The 1987 German motorcycle Grand Prix was the third round of the 1987 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 15–17 May 1987 at the Hockenheimring.
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| Race 3 of 15 races in the 1987 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | 17 May 1987 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Official name | Grosser Preis von Deutschland[1][2][3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Hockenheimring | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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500 cc classification
edit| Pos. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Time/Retired | Points | ||
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| 1 |  Eddie Lawson
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Marlboro Yamaha Team Agostini | Yamaha | 40'21.640 | 15 | ||
| 2 | Randy Mamola
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Team Lucky Strike Roberts | Yamaha | +13.350 | 12 | ||
| 3 |  Ron Haslam
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Team ROC Elf Honda | Honda | +13.900 | 10 | ||
| 4 |  Tadahiko Taira
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Marlboro Yamaha Team Agostini | Yamaha | +20.590 | 8 | ||
| 5 | Rob McElnea
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Marlboro Yamaha Team Agostini | Yamaha | +29.140 | 6 | ||
| 6 |  Pierfrancesco Chili
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HB Honda Gallina Team | Honda | +45.790 | 5 | ||
| 7 | Niall Mackenzie
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Team HRC | Honda | +46.090 | 4 | ||
| 8 | Roger Burnett
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Rothmans Honda Team | Honda | +54.760 | 3 | ||
| 9 |  Gustav Reiner
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Team Hein Gericke | Honda | +55.220 | 2 | ||
| 10 |  Wayne Gardner
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Rothmans Honda Team | Honda | +1'15.720 | 1 | ||
| 11 |  Bruno Kneubühler
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Honda | +1'22.280 | ||||
| 12 |  Didier de Radiguès
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Cagiva-Bastos-Alstare | Cagiva | +1'23.260 | |||
| 13 |  Richard Scott
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Honda GB | Honda | +1'35.970 | |||
| 14 | Fabio Biliotti
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Honda | +1'36.360 | ||||
| 15 | Donnie McLeod
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Suzuki | +1'44.880 | ||||
| 16 |  Fabio Barchitta
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Honda | +1 lap | ||||
| 17 |  Ari Rämö
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Honda | +1 lap | ||||
| 18 | Marco Papa
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Honda | +1 lap | ||||
| 19 |  Daniel Vila Amatriain
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Honda | +1 lap | ||||
| 20 | Simon Buckmaster
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Honda | +1 lap | ||||
| 21 | Gerold Fischer
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Honda | +1 lap | ||||
| 22 |  Maarten Duyzers
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Honda | +1 lap | ||||
| 23 | Steve Manley
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Suzuki | +1 lap | ||||
| 24 | Georg Jung
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Honda | +1 lap | ||||
| 25 | Helmut Schutz
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Honda | +1 lap | ||||
| Ret | Manfred Fischer
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Team Hein Gericke | Honda | Retirement | |||
| Ret | Marco Gentile
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Fior | Fior | Retirement | |||
| Ret |  Silvo Habat
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Honda | Retirement | ||||
| Ret | Kenny Irons
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Heron Suzuki GB | Suzuki | Retirement | |||
| Ret | Esko Kuparinen
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Honda | Retirement | ||||
| Ret |  Thierry Rapicault
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Honda | Retirement | ||||
| Ret | Raymond Roche
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Cagiva-Bastos-Alstare | Cagiva | Retirement | |||
| Ret | Michael Rudroff
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Honda | Retirement | ||||
| Ret | Christian Sarron
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Sonauto Gauloises Jack Germain | Yamaha | Retirement | |||
| Ret | Shunji Yatsushiro
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Rothmans Honda Team | Honda | Accident | |||
| DNS | Mike Baldwin
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Team Lucky Strike Roberts | Yamaha | Injury | |||
| DNS | Alessandro Valesi
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Honda | Injury | ||||
| DNS | Freddie Spencer
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Team HRC | Honda | Injury | |||
| DNS |  Karl Truchsess
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Honda | Injury | ||||
| DNQ | Josef Doppler
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Honda | Did not qualify | ||||
| DNQ | Peter Schleef
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Yamaha | Did not qualify | ||||
| DNQ | Louis-Luc Maisto
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Honda | Did not qualify | ||||
| DNQ | Wolfgang Von Muralt
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Suzuki | Did not qualify | ||||
| DNQ | Rolf Aljes
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Suzuki | Did not qualify | ||||
| DNQ | Hans Klingebiel
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Suzuki | Did not qualify | ||||
| DNQ | Christopher Bürki
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Honda | Did not qualify | ||||
| DNQ | Gerhard Vogt
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Suzuki | Did not qualify | ||||
| DNQ | Hennie Boerman
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Racing Team Docshop | Honda | Did not qualify | |||
| DNQ |  Pavel Dekanek
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Suzuki | Did not qualify | ||||
| DNQ |  Tony Carey
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Suzuki | Did not qualify | ||||
| DNQ | Andreas Leuthe
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Honda | Did not qualify | ||||
| DNQ |  Larry Moreno Vacondio
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Suzuki | Did not qualify | ||||
| DNQ | Bohumil Stasa
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Honda | Did not qualify | ||||
| Sources: [4][5] | |||||||
References
edit- ^ "Grand Prix uitslagen en bijzonderheden 1987". Archive.li. Archived from the original on 2015-07-25. Retrieved 2018-05-21.
- ^ Mitchell, Malcolm. "1987 500cc Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
- ^ "Hockenheimring | The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 2018-05-21.
- ^ "1987 German MotoGP". Motorsportmagazine.com. 9 October 2017. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
- ^ "WEST GERMANY GRAND PRIX · 500cc Race Classification 1987". Motogp.com. Retrieved 17 September 2018.