The 1987 Australian Grand Prix was held at Adelaide on 15 November 1987. The race, contested over 82 laps, was the sixteenth and final race of the 1987 Formula One season and was won by Gerhard Berger, who started from pole position and led every lap in his Ferrari. Ayrton Senna finished second in his Lotus-Honda but was subsequently disqualified, thus promoting Berger’s team-mate Michele Alboreto to second and the Benetton-Ford of Thierry Boutsen to third.Ferrari’s Gerhard Berger started from pole position despite being ill during qualifying, as the Austrian driver took his 3rd Grand Prix victory and his only career Grand Chelem. At the same time, it was the first Scuderia Ferrari 1-2 since Michele Alboreto and Stefan Johansson finished 1-2 in the 1985 Canadian Grand Prix. With Gerhard Berger also winning the previous round in Japan this saw Ferrari win back to back races for the first time since Gilles Villeneuve won the Monaco and Spanish Grands Prix in 1981.
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