Williams, a British constructor, competed in the 1987 Formula 1 season with Nelson Piquet and Nigel Mansell. Riccardo Patrese also raced for the team.
Williams won the 1987 constructors' championship with 137 points, 9 wins and 18 podiums – 61 points ahead of McLaren. Williams won 9 Grands Prix, the last of them the Mexican Grand Prix, and scored 4 one-two finishes.
Final 1987 results after 16 rounds. Data: Jolpica F1 API.
Share of the team's points (race and sprint).
Race and sprint points per round, stacked by driver (Piquet, Mansell, Patrese: darker to lighter).
Shared Grand Prix only. Qualifying uses the qualifying classification.
15 shared GPs
Both cars, every round. S = sprint result.
Short answers about Williams in 1987.
Nelson Piquet and Nigel Mansell drove for Williams in the 1987 Formula 1 season. Riccardo Patrese also raced for the team.
Williams scored 137 points in 1987 and finished 1st in the constructors' championship, 61 points ahead of McLaren.
Williams won 9 of 16 Grands Prix in 1987, with 18 podium finishes and 4 one-twos.
Williams was founded by Frank Williams and Patrick Head and has raced in Formula 1 under its current identity since 1977. Clay Regazzoni gave it a first win at Silverstone in 1979, and it went on to win nine constructors’ championships, with drivers’ titles for Alan Jones, Keke Rosberg, Nelson Piquet, Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost, Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve. Since 2020 it has been owned by investment firm Dorilton Capital.
The team is based in Grove, Oxfordshire, and uses Mercedes power units. James Vowles has been team principal since 2023, and in 2025 Williams finished fifth in the constructors’ championship, its best result since 2017. The drivers are Alex Albon and Carlos Sainz.
1 shared GPs
| Pts |
|---|
| 1 | P2 | P6 | – | 7 | |
| 2 | DNS | P1 | – | ||
| 3 | DNF | DNF | – | ||
| 4 | P2 | DNF | – | ||
| 5 | P2 | P5 | – | ||
| 6 | P2 | P1 | – | ||
| 7 | P2 | P1 | – | ||
| 8 | P1 | DNF | – | ||
| 9 | P1 | P14 | – | ||
| 10 | P2 | P1 | – | ||
| 11 | P1 | P3 | – | ||
| 12 | P3 | DNF | – | ||
| 13 | P4 | P1 | – | ||
| 14 | P2 | P1 | – | ||
| 15 | P15 | DNS | – | ||
| 16 | DNF | – | P9 |