1987 British Grand Prix

At the start, Prost was the quickest and took the lead, only to be passed by Piquet at Maggotts; Mansell soon followed his teammate. The race then developed into a battle between the two Williams drivers, with Piquet leading.

On lap 35, Mansell was around two seconds behind his teammate. Both Williams drivers were scheduled to complete the race without a tyre change, but Mansell and the team elected to make a stop to change tyres. Mansell rejoined the race some 29 seconds behind Piquet, with 28 laps remaining. On fresh rubber, Mansell began an epic charge, breaking the lap record eight times to the delight of the over 100,000 strong British crowd.

By lap 62 Mansell was right on Piquet's tail, and on lap 63 the Englishman overtook his teammate. Shortly after crossing the finish line, Mansell's car slowed down and was engulfed by the crowd. Initially it was thought that he had run out of fuel, but he had actually blown up the engine, out of the stress of running the last 6 laps on "Q" mode (which gives the engine +100 hp), and risking running out of fuel at any moment (his fuel display was reading "minus 2.5 laps"). In fact that incident was the last straw for the patience of the Honda management, since it had – again – threatened their easily attainable 1-2 result. Honda would switch their supply of engines from Williams to McLaren for 1988, while Piquet would sign for Lotus – also running Hondas – in the following weeks.^[1] Senna finished third, one lap down, with a further lap back to teammate Satoru Nakajima in fourth. Derek Warwick was fifth in the Arrows-Megatron, with Fabi completing the top six.

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

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	5	Nigel Mansell	Williams-Honda	65	1:19:11.780	2	9
2	6	Nelson Piquet	Williams-Honda	65	+ 1.918	1	6
3	12	Ayrton Senna	Lotus-Honda	64	+ 1 lap	3	4
4	11	Satoru Nakajima	Lotus-Honda	63	+ 2 laps	12	3
5	17	Derek Warwick	Arrows-Megatron	63	+ 2 laps	13	2
6	19	Teo Fabi	Benetton-Ford	63	+ 2 laps	6	1
7	20	Thierry Boutsen	Benetton-Ford	62	+ 3 laps	5
8 (1)	3	Jonathan Palmer	Tyrrell-Ford	60	+ 5 laps	23
9 (2)	14	Pascal Fabre	AGS-Ford	59	+ 6 laps	25
Ret	4	Philippe Streiff	Tyrrell-Ford	57	Engine	22
NC	9	Martin Brundle	Zakspeed	54	+ 11 laps	17
Ret	1	Alain Prost	McLaren-TAG	53	Engine	4
Ret	27	Michele Alboreto	Ferrari	52	Suspension	7
Ret	18	Eddie Cheever	Arrows-Megatron	45	Engine	14
Ret	23	Adrián Campos	Minardi-Motori Moderni	34	Fuel system	19
Ret	21	Alex Caffi	Osella-Alfa Romeo	32	Engine	20
Ret	10	Christian Danner	Zakspeed	32	Gearbox	18
Ret	7	Riccardo Patrese	Brabham-BMW	28	Turbo	11
Ret	2	Stefan Johansson	McLaren-TAG	18	Engine	10
Ret	24	Alessandro Nannini	Minardi-Motori Moderni	10	Engine	15
Ret	8	Andrea de Cesaris	Brabham-BMW	8	Turbo	9
Ret	28	Gerhard Berger	Ferrari	7	Accident	8
Ret	30	Philippe Alliot	Lola-Ford	7	Gearbox	21
Ret	25	René Arnoux	Ligier-Megatron	3	Electrical	16
Ret	16	Ivan Capelli	March-Ford	3	Accident	24
EX	26	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Ligier-Megatron	0	Excluded	19
Source:[2]

• ^1 * Piercarlo Ghinzani was excluded from the race due to refuelling his car on the track during qualifying.

Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 Ayrton Senna 31 2 Nigel Mansell 30 3 Nelson Piquet 30 4 Alain Prost 26 5 Stefan Johansson 13 Source:[3]

Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 1 Williams-Honda 60 2 McLaren-TAG 39 3 Lotus-Honda 37 4 Ferrari 17 5 Arrows-Megatron 6 Source:[3]

Jim Clark Trophy standings Pos Driver Points 1 Jonathan Palmer 42 2 Pascal Fabre 34 3 Philippe Streiff 30 4 Philippe Alliot 15 5 Ivan Capelli 6

Colin Chapman Trophy standings Pos Constructor Points 1 Tyrrell-Ford 72 2 AGS-Ford 32 3 Lola-Ford 15 4 March-Ford 6

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