1987 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
The 1987 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 39th F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season.
Season summary
Venezuelan
The Portuguese round was held in
The last round was in Argentina, which had not hosted a motorcycle Grand Prix since 1982. But appalling organization of the event saw the race nearly boycotted by the riders and their teams, and the race turned out to be a farcical embarrassment for the organizers. The safety of the Autodromo Buenos Aires (which was an arena-type circuit that was comparably easy to make safe, compared to other circuits) was totally unsuitable for racing; the organization of this Grand Prix was so bad that spectators had easy access to the circuit while the races were going on. The Argentine Grand Prix did not return until 1994.[4]
1987 Grand Prix season calendar
The following Grands Prix were scheduled to take place in 1987:[5][6]
Round | Date | Grand Prix | Circuit |
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1 | 29 March | Grand Prix of Japan | Suzuka Circuit
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2 | 26 April | Marlboro Gran Premio de España | Circuito Permanente de Jerez
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3 | 17 May | Großer Preis von Deutschland | Hockenheimring |
4 | 24 May | Gran Premio delle Nazioni | Autodromo Nazionale Monza
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5 | 7 June | Großer Preis von Österreich | Salzburgring |
6 | 14 June | Yu Grand Prix
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Automotodrom Rijeka |
7 | 27 June | Dutch TT | TT Circuit Assen |
8 | 19 July | Grand Prix de France | Bugatti Circuit
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9 | 2 August | Shell Oils British Motorcycle Grand Prix | Donington Park |
10 | 9 August | Swedish TT | Scandinavian Raceway
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11 | 23 August | Grand Prix ČSSR-Brno | Brno Circuit
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12 | 30 August | Grand Prix San Marino | Circuito Internazionale Santa Monica
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13 | 13 September | Gran Premio Marlboro de Portugal | Circuito Permanente Del Jarama
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14 | 27 September | GP Brasil | Autódromo Internacional de Goiânia |
15 | 4 October | Gran Prix da la República Argentina
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Autódromo Oscar Alfredo Gálvez
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Calendar changes
- The Suzuka Circuit instead of the previously used Fuji Speedway.
- The Jerezcircuit.
- The Spanish Grand Prix was moved back, from 4 May to 29 April.
- The German Grand Prix moved from the Nürburgring to the Hockenheimring.
- The British Grand Prix moved from the Silverstone circuit to Donington Park.
- The Jaramacircuit in Spain was chosen to host the venue instead.
- The Argentine Grand Prixwere added to the calendar. The Brazilian round was completely new, while the Argentine round returned after a 4-year absence.
Results and standings
Grands Prix
Participants
500cc participants
250cc participants
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Final standings
500cc standings
- Scoring system
Points are awarded to the top ten finishers. A rider has to finish the race to earn points.
Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th |
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Points | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Pos. | Rider | Bike | Team | JPN |
ESP |
GER |
NAT |
AUT |
YUG |
NED |
FRA |
GBR |
SWE |
SMR |
POR |
BRA |
ARG |
Pts | |
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1 | Wayne Gardner | Honda | Rothmans Honda | 2 | 1F | 10P F | 1P F | 1P F | 1P F | 2P | 4 | 2P | 1P F | 1P F | 3 | 4F | 1P F | 3P | 178 |
2 | Randy Mamola | Yamaha | Team Lucky Strike Roberts | 1F | 6 | 2 | Ret | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1F | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1F | 2P | 3 | 2 | 158 |
3 | Eddie Lawson | Yamaha | Marlboro Yamaha Team-Agostini | Ret | 2P | 1 | 2 | Ret | 3 | 1F | Ret | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2P | 1 | 2 | 1 | 157 |
4 | Ron Haslam | Honda | Elf-Honda | 5 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 14 | Ret | 9 | 11 | 10 | 72 |
5 | Niall Mackenzie | Honda | HB-Honda | RetP | 4 | 7 | 10 | 3 | DNS | Ret | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 61 |
6 | Tadahiko Taira | Yamaha | Marlboro Yamaha Team-Agostini | 6 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 18 | 8F | 13 | 3 | 4 | Ret | 7 | 8 | 56 | |
7 | Christian Sarron | Yamaha | Sonauto-Gauloises | Ret | Ret | Ret | 3 | 6 | DNS | Ret | 3P | 4 | Ret | 7 | 8 | 5 | 5 | Ret | 52 |
8 | Pierfrancesco Chili | Honda | HB Honda | 4 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 12 | Ret | 9 | Ret | 7 | 9 | 9 | 47 |
9 | Shunji Yatsushiro | Honda | Rothmans Honda | Ret | 8 | Ret | Ret | 7 | 8 | 14 | 8 | 11 | Ret | 6 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 40 |
10 | Robert McElnea | Yamaha | Marlboro Yamaha Team-Agostini | Ret | Ret | 5 | 4 | 5 | Ret | 4 | Ret | Ret | 4 | 8 | Ret | Ret | Ret | DNS | 39 |
11 | Roger Burnett | Honda | Rothmans Honda | 8 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 6 | Ret | 25 | ||
12 | Didier de Radigues
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Cagiva | Team Cagiva-Alstare | Ret | Ret | 12 | Ret | 12 | DNS | 6 | Ret | 6 | 8 | 12 | Ret | Ret | 4 | Ret | 21 |
13 | Raymond Roche | Cagiva | Team Cagiva-Alstare | 10 | Ret | Ret | 9 | Ret | 5 | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | 5 | 15 | ||
14 | Kenny Irons | Suzuki | Heron-Suzuki | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | 10 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 9 | Ret | Ret | 12 | |||
15 | Kevin Magee | Yamaha | Team Lucky Strike-Roberts | NC | 10 | 3 | 11 | ||||||||||||
16 | Kevin Schwantz | Suzuki | Heron-Suzuki | 5 | 8 | 9 | 11 | ||||||||||||
17 | Takumi Ito | Suzuki | Suzuki Japan | 3 | 10 | ||||||||||||||
18 | Mike Baldwin | Yamaha | Team Lucky Strike Roberts | Ret | Ret | DNS | 10 | 6 | 6 | ||||||||||
19 | Gustav Reiner | Honda | Hein Gericke Racing | Ret | Ret | 9 | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | 9 | 10 | 5 | |||||
20 | Hiroyuki Kawasaki | Yamaha | Yamaha Japan | 7 | 4 | ||||||||||||||
21 | Freddie Spencer | Honda | HRC | DNS | 7 | 11 | Ret | DNS | 4 | ||||||||||
22 | Richard Scott | Honda | Honda | 10 | 13 | 13 | 11 | Ret | 3 | ||||||||||
Yamaha | Team Lucky Strike Roberts | 11 | 9 | Ret | Ret | 13 | 13 | ||||||||||||
23 | Shinji Katayama | Yamaha | Yamaha Japan | 9 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
24 | Marco Gentile | Honda | Lucky Strike Fior | Ret | 12 | Ret | Ret | Ret | 23 | 13 | 11 | 14 | 21 | Ret | 10 | Ret | 12 | 11 | 1 |
Bruno Kneubühler | Honda | Bruno Kneubühler | 18 | 11 | 14 | Ret | 15 | 21 | Ret | 17 | 14 | Ret | 15 | 11 | 0 | ||||
Ray Swann | Honda | Honda | 11 | DNS | Ret | 22 | Ret | 14 | 13 | 0 | |||||||||
Daniel Amatriain | Honda | Honda | 16 | 19 | Ret | 22 | 17 | 11 | Ret | 0 | |||||||||
Norio Iobe | Honda | Honda | 11 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Fabio Biliotti | Honda | Servisco | Ret | 14 | 20 | 13 | 12 | DNS | 15 | 12 | Ret | Ret | Ret | 0 | |||||
Manfred Fischer | Honda | Hein Gericke Racing | Ret | 12 | 18 | Ret | 12 | Ret | 15 | 16 | 0 | ||||||||
Simon Buckmaster | Honda | Duckhams NLM Honda | 13 | 15 | 20 | DNS | 17 | 16 | 12 | 13 | Ret | 17 | 17 | 18 | 14 | 0 | |||
Wolfgang von Muralt | Suzuki | Frankonia-Suzuki | 14 | 17 | Ret | 14 | 14 | Ret | Ret | 16 | Ret | Ret | Ret | 12 | 13 | DNS | 0 | ||
Alessandro Valesi | Honda | Team Iberna | Ret | 14 | DNS | 18 | 15 | 13 | Ret | Ret | 19 | Ret | Ret | 12 | Ret | 0 | |||
Gerhard Vogt
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Suzuki | Suzuki | 17 | 15 | 12 | 0 | |||||||||||||
Hisashi Yamana | Yamaha | Yamaha | 12 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Fabio Barchitta | Honda | Honda | 16 | 17 | 17 | 15 | Ret | 24 | 18 | 16 | 13 | Ret | 0 | ||||||
Vincenzo Cascino | Suzuki | Suzuki | 22 | 18 | 14 | 13 | 0 | ||||||||||||
Thierry Rapicault | Honda | Fior-SNCF | 13 | Ret | Ret | 0 | |||||||||||||
Silvo Habat | Honda | FE-GO | Ret | 21 | Ret | 19 | 14 | 25 | Ret | Ret | 0 | ||||||||
Massimo Broccoli | Honda | Honda | 15 | 18 | 15 | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||
Maarten Duyzers | Honda | H.D.J. B.Y. | 19 | 22 | DNS | 22 | 15 | 23 | 20 | DNS | 0 | ||||||||
Esko Kuparinen | Yamaha | Yamaha | 15 | Ret | 22 | 0 | |||||||||||||
Henry Boerman | Assmex | Assmex | 26 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Honda | Honda | 15 | |||||||||||||||||
Donnie MacLeod | Suzuki | Heron Suzuki GB | 15 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Gerold Fischer | Honda | Honda | Ret | 21 | Ret | 19 | 21 | 16 | 24 | 18 | 0 | ||||||||
Marco Papa | Honda | Honda | 18 | 16 | DNS | 17 | 0 | ||||||||||||
Karl Truchsess | Honda | Honda | 16 | Ret | Ret | 20 | 0 | ||||||||||||
Ian Pratt | Honda | Honda | 20 | 16 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Vittoria Scatola | Paton | Paton | 21 | Ret | 16 | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||
Peter Sköld | Honda | Honda | 16 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Steve Manley | Suzuki | Suzuki | 23 | 24 | 17 | 0 | |||||||||||||
Ari Rämö | Honda | Honda | 17 | Ret | 23 | 0 | |||||||||||||
Herve Guilleux
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Fior | Fior-SNCF | 20 | 20 | Ret | 18 | Ret | Ret | Ret | 0 | |||||||||
Daniel Pauget | Honda | Honda | 18 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Jean-Luc Maisto | Honda | Honda | 20 | 22 | 19 | 0 | |||||||||||||
Plein-Pot | Plein-Pot | Ret | 21 | ||||||||||||||||
Rudolf Zeller | Honda | Honda | 25 | 19 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Andreas Leuthe | Honda | Andy Leuthe | Ret | Ret | 19 | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||
Vittorio Gibertini | Suzuki | Suzuki | 19 | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Rachel Nicotte | Suzuki | Suzuki | 19 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Romolo Balbi | Honda | Honda | 19 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Josef Doppler | Honda | Honda | Ret | 20 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Joey Dunlop | Honda | Honda | 20 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Tony Carey | Suzuki | Suzuki | 21 | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Alan Jeffery
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Suzuki | Suzuki | Ret | 21 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Claus Wulff | Honda | Honda | Ret | 21 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Marco Marchesani | Suzuki | Suzuki | Ret | 21 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Georg Jung | Honda | Honda | 24 | 23 | 22 | 0 | |||||||||||||
Christoph Bürki | Honda | Honda | 22 | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Alan Irwin | Honda | Honda | 22 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Pavol Dekanek | Honda | Honda | Ret | Ret | 23 | 0 | |||||||||||||
Larry Moreno Vacondio | Suzuki | Suzuki | 24 | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Helmut Schütz | Honda | Honda | 25 | Ret | Ret | 0 | |||||||||||||
Dimitrios Papandreou
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Suzuki | Suzuki | 25 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Geir Hestmann | Suzuki | Suzuki | 25 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Dietmar Marehardt | Suzuki | Suzuki | 25 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Michael Rudroff | Honda | Honda | Ret | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Mark Phillips | Honda | Honda | Ret | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Susumu Shimada | Suzuki | Suzuki | Ret | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Norihiko Fujiwara | Yamaha | Yamaha | Ret | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Keiji Kinoshita | Honda | Honda | Ret | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Masaru Mizutani | Suzuki | Suzuki | Ret | 0 | |||||||||||||||
José Parra | Suzuki | Suzuki | Ret | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Franz Kaserer | Suzuki | Suzuki | Ret | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Rob Punt | Suzuki | Suzuki | Ret | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Henk van der Mark | Suzuki | Suzuki | Ret | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Kees van der Endt | Honda | Honda | Ret | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Roger Marshall | Honda | Honda | Ret | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Andy McGladdery | Honda | Honda | Ret | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Steve Henshaw | Honda | Honda | Ret | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Peter Linden | Honda | Honda | Ret | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Leandro Becheroni | Honda | Honda | Ret | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Osamu Hiwatashi | Honda | Honda | DNS | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Kenny Roberts | Yamaha | Team Lucky Strike Roberts | DNS | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Koos van Leijen | Suzuki | Suzuki | DNS | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Rolf Aljes | Suzuki | Suzuki | DNS | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Pos. | Rider | Bike | Team | JPN |
ESP |
GER |
NAT |
AUT |
YUG |
NED |
FRA |
GBR |
SWE |
SMR |
POR |
BRA |
ARG |
Pts |
250cc standings
Place | Rider | Number | Country | Team | Machine | Points | Wins |
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1 | Anton Mang | 4 | West Germany | Rothmans-Honda | NSR250 | 136 | 8 |
2 | Reinhold Roth | 24 | West Germany | HB Römer-Honda | NSR250 | 108 | 1 |
3 | Sito Pons | 2 | Spain | Campsa-Honda | NSR250 | 108 | 1 |
4 | Dominique Sarron | 3 | France | Rothmans-Honda France | NSR250 | 97 | 1 |
5 | Carlos Cardús | 12 | Spain | Ducados-Honda | NSR250 | 70 | 0 |
6 | Loris Reggiani | 32 | Italy | Aprilia | RS250 | 68 | 1 |
7 | Luca Cadalora | 22 | Italy | Marlboro-Yamaha | YZR250 | 63 | 0 |
8 | Martin Wimmer | 6 | West Germany | Marlboro-Yamaha | YZR250 | 61 | 1 |
9 | Jacques Cornu | 7 | Switzerland | Parisienne Elf-Honda | NSR250 | 50 | 0 |
10 | Carlos Lavado | 1 | Venezuela | HB Venemotos-Yamaha | YZR250 | 46 | 1 |
11 | Juan Garriga
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Spain | Ducados-Yamaha | YZR250 | 46 | ||
12 | Patrick Igoa | France | Yamaha | YZR250 | 42 | ||
13 | Masahiro Shimizu | Japan | Honda | 20 | |||
14 | Masaru Kobayashi | Japan | Honda | 15 | 1 | ||
15 | Manfred Herweh | West Germany | 11 | ||||
16 | Ivan Palazzese
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Venezuela | 9 | ||||
17 | Jean Philippe Ruggia
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France | Yamaha | 7 | |||
18 | Jean-François Baldé | France | 6 | ||||
19 | Maurizio Vitali | Italy | 6 | ||||
20 | Hans Lindner | Austria | 5 | ||||
21 | Urs Lüzi | Switzerland | 5 | ||||
22 | Donnie McLeod | United Kingdom | 4 | ||||
23 | Stephane Mertens
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Belgium | 2 | ||||
24 | Masumitsu Taguchi | Japan | 2 | ||||
25 | Guy Bertin | France | 1 | ||||
26 | Stefano Caracchi | France | 1 | ||||
27 | Takayoshi Yamamoto | Japan | 1 |
125cc standings
Place | Rider | Number | Country | Machine | Points | Wins |
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1 | Fausto Gresini | 2 | Italy | Garelli | 150 | 10 |
2 | Bruno Casanova | 23 | Italy | Garelli | 88 | 0 |
3 | Paolo Casoli | 14 | Italy | AGV | 61 | 1 |
4 | Domenico Brigaglia | 3 | Italy | AGV | 58 | 0 |
5 | August Auinger | 4 | Austria | MBA | 54 | 0 |
6 | Ezio Gianola | 5 | Italy | Honda | 45 | 0 |
7 | Pier Paolo Bianchi | 8 | Italy | MBA | 43 | 0 |
8 | Andres Sanchez | 26 | Spain | Ducados | 40 | 0 |
9 | Lucio Pietroniro | 7 | Belgium | MBA | 32 | 0 |
10 | Mike Leitner | 22 | Austria | MBA | 32 | 0 |
11 | Johnny Wickstroem | Finland | 21 | |||
12 | Gastone Grassetti | Italy | 17 | |||
13 | Jean Claude Selini | France | 16 | |||
14 | Thierry Feuz | Switzerland | 13 | |||
15 | Jussi Hautaniemi | Finland | 10 | |||
16 | Adi Stadler | West Germany | 9 | |||
17 | Ivan Troisi | Venezuela | 8 | |||
18 | Claudio Macciotta | Italy | 6 | |||
19 | Corrado Catalano | Italy | 6 | |||
20 | Esa Kytölä | Finland | 4 | |||
21 | Olivier Liégeois | Belgium | 4 | |||
22 | Hakan Olsson | Sweden | 2 | |||
23 | Robin Milton | United Kingdom | 2 | |||
24 | Bady Hassaine | Algeria | 2 | |||
25 | Flemming Kistrup | Denmark | 1 | |||
26 | Norbert Peschke | West Germany | 1 | |||
27 | Willy Perez | Argentina | 1 |
80cc standings
Place | Rider | Number | Country | Machine | Points | Wins |
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1 | Jorge Martínez | 1 | Spain | Derbi | 129 | 7 |
2 | Manuel Herreros | 2 | Spain | Derbi | 86 | 1 |
3 | Gerhard Waibel | 5 | West Germany | Krauser | 82 | 1 |
4 | Stefan Dörflinger | 3 | Switzerland | Krauser | 75 | 1 |
5 | Ian McConnachie | 5 | United Kingdom | Krauser | 53 | 0 |
6 | Jörg Seel | 6 | West Germany | Seel | 38 | 0 |
7 | Hubert Abold | 9 | West Germany | Krauser | 33 | 0 |
8 | Luis Reyes | 22 | Spain | Autisa | 31 | 0 |
9 | Josef Fischer | 9 | Austria | Krauser | 19 | 0 |
10 | Julián Miralles | Spain | Derbi | 18 | 0 | |
11 | Àlex Crivillé | 12 | ||||
12 | Günter Schirnhofer | 12 | ||||
13 | Hans Spaan | 11 | ||||
14 | Karoly Juhasz | 10 | ||||
15 | Joan Bolart | 10 | ||||
16 | Paolo Priori | 9 | ||||
17 | Alex Barros | 8 | ||||
18 | Giuseppe Ascareggi | 5 | ||||
19 | Heinz Paschen | 4 | ||||
20 | Richard Bay | 3 | ||||
21 | Peter Öttl | 3 | ||||
22 | Ernst Gschwender | 2 | ||||
23 | Herri Torrontegui | 1 | ||||
24 | Theo Timmer | 1 | ||||
25 | Jacques Bernard | 1 | ||||
26 | Ralf Waldmann | 1 |
Further reading
- Büla, Maurice & Schertenleib, Jean-Claude (2001). Continental Circus 1949-2000. Chronosports S.A. ISBN 2-940125-32-5
References
- ^ ISBN 1-874557-83-7
- ^ "Fausto Gresini career statistics". motogp.com. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
- ^ "Jorge Martinez career statistics". motogp.com. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
- ^ "YouTube". www.youtube.com. Archived from the original on 2014-03-01.
- ^ "Grand Prix uitslagen en bijzonderheden 1987". Archive.li. Archived from the original on 2015-07-25. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
- ^ "1987 World Motorcycle Championship | Motor Sport Magazine Database". Motorsportmagazine.com. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
- ^ "Motorcycle Racing Online - 500cc Grand Prix entry list for 1987".
- ^ "Motorcycle Racing Online - 250cc Grand Prix entry list for 1987".
- ^ "1987 500cc Final Standings". motogp.com. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
- ^ "1987 250cc Entries List". f1network.net. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
- ^ "1987 125cc Final Standings". motogp.com. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
- ^ "1987 80cc Final Standings". motogp.com. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
External links
- "The Official MotoGP website". Retrieved 2010-07-06.