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{{Infobox Grand Prix race report
|Type = F1
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|Grand Prix = Brazilian
|Official name = 16º [[Brazilian Grand Prix|Grande Premio do Brasil]]
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|Date = 12 April
|Year = 1987
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|Third_Team = [[McLaren]]-[[Techniques d'Avant Garde|TAG]]
|Third_Country = SWE
|Lapchart = {{F1Laps1987|BRA}}
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==Qualifying==
[[March Engineering]] returned to Formula One for the first time since the [[1982 Caesars Palace Grand Prix]],
In almost a repeat of {{f1|1982}}, prior to the race there was talk of a drivers boycott due to the [[FIA]]'s new [[FIA Super Licence|Super Licence]] fees for 1987. Previously the fee for a drivers Super Licence had been [[United States dollar|US$]]825. However, from 1987 drivers who scored World Championship points the previous season would be required to pay more (i.e. the more points a driver scored, the more he paid for his licence) with drivers such as World Champion [[Alain Prost]] and [[WilliamsF1|Williams]] pair [[Nigel Mansell]] and [[Nelson Piquet]] were all required to pay around $12,000 (while others such as [[Team Lotus|Lotus]] rookie [[Satoru Nakajima]] only had to pay the basic fee). According to the drivers, it wasn't so about the money, it was the principle that a licence is a licence and that the fee should be the same for everyone. However, by the time the cars were ready for Friday morning's first practice session, everyone (or in some cases the teams) had paid the required licence fee.
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Qualifying was dominated by the [[Honda F1|Honda]] powered [[Williams FW11|Williams]], with Mansell ahead of Piquet. Third was [[Ayrton Senna]] with his Lotus. The [[Lotus 99T]], now in the Yellow and Blue colours of new sponsors [[Camel Cigarettes]], was using the computer-controlled [[active suspension]] for the first time in the hope that its advantages (keeping the car at the optimum ride height) would give them an edge over the rest of the field. The total number of cars entered for the event was 23, but on race day the [[March Engineering|March]] team, who went into the race with a modified [[Formula 3000]] car for F1 rookie [[Ivan Capelli]] due to their [[March 871|new car]] not being ready, ran out of [[Cosworth DFZ]]s, blowing their last in the Sunday morning warm-up and there were only 22 starters.
Qualifying also saw the [[FIA]]'s controversial pop-off valves used for the first time on the turbocharged cars. The valves limited turbo boost pressure to 4.0 Bar where previously boost was only limited to what the engineers felt the engines could take. The valves were far from popular with the teams and drivers,
The [[Equipe Ligier|Ligier]] team was absent from Rio, missing their first race since the French boycott of the [[1985 South African Grand Prix]]. The team had been set to use a new [[4-cylinder]], turbocharged [[Alfa Romeo in Formula One|Alfa Romeo]] engine for the season. However, during pre-season testing lead driver [[René Arnoux]] compared the new 415T to used food. This gave Alfa's parent company [[Fiat]] the excuse they wanted to pull out of its association with the team leaving Ligier without an engine for the season, though Ligier were able to secure a supply of [[BMW M12|Megatron]] turbo's from the [[Arrows Grand Prix International|Arrows]] team sponsors [[USF&G]] and would use them from San Marino until the end of the season.
==Race==
At the start Piquet was fastest, taking the lead from Senna, while Mansell made a bad start; the [[Benetton B187]]s of Boutsen and [[Teo Fabi]] out dragged Mansell and Prost. [[Adrián Campos]] was disqualified for an incorrect starting procedure, he had forgotten his ear plugs and by the time he had fitted them on the grid the rest of the field had moved away on the warm-up lap. Campos resumed his grid position instead of starting at the rear, and race officials removed him for his rookie mistake.<ref name="The More Things Change"/> Piquet's lead did not last long: on lap 7, he had to pit with engine overheating caused by litter on the track getting into the radiator sidepods. He rejoined back in eleventh position, leaving Senna to lead Mansell (who in the meantime fought back to second) although he too entered in the pits to have his radiators cleared. He rejoined behind Piquet and the pair began to climb through the field.
Senna pitted because of handling troubles of his Lotus 99T and so Prost went into the lead. When Prost stopped for fresh tyres the lead was briefly passed to [[Thierry Boutsen]], who was performing admirably with his Benetton-Ford, but his lead lasted less than half a lap before Piquet went back to first before his second stop, on lap 21. Prost then went ahead again and led for the rest of the race, never looking threatened as he preserved his tyres to only require two stops, while his rivals Senna and Piquet had three.
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