1987 FIM Road Racing World Championships

Mar 29 Grand Prix of Japan Suzuka International Racing Course, Nagoya, Japan
5.912 km autodrome
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
P Rider # Bike Entrant Tires Race Result Grid
1 Masaru Kobayashi 44 250 Honda NSR Honda Ajinomoto Michelin 20 51:15.60 3 2:19.66
2 Sito Pons 2 250 Honda NSR Honda Racing Corporation Michelin 20 +27.01 8 2:20.59
3 Reinhold Roth 24 250 Honda NSR Honda Römer Team Michelin 20 +27.55 7 2:20.58
4 Masahiro Shimizu 43 250 Honda NSR Honda Ajinomoto Michelin 20 +39.11 1 2:18.72
5 Martin Wimmer 6 250 Yamaha YZR Yamaha Team Agostini Michelin 20 +50.51 2 2:18.85
6 Juan Garriga 31 250 Yamaha YZR Yamaha Racing Michelin 20 +1:01.42 11 2:21.16
7 Patrick Igoa 17 250 Yamaha YZR Team Sonauto Yamaha Michelin 20 +1:07.67 6 2:20.34
8 Anton Mang 4 250 Honda NSR Honda Racing Corporation Michelin 20 +1:20.07 10 2:21.15
9 Masamitsu Taguchi 250 Honda NSR Honda Racing Corporation 20 +1:30.89 4 2:19.68
10 Takayoshi Yamamoto 250 Yamaha 20 +2:26.06 20 2:23.07
11 Toshihiro Wakayama 250 Yamaha 20 +2:31.83 29
12 Keiji Tamura 250 Yamaha 20 +2:32.65 18 2:22.93
13 Luca Cadalora 22 250 Yamaha YZR Yamaha Team Agostini Michelin 19 15 2:22.44
14 Harald Eckl 250 Honda RS Honda Römer Team Michelin 19 14 2:22.17
15 Jean-François Baldé 5 250 Honda RS Team Pole-Position 19 25
16 Guy Bertin 36 250 Honda RS Guy Bertin 19 27
17 Hiroho Takemura 250 Honda 19 31
18 Jean-Michel Mattioli 25 250 Honda RS Honda France Michelin 19 30
19 Maurizio Vitali 16 250 Garelli 250 GP Team Italia Garelli Michelin 19 23
20 Bruno Bonhuil 250 Honda RS Motor Team Development 19 33
R Dominique Sarron 3 250 Honda NSR Honda France Michelin Fell 5 2:20.09
R Jacques Cornu 7 250 Honda NSR Team Parisienne ELF Dunlop Fell 9 2:21.12
R Alan Carter 250 Honda NSR Honda Team Moriwaki Fell 13 2:22.16
R Shosuke Kita 250 Honda DNF 16 2:22.76
R Stéphane Mertens 250 Honda NSR Team Sekitoba Dunlop Fell 17 2:22.88
R Jean-Philippe Ruggia 21 250 Yamaha TZ Team Sonauto Yamaha Michelin Fell 19 2:23.04
R Manfred Herweh 27 250 Honda RS Manfred Herweh DNF 22
R Hideshi Tomita 250 Honda DNF 24
R Donnie McLeod 10 250 EMC-Honda RS Ehrlich Automotive DNF 26
R Kevin Mitchell 38 250 Yam-Honda Spl Danny Gallacher DNF 28
R Carlos Cardus 12 250 Honda NSR Honda Team Nieto Michelin DNF 32
R Virginio Ferrari 15 250 Armstrong-Rotax Racing Team Katayama DNF 34
R Fausto Ricci 8 250 Honda RS Team Honda Italia Michelin DNF 35
NS Hiroshi Okumura 250 Honda Did not start 12 2:21.22
NS Yoshihasa Hasegawa 250 Honda Did not start 21
NS Carlos Lavado 1 250 Yamaha YZR Yamaha Team Venemotos Michelin Did not start 36
Distance 20 laps = 118.2 km Speed 138.4 km/h Weather Drizzle
PP Masahiro Shimizu 2:18.72 - 153.4 km/h FL Masaru Kobayashi 2:19.68 - 152.4 km/h
Started 33 Classified 20 DNF 13 DNS 3
Sources Vincent Glon, Werner Haefliger, GP Motorcycle Yearbook #2