1987 World Touring Car Championship
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The 1987 World Touring Car Championship season was the inaugural World Touring Car Championship season. It commenced on 22 March 1987 and ended on 15 November after eleven races. The championship was open to Touring Cars complying with FIA Group A regulations. The Drivers title was won by Roberto Ravaglia and the Entrants title by Eggenberger Motorsport Ford Sierra No 7.[1]
Teams and drivers
Fifteen registered entries were received for the championship. Regulations imposed by last minute series promoter Bernie Ecclestone dictated that for teams to receive official points and prize money they must have paid the US$60,000 registration fee. This in fact saw a number of the top teams, most notably Tom Walkinshaw Racing who had been the team to beat in the 1984, 1985 and 1986 European Touring Car Championships, refuse to pay and virtually ignore the championship.
Among those who did commit to the championship were the Ford Europe backed Eggenberger Motorsport with their Texaco sponsored Ford Sierra turbo's, Andy Rouse's team who ran their own Sierra Cosworth, the factory backed BMW teams of West Germany's Schnitzer Motorsport and the Italian CiBiEmme and Bigazzi teams racing the new BMW M3 which had replaced the old 635 CSi as BMW's main challenger, and the Alfa Corse team with their factory Alfa Romeo 75 turbo's.
Although numerous other entries competed in races during the season only the following were eligible to score championship points. Ironically, two outright race winning teams in the championship were not eligible for championship points. Cars competed in three engine capacity divisions:
- Division 1: up to 1600 cm3
- Division 2: 1601 to 2500 cm3
- Division 3: Over 2500 cm3
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Calendar
Drivers in Italics were listed as a driver in the car but did not actually drive that car in the race.
| Round | Date | Country | Track, Event |
Overall winner | Winner championship | Report | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Driver - Laps / Car | # | Driver - Laps, overall position | |||||
| 1 | 22 March |  Italy |
Monza Monza 500 |
5 |  Allan Moffat John Harvey86 laps / Holden VL Commodore SS Group A |
79 | Walter Voulaz Marcello Cipriani 79 laps, 7th / Alfa Romeo 75 |
Report |
| 2 | 19 April |  Spain |
Jarama Jarama 4 Hours |
46 | Emanuele Pirro Roberto Ravaglia Roland Ratzenberger150 laps / BMW M3 |
46 | Emanuele Pirro Roberto Ravaglia Roland Ratzenberger 150 laps / BMW M3 |
Report |
| 3 | 10 May |  France |
Dijon Burgundy 500 |
42 | Gianfranco Brancatelli.svg.png){kind=small} Johnny Cecotto112 laps / BMW M3 |
42 | Gianfranco Brancatelli Johnny Cecotto 112 laps / BMW M3 |
Report |
| 4 | 12 July |  Germany |
Nürburgring Nürburgring Touring Car Grand Prix |
7 | Klaus Ludwig Klaus Niedzwiedz.svg.png){kind=small} Pierre Dieudonné *111 laps / Ford Sierra RS Cosworth |
7 | Klaus Ludwig Klaus Niedzwiedz Pierre Dieudonné * 111 laps / Ford Sierra RS Cosworth |
Report |
| 5 | 1-August 2 | Belgium |
Spa-Francorchamps Spa 24 Hours |
48 | Eric van de Poele Jean-Michel Martin Didier Theys 481 laps / BMW M3 |
43 | Luis Pérez-Sala Olivier Grouillard Winfried Vogt 473 laps, Runner-up / BMW M3 |
Report |
| 6 | 16 August |  Czechoslovakia |
Brno Grand Prix Brno |
7 | Klaus Ludwig Klaus Niedzwiedz 93 laps / Ford Sierra RS500 |
7 | Klaus Ludwig Klaus Niedzwiedz 93 laps / Ford Sierra RS500 |
Report |
| 7 | 6 September |  United Kingdom |
Silverstone RAC Tourist Trophy |
48 |  Enzo Calderari Fabio Mancini105 laps / BMW M3 |
46 | Emanuele Pirro Roberto Ravaglia Roland Ratzenberger * 105 laps, Runner-up / BMW M3 |
Report |
| 8 | 4 October | Australia |
Mount Panorama Bathurst 1000 |
10 | Peter McLeod Peter Brock David Parsons Jon Crooke * 158 laps / Holden VL Commodore SS Group A |
42 | Gianfranco Brancatelli Johnny Cecotto 154 laps / 7th / BMW M3 |
Report |
| 9 | 11 October | Australia |
Calder Park Calder 500 |
6 | Steve Soper Pierre Dieudonné Klaus Niedzwiedz * 120 laps / Ford Sierra RS500 |
6 | Steve Soper Pierre Dieudonné Klaus Niedzwiedz * 120 laps / Ford Sierra RS500 |
Report |
| 10 | 26 October |  New Zealand |
Wellington Wellington 500 |
7 | Klaus Ludwig Klaus Niedzwiedz 150 laps / Ford Sierra RS500 |
7 | Klaus Ludwig Klaus Niedzwiedz 150 laps / Ford Sierra RS500 |
Report |
| 11 | 15 November |  Japan |
Fuji InterTEC 500 |
6 | Klaus Ludwig Klaus Niedzwiedz 112 laps / Ford Sierra RS500 |
6 | Klaus Ludwig Klaus Niedzwiedz 112 laps / Ford Sierra RS500 |
Report |
Note: "Overall winner" in the above table refers to the overall race winner and "Winner championship" refers to the highest placed entry which had been registered for the championship.
Results and standings
Standings
Drivers' Championship
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Note: Race placings in the above table refer to the relative placings gained by registered championship entries and does not include other competitors.
Point system: 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1 awarded to the top ten finishers for both outright and divisional results. Therefore, a driver could be awarded up to 40 points in a race. Points were only allocated to drivers of cars registered for the World Championship.
Entrants Championship
| Position | Entrant | Division | Rd 1 | Rd 2 | Rd 3 | Rd 4 | Rd 5 | Rd 6 | Rd 7 | Rd 8 | Rd 9 | Rd 10 | Rd 11 | Total |
| 1 | Eggenberger Texaco Ford No 7 [1] | 3 | - | 30 | 25 | 40 | - | 40 | 30 | - | 23 | 40 | 40 | 268 |
| 2 | Schnitzer BMW M3 No 46 | 2 | - | 40 | - | 27 | 12 | 25 | 40 | - | 35 | 35 | 35 | 249 |
| 3 | Schnitzer BMW M3 No 40 | 2 | - | 30 | 30 | 35 | - | - | - | 24 | 27 | 25 | 27 | 198 |
| 4 | Eggenberger Texaco Ford No 6 | 3 | - | 23 | 32 | - | - | 30 | 16 | - | 40 | 27 | 25 | 193 |
| 5 | Bigazzi BMW M3 No 43 | 2 | - | 24 | - | 22 | 40 | 32 | - | 30 | - | - | 16 | 164 |
| 6 | CiBiEmme Sport BMW M3 No 42 | 2 | - | 16 | 40 | - | - | 20 | - | 40 | 22 | - | 20 | 158 |
Point system: 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1 awarded to the top ten finishers for both outright and divisional results. Therefore, an entry could be awarded up to 40 points in a race. Points were allocated only to entries which were registered for the World Championship.
See also
References
- 1987 World Touring Car Championship - from History of the European Touring Car Championship
- 1987 World Touring Car Championship - Touring Car Racing.net
External links
- 1987 WTCC race results Retrieved from Motorsport Almanac on 30 September 2008
- Images from 1987 WTCC Round 5 – Spa 24 Hour – Spa Francorchamps Retrieved from Racing Sports Cars on 30 September 2008
- Images from 1987 WTCC Round 7 – Tourist Trophy - Silverstone Retrieved from Racing Sports Cars on 30 September 2008
- Images from 1987 WTCC Round 8 – James Hardie 1000 - Bathurst Retrieved from Autopics on 30 September 2008
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