F1 1987 German GP VHS - Description
Round 8, Hockenheim, Sunday, July 26th
As the halfway point arrived in the 1987 World Championship, Camel Lotus Honda team driver Ayrton Senna held a precarious one-point lead in the title chase following wins at Monaco and Detroit, along with second at San Marino, third at Silverstone and fourth at Paul Ricard. Neck-and-neck behind him came Canon mates Nigel Mansell and Nelson Piquet. Piquet had had a remarkable five runner-up positions out of seven rounds, while Mansell had won the two previous races as well as San Marino. Hockenheim looked likely to prove a fuel-thirsty track just as it had done in 1986 when the McLarens of Alain Prost and Keke Rosberg both ran dry. So the ingredients were all there for top-class drama and that was certainly the way it worked out, as this video vividly demostrates. The cameras got onto the flat-out straights of the outfield where speeds exceeded 200 mph, and focussed in on the stadium's twists and turns where handling was a premium. With Stefan Johansson and Gerhard Berger chasing the ‘big four’ of Senna, Piquet, Mansell and Prost, the German GP was certainly no place for the faint-hearted.
