1987 Austrian Grand Prix

The race started at 2:30 pm Central European Time (UTC+1). The first race start ended quickly after the Zakspeed of Martin Brundle crashed, then the two Tyrrells of Jonathan Palmer and Philippe Streiff collided in the ensuing chaos with Piercarlo Ghinzani also crashing his Ligier. The second attempt to start was more serious. Mansell on the front row crawled away with clutch problems and the grid compacted behind him. The Österreichring's narrow front straight saw to the rest when Eddie Cheever (Arrows) and Riccardo Patrese (Brabham) collided and half the grid, including Johansson, Alex Caffi (Osella), Ivan Capelli (March), Pascal Fabre, Philippe Alliot (Larrousse-Lola), and both Zakspeeds of Brundle and Christian Danner were involved in the ensuing pile-up.

For the third start Streiff was missing as Tyrrell had simply run out of usable cars and Palmer got the use of the surviving DG016 as he had qualified higher than his team mate (exactly the reverse of the situation earlier in the year in Belgium when Palmer was forced to sit out the restart with both race Tyrrells wrecked, Streiff got the spare as he had qualified ahead of Palmer). Several drivers were in repaired cars or in spare cars, including Ayrton Senna after a CV joint failed in his Lotus during the second start. The third start, over two hours late, continued to claim cars. Alain Prost (McLaren) had an electrical failure as the warm-up lap began. The team mechanics got the car going and Prost started from the pitlane along with Senna and the Ferrari of Michele Alboreto. The third attempt to start had no problems although Johansson soon pitted with a puncture then had a tyre fall off on his out lap after a chaotic pitstop. Johansson made it back to the pits and resumed.

Piquet led early from Thierry Boutsen in his Benetton and Mansell. Boutsen pitted with gear linking problems and Mansell leapt past Piquet while negotiating lapped cars on the straight leading into the Bosch Kurve. Fabi (Benetton) was a lap down in third ahead of Boutsen in a season best result for the team. Recovering from their difficulties, Senna, Prost and Johansson finished fifth, sixth and seventh. Ghinzani was eighth for Ligier ahead of Danner and René Arnoux in the second Ligier. Sixteen cars finished although Fabre had not completed enough laps to be classified and 14th placed Brundle would be disqualified for a bodywork infringement on the spare Zakspeed 871, pressed into service after the startline collisions.

Numbers in brackets refer to positions of naturally aspirated entrants competing for the Jim Clark Trophy.

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	5	Nigel Mansell	Williams-Honda	52	1:18:44.898	2	9
2	6	Nelson Piquet	Williams-Honda	52	+ 55.704	1	6
3	19	Teo Fabi	Benetton-Ford	51	+ 1 Lap	5	4
4	20	Thierry Boutsen	Benetton-Ford	51	+ 1 Lap	4	3
5	12	Ayrton Senna	Lotus-Honda	50	+ 2 Laps	7	2
6	1	Alain Prost	McLaren-TAG	50	+ 2 Laps	9	1
7	2	Stefan Johansson	McLaren-TAG	50	+ 2 Laps	14
8	26	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Ligier-Megatron	50	+ 2 Laps	18
9	10	Christian Danner	Zakspeed	49	+ 3 Laps	20
10	25	René Arnoux	Ligier-Megatron	49	+ 3 Laps	16
11 (1)	16	Ivan Capelli	March-Ford	49	+ 3 Laps	23
12 (2)	30	Philippe Alliot	Lola-Ford	49	+ 3 Laps	22
13	11	Satoru Nakajima	Lotus-Honda	49	+ 3 Laps	13
DSQ	9	Martin Brundle	Zakspeed	48	Bodywork infringement	17
14 (3)	3	Jonathan Palmer	Tyrrell-Ford	47	+ 5 Laps	24
NC	14	Pascal Fabre	AGS-Ford	45	+ 7 Laps	26
Ret	7	Riccardo Patrese	Brabham-BMW	43	Engine	8
Ret	27	Michele Alboreto	Ferrari	42	Turbo	6
Ret	8	Andrea de Cesaris	Brabham-BMW	35	Engine	10
Ret	17	Derek Warwick	Arrows-Megatron	35	Engine	11
Ret	18	Eddie Cheever	Arrows-Megatron	31	Tyre	12
Ret	28	Gerhard Berger	Ferrari	5	Turbo	3
Ret	23	Adrián Campos	Minardi-Motori Moderni	3	Electrical	19
Ret	24	Alessandro Nannini	Minardi-Motori Moderni	1	Engine	15
Ret	21	Alex Caffi	Osella-Alfa Romeo	0	Electrical	21
Ret	4	Philippe Streiff	Tyrrell-Ford	0	Accident	25
Source:[5]

Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 Nelson Piquet 54 2 Ayrton Senna 43 3 Nigel Mansell 39 4 Alain Prost 31 5 Stefan Johansson 19 Source:[6]

Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 1 Williams-Honda 93 2 McLaren-TAG 50 3 Lotus-Honda 49 4 Ferrari 17 5 Benetton-Ford 15 Source:[6]

Jim Clark Trophy standings Pos Driver Points 1 Jonathan Palmer 61 2 Philippe Streiff 45 3 Pascal Fabre 35 4 Philippe Alliot 25 5 Ivan Capelli 19

Colin Chapman Trophy standings Pos Constructor Points 1 Tyrrell-Ford 106 2 AGS-Ford 35 3 Lola-Ford 25 4 March-Ford 19

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for all four sets of standings.