1987 Belgian Grand Prix

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1987 Belgian Grand Prix
Race 3 of 16 in the 1987 Formula One World Championship
Race details
Date	17 May 1987
Official name	XLV Grand Prix de Belgique
Location	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps Francorchamps, Wallonia, Belgium[1]
Course	Permanent racing facility
Course length	6.940 km (4.312 miles)
Distance	43 laps, 298.420 km (185.429 miles)
Weather	Cloudy and cool
Pole position
Driver	Nigel Mansell	Williams-Honda
Time	1:52.026
Fastest lap
Driver	Alain Prost	McLaren-TAG
Time	1:57.153 on lap 26
Podium
First	Alain Prost	McLaren-TAG
Second	Stefan Johansson	McLaren-TAG
Third	Andrea de Cesaris	Brabham-BMW
Lap leaders

The 1987 Belgian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 17 May 1987 at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Francorchamps, Wallonia. Contested over 43 laps, the race was the 45th Belgian Grand Prix, the 33rd to be held at Spa and the fourth since the circuit was redeveloped in 1979, and the third race of the 1987 Formula One season.

The race was won by France's Alain Prost driving a McLaren-TAG. This was Prost's second victory of the 1987 season and his second in the Belgian Grand Prix (after 1983), as well as his 27th Grand Prix victory overall, equalling Jackie Stewart's all-time record. Prost's Swedish team-mate Stefan Johansson finished second, the only other driver on the same lap, giving McLaren their first 1-2 finish since the previous year's Monaco Grand Prix. Italy's Andrea de Cesaris, driving a Brabham-BMW, finished third despite having to push his car over the line as he had run out of fuel.

The win gave Prost a five-point lead over Johansson in the Drivers' Championship. Williams driver Nigel Mansell was three points further back; a first-lap collision with Ayrton Senna's Lotus had ultimately led to his retirement from the race, after which he angrily confronted the Brazilian driver in the Lotus garage.