens	Porsche 962C	Joest Racing Team	-	-	10	-	-	-	-	10	-	-	20
=27	Gianfranco Brancatelli	Porsche 962C	Brun Motorsport	6	6	8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20
=27	Massimo Sigala	Porsche 962C	Brun Motorsport	6	6	8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20
29	Mike Thackwell	Sauber C9 Mercedes & Porsche 962C	Kouros Racing & Liqui Moly Equipe	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	12	16
30	Bob Wollek	Porsche 962C	Porsche AG	-	-	6	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	16
31	Walter Brun	Porsche 962C	Brun Motorsport	4	-	-	8	-	1	2	-	-	-	15
32	Hervé Regout	Cougar C20 Porsche	Primagaz Competition	-	-	2	-	12	-	-	-	-	-	14
=33	Sarel van der Merwe	Porsche 962C	Joest Racing Team	-	-	-	-	-	12	-	-	-	-	12
=33	Pierre-Henri Raphanel	Cougar C20 Porsche	Primagaz Competition	-	-	-	-	12	-	-	-	-	-	12
=35	Franz Konrad	Porsche 962C	Kremer Porsche	-	-	-	-	10	-	-	-	-	-	10
=35	George Fouché	Porsche 962C	Kremer Porsche	-	-	-	-	10	-	-	-	-	-	10

FIA Cup for Group C2 Drivers

Points towards the 1987 FIA Cup for Group C2 Sports-Prototypes Drivers were awarded to the top 10 Group C2 class finishers in the order of 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1. Only the best seven round results could be retained towards a driver's total.

The table below lists the top 36 placegetters.

Position [1]	Driver [1]	Car	Entrant	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	R10	Total [1]
=1	Fermin Velez	Spice SE86C & SE87C Ford	Spice Engineering	20	20	20	(15)	20	20	(15)	-	20	20	140
=1	Gordon Spice	Spice SE86C & SE87C Ford	Spice Engineering	20	20	20	(15)	20	20	(15)	-	20	20	140
=3	David Leslie	Ecosse C286 Ford	Swiftair Ecurie Ecosse	15	15	15	20	15	15	20	-	(12)	(15)	115
=3	Ray Mallock	Ecosse C286 Ford	Swiftair Ecurie Ecosse	15	15	15	20	15	15	20	-	(12)	(15)	115
5	Mike Wilds	Gebhardt JC843 Ford & Ecosse C286 Ford	ADA Engineering & Swiftair Ecurie Ecosse	10	-	-	12	-	-	12	12	15	12	73
6	Marc Duez	Ecosse C286 Ford	Swiftair Ecurie Ecosse	-	-	-	-	15	-	12	-	15	12	54
7	Thorkild Thyrring	Tiga GC287 Ford	Tiga Ford DK	12	-	-	-	10	8	4	4	-	8	46
8	Costas Los	Tiga GC286 & GC287 Ford	Cosmik RBR & GP Motorsport	-	12	-	-	12	-	-	20	-	-	44
9	Rainieri Randaccio	Tiga GC85 Ford	Kelmar Racing	-	-	-	10	-	10	8	15	-	-	43
=10	Martin Scanche	Argo JM19B Zakspeed	Team Lucky Strike Schanche	-	-	10	-	-	6	10	-	10	-	36
=10	Will Hoy	Argo JM19B Zakspeed	Team Lucky Strike Schanche	-	-	10	-	-	6	10	-	10	-	36
12	Hellmut Mundas	URD C81/2 BMW	URD Junior Team	8	-	12	4	-	-	-	10	-	-	34
	Rudolf Seher	URD C81/2 BMW	URD Junior Team	8	-	12	4	-	-	-	10	-	-	34
14	Pasquale Barberio	Tiga GC286 & Tiga GC85 Ford	Cosmik RBR & Kelmar Racing	-	12	-	-	-	-	-	15	6		33
15	Dudley Wood	Tiga GC287 Ford	GP Motorsport	-	-	-	-	12	-	-	20	-	-	32
16	Nick Adams	Spice SE87C Ford & Spice SE86C Hart	Spice Engineering & Chamberlain Engineering	-	-	-	-	6	12	3	6	1	-	28
17	Ian Harrower	Gebhardt JC843 Ford & Tiga GC287 Ford	ADA Engineering & Tiga Ford DK	10	-	-	-	10	-	-	-	-	-	20
18	Duncan Bain	Tiga GC287 Rover	Dune Motorsport	-	-	-	6	-	12	-	-	-	-	18
19	John Sheldon	Tiga GC287 Ford	Tiga Ford DK	-	-	-	-	10	8	-	-	-	-	18
20	Jean-Louis Ricci	Spice SE86C Ford	Chamberlain Engineering	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	3	8	-	17
21	Dominique Lacaud	ALD 02 & 03 BMW	Auto Louis Descartes	-	-	-	3	8	-	-	-	3	-	14
=22	Johnny Dumfries	Ecosse C286 Ford	Swiftair Ecurie Ecosse	-	-	-	12	-	-	-	-	-	-	12
=22	Leif Lindström	Tiga GC287 Ford	Tiga Ford DK	12	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	12
=12	Win Percy	Ecosse C286 Ford	Swiftair Ecurie Ecosse	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	12	-	-	12
=12	Ray Bellm	Spice SE87C Ford	Spice Engineering	-	-	-	-	-	12	-	-	-	-	12
26	Peter Elgaard	Tiga GC287 Ford	Tiga Ford DK	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	8	12
27	Ian Khan	Spice SE86C Hart	Chamberlain Engineering	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	10	11
=28	Maurizio Gellini	Tiga GC85 Ford	Kelmar Racing	-	-	-	-	-	10	-	-	-	-	10
=28	Graham Duxbury	Spice SE86C Hart	Chamberlain Engineering	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	10	10
30	Olindo Iacobelli	Spice SE86C Hart	Chamberlain Engineering	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	3	-	-	9
=31	Ian Taylor	Tiga GC287 Ford	Charles Ivey Engineering	-	-	-	8	-	-	-	-	-	-	8
=31	Peter Lovett	Tiga GC287 Ford	Charles Ivey Engineering	-	-	-	8	-	-	-	-	-	-	8
=31	Max Cohen-Olivar	Tiga GC286 Ford	Cosmik RBR	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	-	-	8
=31	Georges Tessier	Spice SE86C Hart	Chamberlain Engineering	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	-	8
=31	Louis Descartes	ALD 03 BMW	Auto Louis Descartes	-	-	-	-	8	-	-	-	-	-	8
=31	Bob Juggins	Spice SE86C Hart	Chamberlain Engineering	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	-	-	6

Teams Championship

Points towards the 1987 World Sports-Prototype Championship for Teams were awarded to the top 10 outright finishers in the order of 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1 with the following exceptions:

• Teams were only given points for their highest finishing car, with no points awarded for any position filled by any other cars from that team
• Teams did not score points for a car which did not complete 90% of distance covered by the winner car.

Only the best seven round results could be retained towards a Team's total.

Pos [1]	Team [1]	Chassis	Engine	Rd1	Rd2	Rd3	Rd4	Rd5	Rd6	Rd7	Rd8	Rd9	Rd10	Total [1]
1	Silk Cut Jaguar	Jaguar XJR-8	Jaguar 7.0L V12	20	20	20	20	(8)	(10)	20	20	20	(20)	140
2	Brun Motorsport	Porsche 962C	Porsche 2.8L Turbo Flat-6	8	(6)	12	(8)		15	8	12	12	10	77'
3	Porsche AG	Porsche 962C	Porsche 3.0L Turbo Flat-6	15	12	15	12	20						74
4	Joest Racing Team	Porsche 962C	Porsche 2.8L Turbo Flat-6			10			12	10	15	8	8	63
5	Liqui Moly Equipe	Porsche 962C Porsche 962C GTi	Porsche 2.8L Turbo Flat-6	3					20	15	8		12	58
6	Kremer Porsche	Porsche 962C	Porsche 2.8L Turbo Flat-6	10	15			10		6				41
7	Spice Engineering	Spice SE86C Spice SE87C	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8	(2)	10	4	4	6	6	3		(1)	3	36
8	Primagaz Competition	Cougar C20B Porsche 962C	Porsche 2.6L Turbo Flat-6 Porsche 2.8L Turbo Flat-6			2		15	8		4	2		31
9	Swiftair Ecurie Ecosse	Ecosse C286	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8		8	3	6	3	4	4				28
10	Mazdaspeed	Mazda 757	Mazda 13G 2.0L 3-Rotor					4					4	8
11	Rothmans Porsche Team Schuppan	Porsche 962C	Porsche 2.8L Turbo Flat-6										6	6
12	Kouros Racing	Sauber C9	Mercedes M117 5.0L Turbo V8									4		4
13	GP Motorsport	Tiga GC286 Tiga GC287	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8					2			2			4
14	Kelmar Racing	Tiga GC85	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8				1		2		1			4
15	Victor-Dauer Racing	Porsche 962C	Porsche 2.8L Turbo Flat-6								3			3
16=	From-A Racing	Porsche 962C	Porsche 2.8L Turbo Flat-6										2	2
16=	Richard Cleare Racing	March 85G	Porsche 2.8L Turbo Flat-6				2							2
18=	URD Junior Team	URD C81	BMW 3.5L I6			1								1
18=	Trust Racing Team	Porsche 962C	Porsche 2.8L Turbo Flat-6										1	1
18=	Tiga Ford DK	Tiga GC287	Ford Cosworth DBT-E 2.3L Turbo I4					1						1

1987 FIA Cup for Group C2 Teams

Points towards the 1987 FIA Cup for Group C2 Sports-Prototypes Teams were awarded to the top 10 Group C2 class finishers in the order of 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1.

Only the best seven round results could be retained towards a Team's total.

Pos [1]	Team [1]	Chassis	Engine	Rd1	Rd2	Rd3	Rd4	Rd5	Rd6	Rd7	Rd8	Rd9	Rd10	Total [1]
1	Spice Engineering	Spice SE86C Spice SE87C	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8	20	20	20	(15)	20	20	(15)		20	20	140
2	Swiftair Ecurie Ecosse	Ecosse C286	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8	15	15	15	20	15	15	20	(12)	(15)	(15)	115
3	Kelmar Racing	Tiga GC85	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8				10		10	8	15	6		49
4	Tiga Ford DK	Tiga GC287	Ford Cosworth DBT-E 2.3L Turbo I4	12				10	8	4			8	46
5	Team Lucky Strike Schanche	Argo JM19B	Zakspeed 1.9L Turbo I4			10			6	10		10		36
6	Chamberlain Engineering	Spice SE86C	Hart 418T 1.8L Turbo I4 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8					6		6	6	8	10	36
6	URD Junior Team	URD C83	BMW 3.5L I6	8		12	4				10			34
8	GP Motorsport	Tiga GC286 Tiga GC287	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8					12			20			32
9	Cosmik RBR	Tiga GC286	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8		12						8			20
10	Automobiles Louis Descartes	ALD 02 ALD 03	BMW 3.5L I6				3	8				3		14
11	ADA Engineering	Gebhardt JC843 ADA 02	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8	10										10
12	Charles Ivey Engineering	Tiga GC287	Porsche 2.6L Turbo Flat-6				8							8
13	Dune Motorsport	Tiga GC287	Rover V64V 3.0L V6				6							6
14	Ark Racing	Ceekar 83J	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0L V8									4		4
15	CEE Sport Racing	Tiga GC286	Ford Cosworth BDT 1.7L Turbo I4							2				2

References

1. FIA Yearbook, 1988, white section, pages 88-93
2. Peter Higham, The Guinness Guide to International Motor Racing, 1995, page 261
3. Peter Higham, The Guinness Guide to International Motor Racing, 1995, page 301

External links

• Drivers points tables for the 1987 World Sports-Prototype Championship Retrieved from wspr-racing.com on 29 January 2009
• Teams points tables for the 1987 World Sports-Prototype Championship Retrieved from wspr-racing.com on 29 January 2009
• Race results for the 1987 World Sports-Prototype Championship Retrieved from wspr-racing.com on 29 January 2009
• www.racingsportscars.com