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25px Flag of San Marino  1989 San Marino Grand Prix
Race details
Race 2 of 16 in the 1989 Formula One season
Imola 1981
Date April 23, 1989
Official name IX Gran Premio di San Marino
Location Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Imola, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Course Permanent racing facility
5.040 km (3.132 mi)
Distance 58 laps, 292.32 km (181.638 mi)
Weather Warm, dry, sunny
Pole position
Driver 25px Brazil Ayrton Senna McLaren-Honda
Time 1:26.010
Fastest lap
Driver 25px France Alain Prost McLaren-Honda
Time 1:26.795 on lap 45
Podium
First 25px Brazil Ayrton Senna McLaren-Honda
Second 25px France Alain Prost McLaren-Honda
Third 25px Italy Alessandro Nannini Benetton-Ford

The 1989 San Marino Grand Prix was a Formula One race held at Imola on April 23, 1989.

Race summary[]

The only change to the entry list for the San Marino Grand Prix was the arrival of Gabriele Tarquini in the second car of the small AGS team, which had only run one car in Brazil after Philippe Streiff had suffered career ending injuries in pre-season testing. A record 39 cars were entered for the Grand Prix, although only 26 began the race.

At the start Ayrton Senna got away well but behind him Alain Prost found himself just ahead of Nigel Mansell's Ferrari but the Englishman could not find his way around Prost's McLaren. Mansell fell off a little after that and found himself battling with Riccardo Patrese while on the second lap Ivan Capelli had a nasty accident in his March. On lap four, fifth placed Gerhard Berger's Ferrari speared off the track at the fast Tamburello corner due to a mechanical failure. Berger hit the wall at an estimated 180 mph and when his car came to a rest it immediately burst into flames. The marshalls arrived sixteen seconds after impact and the fire was put out ten seconds later. The race was red-flagged and Berger escaped with broken ribs and second degree burns.

The race was restarted after half an hour and run a further 55 laps on aggregate timing. This time Prost got away much better and got past Senna while behind them Mansell made a poor start and fell behind Patrese and Alessandro Nannini. On the run-down to Tosa Senna got alongside Prost into Villeneuve and out-braked him into the Tosa Hairpin. The McLarens proceeded to pull away from the competition while behind them there was more drama as Stefano Modena put his Brabham into the wall rather violently, the Italian was unhurt.

As the McLarens pulled away Mansell, Patrese, and Nannini were busy fighting over third place. It was settled in the space of three laps as Patrese retired with a timing belt failure and Mansell followed shortly afterwards with a gearbox problem. This left Nannini in third while up front Senna cruised home to victory from Prost who had suffered a spin. Nannini led home Thierry Boutsen, Derek Warwick in the Arrows and Jonathan Palmer in the Tyrrell. Olivier Grouillard was disqualified because Ligier illegally repaired his car on the grid before the second start. Thierry Boutsen and Alex Caffi were initially disqualified after a protest from Ligier because they had changed tyres in the pitlane before the second start, but were reinstated following an appeal.

The Alain Prost/Ayrton Senna war began to build up speed after the Frenchman said that McLaren had a pre race agreement that whoever led into the first turn should stay there, which was ironically suggested by Senna.[1] In Prost's view, Senna had broken this agreement by passing him partway round the first lap after the restart.

Classification[]

Pre qualifying[]

Pos No Driver Constructor Time Gap
1 8 25px Italy Stefano Modena Brabham-Judd 1:27.350
2 7 25px UK Martin Brundle Brabham-Judd 1:28.197 +0.747
3 21 25px Italy Alex Caffi Dallara-Ford 1:29.346 +1.996
4 17 25px Italy Nicola Larini Osella-Ford 1:29.787 +2.437
5 37 25px Belgium Bertrand Gachot Onyx-Ford 1:30.384 +3.034
6 33 25px Switzerland Gregor Foitek Euro Brun-Judd 1.30.620 +3.270
7 18 25px Italy Piercarlo Ghinzani Osella-Ford 1:30.631 +3.281
8 36 25px Sweden Stefan Johansson Onyx-Ford 1:30.647 +3.297
9 41 25px Germany Joachim Winkelhock AGS-Ford 1:32.071 +4.721
10 32 25px France Pierre-Henri Raphanel Coloni-Ford 1:32.267 +4.917
11 35 25px Japan Aguri Suzuki Zakspeed-Yamaha 1:32.287 +4.937
12 34 25px Germany Bernd Schneider Zakspeed-Yamaha 1:32.855 +5.485
13 39 25px Germany Volker Weidler Rial-Ford 1:36.480 +9.130

Qualifying[]

Pos No Driver Constructor Q1 Q2 Gap
1 1 25px Brazil Ayrton Senna McLaren-Honda 1:42.939 1:26.010
2 2 25px France Alain Prost McLaren-Honda 1:44.538 1:26.235 +0.225
3 27 25px UK Nigel Mansell Ferrari 1:49.665 1:27.652 +1.642
4 6 25px Italy Riccardo Patrese Williams-Renault 1:47.486 1:27.920 +1.910
5 28 25px Austria Gerhard Berger Ferrari 1:42.781 1:28.089 +2.079
6 5 25px Belgium Thierry Boutsen Williams-Renault 1:49.451 1:28.308 +2.298
7 19 25px Italy Alessandro Nannini Benetton-Ford 1:45.536 1:28.854 +2.844
8 11 25px Brazil Nelson Piquet Lotus-Judd 1:48.124 1:29.057 +3.047
9 21 25px Italy Alex Caffi Dallara-Ford 1:48.868 1:29.069 +3.059
10 26 25px France Olivier Grouillard Ligier-Ford 1:47.371 1:29.104 +3.094
11 23 25px Italy Pierluigi Martini Minardi-Ford 1:47.321 1:29.152 +3.142
12 9 25px UK Derek Warwick Arrows-Ford 1:47.859 1:29.281 +3.271
13 16 25px Italy Ivan Capelli March-Judd 1:48.178 1:29.385 +3.375
14 17 25px Italy Nicola Larini Osella-Ford 1:47.577 1:29.485 +3.475
15 24 25px Spain Luis Pérez-Sala Minardi-Ford 1:46.800 1:29.503 +3.493
16 22 25px Italy Andrea de Cesaris Dallara-Ford 1:53.681 1:29.669 +3.659
17 8 25px Italy Stefano Modena Brabham-Judd 1:48.415 1:29.761 +3.751
18 40 25px Italy Gabriele Tarquini AGS-Ford 1:48.795 1:29.913 +3.903
19 15 25px Brazil Maurício Gugelmin March-Judd 1:52.119 1:30.163 +4.153
20 30 25px France Philippe Alliot Lola-Lamborghini 2:00.293 1:30.168 +4.158
21 10 25px USA Eddie Cheever Arrows-Ford 1:45.375 1:30.233 +4.223
22 7 25px UK Martin Brundle Brabham-Judd 1:46.279 1:30.271 +4.261
23 20 25px UK Johnny Herbert Benetton-Ford 2:05.126 1:30.347 +4.337
24 12 25px Japan Satoru Nakajima Lotus-Judd 1:46.483 1:30.697 +4.687
25 3 25px UK Jonathan Palmer Tyrrell-Ford 1:51.229 1:30.928 +4.918
26 29 25px France Yannick Dalmas Lola-Lamborghini 1:58.083 1:31.137 +5.127
27 4 25px Italy Michele Alboreto Tyrrell-Ford 1:51.329 1:31.206 +5.196
28 25 25px France René Arnoux Ligier-Ford 1:48.091 1:31.268 +5.258
29 38 25px Germany Christian Danner Rial-Ford 1:47.967 1:31.341 +5.331
30 31 25px Brazil Roberto Moreno Coloni-Ford 1:50.947 1:31.775 +5.765

Race[]

Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 1 25px Brazil Ayrton Senna McLaren-Honda 58 1:26:51.245 1 9
2 2 25px France Alain Prost McLaren-Honda 58 + 40.225 2 6
3 19 25px Italy Alessandro Nannini Benetton-Ford 57 + 1 Lap 7 4
4 5 25px Belgium Thierry Boutsen Williams-Renault 57 + 1 Lap 6 3
5 9 25px UK Derek Warwick Arrows-Ford 57 + 1 Lap 12 2
6 3 25px UK Jonathan Palmer Tyrrell-Ford 57 + 1 Lap 25 1
7 21 25px Italy Alex Caffi Dallara-Ford 57 + 1 Lap 9  
8 40 25px Italy Gabriele Tarquini AGS-Ford 57 + 1 Lap 18  
9 10 25px USA Eddie Cheever Arrows-Ford 56 + 2 Laps 21  
10 22 25px Italy Andrea de Cesaris Dallara-Ford 56 + 2 Laps 16  
11 20 25px UK Johnny Herbert Benetton-Ford 56 + 2 Laps 23  
12 17 25px Italy Nicola Larini Osella-Ford 52 Spun Off 14  
Ret 7 25px UK Martin Brundle Brabham-Judd 51 Fuel System 22  
NC 12 25px Japan Satoru Nakajima Lotus-Judd 46 Not Classified 24  
Ret 24 25px Spain Luis Pérez-Sala Minardi-Ford 43 Spun Off 15  
Ret 15 25px Brazil Maurício Gugelmin March-Judd 39 Transmission 19  
Ret 11 25px Brazil Nelson Piquet Lotus-Judd 29 Engine 8  
Ret 27 25px UK Nigel Mansell Ferrari 23 Gearbox 3  
Ret 6 25px Italy Riccardo Patrese Williams-Renault 21 Engine 4  
Ret 8 25px Italy Stefano Modena Brabham-Judd 19 Spun Off 17  
Ret 23 25px Italy Pierluigi Martini Minardi-Ford 6 Gearbox 11  
DSQ 26 25px France Olivier Grouillard Ligier-Ford 4 Disqualified 10  
Ret 28 25px Austria Gerhard Berger Ferrari 3 Accident 5  
Ret 16 25px Italy Ivan Capelli March-Judd 1 Spun Off 13  
Ret 30 25px France Philippe Alliot Lola-Lamborghini 0 Electrical 20  
Ret 29 25px France Yannick Dalmas Lola-Lamborghini 0 Electrical 26  
DNQ 4 25px Italy Michele Alboreto Tyrrell-Ford    
DNQ 25 25px France René Arnoux Ligier-Ford    
DNQ 38 25px Germany Christian Danner Rial-Ford    
DNQ 31 25px Brazil Roberto Moreno Coloni-Ford    
DNPQ 37 25px Belgium Bertrand Gachot Onyx-Ford    
DNPQ 33 25px Switzerland Gregor Foitek Euro Brun-Judd    
DNPQ 18 25px Italy Piercarlo Ghinzani Osella-Ford    
DNPQ 36 25px Sweden Stefan Johansson Onyx-Ford    
DNPQ 41 25px Germany Joachim Winkelhock AGS-Ford    
DNPQ 32 25px France Pierre-Henri Raphanel Coloni-Ford    
DNPQ 35 25px Japan Aguri Suzuki Zakspeed-Yamaha    
DNPQ 34 25px Germany Bernd Schneider Zakspeed-Yamaha    
DNPQ 39 25px Germany Volker Weidler Rial-Ford    

Trivia[]

  • This race was the first victory for a V10 engine in Formula One.

Standings after the race[]

Drivers' Championship standings
Pos Driver Points
1 25px France Alain Prost 12
2= 25px Brazil Ayrton Senna 9
2= 25px Great Britain Nigel Mansell 9
4 25px Italy Alessandro Nannini 5
5 25px Brazil Mauricio Gugelmin 4
Constructors' Championship standings
Pos Constructor Points
1 25px Great Britain McLaren-Honda 21
2 25px Italy Ferrari 9
3 25px Great Britain Benetton-Ford 8
4= 25px Great Britain Leyton House-Judd 4
4= 25px Great Britain Arrows-Ford 4
  • Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

References[]

  1. Rubython, Tom: The Life of Senna

from the original on 3 July 2007. http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1989/232/. Retrieved 2007-08-04. 



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