1990 British Grand Prix

March 2019 April 2017 April 2017 F1 British UK 15 July XLIII Foster's British Grand Prix 1990 Silverstone_Circuit_1990.png 8 16 Silverstone CircuitSilverstone, Northamptonshire, England Permanent racing facility 2.969 4.778 64 190.080 305.904 Hot, dry, sunny Nigel Mansell UK Ferrari 1:07.428 Nigel Mansell UK Ferrari 1:11.291 51 Alain Prost France Ferrari Thierry Boutsen Belgium Williams-Renault Ayrton Senna Brazil 1968 McLaren-Honda GBR The 1990 British Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Silverstone on 15 July 1990. It was the eighth race of the 1990 Formula One World Championship. It was the 45th British Grand Prix and the 26th to be held at Silverstone, which was the fastest circuit on the F1 calendar at the time. The race was held over 64 laps of the 4.78 km mi on circuit for a race distance of 305.9 km mi. The race was won by Frenchman Alain Prost, driving a Ferrari. Prost's teammate, local hero Nigel Mansell, took pole position and led before retiring with a gearbox failure nine laps from the end. Belgian Thierry Boutsen finished second in a Williams-Renault, with Brazilian Ayrton Senna third in a McLaren-Honda. The win, Prost's third in succession and fourth of the season, gave him the lead of the Drivers' Championship, two points ahead of Senna. At this event Ricardo Patrese made history by becoming the first ever F1 driver to compete in 200 F1 GP's. Qualifying Pre-qualifying report In Friday morning pre-qualifying, the Larrousse-Lolas were again first and second, their fifth 1–2 of the season, with Éric Bernard nearly a second faster than team-mate Aguri Suzuki. As at the previous Grand Prix in France, third fastest was Gabriele Tarquini in the AGS. This time, the fourth pre-qualifying spot went to Olivier Grouillard in the sole Osella. These four were comfortably faster than the other runners, the fastest of which was Roberto Moreno in a revised EuroBrun in fifth place. Sixth was Yannick Dalmas in the other AGS, his sixth failure to pre-qualify so far this season. Claudio Langes was seventh in the other, unrevised EuroBrun, with Bertrand Gachot a distant eighth in the Coloni after its engine destroyed itself yet again.Motoring News 18 July 1990 Subaru ended their involvement with the Coloni team after this Grand Prix, with eight consecutive failures to pre-qualify, and the team were to source new engines for the next race in Germany.Walker Murray 1990 Murray Walker's Grand Prix Year Hazleton Publishing 71–78 0-905138-82-1 The Life team had no pit garage in which to prepare their car, and worked on the grass near the pits. Their car, still driven by Bruno Giacomelli, suffered an electrical failure after five laps, and was bottom of the time sheets again. Team manager Sergio Barbasio announced that they would stick with the hopeless in-house W12 engine, citing a lack of time to prepare the chassis for the Judd CV engines purchased from Lotus. However, Italian sources claimed that Life had simply been unable to complete the purchase due to lack of funds. Pre-qualifying classification Pos No Driver Constructor Time Gap 1 29 France Éric Bernard Lola-Lamborghini 1:10.254 2 30 Japan 1947 Aguri Suzuki Lola-Lamborghini 1:11.128 +0.874 3 17 Italy Gabriele Tarquini AGS-Ford 1:11.516 +1.262 4 14 France Olivier Grouillard Osella-Ford 1:11.953 +1.699 5 33 Brazil 1968 Roberto Moreno EuroBrun-Judd 1:12.554 +2.300 6 18 France Yannick Dalmas AGS-Ford 1:12.653 +2.399 7 34 Italy Claudio Langes EuroBrun-Judd 1:15.059 +4.805 8 31 Belgium Bertrand Gachot Coloni-Subaru 1:19.230 +8.976 9 39 Italy Bruno Giacomelli Life 1:25.947 +15.693 Qualifying report Mansell qualified on pole more than half a second in front of Senna, at an average speed of 158 mph (252 km/h). Qualifying classification Pos No Driver Constructor Q1 Q2 Gap 1 2 UK Nigel Mansell Ferrari 1:08.336 1:07.428 2 27 Brazil 1968 Ayrton Senna McLaren-Honda 1:08.071 1:09.055 +0.643 3 28 Austria Gerhard Berger McLaren-Honda 1:08.246 1:08.674 +0.818 4 5 Belgium Thierry Boutsen Williams-Renault 1:09.102 1:08.291 +0.863 5 1 France Alain Prost Ferrari 1:09.110 1:08.336 +0.908 6 4 France Jean Alesi Tyrrell-Ford 1:09.147 1:08.370 +0.942 7 6 Italy Riccardo Patrese Williams-Renault 1:08.677 1:08.864 +1.249 8 29 France Éric Bernard Lola-Lamborghini 1:09.560 1:09.003 +1.575 9 30 Japan 1947 Aguri Suzuki Lola-Lamborghini 1:09.243 1:09.865 +1.815 10 16 Italy Ivan Capelli Leyton House-Judd 1:10.691 1:09.308 +1.880 11 20 Brazil 1968 Nelson Piquet Benetton-Ford 1:09.684 1:09.407 +1.979 12 3 Japan 1947 Satoru Nakajima Tyrrell-Ford 1:09.937 1:09.608 +2.180 13 19 Italy Alessandro Nannini Benetton-Ford 1:09.782 1:09.641 +2.213 14 12 UK Martin Donnelly Lotus-Lamborghini 1:10.786 1:09.741 +2.313 15 15 Brazil 1968 Maurício Gugelmin Leyton House-Judd 1:11.167 1:10.044 +2.616 16 11 UK Derek Warwick Lotus-Lamborghini 1:10.552 1:10.092 +2.664 17 10 Italy Alex Caffi Arrows-Ford 1:10.480 1:10.110 +2.682 18 23 Italy Pierluigi Martini Minardi-Ford 1:10.568 1:10.303 +2.875 19 21 Italy Emanuele Pirro Dallara-Ford 1:11.413 1:10.847 +3.419 20 8 Italy Stefano Modena Brabham-Judd 1:11.070 1:11.600 +3.642 21 25 Italy Nicola Larini Ligier-Ford 1:11.942 1:11.180 +3.752 22 26 France Philippe Alliot Ligier-Ford 1:12.483 1:11.215 +3.787 23 22 Italy Andrea de Cesaris Dallara-Ford 1:11.705 1:11.234 +3.806 24 24 Italy Paolo Barilla Minardi-Ford 1:11.498 1:11.387 +3.959 25 9 Italy Michele Alboreto Arrows-Ford 1:11.562 1:12.644 +4.134 26 17 Italy Gabriele Tarquini AGS-Ford 1:12.506 1:11.681 +4.253DNQ Did not qualify 14 France Olivier Grouillard Osella-Ford 1:12.179 1:11.710 +4.282DNQ Did not qualify 7 Australia David Brabham Brabham-Judd 1:11.741 1:13.016 +4.313DNQ Did not qualify 36 Finland JJ Lehto Onyx-Ford 1:12.712 1:12.631 +5.203DNQ Did not qualify 35 Switzerland Gregor Foitek Onyx-Ford 1:13.413 1:13.271 +5.843 Race Race report Local hero Nigel Mansell led until his gearbox began to malfunction. He was overtaken (against team orders, and to Mansell's chagrin) by Alain Prost and remained in second until his gearbox failed completely on lap 57. After retiring from the race Mansell famously threw his gloves into the crowd and announced he would retire from Formula One at the end of the season, a decision he later reversed. Riccardo Patrese became the first driver ever to start 200 Grands Prix. On race day, he retired after damage was sustained in a collision with the Benetton of Alessandro Nannini on lap 27, whilst his team-mate Thierry Boutsen reached the podium and finished second. Éric Bernard and Aguri Suzuki both scored the best results of their career up to this point. For Suzuki, it was the first points scoring finish of his career. Ivan Capelli was the charger in the race. Starting 10th he spun early to avoid the collision between Patrese and Alessandro Nannini. Then racing with a broken exhaust header he charged hard, eventually passing Gerhard Berger for 3rd and for a time being the fastest driver on the track before retiring on lap 48 with a fuel leak. Ligier needed at least a top eight finish to avoid pre-qualification, but Nicola Larini could not do better than 10th place, while teammate Philippe Alliot only managed to finish 13th. This would be the last motor race on the original high-speed Silverstone circuit; the day after the race, a construction crew funded by Tom Walkinshaw immediately began work on reprofiling and incorporating the newly designed corners. Race classification Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 1 France Alain Prost Ferrari 64 1:18:30.999 5 9 2 5 Belgium Thierry Boutsen Williams-Renault 64 + 39.092 4 6 3 27 Brazil 1968 Ayrton Senna McLaren-Honda 64 + 43.088 2 4 4 29 France Éric Bernard Lola-Lamborghini 64 + 1:15.302 8 3 5 20 Brazil 1968 Nelson Piquet Benetton-Ford 64 + 1:24.003 11 2 6 30 Japan 1947 Aguri Suzuki Lola-Lamborghini 63 + 1 lap 9 1 7 10 Italy Alex Caffi Arrows-Ford 63 + 1 lap 17 8 4 France Jean Alesi Tyrrell-Ford 63 + 1 lap 6 9 8 Italy Stefano Modena Brabham-Judd 62 + 2 laps 20 10 25 Italy Nicola Larini Ligier-Ford 62 + 2 laps 21 11 21 Italy Emanuele Pirro Dallara-Ford 62 + 2 laps 19 12 24 Italy Paolo Barilla Minardi-Ford 62 + 2 laps 24 13 26 France Philippe Alliot Ligier-Ford 61 + 3 laps 22 14 28 Austria Gerhard Berger McLaren-Honda 60 Throttle 3 Ret Retired 2 UK Nigel Mansell Ferrari 55 Gearbox 1 Ret Retired 16 Italy Ivan Capelli Leyton House-Judd 48 Fuel leak 10 Ret Retired 12 UK Martin Donnelly Lotus-Lamborghini 48 Engine 14 Ret Retired 11 UK Derek Warwick Lotus-Lamborghini 46 Engine 16 Ret Retired 17 Italy Gabriele Tarquini AGS-Ford 41 Engine 26 Ret Retired 9 Italy Michele Alboreto Arrows-Ford 37 Engine 25 Ret Retired 6 Italy Riccardo Patrese Williams-Renault 26 Collision damage 7 Ret Retired 3 Japan 1947 Satoru Nakajima Tyrrell-Ford 20 Electrical 12 Ret Retired 19 Italy Alessandro Nannini Benetton-Ford 15 Collision 13 Ret Retired 22 Italy Andrea de Cesaris Dallara-Ford 12 Fuel system 23 Ret Retired 23 Italy Pierluigi Martini Minardi-Ford 3 Alternator 18 DNS Did not start 15 Brazil 1968 Maurício Gugelmin Leyton House-Judd 0 Fuel pump 15 DNQ Did not qualify 14 France Olivier Grouillard Osella-Ford DNQ Did not qualify 7 Australia David Brabham Brabham-Judd DNQ Did not qualify 36 Finland JJ Lehto Onyx-Ford DNQ Did not qualify 35 Switzerland Gregor Foitek Onyx-Ford DNPQ Did not pre-qualify 33 Brazil 1968 Roberto Moreno EuroBrun-Judd DNPQ Did not pre-qualify 18 France Yannick Dalmas AGS-Ford DNPQ Did not pre-qualify 34 Italy Claudio Langes EuroBrun-Judd DNPQ Did not pre-qualify 31 Belgium Bertrand Gachot Coloni-Subaru DNPQ Did not pre-qualify 39 Italy Bruno Giacomelli Life Source:1990 British Grand Prix http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1990/222/ formula1.com https://web.archive.org/web/20141221231250/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1990/222/ 21 December 2014 23 December 2015 Championship standings after the race Drivers' Championship standings PosDriverPoints 1 FRA Alain Prost 41 2 BRA 1968 Ayrton Senna 39 3 AUT Gerhard Berger 25 4 BRA 1968 Nelson Piquet 18 5 BEL Thierry Boutsen 17Source:Britain 1990 - Championship • STATS F1 https://www.statsf1.com/en/1990/grande-bretagne/championnat.aspx www.statsf1.com 13 March 2019 Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 1 GBR McLaren-Honda64 2 ITA Ferrari54 3 GBR Williams-Renault27 4 GBR Benetton-Ford25 5 GBR Tyrrell-Ford14Source: Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. 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