1990 British Grand Prix

  1990 British Grand Prix

Race details
Race 8 of 16 in the 1990 Formula One season
Date	July 15, 1990
Official name	XLIII Foster's British Grand Prix
Location	Silverstone Circuit Silverstone, United Kingdom
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.778 km (2.969 mi)
Distance	64 laps, 305.904 km (190.080 mi)
Weather	Hot, dry, sunny
Pole position
Driver	Nigel Mansell	Ferrari
Time	1:07.428
Fastest lap
Driver	Nigel Mansell	Ferrari
Time	1:11.291 on lap 51
Podium
First	Alain Prost	Ferrari
Second	Thierry Boutsen	Williams-Renault
Third	Ayrton Senna	McLaren-Honda

The 1990 British Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Silverstone on July 15, 1990. It was the eighth round of the 1990 Formula One season. It was the 45th British Grand Prix and the 26th to be held at Silverstone. The race was held over 64 laps of the four kilometre circuit for a race distance of 306 kilometres.

French reigning World Champion Alain Prost won his third race in succession in his Ferrari 641 taking a 40 second win over Belgian driver Thierry Boutsen driving a Williams FW13B. It was Boutsen's best result for the year to date. Brazilian driver Ayrton Senna was third driving a McLaren MP4/5B.

Prost's win put him into the lead of the championship for the first time in 1990, giving him a two point lead.

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. After retiring from the race Mansell famously threw his gloves into the crowd and announced he would retire from F1 at the end of the season, a decision he later reversed.

Riccardo Patrese became the first driver ever to start 200 Grands Prix. On the day, he retired and his team-mate Thierry Boutsen reached the podium.

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 dropping him to near last. 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 a point, at least a Top 8 finish to avoid prequalification, but Nicola Larini in the better of them failed to finish better than 10th. He would have needed to finish ahead of Stefano Modena in the Brabham and Jean Alesi in the Tyrrell.

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.

Classification

Pre Qualifying

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Time	Gap
1	29	Éric Bernard	Lola-Lamborghini	1:10.254	—
2	30	Aguri Suzuki	Lola-Lamborghini	1:11.128	+0.874
3	17	Gabriele Tarquini	AGS-Ford	1:11.516	+1.262
4	14	Olivier Grouillard	Osella-Ford	1:11.953	+1.699
5	33	Roberto Moreno	EuroBrun-Judd	1:12.554	+2.300
6	18	Yannick Dalmas	AGS-Ford	1:12.653	+2.399
7	34	Claudio Langes	EuroBrun-Judd	1:15.059	+4.805
8	31	Bertrand Gachot	Coloni-Subaru	1:19.230	+8.976
9	39	Bruno Giacomelli	Life	1:25.947	+15.693

Qualifying

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Q1	Q2	Gap
1	2	Nigel Mansell	Ferrari	1:08.336	1:07.428	—
2	27	Ayrton Senna	McLaren-Honda	1:08.071	1:09.055	+0.643
3	28	Gerhard Berger	McLaren-Honda	1:08.246	1:08.674	+0.818
4	5	Thierry Boutsen	Williams-Renault	1:09.102	1:08.291	+0.863
5	1	Alain Prost	Ferrari	1:09.110	1:08.336	+0.908
6	4	Jean Alesi	Tyrrell-Ford	1:09.147	1:08.370	+0.942
7	6	Riccardo Patrese	Williams-Renault	1:08.677	1:08.864	+1.249
8	29	Éric Bernard	Lola-Lamborghini	1:09.560	1:09.003	+1.575
9	30	Aguri Suzuki	Lola-Lamborghini	1:09.243	1:09.865	+1.815
10	16	Ivan Capelli	Leyton House-Judd	1:10.691	1:09.308	+1.880
11	20	Nelson Piquet	Benetton-Ford	1:09.684	1:09.407	+1.979
12	3	Satoru Nakajima	Tyrrell-Ford	1:09.937	1:09.608	+2.180
13	19	Alessandro Nannini	Benetton-Ford	1:09.782	1:09.641	+2.213
14	12	Martin Donnelly	Lotus-Lamborghini	1:10.786	1:09.741	+2.313
15	15	Maurício Gugelmin	Leyton House-Judd	1:11.167	1:10.044	+2.616
16	11	Derek Warwick	Lotus-Lamborghini	1:10.552	1:10.092	+2.664
17	10	Alex Caffi	Arrows-Ford	1:10.480	1:10:110	+2.682
18	23	Pierluigi Martini	Minardi-Ford	1:10.568	1:10.303	+2.875
19	21	Emanuele Pirro	Dallara-Ford	1:11.413	1:10.847	+3.419
20	8	Stefano Modena	Brabham-Judd	1:11.070	1:11.600	+3.642
21	25	Nicola Larini	Ligier-Ford	1:11.942	1:11.180	+3.752
22	26	Philippe Alliot	Ligier-Ford	1:12.483	1:11.215	+3.787
23	22	Andrea de Cesaris	Dallara-Ford	1:11.705	1:11.234	+3.806
24	24	Paolo Barilla	Minardi-Ford	1:11.498	1:11.387	+3.959
25	9	Michele Alboreto	Arrows-Ford	1:11.562	1:12.644	+4.134
26	17	Gabriele Tarquini	AGS-Ford	1:12.506	1:11.681	+4.253
27	14	Olivier Grouillard	Osella-Ford	1:12.179	1:11.710	+4.282
28	7	David Brabham	Brabham-Judd	1:11.741	1:13.016	+4.313
29	36	JJ Lehto	Onyx-Ford	1:12.712	1:12.631	+5.203
30	35	Gregor Foitek	Onyx-Ford	1:13.413	1:13.271	+5.843

Race

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	1	Alain Prost	Ferrari	64	1:18:30.999	5	9
2	5	Thierry Boutsen	Williams-Renault	64	+ 39.092	4	6
3	27	Ayrton Senna	McLaren-Honda	64	+ 43.088	2	4
4	29	Éric Bernard	Lola-Lamborghini	64	+ 1:15.302	8	3
5	20	Nelson Piquet	Benetton-Ford	64	+ 1:24.003	11	2
6	30	Aguri Suzuki	Lola-Lamborghini	63	+ 1 Lap	9	1
7	10	Alex Caffi	Arrows-Ford	63	+ 1 Lap	17
8	4	Jean Alesi	Tyrrell-Ford	63	+ 1 Lap	6
9	8	Stefano Modena	Brabham-Judd	62	+ 2 Laps	20
10	25	Nicola Larini	Ligier-Ford	62	+ 2 Laps	21
11	21	Emanuele Pirro	Dallara-Ford	62	+ 2 Laps	19
12	24	Paolo Barilla	Minardi-Ford	62	+ 2 Laps	24
13	26	Philippe Alliot	Ligier-Ford	61	+ 3 Laps	22
14	28	Gerhard Berger	McLaren-Honda	60	Throttle	3
Ret	2	Nigel Mansell	Ferrari	55	Gearbox	1
Ret	16	Ivan Capelli	Leyton House-Judd	48	Fuel Leak	10
Ret	12	Martin Donnelly	Lotus-Lamborghini	48	Engine	14
Ret	11	Derek Warwick	Lotus-Lamborghini	46	Engine	16
Ret	17	Gabriele Tarquini	AGS-Ford	41	Engine	26
Ret	9	Michele Alboreto	Arrows-Ford	37	Engine	25
Ret	6	Riccardo Patrese	Williams-Renault	26	Chassis	7
Ret	3	Satoru Nakajima	Tyrrell-Ford	20	Electrical	12
Ret	19	Alessandro Nannini	Benetton-Ford	15	Collision	13
Ret	22	Andrea de Cesaris	Dallara-Ford	12	Fuel System	23
Ret	23	Pierluigi Martini	Minardi-Ford	3	Alternator	18
DNS	15	Maurício Gugelmin	Leyton House-Judd	0	Fuel Pump	15
DNQ	14	Olivier Grouillard	Osella-Ford
DNQ	7	David Brabham	Brabham-Judd
DNQ	36	JJ Lehto	Onyx-Ford
DNQ	35	Gregor Foitek	Onyx-Ford
DNPQ	33	Roberto Moreno	EuroBrun-Judd
DNPQ	18	Yannick Dalmas	AGS-Ford
DNPQ	34	Claudio Langes	EuroBrun-Judd
DNPQ	31	Bertrand Gachot	Coloni-Subaru
DNPQ	39	Bruno Giacomelli	Life

Standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 Alain Prost 41 2 Ayrton Senna 39 3 Gerhard Berger 25 4 Nelson Piquet 18 5 Thierry Boutsen 17

Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 1 McLaren-Honda 64 2 Ferrari 54 3 Williams-Renault 27 4 Benetton-Ford 25 5 Tyrrell-Ford 14

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

References

• Unless otherwise indicated, all race results are taken from "The Official Formula 1 website". http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1990/222/. Retrieved 2007-08-05. 

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