1989 Portuguese Grand Prix

F1 Portuguese Portugal XXIII Grande Prémio de Portugal Circuito_de_Estoril_1972-1993.png 24 September 1989 13 16 Autódromo do EstorilEstoril, Portugal Permanent racing facility 2.703 4.350 71 191.910 308.850 Hot, dry, sunny Ayrton Senna Brazil 1968 McLaren-Honda 1:15.468 Gerhard Berger Austria Ferrari 1:18.986 49 Gerhard Berger Austria Ferrari Alain Prost France McLaren-Honda Stefan Johansson Sweden Onyx-Ford POR The 1989 Portuguese Grand Prix (formally the XXIII Grande Prémio de Portugal) was a Formula One motor race held at the Autódromo do Estoril in Estoril, Portugal on 24 September 1989. It was the thirteenth race of the 1989 Formula One World Championship. The 71-lap race was won by Austrian driver Gerhard Berger, driving a Ferrari, with Frenchman Alain Prost second in a McLaren-Honda and Swede Stefan Johansson third in an Onyx-Ford. Prost's teammate and Drivers' Championship rival, Brazilian Ayrton Senna, retired following a collision with the Ferrari of Briton Nigel Mansell, who had been black-flagged for reversing in the pit lane. As a result, Prost moved 24 points clear of Senna in the championship with three races remaining. As well as Johansson taking Onyx's only podium finish, the race also saw Italian Pierluigi Martini lead for one lap – the first and only time the Minardi team led a Formula One race – and ten drivers from ten different teams finish in the top ten places. The race was also Prost's 150th Grand Prix start and the last start for the Coloni team, though it would continue in F1 until the end of 1991. Qualifying Pre-qualifying report Onyx returned to the top of the Friday morning time sheets as Stefan Johansson was fastest by half a second. His new team-mate was Finnish driver JJ Lehto, who had replaced Bertrand Gachot since the last race, after Gachot openly criticised the team and was fired. In his first Formula One event, Lehto just missed out on pre-qualification after a suspension failure during the session, leaving him fifth. The Larrousse-Lola cars both pre-qualified again, with Philippe Alliot second and Michele Alboreto fourth. The other driver to go through to the main qualifying sessions was Roberto Moreno in third place in the Coloni.Walker Murray 1989 Murray Walker's Grand Prix Year First Formula Publishing 109–116 1-870066-22-7 Yannick Dalmas had originally pre-qualified in third place in his AGS, but was excluded from the session and his times were deleted, after mistakenly using the wrong tyres. Also excluded was Osella driver Nicola Larini, for missing a weight check, although he had already failed to pre-qualify, being only ninth fastest. The other drivers who failed to proceed any further included the other Osella of Piercarlo Ghinzani, who outpaced his team-mate in sixth, and Oscar Larrauri, despite an improvement to seventh in the EuroBrun. Eighth was Gabriele Tarquini in the other AGS, ahead of the Zakspeeds of Aguri Suzuki and Bernd Schneider. Slowest by nearly four seconds was the second Coloni of Enrico Bertaggia, the third time in a row the Italian had been bottom of the time sheets. Pre-qualifying classification Pos No Driver Constructor Time Gap 1 36 SWE Stefan Johansson Onyx-Ford 1:18.623 — 2 30 FRA Philippe Alliot Lola-Lamborghini 1:19.164 +0.541 3 31 BRA 1968 Roberto Moreno Coloni-Ford 1:19.780 +1.157 4 29 ITA Michele Alboreto Lola-Lamborghini 1:19.869 +1.246 5 37 FIN JJ Lehto Onyx-Ford 1:20.880 +2.257 6 18 ITA Piercarlo Ghinzani Osella-Ford 1:21.021 +2.398 7 33 ARG Oscar Larrauri EuroBrun-Judd 1:21.326 +2.703 8 40 ITA Gabriele Tarquini AGS-Ford 1:21.881 +3.258 9 35 JPN 1947 Aguri Suzuki Zakspeed-Yamaha 1:24.116 +5.493 10 34 FRG Bernd Schneider Zakspeed-Yamaha 1:24.732 +6.109 11 32 ITA Enrico Bertaggia Coloni-Ford 1:28.526 +9.903 EX Excluded 41 FRA Yannick Dalmas AGS-Ford — — EX Excluded 17 ITA Nicola Larini Osella-Ford — — Qualifying report Qualifying saw McLaren's Ayrton Senna take his tenth pole position of the season, with the Ferrari of Gerhard Berger alongside him on the front row. Nigel Mansell took third in the other Ferrari, with Alain Prost fourth in the other McLaren. Pierluigi Martini impressed by qualifying fifth in his Minardi, ahead of the two Williams of Riccardo Patrese and Thierry Boutsen in sixth and eighth respectively, with Alex Caffi seventh in the Dallara. The top ten was completed by Luis Pérez-Sala in the second Minardi and Martin Brundle in the Brabham. Further down the grid, Stefan Johansson took 12th in his Onyx after setting the fastest time in pre-qualifying, while another pre-qualifier, Roberto Moreno, took 15th, the best-ever grid position for the Coloni team. This was Christian Danner's last Formula One qualifying attempt as he was fired by Rial after this race.https://www.grandprix.com/gpe/con-rial.html Rial grandprix.com 23 October 2023 The Minardi, Dallara, Brabham and Coloni teams all had their tyres supplied by Pirelli, whose special qualifying tyres were generally regarded as being superior to those of Goodyear. However, Goodyear's race tyres were still acknowledged as being superior to Pirelli's.Roebuck Nigel Nigel Roebuck Henry Alan Alan Henry 1989 Naismith Barry Round 13: Portugal The Incidental Winner Grand Prix Garry Sparke & Associates Glen Waverley, Victoria, Australia 5 126 0-908081-99-5 Qualifying classification Pos No Driver Constructor Q1 Q2 Gap 1 1 BRA 1968 Ayrton Senna McLaren-Honda 1:15.496 1:15.468 — 2 28 AUT Gerhard Berger Ferrari 1:16.799 1:16.059 +0.591 3 27 GBR Nigel Mansell Ferrari 1:17.387 1:16.193 +0.725 4 2 FRA Alain Prost McLaren-Honda 1:17.336 1:16.204 +0.736 5 23 ITA Pierluigi Martini Minardi-Ford 1:16.938 1:17.161 +1.470 6 6 ITA Riccardo Patrese Williams-Renault 1:17.281 1:17.852 +1.813 7 21 ITA Alex Caffi Dallara-Ford 1:18.623 1:17.661 +2.193 8 5 BEL Thierry Boutsen Williams-Renault 1:17.801 1:17.888 +2.333 9 24 ESP Luis Pérez-Sala Minardi-Ford 1:17.844 1:18.305 +2.376 10 7 GBR Martin Brundle Brabham-Judd 1:17.874 1:17.995 +2.406 11 8 ITA Stefano Modena Brabham-Judd 1:18.589 1:18.093 +2.625 12 36 SWE Stefan Johansson Onyx-Ford 1:19.281 1:18.105 +2.637 13 19 ITA Alessandro Nannini Benetton-Ford 1:18.115 1:18.359 +2.647 14 15 BRA 1968 Maurício Gugelmin March-Judd 1:18.124 1:18.277 +2.656 15 31 BRA 1968 Roberto Moreno Coloni-Ford 1:18.196 1:20.512 +2.728 16 20 ITA Emanuele Pirro Benetton-Ford 1:18.340 1:18.328 +2.860 17 30 FRA Philippe Alliot Lola-Lamborghini 1:19.306 1:18.386 +2.918 18 3 GBR Jonathan Palmer Tyrrell-Ford 1:19.172 1:18.404 +2.936 19 22 ITA Andrea de Cesaris Dallara-Ford 1:18.442 1:18.511 +2.974 20 11 BRA 1968 Nelson Piquet Lotus-Judd 1:18.482 1:18.682 +3.014 21 29 ITA Michele Alboreto Lola-Lamborghini 1:18.563 1:18.846 +3.095 22 9 GBR Derek Warwick Arrows-Ford 1:18.711 1:18.892 +3.243 23 25 FRA René Arnoux Ligier-Ford 1:18.767 1:19.979 +3.299 24 16 ITA Ivan Capelli March-Judd 1:19.079 1:18.785 +3.317 25 12 JPN 1947 Satoru Nakajima Lotus-Judd 1:19.278 1:19.165 +3.697 26 10 USA Eddie Cheever Arrows-Ford 1:19.247 1:20.006 +3.779 27 4 GBR Johnny Herbert Tyrrell-Ford 1:19.515 1:19.264 +3.796 28 26 FRA Olivier Grouillard Ligier-Ford 1:19.605 1:19.436 +3.968 29 39 FRA Pierre-Henri Raphanel Rial-Ford No time 1:21.435 +5.967 30 38 FRG Christian Danner Rial-Ford 1:21.678 1:22.423 +6.210 Race Race report Berger had a great start and managed to overtake Senna. Mansell was in third followed by Prost, Martini and Patrese. Berger quickly opened a lead while Senna was trying to keep Mansell behind. Then Mansell finally managed to overtake Senna and started to catch Berger. As the two Ferraris caught up with the slower cars and were starting to lap them, Mansell managed to overtake Berger. Positions at lap 24 were: Mansell, Berger, Senna and Prost. Prost was the first of the leaders to pit for new tyres from fourth position. He was quickly followed by Berger on lap 35 and then by Senna. Then came the crucial moment of the race. Mansell came into the pits slightly too fast, locked his tyres and missed his pit box by a few metres. Although his pit crew moved down the pit lane to try to change his tyres where he had stopped, Mansell engaged reverse gear and drove backwards the short distance into the correct spot, despite the Ferrari mechanics signalling to him to not reverse the car. After the leaders went to pit for tyres, Martini led a lap in the Minardi, the only time in F1 history that a Minardi car was at the front leading. Mansell was down in fourth. Berger, Senna and Mansell quickly overtook Martini and Mansell closed on Senna. However, as driving a car in reverse in the pit lane was expressly forbidden (the pit crew may legally push a car backwards), Mansell was given the black disqualification flag. At the start of lap 48, approaching Turn 1 even while the black flag was being waved at him Mansell tried to overtake Senna, the cars collided and both drivers were out. This damaged Senna's title chances, especially since rival Alain Prost came in second place. The race was won by Berger ahead of Prost, with Stefan Johansson a surprising third in the underfunded Onyx; the Swede did not make a pit-stop at any stage of the race and was initially on course for fifth place until both Williams-Renault entries were pulled out with overheating issues. It turned out to be Johansson's final career podium. As of 2026, Johansson's podium remains the last for a Swedish driver in Formula One. Race classification Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 28 AUT Gerhard Berger Ferrari 71 1:36:48.546 2 9 2 2 FRA Alain Prost McLaren-Honda 71 + 32.637 4 6 3 36 SWE Stefan Johansson Onyx-Ford 71 + 55.325 12 4 4 19 ITA Alessandro Nannini Benetton-Ford 71 + 1:22.369 13 3 5 23 ITA Pierluigi Martini Minardi-Ford 70 + 1 lap 5 2 6 3 GBR Jonathan Palmer Tyrrell-Ford 70 + 1 lap 18 1 7 12 JPN 1947 Satoru Nakajima Lotus-Judd 70 + 1 lap 25   8 7 GBR Martin Brundle Brabham-Judd 70 + 1 lap 10   9 30 FRA Philippe Alliot Lola-Lamborghini 70 + 1 lap 17   10 15 BRA 1968 Maurício Gugelmin March-Judd 69 + 2 laps 14   11 29 ITA Michele Alboreto Lola-Lamborghini 69 + 2 laps 21   12 24 ESP Luis Pérez-Sala Minardi-Ford 69 + 2 laps 9   13 25 FRA René Arnoux Ligier-Ford 69 + 2 laps 23   14 8 ITA Stefano Modena Brabham-Judd 69 + 2 laps 11   Ret Retired 6 ITA Riccardo Patrese Williams-Renault 60 Overheating 6   Ret Retired 5 BEL Thierry Boutsen Williams-Renault 60 Overheating 8   Ret Retired 1 BRA 1968 Ayrton Senna McLaren-Honda 48 Collision 1   DSQ Disqualified 27 GBR Nigel Mansell Ferrari 48 Reversed in pits (Collision) 3   Ret Retired 9 GBR Derek Warwick Arrows-Ford 37 Accident 22   Ret Retired 11 BRA 1968 Nelson Piquet Lotus-Judd 33 Collision 20   Ret Retired 21 ITA Alex Caffi Dallara-Ford 33 Collision 7   Ret Retired 20 ITA Emanuele Pirro Benetton-Ford 29 Suspension 16   Ret Retired 16 ITA Ivan Capelli March-Judd 25 Engine 24   Ret Retired 10 USA Eddie Cheever Arrows-Ford 24 Spun off 26   Ret Retired 22 ITA Andrea de Cesaris Dallara-Ford 17 Electrical 19   Ret Retired 31 BRA 1968 Roberto Moreno Coloni-Ford 11 Electrical 15   DNQ Did not qualify 4 GBR Johnny Herbert Tyrrell-Ford     DNQ Did not qualify 26 FRA Olivier Grouillard Ligier-Ford     DNQ Did not qualify 39 FRA Pierre-Henri Raphanel Rial-Ford     DNQ Did not qualify 38 FRG Christian Danner Rial-Ford     DNPQ Did not pre-qualify 41 FRA Yannick Dalmas AGS-Ford     DNPQ Did not pre-qualify 37 FIN JJ Lehto Onyx-Ford     DNPQ Did not pre-qualify 18 ITA Piercarlo Ghinzani Osella-Ford     DNPQ Did not pre-qualify 33 ARG Oscar Larrauri EuroBrun-Judd     DNPQ Did not pre-qualify 40 ITA Gabriele Tarquini AGS-Ford     DNPQ Did not pre-qualify 17 ITA Nicola Larini Osella-Ford     DNPQ Did not pre-qualify 35 JPN 1947 Aguri Suzuki Zakspeed-Yamaha     DNPQ Did not pre-qualify 34 FRG Bernd Schneider Zakspeed-Yamaha     DNPQ Did not pre-qualify 32 ITA Enrico Bertaggia Coloni-Ford        Source:http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1989/243/ 1989 Portuguese Grand Prix formula1.com 23 December 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150118232401/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1989/243/ 18 January 2015 Championship standings after the race Drivers' Championship standings PosDriverPoints 1 FRA Alain Prost 75 (77) 2 BRA 1968 Ayrton Senna 51 3 GBR Nigel Mansell 38 4 ITA Riccardo Patrese 28 5 BEL Thierry Boutsen 24Source:https://www.statsf1.com/en/1989/portugal/championnat.aspx Portugal 1989 - Championship • STATS F1 www.statsf1.com 20 March 2019 Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 1 GBR McLaren-Honda128 2 ITA Ferrari53 3 GBR Williams-Renault52 4 GBR Benetton-Ford22 5 GBR Tyrrell-Ford13Source: Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. 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