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1987 / PIQUET

A scrolling recap of 1987 in six acts. The champion, the constructor, the bump chart, and the race-by-race podiums.

ACT 1 CUMULATIVE TRAJECTORY

The points reel out, race after race.

Every line is a driver's running championship total. The heaviest three at the top are the ones who mattered. Nelson Piquet closed the year on 73 points, a 12-point gap over P2.

DATA TABLE · CUMULATIVE POINTS

Cumulative points by driver and round for 1987
DRIVER	R01	R02	R03	R04	R05	R06	R07	R08	R09	R10	R11	R12	R13	R14	R15	R16
Nelson Piquet	6	6	6	12	18	24	30	39	48	54	63	67	70	73	73	73
Nigel Mansell	1	10	10	10	12	21	30	30	30	39	43	43	52	61	61	61
Ayrton Senna	0	6	6	15	24	27	31	35	41	43	49	49	51	51	57	57
Alain Prost	9	9	18	18	22	26	26	26	30	31	31	40	46	46	46	46
Gerhard Berger	3	3	3	6	9	9	9	9	9	9	12	18	18	18	27	36
Stefan Johansson	4	7	13	13	13	13	13	19	19	19	20	22	26	26	30	30
Michele Alboreto	0	4	4	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	11	17
Thierry Boutsen	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	5	8	10	10	10	10	12	16
Teo Fabi	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	3	3	7	7	10	10	12	12	12
Eddie Cheever	0	0	3	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	8	8	8

ACT 2 CONSTRUCTORS

Two-car teams, one trophy.

The constructors' championship is a different game — both cars score. A team can win it with consistent doubles even when neither driver leads the standings. Williams–Honda ended on 137 points.

DATA

Constructor championship standings for 1987
POS	CONSTRUCTOR	PTS
P1	WILLIAMS–HONDA	137
P2	MCLAREN–TAG	76
P3	LOTUS–HONDA	64
P4	FERRARI	53
P5	BENETTON–FORD	28
P6	TYRRELL–FORD	11
P7	ARROWS–MEGATRON	11
P8	BRABHAM–BMW	10
P9	LOLA–FORD	3
P10	ZAKSPEED	2
P11	LIGIER–MEGATRON	1
P11	MARCH–FORD	1
P11	AGS–FORD	1

ACT 3 STANDINGS BUMP

Position by position, week to week.

Cumulative points hide where the order actually changed. The bump chart ranks every driver after each race — every crossing of lines is somebody passing somebody in the table.

DRIVER TRACES · TAP TO ISOLATE

DATA TABLE · OFFICIAL RANK BY ROUND

Official championship rank by driver and round for 1987
DRIVER	R01	R02	R03	R04	R05	R06	R07	R08	R09	R10	R11	R12	R13	R14	R15	R16
Nelson Piquet	P2	P4	P4	P4	P3	P3	P3	P1	P1	P1	P1	P1	P1	P1	P1	P1
Nigel Mansell	P6	P1	P3	P5	P5	P4	P2	P3	P3	P3	P3	P3	P2	P2	P2	P2
Ayrton Senna	—	P4	P4	P2	P1	P1	P1	P2	P2	P2	P2	P2	P3	P3	P3	P3
Alain Prost	P1	P2	P1	P1	P2	P2	P4	P4	P4	P4	P4	P4	P4	P4	P4	P4
Gerhard Berger	P4	P7	P8	P7	P6	P6	P6	P6	P6	P6	P6	P6	P6	P6	P6	P5
Stefan Johansson	P3	P3	P2	P3	P4	P5	P5	P5	P5	P5	P5	P5	P5	P5	P5	P6
Michele Alboreto	—	P6	P6	P6	P7	P7	P7	P7	P7	P7	P8	P9	P9	P9	P9	P7
Thierry Boutsen	P5	P8	P11	P11	P11	P11	P12	P14	P9	P8	P7	P8	P8	P8	P8	P8
Teo Fabi	—	—	—	—	—	P11	P11	P13	P14	P9	P9	P7	P7	P7	P7	P9
Eddie Cheever	—	—	P8	P9	P9	P9	P10	P10	P11	P12	P12	P11	P11	P10	P10	P10
Jonathan Palmer	—	—	—	P11	P11	P11	P12	P12	P11	P12	P14	P14	P14	P15	P15	P11
Satoru Nakajima	—	P10	P10	P10	P10	P10	P8	P8	P8	P10	P10	P10	P10	P12	P11	P12
Riccardo Patrese	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	P16	P16	P16	P16	P16	P11	P12	P13
Andrea de Cesaris	—	—	P6	P8	P8	P8	P9	P9	P10	P11	P11	P12	P12	P13	P13	P14
Philippe Streiff	—	—	—	—	—	P15	P16	P10	P11	P12	P12	P13	P13	P14	P14	P15

ACT 4 RACE-BY-RACE

11 drivers stood on a podium.

5 different drivers won a race. Tap any chip to pin a driver's appearances across the calendar — the matching tiles light up. Empty bars mean a race where the chosen driver missed the top three.

PODIUM DRIVERS

R01 BRAZIL

1 PROST

2 PIQUET

3 JOHANSSON

R02 SAN MARI

1 MANSELL

2 SENNA

3 ALBORETO

R03 BELGIUM

1 PROST

2 JOHANSSON

3 CESARIS

R04 MONACO

1 SENNA

2 PIQUET

3 ALBORETO

R05 DETROIT

1 SENNA

2 PIQUET

3 PROST

R06 FRANCE

1 MANSELL

2 PIQUET

3 PROST

R07 GREAT BR

1 MANSELL

2 PIQUET

3 SENNA

R08 GERMANY

1 PIQUET

2 JOHANSSON

3 SENNA

R09 HUNGARY

1 PIQUET

2 SENNA

3 PROST

R10 AUSTRIA

1 MANSELL

2 PIQUET

3 FABI

R11 ITALY

1 PIQUET

2 SENNA

3 MANSELL

R12 PORTUGAL

1 PROST

2 BERGER

3 PIQUET

R13 SPAIN

1 MANSELL

2 PROST

3 JOHANSSON

R14 MEXICO

1 MANSELL

2 PIQUET

3 PATRESE

R15 JAPAN

1 BERGER

2 SENNA

3 JOHANSSON

R16 AUSTRALI

1 BERGER

2 ALBORETO

3 BOUTSEN

DATA TABLE · RACE PODIUMS

Race-by-race podium finishers for 1987
ROUND	RACE	P1	P2	P3
R01 · Grande Prêmio do Brasil 1987	Grande Prêmio do Brasil 1987	PROST	PIQUET	JOHANSSON
R02 · Gran Premio di San Marino 1987	Gran Premio di San Marino 1987	MANSELL	SENNA	ALBORETO
R03 · 1987 Belgian Grand Prix	1987 Belgian Grand Prix	PROST	JOHANSSON	CESARIS
R04 · Grand Prix de Monaco 1987	Grand Prix de Monaco 1987	SENNA	PIQUET	ALBORETO
R05 · 1987 Detroit Grand Prix	1987 Detroit Grand Prix	SENNA	PIQUET	PROST
R06 · Grand Prix de France 1987	Grand Prix de France 1987	MANSELL	PIQUET	PROST
R07 · 1987 Shell Oils British Grand Prix	1987 Shell Oils British Grand Prix	MANSELL	PIQUET	SENNA
R08 · Mobil Grosser Preis von Deutschland 1987	Mobil Grosser Preis von Deutschland 1987	PIQUET	JOHANSSON	SENNA
R09 · Magyar Nagydíj 1987	Magyar Nagydíj 1987	PIQUET	SENNA	PROST
R10 · Grosser Preis von Österreich 1987	Grosser Preis von Österreich 1987	MANSELL	PIQUET	FABI
R11 · Gran Premio d'Italia 1987	Gran Premio d'Italia 1987	PIQUET	SENNA	MANSELL
R12 · Grande Prémio de Portugal 1987	Grande Prémio de Portugal 1987	PROST	BERGER	PIQUET
R13 · Gran Premio Tio Pepe de España 1987	Gran Premio Tio Pepe de España 1987	MANSELL	PROST	JOHANSSON
R14 · Gran Premio de México 1987	Gran Premio de México 1987	MANSELL	PIQUET	PATRESE
R15 · 1987 Fuji Television Japanese Grand Prix	1987 Fuji Television Japanese Grand Prix	BERGER	SENNA	JOHANSSON
R16 · 1987 Foster's Australian Grand Prix	1987 Foster's Australian Grand Prix	BERGER	ALBORETO	BOUTSEN

EPILOGUE BY THE NUMBERS

The year in five numbers.

ROUNDS

16

DRIVERS

21

WINNERS

5

PODIUM·DRIVERS

11

POINTS·SHARED

395

CHAMPION

Nelson Piquet

73 PTS · 3 WINS

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