1987 season/Round 14
Mexican Grand Prix 1987
- Hermanos Rodríguez
- Mexico City
- 18 October 1987
- 63 laps
- 278.5 km
- 4.421 km a lap
- P1Nigel MansellWilliams1:26:24.207
- P2Nelson PiquetWilliams+26.176
- P3Riccardo PatreseBrabham+1:26.879
- Pole positionNigel MansellWilliams · 1:18.383
- Fastest lapNelson Piquet1:19.132 · lap 57
- Winner started fromP1on the grid
Result
A number in the first column means classified. DNF, DNQ and DNS stand for retirement, did not qualify and did not start. ‘shared’ marks a car that two drivers shared between them – permitted in the 1950s, and both were classified.
Qualifying
| Pos | Driver | Team | Time | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nigel Mansell | Williams | 1:18.383 | |
| 2 | Gerhard Berger | Ferrari | 1:18.426 | +0.043 |
| 3 | Nelson Piquet | Williams | 1:18.463 | +0.080 |
| 4 | Thierry Boutsen | Benetton | 1:18.691 | +0.308 |
| 5 | Alain Prost | McLaren | 1:18.742 | +0.359 |
| 6 | Teo Fabi | Benetton | 1:18.992 | +0.609 |
| 7 | Ayrton Senna | Lotus | 1:19.089 | +0.706 |
| 8 | Riccardo Patrese | Brabham | 1:19.889 | +1.506 |
| 9 | Michele Alboreto | Ferrari | 1:19.967 | +1.584 |
| 10 | Andrea de Cesaris | Brabham | 1:20.141 | +1.758 |
| 11 | Derek Warwick | Arrows | 1:21.664 | +3.281 |
| 12 | Eddie Cheever | Arrows | 1:21.705 | +3.322 |
| 13 | Martin Brundle | Zakspeed | 1:21.711 | +3.328 |
| 14 | Alessandro Nannini | Minardi | 1:22.035 | +3.652 |
| 15 | Stefan Johansson | McLaren | 1:22.185 | +3.802 |
| 16 | Satoru Nakajima | Lotus | 1:22.214 | +3.831 |
| 17 | Christian Danner | Zakspeed | 1:22.593 | +4.210 |
| 18 | René Arnoux | Ligier | 1:23.053 | +4.670 |
| 19 | Adrián Campos | Minardi | 1:23.955 | +5.572 |
| 20 | Ivan Capelli | March | 1:24.404 | +6.021 |
| 21 | Piercarlo Ghinzani | Ligier | 1:24.553 | +6.170 |
| 22 | Jonathan Palmer | Tyrrell | 1:24.723 | +6.340 |
| 23 | Yannick Dalmas | Lola | 1:24.745 | +6.362 |
| 24 | Philippe Alliot | Lola | 1:25.096 | +6.713 |
| 25 | Philippe Streiff | Tyrrell | 1:26.305 | +7.922 |
| 26 | Alex Caffi | Osella | 1:27.670 | +9.287 |
| 27 | Pascal Fabre | AGS | 1:28.655 | +10.272 |
Fastest laps
Each driver's quickest lap of the race.
| Pos | Driver | Lap | Time | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nelson Piquet | 57 | 1:19.132 | |
| 2 | Nigel Mansell | 59 | 1:19.527 | +0.395 |
| 3 | Ayrton Senna | 44 | 1:20.586 | +1.454 |
| 4 | Teo Fabi | 38 | 1:20.829 | +1.697 |
| 5 | Eddie Cheever | 54 | 1:20.934 | +1.802 |
| 6 | Riccardo Patrese | 57 | 1:21.057 | +1.925 |
| 7 | Gerhard Berger | 19 | 1:21.520 | +2.388 |
| 8 | Thierry Boutsen | 9 | 1:22.170 | +3.038 |
| 9 | Andrea de Cesaris | 17 | 1:22.535 | +3.403 |
| 10 | Derek Warwick | 15 | 1:23.124 | +3.992 |
Championship after this race
The official standings after round 14. Arrows show the change against the round before.
| Pos | Driver | Points | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nelson Piquet | 73 | |
| 2 | Nigel Mansell | 61 | |
| 3 | Ayrton Senna | 51 | |
| 4 | Alain Prost | 46 | |
| 5 | Stefan Johansson | 26 | |
| 6 | Gerhard Berger | 18 | |
| 7 | Teo Fabi | 12 | |
| 8 | Thierry Boutsen | 10 | |
| 9 | Michele Alboreto | 8 | |
| 10 | Eddie Cheever | 8 | ▲1 |