The 1987 British Formula Three season was the 37th season of the British Formula Three Championship. Johnny Herbert took the BARC/BRDC Lucas British Formula 3 Championship. There was also a "Class B" championship for older cars, called "National Class', which was won by British driver Gary Dunn, driving a Reynard 863-Volkswagen for Swindon Motorsport.
The season saw chassis from both Ralt and Reynard Motorsport prove competitive, with TOM's-tuned Toyota engines, Spiess-tuned Volkswagen engines, and twinspark Alfa Romeo engines all competitive options.
The scoring system was 9-6-4-3-2-1 points awarded to the first six finishers, with one extra point added to the driver who set the fastest lap of the race.
BARC/BRDC Lucas British F3 Championship Champion: Johnny Herbert
Runner Up: Bertrand Gachot
National Champion: Gary Dunn
Results
Lucas British Formula 3 Championship
Date Round Circuit Winning driver Winning team Winning car 15/03/1987 Rd.1 Thruxton Johnny Herbert Eddie Jordan Racing Reynard 873-Volkswagen 05/04/1987 Rd.2 Brands Hatch Johnny Herbert Eddie Jordan Racing Reynard 873-Volkswagen 12/04/1987 Rd.3 Silverstone Gary Brabham Jack Brabham Racing Ralt RT31-Volkswagen 20/04/1987 Rd.4 Thruxton Johnny Herbert Eddie Jordan Racing Reynard 873-Volkswagen 04/05/1987 Rd.5 Silverstone Johnny Herbert Eddie Jordan Racing Reynard 873-Volkswagen 17/05/1987 Rd.6 Brands Hatch Bertrand Gachot West Surrey Racing Ralt RT31-Alfa Romeo 25/05/1987 Rd.7 Thruxton Thomas Danielsson Madgwick Motorsport Reynard 873-Alfa Romeo 07/06/1987 Rd.8 Silverstone Johnny Herbert Eddie Jordan Racing Reynard 873-Volkswagen 26/06/1987 Rd.9 Zandvoort Damon Hill Intersport Racing Ralt RT31-Toyota 05/07/1987 Rd.10 Donington Park Philippe Favre Reynard R+D Reynard 873-Alfa Romeo 12/07/1987 Rd.11 Silverstone Bertrand Gachot West Surrey Racing Ralt RT31-Alfa Romeo 02/08/1987 Rd.12 Snetterton Thomas Danielsson Madgwick Motorsport Reynard 873-Alfa Romeo 21/08/1987 Rd.13 Donington Park Gary Brabham Jack Brabham Racing Ralt RT31-Volkswagen 15/08/1987 Rd.14 Oulton Park Martin Donnelly Intersport Racing Ralt RT31-Toyota 31/08/1987 Rd.15 Silverstone Thomas Danielsson Madgwick Motorsport Reynard 873-Alfa Romeo 06/09/1987 Rd.16 Brands Hatch Martin Donnelly Intersport Racing Ralt RT31-Toyota 13/09/1987 Rd.17 Spa-Francorchamps Damon Hill Intersport Racing Ralt RT31-Toyota 18/10/1987 Rd.18 Thruxton Bertrand Gachot West Surrey Racing Ralt RT31-Alfa Romeo Source:
Valid for the 1987 EFDA Formula 3 Euroseries
Date Race Circuit Winning driver Winning team Winning car 11/10/1987 Cellnet Superprix Brands Hatch Johnny Herbert Eddie Jordan Racing Reynard-Volkswagen 873 Source:
Championship Tables
Class A Place Driver Entrant Total 1 Johnny Herbert Eddie Jordan Racing 79 2 Bertrand Gachot West Surrey Racing 64 3 Martin Donnelly Swallow RacingIntersport Racing 61 4 Thomas Danielsson Madgwick Motorsport 56 5 Damon Hill Intersport Racing 49 6 Gary Brabham Jack Brabham Racing 37 7 Philippe Favre Reynard R+D 23 8 Perry McCarthy Madgwick Motorsport 22 9 Steve Kempton Terropol Promotions Reynard R+D 18 10 Peter Kox Mick Rowe Racing 17 Niclas Schönström Swallow Racing 17 12 Roland Ratzenberger West Surrey Racing 10 13 Mark Blundell TOM’S GB 6 14 Ross Hockenhull Richard Dutton Racing 3 15 Jean-Denis Délétraz KTR Racing 2 Graham de Zille Pegasus Motorsport 2 17 Phil Andrews Isis F3 Racing Madgwick Motorsport 1 Mark Galvin Alan Docking Racing 1 André Malherbe Sport Auto Racing 1 Oswaldo Negri Techspeed Racing 1 Source:http://www.teamdan.com/archive/www2/ukf3/87ukf3.hml
National Class
Place Driver Entrant Total 1 Gary Dunn Swallow Racing 138 2 Alastair Lyall Gerard Racing 84 3 Gary Ward RGS Racing 69 4 Peter Boutwood Roger Cowman Racing 19 etc. Source:http://www.teamdan.com/archive/www2/ukf3/87ukf3.hml
References