1987 FIM Road Racing World Championships

Round 1 Mar 29 Grand Prix of Japan Suzuka International Racing Course, Nagoya, Japan
5.912 km autodrome 		>
Results
P Rider # Bike Entrant Tires Race Result Grid
1 Randy Mamola 3 500 Yamaha OW86 Yamaha Team Roberts Dunlop 22 57:22.88 8 2:16.40
2 Wayne Gardner 2 500 Honda NSR V4 Honda Racing Corporation Michelin 22 +42.39 3 2:15.35
3 Takumi Itoh 32 500 Suzuki XR72 Suzuki Japan 22 +51:30.00 22
4 Pierfrancesco Chili 10 500 Honda NS Honda Team Gallina Michelin 22 +1:20.35 17 2:19.78
5 Ron Haslam 9 500 Honda NSR V4 Honda ELF Team ROC Michelin 22 +1:32.95 9 2:16.58
6 Tadahiko Taira 21 500 Yamaha OW86 Yamaha Tech21 Racing Michelin 22 +1:38.68 5 2:15.39
7 Hiroyuki Kawasaki 33 500 Yamaha OW86 Yamaha Team Roberts Dunlop 22 +1:40.07 13 2:18.09
8 Roger Burnett 12 500 Honda NSR V4 Honda Britain Michelin 22 +2:08.26 21
9 Shinji Katayama 500 Yamaha YZR Yamaha Motor Japan 22 +2:16.34 19 2:20.26
10 Raymond Roche 8 500 Cagiva C587 Team Cagiva Alstare Michelin 22 +2:28.18 12 2:17.95
11 Norio Abe 500 Honda 21 23
12 Hisashi Yamana 500 Suzuki 21 29
13 Simon Buckmaster 22 500 Honda RS North London Motorcycles Dunlop 21 32
14 Wolfgang von Muralt 24 500 Suzuki RGB Team Frankonia Suzuki 21 30
15 Esko Kuparinen 500 Honda RS 21 33
R Niall MacKenzie 11 500 Honda NSR V4 Honda Racing Corporation Michelin Fell 1 2:14.43
R Eddie Lawson 1 500 Yamaha OW86 Yamaha Team Agostini Michelin Tires 2 2:15.07
R Shunji Yatsushiro 16 500 Honda NSR V4 Honda Racing Corporation Michelin Fell 4 2:15.37
R Kevin Magee 40 500 Yamaha OW86 Yamaha Motor Japan Michelin Fell 6 2:15.41
R Rob McElnea 5 500 Yamaha OW86 Yamaha Team Agostini Michelin Tires 7 2:16.29
R Christian Sarron 6 500 Yamaha OW86 Team Sonauto Yamaha Michelin Fell 10 2:16.78
R Mike Baldwin 4 500 Yamaha OW86 Yamaha Team Roberts Dunlop Fell 11 2:17.09
R Masaru Mizutani 500 Suzuki Suzuki Japan DNF 14 2:18.53
R Keiji Kinoshita 500 Honda Fell 16 2:18.61
R Gustav Reiner 14 500 HG-Honda NS Hein Gericke Team Dunlop DNF 18 2:20.16
R Norihiko Fujiwara 500 Yamaha DNF 20 2:20.36
R Kenny Irons 18 500 Heron-Suzuki XR72 Heron Team Suzuki GB Michelin DNF 24
R Alessandro Valesi 23 500 Honda Team Honda Italia DNF 25
R Didier de Radiguès 7 500 Cagiva C587 Team Cagiva Alstare Michelin DNF 26
R Susumu Shimada 500 Suzuki DNF 27
R Marco Gentile 25 500 Fior-Honda RS Team Fior Dunlop DNF 28
NS Osamu Hiwatashi 500 Suzuki Did not start 15 2:18.54
NP Freddie Spencer 19 500 Honda NSR V4 Honda Racing Corporation Michelin did not practice 31
Distance 22 laps = 130.1 km Speed 136.0 km/h Weather Rain
PP Niall MacKenzie 2:14.43 - 158.3 km/h FL Randy Mamola 2:34.60 - 137.7 km/h
Started 31 Classified 15 DNF 16 DNS 1
Sources Vincent Glon, Werner Haefliger, GP Motorcycle Yearbook #2