Detroit Grand Prix

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Sun 21st June 1987 12:00am Local
Sun 21st June 1987 12:00am UTC

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League
Formula 1

Season
1987

Round
Round 5

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Detroit

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The 1987 Detroit Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on June 21, 1987, in Detroit, Michigan. It was the sixth Detroit Grand Prix. It was held over 63 laps of the four kilometre circuit for a race distance of 253 kilometres.
The race was won by Ayrton Senna in the Lotus 99T with its computer-controlled active suspension. It was the second win in succession for Senna after his victory at Monaco. The Lotus rode the bumpy street circuit far better than the competition allowing Senna to take care of his tyres and cruise to a 33-second victory over the Williams FW11B of Nelson Piquet with reigning world champion Alain Prost finishing third in his McLaren MP4/3.

Senna's back-to-back victories gave him a two-point lead in the championship over Prost, but it would be a brief surge. Senna would not win again this year. It would also be the last win in the very long history of Team Lotus which began with their first win in the 1961 United States Grand Prix. The next occasion on which a car bearing the Lotus name would win a Grand Prix was the 2012 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, won by Kimi Räikkönen driving for the Lotus F1 team.

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Result List

01	Ayrton Senna	Lotus F1	50:16.4
02	Nelson Piquet	Williams Racing	+0:33.819
03	Alain Prost	McLaren Formula 1 Team	+0:45.327
04	Gerhard Berger	Scuderia Ferrari HP	+1:02.601
05	Nigel Mansell	Williams Racing	+1 Lap
06	Eddie Cheever	Arrows Grand Prix International	+3 Laps
07	Stefan Johansson	McLaren Formula 1 Team	+3 Laps
08	Christian Danner	Zakspeed	+3 Laps
09	Riccardo Patrese	Brabham	+3 Laps
10	René Arnoux	Ligier	+3 Laps
11	Jonathan Palmer	Tyrrell Racing	+3 Laps
12	Pascal Fabre	AGS	+5 Laps
13	Thierry Boutsen	Benetton Formula	DNF
14	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Ligier	DNF
15	Philippe Streiff	Tyrrell Racing	DNF
17	Michele Alboreto	Scuderia Ferrari HP	DNF
18	Alessandro Nannini	Minardi	DNF
19	Martin Brundle	Zakspeed	DNF
20	Derek Warwick	Arrows Grand Prix International	DNF
21	Ivan Capelli	March Engineering	DNF
22	Teo Fabi	Benetton Formula	DNF
23	Alex Caffi	Osella	DNF
24	Andrea De Cesaris	Brabham	DNF
25	Adrián Campos	Minardi	DNF
26	Satoru Nakajima	Lotus F1	DNF