1991 Mexican Grand Prix

F1 Mexican Mexico 16 June 1991 Autódromo_Hermanos_Rodríguez.svg 6 16 Autódromo Hermanos RodríguezMexico City, Mexico Permanent racing facility 2.747 4.421 69 189.549 305.049 67 184.049 296.207 Mostly Cloudy24 °C °Fhttp://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/MMMX/1991/6/16/DailyHistory.html?req_city=NA&req_state=NA&req_statename=NA History | Weather Underground Wunderground.com 26 October 2013 Riccardo Patrese Williams-Renault Italy 1:16.696 Nigel Mansell Williams-Renault UK 1:16.788 61 (lap record) Riccardo Patrese Williams-Renault Italy Nigel Mansell Williams-Renault UK Ayrton Senna McLaren-Honda Brazil 1968 MEX The 1991 Mexican Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Mexico City, on 16 June 1991. It was the sixth race of the 1991 Formula One World Championship. The 67-lap race was won by Italian Riccardo Patrese, driving a Williams-Renault, after he started from pole position. Patrese's teammate, Briton Nigel Mansell, finished second, with Brazilian Ayrton Senna third in a McLaren-Honda. This was the most recent Formula One race to feature a car powered by a Porsche engine. Pre-race In the run-up to the race, Tyrrell had lost talented designer Harvey Postlethwaite to the Mercedes-Benz sportscar team, while Ayrton Senna had been injured in a jet-ski incident. During Friday qualifying, Senna suffered a big accident at the high-speed Peraltada bend, in which his McLaren rolled and landed upside-down, but he emerged unscathed. Qualifying Pre-qualifying report In the Friday morning pre-qualifying session, JJ Lehto was fastest for Scuderia Italia for the third time this season. His Dallara was over half a second faster than the second-placed runner, Fondmetal's Olivier Grouillard. It was the first time this season that Grouillard had pre-qualified and progressed to the main qualifying sessions. Initially, the third fastest driver was Nicola Larini in the Modena Lambo, but he was later excluded when his rear wing was found to be too high. This promoted the two Jordans one position each, with Andrea de Cesaris taking third, a second faster than Bertrand Gachot in fourth.Walker Murray 1991 Murray Walker's Grand Prix Year Hazleton Publishing 53–60 0-905138-90-2 Missing out in fifth place was Eric van de Poele in the other Lambo, just 0.056 of a second behind Gachot. Over six seconds behind van de Poele was Pedro Chaves in the Coloni, with the team suffering from financial problems. Emanuele Pirro was seventh in the other Dallara, having not posted a representative lap time. Pre-qualifying classification Pos No Driver Constructor Time Gap 1 22FIN JJ Lehto Dallara-Judd 1:28.381 — 2 14FRA Olivier Grouillard Fondmetal-Ford 1:28.959 +0.578 3 33ITA Andrea de Cesaris Jordan-Ford 1:29.545 +1.164 4 32BEL Bertrand Gachot Jordan-Ford 1:30.599 +2.218 5 35BEL Eric van de Poele Lambo-Lamborghini 1:30.655 +2.274 6 31POR Pedro Chaves Coloni-Ford 1:37.144 +8.763 7 21ITA Emanuele Pirro Dallara-Judd 1:40.164 +11.783 EX Excluded 34ITA Nicola Larini Lambo-Lamborghini — Qualifying report For the second race in succession, the Williams team filled the front row with Riccardo Patrese ahead of Nigel Mansell. Senna recovered from his dramatic accident on the Friday to take third on Saturday, with Jean Alesi fourth for Ferrari. Senna's McLaren teammate Gerhard Berger was fifth ahead of Benetton's Nelson Piquet, the winner of the previous race in Canada. The top ten was completed by Alain Prost in the second Ferrari, Stefano Modena in the Tyrrell, Roberto Moreno in the second Benetton and, remarkably, Olivier Grouillard in the Fondmetal. The latter seven drivers were separated by little more than 0.3 of a second. Qualifying classification Pos No Driver Constructor Q1 Q2 Gap16ITA Riccardo PatreseWilliams-Renault1:16.6961:17.19225GBR Nigel MansellWilliams-Renault1:16.9781:18.346 +0.28231BRA 1968 Ayrton SennaMcLaren-Honda1:17.2641:18.711 +0.568428FRA Jean AlesiFerrari1:18.1291:19.581 +1.43352AUT Gerhard BergerMcLaren-Honda1:18.1561:18.980 +1.460620BRA 1968 Nelson PiquetBenetton-Ford1:18.1681:19.117 +1.472727FRA Alain ProstFerrari1:18.1831:20.778 +1.48784ITA Stefano ModenaTyrrell-Honda1:18.9111:18.216 +1.520919BRA 1968 Roberto MorenoBenetton-Ford1:18.5891:18.375 +1.6791014FRA Olivier GrouillardFondmetal-Ford1:18.4531:29.560 +1.7571133ITA Andrea de CesarisJordan-Ford1:20.0531:18.935 +2.239128GBR Mark BlundellBrabham-Yamaha1:19.06449:28.503 +2.368133JPN 1947 Satoru NakajimaTyrrell-Honda1:19.9711:19.092 +2.3961425BEL Thierry BoutsenLigier-Lamborghini1:20.9781:19.201 +2.5051523ITA Pierluigi MartiniMinardi-Ferrari1:19.2151:19.878 +2.5191622FIN JJ LehtoDallara-Judd1:19.2911:20.029 +2.595177GBR Martin BrundleBrabham-Yamaha1:20.3781:19.647 +2.9511829FRA Éric BernardLola-Ford1:20.4421:19.785 +3.0891930JPN 1947 Aguri SuzukiLola-Ford1:21.7371:20.049 +3.3532032BEL Bertrand GachotJordan-Ford1:20.0501:20.551 +3.3542115BRA 1968 Maurício GugelminLeyton House-Ilmor1:20.2001:20.535 +3.5042216ITA Ivan CapelliLeyton House-Ilmor1:20.2521:21.053 +3.5562324ITA Gianni MorbidelliMinardi-Ferrari1:21.2571:20.322 +3.6262411FIN Mika HäkkinenLotus-Judd1:20.8231:22.072 +4.1272512GBR Johnny HerbertLotus-Judd1:20.8301:22.964 +4.134269ITA Michele AlboretoFootwork-Porsche 1:21.4291:21.178 +4.4822726FRA Érik ComasLigier-Lamborghini1:21.7371:21.225 +4.5292817ITA Gabriele TarquiniAGS-Ford1:22.2581:22.398 +5.5622910SWE Stefan JohanssonFootwork-Porsche1:22.9381:22.598 +5.902 3018ITA Fabrizio BarbazzaAGS-Ford1:22.8991:23.920 +6.203 Race Race report thumb|403x403px|Ayrton Senna leading Alain Prost The actual race needed three attempts to get underway: the first start was aborted when a fire marshal thought he saw a fire in the back of JJ Lehto's Dallara and jumped onto the track, while Grouillard stalled at the second start and was relegated to the back of the grid. At the third start, Patrese made a poor getaway and dropped to fourth behind Mansell, Alesi and Senna. Senna quickly overtook Alesi, while further back, Piquet and Prost dropped behind Modena and Prost also dropped behind the fast-starting Jordan of Andrea de Cesaris. Berger, meanwhile, suffered his third consecutive early retirement when his engine exploded on lap 5, the resulting oil causing Pierluigi Martini to spin off in his Minardi. Patrese started his recovery by overtaking Alesi and then out-braking Senna into turn 1, putting him into second behind Mansell. On lap 15, Patrese passed his team-mate, who was having engine overheating concerns, for the lead. Mansell fell back towards Senna, Piquet, de Cesaris, Moreno and Alesi (who had spun), but eventually the concerns faded and the Englishman pulled away again. Alesi passed Moreno and de Cesaris for fifth, only for his clutch to fail on lap 43, team-mate Prost having dropped out on lap 17 with an alternator failure. Piquet's race ended on lap 45 with a broken wheel bearing, and when Moreno had a pit stop go wrong, Bertrand Gachot found himself fifth in the second Jordan, before spinning off. Patrese eventually finished 1.3 seconds ahead of Mansell, with Senna almost a minute further back. De Cesaris held on to fourth after his throttle failed on the last lap and he pushed his car over the line, the stewards deciding that he had not broken the rules by starting to push after the race had ended. Moreno recovered from his botched pit stop to take fifth, while Larrousse's Éric Bernard finished sixth, the last point scored by a chassis manufactured by Lola Cars. Race classification Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 6 ITA Riccardo Patrese Williams-Renault 67 1:29:52.205 1 10 2 5 GBR Nigel Mansell Williams-Renault 67 + 1.336 2 6 3 1 BRA 1968 Ayrton Senna McLaren-Honda 67 + 57.356 3 4 4 33 ITA Andrea de Cesaris Jordan-Ford 66 + 1 lap 11 3 5 19 BRA 1968 Roberto Moreno Benetton-Ford 66 + 1 lap 9 2 6 29 FRA Éric Bernard Lola-Ford 66 + 1 lap 18 1 7 24 ITA Gianni Morbidelli Minardi-Ferrari 66 + 1 lap 23 8 25 BEL Thierry Boutsen Ligier-Lamborghini 65 + 2 laps 14 9 11 FIN Mika Häkkinen Lotus-Judd 65 + 2 laps 24 10 12 GBR Johnny Herbert Lotus-Judd 65 + 2 laps 25 11 4 ITA Stefano Modena Tyrrell-Honda 65 + 2 laps 8 12 3 JPN 1947 Satoru Nakajima Tyrrell-Honda 64 + 3 laps 13 Ret Retired 8 GBR Mark Blundell Brabham-Yamaha 54 Engine 12 Ret Retired 32 BEL Bertrand Gachot Jordan-Ford 51 Spun off 20 Ret Retired 30 JPN 1947 Aguri Suzuki Lola-Ford 48 Gearbox 19 Ret Retired 20 BRA 1968 Nelson Piquet Benetton-Ford 44 Wheel bearing 6 Ret Retired 28 FRA Jean Alesi Ferrari 42 Clutch 4 Ret Retired 22 FIN JJ Lehto Dallara-Judd 30 Engine 16 Ret Retired 9 ITA Michele Alboreto Footwork-Porsche 24 Engine 26 Ret Retired 7 GBR Martin Brundle Brabham-Yamaha 20 Wheel 17 Ret Retired 16 ITA Ivan Capelli Leyton House-Ilmor 19 Engine 22 Ret Retired 27 FRA Alain Prost Ferrari 16 Alternator 7 Ret Retired 15 BRA 1968 Maurício Gugelmin Leyton House-Ilmor 15 Engine 21 Ret Retired 14 FRA Olivier Grouillard Fondmetal-Ford 13 Engine 10 Ret Retired 2 AUT Gerhard Berger McLaren-Honda 5 Engine 5 Ret Retired 23 ITA Pierluigi Martini Minardi-Ferrari 4 Spun off 15 DNQ Did not qualify 26 FRA Érik Comas Ligier-Lamborghini DNQ Did not qualify 17 ITA Gabriele Tarquini AGS-Ford DNQ Did not qualify 10 SWE Stefan Johansson Footwork-Porsche DNQ Did not qualify 18 ITA Fabrizio Barbazza AGS-Ford DNPQ Did not pre-qualify 35 BEL Eric van de Poele Lambo-Lamborghini DNPQ Did not pre-qualify 31 POR Pedro Chaves Coloni-Ford DNPQ Did not pre-qualify 21 ITA Emanuele Pirro Dallara-Judd EX Excluded 34 ITA Nicola Larini Lambo-Lamborghini Rear wing infringementSource:http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1991/202/ 1991 Mexican Grand Prix formula1.com 23 December 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20141103130804/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1991/202/ 3 November 2014 Championship standings after the race Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 10px 1 BRA 1968 Ayrton Senna 44 10px 2 2 ITA Riccardo Patrese 20 10px 1 3 BRA 1968 Nelson Piquet 16 10px 3 4 GBR Nigel Mansell 13 10px 2 5 FRA Alain Prost 11Source:https://www.statsf1.com/en/1991/mexique/championnat.aspx Mexico 1991 - Championship • STATS F1 www.statsf1.com 19 March 2019 Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 10px 1 GBR McLaren-Honda 54 10px 1 2 GBR Williams-Renault 33 10px 1 3 GBR Benetton-Ford 21 10px 4 ITA Ferrari 16 10px 5 GBR Tyrrell-Honda 11Source: Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. References Mexican Grand Prix 1991 1991 Canadian Grand Prix 1991 French Grand Prix 1990 Mexican Grand Prix 1992 Mexican Grand Prix Mexican Grand Prix Category:Mexican Grand Prix Grand Prix Category:June 1991 sports events in Mexico