1987 Grand Prix Brno

1987 Grand Prix Brno

Race details
Round 6 of 11 in the 1987 World Touring Car Championship at Masaryk Circuit in Brno, Czechoslovakia.
Date	16 August, 1987
Location	Brno, Czechoslovakia
Course	Masaryk Circuit 5.403 kilometres (3.357 mi)
Laps 93 Pole position Driver Klaus Ludwig Eggenberger Motorsport Time 2:10.510 Podium First Klaus Ludwig Klaus Niedzwiedz Eggenberger Motorsport Second Steve Soper Pierre Dieudonné Eggenberger Motorsport Third Luis Pérez-Sala Olivier Grouillard Bigazzi Fastest Lap Driver Klaus Ludwig Eggenberger Motorsport Time 2:09.080

The 1987 Grand Prix Brno was the sixth round of the inaugural World Touring Car Championship. The race was held for cars eligible for Group A touring car regulations. It was held on August 16, 1987, at the Masaryk Circuit, in Brno, Czechoslovakia.

The race was won by the Eggenberger Motorsport pairing of Klaus Ludwig and Klaus Niedzwiedz. They drove the newly homologated Ford Sierra RS500, which proved much faster and far more reliable than the Ford Sierra RS Cosworths the team had been using to that point of the season.

Class structure[]

Cars were divided into three classes based on engine capacity:

• Division 1: 1-1600cc
• Division 2: 1601-2500cc
• Division 3: Over 2500cc

Official results[]

Results were as follows:^[1][2]

Pos	Class	No	Team	Drivers	Car	Laps	Qual Pos	Series Points
1	3	7	Eggenberger Motorsport	Klaus Ludwig Klaus Niedzwiedz	Ford Sierra RS500	93	1	40
2	3	6	Eggenberger Motorsport	Steve Soper Pierre Dieudonné	Ford Sierra RS500	93	2	30
3	2	43	Bigazzi	Luis Pérez-Sala Olivier Grouillard	BMW M3	92	10	32
4	2	46	BMW Motorsport	Roland Ratzenberger Roberto Ravaglia Markus Oestreich	BMW M3	92	6	25
5	2	42	CiBiEmme Sport	Johnny Cecotto Gianfranco Brancatelli	BMW M3	92	7	20
6	2	80	Q-Racing	Steven Andskär	Alfa Romeo 75	91	13	16
7	2	52	BMW Alpina	Fabien Giroix Ellen Lohr	BMW M3	91	8
8	2	48	CiBiEmme Sport		BMW M3	91	14
9	2	78	Brixia Corse	Carlo Rossi Alessandro Santin	Alfa Romeo 75	91	17	12
10	2	75	Alfa Corse	Jacques Laffite Paolo Barilla	Alfa Romeo 75	90		9
11	3	19	CiBiEmme Sport		BMW 635CSi	89
12	2	76	Alfa Corse	D'Avanzu	Alfa Romeo 75	88	22	6
13	2	51	ÚAMK		BMW M3	88	19
14	3	11	Wolf Racing Barclay	Joachim Winkelhock Frank Biela	Ford Sierra RS500	88	4
15	2	47	BMW Motorsport	Mercedes Stermitz	BMW M3	87	25
16	2	49	Külker SC Team		BMW M3	87
17	2	77	Brixia Corse	Gabriele Tarquini	Alfa Romeo 75	87	15	4
18	2	86			BMW 325i	86
19	1	95			Toyota Corolla GT	84	32
20	1	93	Gruen Racing Team		Toyota Corolla GT	83
21	2	58	Racing Services International		BMW 325i	83
22	1	100	Alfa Romeo		Alfa Romeo 33	81
23	2	59	Racing Services International		BMW M3	80	16
24	3	1	Pro Team Italia/Imberti	Bruno Giacomelli Armin Hahne	Maserati Biturbo	78	12	12
25	2	84	Helmut König		BMW M3	77
26	1	96	Fina Racing Team		Toyota Corolla GT	74
DNF	3	18	CiBiEmme Sport		BMW 635CSi	75
DNF	2	53	Racing Services International		BMW M3	73	18
DNF	1	115	Scuderia Alfasud		Alfa Romeo Alfasud	66
DNF	1	102	Seikel Motorsport		Audi 80	52
DNF	1	112	Team Motorsport Praha		Toyota Corolla GT	44
DNF	1	90	Toyota Schweiz AG		Toyota Corolla GT	32
DNF	2	57	Marko AMG	Franz Klammer	Mercedes 190E	31	23
DNF	3	8	Andy Rouse Engineering	Andy Rouse Thierry Tassin	Ford Sierra RS500	29	3
DNF	2	40	Schnitzer Motorsport	Roberto Ravaglia Emanuele Pirro Markus Oestreich	BMW M3	2	5
DNF	2	79	Alfa Corse	Giorgio Francia Nicola Larini	Alfa Romeo 75	0	9
DNS	3	23			BMW 635CSi

• Drivers in italics practiced in the car but did not take part in the race.

See also[]

• 1987 World Touring Car Championship

References[]