1990 Belgian Grand Prix

March 2019 F1 Belgium Belgian 26 August 1990 11 16 Circuit de Spa-FrancorchampsFrancorchamps, Wallonia, Belgium1990 Belgian GP https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/database/races/1990-belgian-grand-prix/ Motor Sport 30 May 2022 Spa 1996.jpg Permanent racing facility 4.312https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/database/races/1995-belgian-grand-prix/ 1995 Belgian Grand Prix | Motorsport Database 6.940 44 187.136 301.172 Dry Ayrton Senna McLaren-Honda Brazil 1968 1:50.365 Alain Prost Ferrari France 1:55.087 38 Ayrton Senna McLaren-Honda Brazil 1968 Alain Prost Ferrari France Gerhard Berger McLaren-Honda Austria BEL The 1990 Belgian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Spa-Francorchamps on 26 August 1990. It was the eleventh race of the 1990 Formula One World Championship. The race was the 48th Belgian Grand Prix. It was the 36th to be held at Spa-Francorchamps and the seventh since the circuit was extensively redeveloped in 1979. The race was held over 44 laps of the seven kilometre circuit for a race distance of 301 kilometres. Brazilian driver Ayrton Senna claimed his fifth race victory for the season in his McLaren MP4/5B taking a four-second win over the Ferrari 641 driven the reigning world champion, Frenchman Alain Prost. It was Senna's fourth victory in the Belgian Grand Prix, and his third in succession. Senna's Austrian teammate Gerhard Berger finished third, while further back Maurício Gugelmin scored a point for the Leyton House team. Three attempts were made to start the race, the first two being red-flagged after collisions. Aguri Suzuki's Lola LC90 was eliminated after the first start, Paolo Barilla's Minardi M190 after the second. Off-track, Nigel Mansell was rumoured to be reconsidering his prior announcement to retire, and he was strongly linked with Williams. He had demanded undisputed number one status as a driver, and various assurances from engine supplier Renault, which Frank Williams had told him were impossible.https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/december-2009/60/lunch-nigel-mansell Lunch with... Nigel Mansell Taylor Simon December 2009 10 May 2020 Motorsport Magazine The Onyx team pulled out of Formula One before the weekend of the race, for financial reasons, having competed at this level for a season and a half.Walker Murray 1990 Murray Walker's Grand Prix Year Hazleton Publishing 95–102 0-905138-82-1 Qualifying Pre-qualifying report With the withdrawal of the Onyx team, Ligier were relieved of the requirement to pre-qualify, and returned to the main qualifying pool. They had only been required to pre-qualify twice, which both cars did comfortably on both occasions. Therefore, there was slightly less pressure on the other entrants in the pre-qualifying session. Olivier Grouillard was fastest in the Osella, the second time he had been top of the Friday morning time sheets, and the first time since round six in Mexico. Second fastest was Yannick Dalmas in the AGS, his fifth successful pre-qualification of the season from eleven attempts. Third fastest was Bertrand Gachot in the improving Coloni, and this was the first time in 1990 that he had pre-qualified. Fourth was Gabriele Tarquini in the other AGS, his fourth pre-qualification this season. Missing the cut in fifth and sixth positions were the EuroBruns of Roberto Moreno and Claudio Langes. The margin of failure was fairly narrow however, with Moreno 0.36 seconds behind Tarquini, and Langes just over a second further behind. Bruno Giacomelli was slowest again in the Life, with the L190 refusing to start until the closing stages of the session. The car managed five slow laps before an electrical failure. "Nothing impressive," Giacomelli stated. He also announced that work was restarting on the chassis to allow a Judd CV V8 engine to be fitted by round 13 in Portugal, in place of the disastrous in-house W12.Motoring News 30 August 1990 Pre-qualifying classification Pos No Driver Constructor Time Gap 1 14 France Olivier Grouillard Osella-Ford 1:57.941 — 2 18 France Yannick Dalmas AGS-Ford 1:58.339 +0.398 3 31 Belgium Bertrand Gachot Coloni-Ford 1:59.130 +1.189 4 17 Italy Gabriele Tarquini AGS-Ford 1:59.910 +1.969 5 33 Brazil 1968 Roberto Moreno EuroBrun-Judd 2:00.270 +2.329 6 34 Italy Claudio Langes EuroBrun-Judd 2:01.405 +3.464 7 39 Italy Bruno Giacomelli Life 2:19.445 +21.504 Qualifying report The two McLarens were on the front row, with Senna ahead of Berger. Prost in the Ferrari was third ahead of Boutsen and the second Ferrari of Mansell. Qualifying classification Pos No Driver Constructor Q1 Q2 Gap 1 27 Brazil 1968 Ayrton Senna McLaren-Honda 1:52.278 1:50.365 — 2 28 Austria Gerhard Berger McLaren-Honda 1:51.211 1:50.948 +0.583 3 1 France Alain Prost Ferrari 1:51.841 1:51.043 +0.678 4 5 Belgium Thierry Boutsen Williams-Renault 1:54.024 1:51.902 +1.537 5 2 UK Nigel Mansell Ferrari 1:52.601 1:52.267 +1.902 6 19 Italy Alessandro Nannini Benetton-Ford 1:55.800 1:52.648 +2.283 7 6 Italy Riccardo Patrese Williams-Renault 1:54.260 1:52.703 +2.338 8 20 Brazil 1968 Nelson Piquet Benetton-Ford 1:53.689 1:52.853 +2.488 9 4 France Jean Alesi Tyrrell-Ford 1:54.116 1:52.885 +2.520 10 3 Japan 1947 Satoru Nakajima Tyrrell-Ford 1:55.798 1:53.468 +3.103 11 30 Japan 1947 Aguri Suzuki Lola-Lamborghini 1:55.294 1:53.523 +3.158 12 16 Italy Ivan Capelli Leyton House-Judd 1:55.012 1:53.783 +3.418 13 8 Italy Stefano Modena Brabham-Judd 1:57.014 1:53.916 +3.551 14 15 Brazil 1968 Maurício Gugelmin Leyton House-Judd 1:54.497 1:54.120 +3.755 15 29 France Éric Bernard Lola-Lamborghini 1:56.213 1:54.251 +3.886 16 23 Italy Pierluigi Martini Minardi-Ford 1:56.074 1:54.312 +3.947 17 21 Italy Emanuele Pirro Dallara-Ford 1:56.239 1:54.595 +4.230 18 11 UK Derek Warwick Lotus-Lamborghini 1:56.246 1:55.068 +4.703 19 10 Italy Alex Caffi Arrows-Ford 1:56.562 1:55.199 +4.834 20 22 Italy Andrea de Cesaris Dallara-Ford 1:56.923 1:55.261 +4.896 21 25 Italy Nicola Larini Ligier-Ford 1:57.471 1:55.278 +4.913 22 12 UK Martin Donnelly Lotus-Lamborghini 1:56.666 1:55.304 +4.939 23 14 France Olivier Grouillard Osella-Ford 1:57.770 1:55.334 +4.969 24 7 Australia David Brabham Brabham-Judd 1:58.034 1:55.668 +5.303 25 24 Italy Paolo Barilla Minardi-Ford 1:57.221 1:55.859 +5.494 26 9 Italy Michele Alboreto Arrows-Ford 1:57.255 1:56.055 +5.690 27 26 France Philippe Alliot Ligier-Ford no time 1:56.118 +5.753 28 17 Italy Gabriele Tarquini AGS-Ford 1:58.293 1:57.566 +7.201 29 18 France Yannick Dalmas AGS-Ford 1:58.995 1:57.704 +7.339 30 31 Belgium Bertrand Gachot Coloni-Ford no time 1:58.520 +8.155 Race Race report The first start had seen two incidents. The first of them saw Nelson Piquet in the Benetton push the Ferrari 641 of Nigel Mansell off the track. In the second of the incidents, the Tyrrell of Satoru Nakajima collided with the Brabham of Stefano Modena, which caused the race to be stopped. The second start had seen Senna's McLaren take the lead with the Williams of Thierry Boutsen slicing his way into second place from fourth, whilst rival Alain Prost had dropped down to fifth place after starting third. However, there was another first lap accident when the Minardi of Paolo Barilla crashed heavily at Eau Rouge, leaving debris all over the track in that area and causing the race to be stopped again. The third start, however, had proven to be cleaner, as Senna held on to the lead ahead of teammate Gerhard Berger, Prost, Boutsen, Patrese and Alessandro Nannini in the leading Benetton. Mansell in the second Ferrari went into the pits on lap 11 with handling problems. He was able to rejoin the race but retired eight laps later. Meanwhile, back up front, Prost took second ahead of Berger but then pitted for tyres. The margin between Senna and Prost was only two seconds when they made their second pit stops for fresh tyres. Both the Williams cars of Patrese and Boutsen were soon forced to retire with gearbox problems by lap 22. The pit stops of Senna and Prost had allowed Nannini (who was once again planning to go the full race distance without a pit stop) to take second place. Prost was able to overtake Nannini and Berger attempted to do the same thing but was unable to pass until lap 41 when Nannini ran wide at La Source, which allowed Berger to take third place from the Italian. Ayrton Senna took his fifth win of the season by 3.5 seconds over Prost, whilst the rest of the top six were rounded out by teammate Berger, Nannini, Piquet in the second Benetton and Mauricio Gugelmin in the Leyton House. Race classification Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 27 Brazil 1968 Ayrton Senna McLaren-Honda 44 1:26:31.997 1 9 2 1 France Alain Prost Ferrari 44 + 3.550 3 6 3 28 Austria Gerhard Berger McLaren-Honda 44 + 28.462 2 4 4 19 Italy Alessandro Nannini Benetton-Ford 44 + 49.337 6 3 5 20 Brazil 1968 Nelson Piquet Benetton-Ford 44 + 1:29.650 8 2 6 15 Brazil 1968 Maurício Gugelmin Leyton House-Judd 44 + 1:48.851 14 1 7 16 Italy Ivan Capelli Leyton House-Judd 43 + 1 lap 12 8 4 France Jean Alesi Tyrrell-Ford 43 + 1 lap 9 9 29 France Éric Bernard Lola-Lamborghini 43 + 1 lap 15 10 10 Italy Alex Caffi Arrows-Ford 43 + 1 lap 19 11 11 UK Derek Warwick Lotus-Lamborghini 43 + 1 lap 18 12 12 UK Martin Donnelly Lotus-Lamborghini 43 + 1 lap 22 13 9 Italy Michele Alboreto Arrows-Ford 43 + 1 lap 26 14 25 Italy Nicola Larini Ligier-Ford 42 + 2 laps 21 15 23 Italy Pierluigi Martini Minardi-Ford 42 + 2 laps 16 16 14 France Olivier Grouillard Osella-Ford 42 + 2 laps 23 17 8 Italy Stefano Modena Brabham-Judd 39 Engine 13 Ret Retired 7 Australia David Brabham Brabham-Judd 36 Electrical 24 Ret Retired 22 Italy Andrea de Cesaris Dallara-Ford 27 Engine 20 Ret Retired 5 Belgium Thierry Boutsen Williams-Renault 21 Transmission 4 Ret Retired 2 UK Nigel Mansell Ferrari 19 Handling 5 Ret Retired 6 Italy Riccardo Patrese Williams-Renault 18 Gearbox 7 Ret Retired 21 Italy Emanuele Pirro Dallara-Ford 5 Water leak 17 Ret Retired 3 Japan 1947 Satoru Nakajima Tyrrell-Ford 4 Engine 10 Ret Retired 30 Japan 1947 Aguri Suzuki Lola-Lamborghini 0 Accident 11 Ret Retired 24 Italy Paolo Barilla Minardi-Ford 0 Accident 25 DNQ Did not qualify 26 France Philippe Alliot Ligier-Ford DNQ Did not qualify 17 Italy Gabriele Tarquini AGS-Ford DNQ Did not qualify 18 France Yannick Dalmas AGS-Ford DNQ Did not qualify 31 Belgium Bertrand Gachot Coloni-Ford DNPQ Did not pre-qualify 33 Brazil 1968 Roberto Moreno EuroBrun-Judd DNPQ Did not pre-qualify 34 Italy Claudio Langes EuroBrun-Judd DNPQ Did not pre-qualify 39 Italy Bruno Giacomelli Life Source:http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1990/225/ 1990 Belgian Grand Prix formula1.com 23 December 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20141221232353/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1990/225/ 21 December 2014 Championship standings after the race Drivers' Championship standings PosDriverPoints 1 BRA 1968 Ayrton Senna 63 2 FRA Alain Prost 50 3 AUT Gerhard Berger 33 4 BEL Thierry Boutsen 27 5 BRA 1968 Nelson Piquet 24Source:https://www.statsf1.com/en/1990/belgique/championnat.aspx Belgium 1990 - Championship • STATS F1 www.statsf1.com 13 March 2019 Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 1 GBR McLaren-Honda96 2 ITA Ferrari63 3 GBR Williams-Renault42 4 GBR Benetton-Ford40 5 GBR Tyrrell-Ford14Source: Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. 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