1987 360 km of Jarama

The 360 ​​- km race at Jarama 1987 took place on March 22, held at the Circuito del Jarama and was the first championship round of the World Sportscar Championship this year.

The race

With the 360 - km race at Jarama began in March 1987, the World Sportscar Championship this year. The race had near Madrid with only 360 racing kilometers, the shortest distance of all races of the season and was only slightly longer than a Formula 1 Grand Prix. The Swiss racing team Brun Motorsport, who had won the year before the World Cup, came with three cars to Spain. Hazards were the Porsche 962C by Oscar Larrauri / Jésus Pareja, Massimo Sigala / Gianfranco Brancatelli and Frank Jelinski and the team owner Walter Brun itself Another 962C was reported by the Porsche factory team.

In training already demonstrated the superiority of the new Jaguar XJR- 8, the previous Jaguar emergency vehicles, the XJR -6 replaced. Eddie Cheever drove the fastest lap time, which corresponded to an average speed of 159.957 km / h in 1.14,451 minutes.

However, the race ended with one of the closest inlets of sports car history. Jan Lammers and John Watson won by a margin of 1.6 seconds for the Porsche of Hans -Joachim Stuck and Derek Bell. In group C2 Fermín Vélez and Gordon Spice won on a Spice SE86C.

Results

Final ranking

1 engine failure in training 2 training cart

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Here are the teams, drivers and vehicles that were originally registered for the competition, but it did not participate for various reasons.

Class winner

Race data

  • Reported: 26
  • Started: 17
  • Weather on race day: warm and dry
  • Distance: 3312 km
  • Distance of the winning team: 361.012 km
  • Winners section: 144.464 km / h
  • Pole Position: Eddie Cheever - Jaguar XJR -8 ( # 4) - 1.14.531 - 159.957 km / h
  • Race series: first round of the brands World Cup
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