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25px Germany  1989 German Grand Prix
Race details
Race 9 of 16 in the 1989 Formula One season
Circuit Hockenheimring-1982.svg
Date July 30, 1989
Official name LI Grosser Mobil 1 Preis von Deutschland
Location Hockenheimring
near Heidelberg, West Germany
Course Permanent racing facility
6.797 km (4.2234 mi)
Distance 45 laps, 305.865 km (190.055 mi)
Weather Warm, cloudy
Pole position
Driver 25px Brazil Ayrton Senna McLaren-Honda
Time 1:42.300
Fastest lap
Driver 25px Brazil Ayrton Senna McLaren-Honda
Time 1:45.884 on lap 43
Podium
First 25px Brazil Ayrton Senna McLaren-Honda
Second 25px France Alain Prost McLaren-Honda
Third 25px UK Nigel Mansell Ferrari

The 1989 German Grand Prix was a Formula One race held at Hockenheimring on July 30, 1989.

Pre-qualifying[]

Pre-qualifying had been reorganised going into the second half of the season; no points in the first half of the season meant that the Larrousse team with their Lamborghini V12 engines joined the session, where Philippe Alliot was now partnered by Michele Alboreto who had left Tyrrell over a rumored sponsorship dispute before the French Grand Prix (Alboreto was personally sponsored by Marlboro and Ken Tyrrell had signed the rival Camel brand as the team's major sponsor). Roberto Moreno was also forced to pre-qualify in the second half of the season, thus joining his Coloni team mate Pierre-Henri Raphanel. Despite his sixth place finish at the Mexican Grand Prix, this was not enough to prevent Gabriele Tarquini from having to pre-qualify his AGS, so the Italian now joined his new team mate Yannick Dalmas in the session. Stefano Modena's third place and team mate Martin Brundle's sixth place finish at the Monaco Grand Prix resulted in the Brabham team no longer having to pre-qualify for the remainder of the season, while Alex Caffi's fourth place in the same race, as well as a sixth in Canada, meant the Italian would not have to pre-qualify his Dallara either. Volker Weidler also found himself free of pre-qualifying thanks to his Rial team mate Christian Danner's fourth place finish at the United States Grand Prix, despite the fact he had never finished any of the pre-qualifying sessions beforehand in a position higher than seventh. In the pre-qualifying session itself, Alboreto beat Dalmas by mere 0.001 second for the last berth in the qualifying sessions.

Race[]

The race started with Ayrton Senna on pole position with Alain Prost alongside him, and at the start, Gerhard Berger had a tremendous start from fourth, passing both Senna, Prost and his teammate Nigel Mansell leading the entire field into the first corner with Senna, Prost and Mansell following in succession. Philippe Alliot went off the track at the start in spectacular fashion as he lost control of his Lola and spun off into the grass.

Berger's lead was to last about a quarter of a lap, as the power of both McLaren's Honda engines showed as Senna passed Berger into the first chicane, and Prost did the same to him at Ostkurve. At the start of the second lap, it was Senna leading from Prost, Berger, Mansell, Thierry Boutsen, Alessandro Nannini, Emanuele Pirro, Riccardo Patrese, and Nelson Piquet.

The McLaren MP4/5s of Senna and Prost and the Ferrari 640s of Mansell and Berger started to pull away from the field, with the Benetton B189s of Pirro and Nannini and the Williams FW12C of Patrese just barely clinging on (Boutsen retired on lap 5). On lap 14, Mansell had been hounding Berger for 2 laps, but Berger had a puncture right when approaching the first chicane, and he went up on the marker, launching his Ferrari in midair, landing on a grassy patch and went across the track, just barely avoiding Mansell and came to rest on the trackside grass.

Prost and Senna were on the limit the entire race and Prost hounded Senna for 16 laps, until he went in for his pit stop for tyres, which was a terribly slow one of 18 seconds, which put Mansell in second place and Senna even further away. The next lap, Mansell came into the pits for his tyre change and his pit stop was faster than Prost's but still a poor stop of 11 seconds, which dropped him down back to fourth behind, Senna, Pirro and Prost. Then Senna decided to take advantage of his huge lead and came into the pits for his tyre change, and his stop was even worse than Prost's, lasting 23 seconds. This dropped him down to second behind Prost and Pirro had come into the pits for a tyre change and dropped to fourth.

Pirro crashed into the styrofoam barriers at the stadium entrance and had to be taken to the hospital. With Mansell having problems with his Ferrari, Senna and Prost battled for the entire race, as both drivers were driving on the limit. They started trading off fastest laps and Prost held off Senna for almost the entire race- but on lap 43, Prost's gearbox malfunctioned, lost sixth gear and Senna passed him coming into the stadium. Prost limped around the track for the next 2 laps and Senna cruised around the track to grab his fourth victory of the season, followed by Prost second, Mansell third, Patrese fourth, Piquet fifth and Derek Warwick sixth.

Classification[]

Pre Qualifying[]

Pos No Driver Constructor Time Gap
1 37 25px Belgium Bertrand Gachot Onyx-Ford 1:47.283
2 36 25px Sweden Stefan Johansson Onyx-Ford 1:47.700 +0.417
3 30 25px France Philippe Alliot Lola-Lamborghini 1:47.746 +0.463
4 29 25px Italy Michele Alboreto Lola-Lamborghini 1:47.919 +0.636
5 41 25px France Yannick Dalmas AGS-Ford 1:47.920 +0.637
6 17 25px Italy Nicola Larini Osella-Ford 1.48.301 +1.018
7 40 25px Italy Gabriele Tarquini AGS-Ford 1:48.558 +1.275
8 18 25px Italy Piercarlo Ghinzani Osella-Ford 1:48.564 +1.281
9 31 25px Brazil Roberto Moreno Coloni-Ford 1:48.567 +1.284
10 32 25px France Pierre-Henri Raphanel Coloni-Ford 1:48.780 +1.457
11 33 25px Switzerland Gregor Foitek Euro Brun-Judd 1:49.458 +2.175
12 35 25px Japan Aguri Suzuki Zakspeed-Yamaha 1:49.527 +2.244
13 34 25px Germany Bernd Schneider Zakspeed-Yamaha 1:50.455 +3.172

Qualifying[]

Pos No Driver Constructor Q1 Q2 Gap
1 1 25px Brazil Ayrton Senna McLaren-Honda 1:42.300 1:42.790
2 2 25px France Alain Prost McLaren-Honda 1:43.306 1:43.295 +0.995
3 27 25px UK Nigel Mansell Ferrari 1:44.020 1:44.076 +1.720
4 28 25px Austria Gerhard Berger Ferrari 1:44.467 1:44.509 +2.167
5 6 25px Italy Riccardo Patrese Williams-Renault 1:45.062 1:44.511 +2.211
6 5 25px Belgium Thierry Boutsen Williams-Renault 1:45.520 1:44.702 +2.402
7 19 25px Italy Alessandro Nannini Benetton-Ford 1:45.033 1:45.040 +2.733
8 11 25px Brazil Nelson Piquet Lotus-Judd 1:47.316 1:45.475 +3.175
9 20 25px Italy Emanuele Pirro Benetton-Ford 1:46.521 1:45.845 +3.545
10 4 25px France Jean Alesi Tyrrell-Ford 1:47.551 1:46.888 +4.588
11 26 25px France Olivier Grouillard Ligier-Ford 1:47.408 1:46.893 +4.593
12 7 25px UK Martin Brundle Brabham-Judd 1:47.216 1:47.796 +4.916
13 23 25px Italy Pierluigi Martini Minardi-Ford 1:48.222 1:47.380 +5.080
14 15 25px Brazil Maurício Gugelmin March-Judd 1:47.387 1:47.578 +5.087
15 30 25px France Philippe Alliot Lola-Lamborghini 1:47.486 1:47.566 +5.186
16 8 25px Italy Stefano Modena Brabham-Judd 1:47.511 1:47.552 +5.211
17 9 25px UK Derek Warwick Arrows-Ford 1:47.756 1:47.533 +5.233
18 12 25px Japan Satoru Nakajima Lotus-Judd 1:48.782 1:47.663 +5.363
19 3 25px UK Jonathan Palmer Tyrrell-Ford 1:47.836 1:47.676 +5.376
20 21 25px Italy Alex Caffi Dallara-Ford 1:48.671 1:47.679 +5.379
21 22 25px Italy Andrea de Cesaris Dallara-Ford 1:47.879 1:48.005 +5.579
22 16 25px Italy Ivan Capelli March-Judd 1:48.239 1:48.078 +5.778
23 25 25px France René Arnoux Ligier-Ford 1:48.266 1:48.598 +5.966
24 36 25px Sweden Stefan Johansson Onyx-Ford 1:49.935 1:48.348 +6.048
25 10 25px USA Eddie Cheever Arrows-Ford 1:48.396 1:48.553 +6.096
26 29 25px Italy Michele Alboreto Lola-Lamborghini 1:48.670 1:48.726 +6.370
27 24 25px Spain Luis Pérez-Sala Minardi-Ford 1:49.587 1:48.686 +6.386
28 37 25px Belgium Bertrand Gachot Onyx-Ford 1:49.252 1:49.004 +6.704
29 38 25px Germany Christian Danner Rial-Ford 1:50.679 1:49.767 +7.467
DSQ 39 25px Germany Volker Weidler Rial-Ford

Race[]

Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 1 25px Brazil Ayrton Senna McLaren-Honda 45 1:21:43.302 1 9
2 2 25px France Alain Prost McLaren-Honda 45 + 18.151 2 6
3 27 25px UK Nigel Mansell Ferrari 45 + 1:23.254 3 4
4 6 25px Italy Riccardo Patrese Williams-Renault 44 + 1 Lap 5 3
5 11 25px Brazil Nelson Piquet Lotus-Judd 44 + 1 Lap 8 2
6 9 25px UK Derek Warwick Arrows-Ford 44 + 1 Lap 17 1
7 22 25px Italy Andrea de Cesaris Dallara-Ford 44 + 1 Lap 21  
8 7 25px UK Martin Brundle Brabham-Judd 44 + 1 Lap 12  
9 23 25px Italy Pierluigi Martini Minardi-Ford 44 + 1 Lap 13  
10 4 25px France Jean Alesi Tyrrell-Ford 43 + 2 Laps 10  
11 25 25px France René Arnoux Ligier-Ford 42 + 3 Laps 23  
12 10 25px USA Eddie Cheever Arrows-Ford 40 Fuel System 25  
Ret 8 25px Italy Stefano Modena Brabham-Judd 37 Engine 16  
Ret 12 25px Japan Satoru Nakajima Lotus-Judd 36 Spun Off 18  
Ret 16 25px Italy Ivan Capelli March-Judd 32 Electrical 22  
Ret 15 25px Brazil Maurício Gugelmin March-Judd 28 Gearbox 14  
Ret 20 25px Italy Emanuele Pirro Benetton-Ford 26 Spun Off 9  
Ret 30 25px France Philippe Alliot Lola-Lamborghini 20 Oil Leak 15  
Ret 3 25px UK Jonathan Palmer Tyrrell-Ford 16 Engine 19  
Ret 28 25px Austria Gerhard Berger Ferrari 13 Spun Off 4  
Ret 36 25px Sweden Stefan Johansson Onyx-Ford 8 Overheating 24  
Ret 19 25px Italy Alessandro Nannini Benetton-Ford 6 Electrical 7  
Ret 5 25px Belgium Thierry Boutsen Williams-Renault 4 Collision 6  
Ret 21 25px Italy Alex Caffi Dallara-Ford 2 Engine 20  
Ret 29 25px Italy Michele Alboreto Lola-Lamborghini 1 Electrical 26  
Ret 26 25px France Olivier Grouillard Ligier-Ford 0 Gearbox 11  
DNQ 24 25px Spain Luis Pérez-Sala Minardi-Ford    
DNQ 37 25px Belgium Bertrand Gachot Onyx-Ford    
DNQ 38 25px Germany Christian Danner Rial-Ford    
DSQ 39 25px Germany Volker Weidler Rial-Ford   Push-start  
DNPQ 41 25px France Yannick Dalmas AGS-Ford    
DNPQ 17 25px Italy Nicola Larini Osella-Ford    
DNPQ 40 25px Italy Gabriele Tarquini AGS-Ford    
DNPQ 18 25px Italy Piercarlo Ghinzani Osella-Ford    
DNPQ 31 25px Brazil Roberto Moreno Coloni-Ford    
DNPQ 32 25px France Pierre-Henri Raphanel Coloni-Ford    
DNPQ 33 25px Switzerland Gregor Foitek Euro Brun-Judd    
DNPQ 35 25px Japan Aguri Suzuki Zakspeed-Yamaha    
DNPQ 34 25px Germany Bernd Schneider Zakspeed-Yamaha    

Lap leaders[]

  • Ayrton Senna 21 (1-19, 44-45), Alain Prost 24 (20-43)

Standings after the race[]

Drivers' Championship standings
Pos Driver Points
1 25px France Alain Prost 53
2 25px Brazil Ayrton Senna 36
3 25px Great Britain Nigel Mansell 25
4 25px Italy Riccardo Patrese 25
5 25px Belgium Thierry Boutsen 13
Constructors' Championship standings
Pos Constructor Points
1 25px Great Britain McLaren-Honda 89
2 25px Great Britain Williams-Renault 38
3 25px Italy Ferrari 25
4 25px Great Britain Benetton-Ford 17
5 25px Great Britain Tyrrell-Ford 10
  • Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

References[]

from the original on 3 July 2007. http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1989/239/. Retrieved 2007-08-04. 



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