1990 Mexican Grand Prix

  1990 Mexican Grand Prix

Race details
Race 6 of 16 in the 1990 Formula One season
Date	June 24, 1990
Official name	XIV Gran Premio de Mexico
Location	Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez Mexico City, Mexico
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.421 km (2.747 mi)
Distance	69 laps, 305.049 km (189.549 mi)
Weather	Warm, dry, cloudy
Pole position
Driver	Gerhard Berger	McLaren-Honda
Time	1:17.227
Fastest lap
Driver	Alain Prost	Ferrari
Time	1:17.958 on lap 58
Podium
First	Alain Prost	Ferrari
Second	Nigel Mansell	Ferrari
Third	Gerhard Berger	McLaren-Honda

The 1990 Mexican Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez on June 24, 1990. It was sixth race of the 1990 Formula One season, the 14th Mexican Grand Prix and the fifth since the Mexico City circuit returned to the Formula One calendar in 1986. It was held over 69 laps of the four kilometre circuit for a race distance of 305 kilometres.

The race was won by reigning world champion, French driver Alain Prost driving a Ferrari 641. In winning Prost became only the second multiple-winner in Mexican Grand Prix history, joining British driver Jim Clark. It was Prost's second win for the year after winning the Brazilian Grand Prix. Prost won the race by 26 seconds over his British team mate Nigel Mansell. Third was Austrian driver Gerhard Berger driving a McLaren MP4/5B.

Prost's win and Berger's third coupled points leader Ayrton Senna stopping with a puncture late in the race allowed both drivers to close to be eight points behind Senna.

Report

Qualifying

There were no changes to the line-up as the F1 show moved to Mexico City. The weather was on and off during the weekend, catching some drivers out, with the Larrousse team having the worst luck on Saturday morning when both of their drivers contrived to have massive accidents, but luckily both Aguri Suzuki and Éric Bernard managed to qualify for the race, but all was not as well down at Leyton House, where both Ivan Capelli and Maurício Gugelmin failed to qualify. At the front of the grid there was a bit of a surprise with Gerhard Berger taking pole from Riccardo Patrese, qualifying ace Ayrton Senna, Nigel Mansell, Thierry Boutsen, Jean Alesi, Pierluigi Martini, Nelson Piquet, Satoru Nakajima, and Stefano Modena, with championship contender Alain Prost a disappointing 13th. Roberto Moreno was disqualified for receiving a push start in qualifying

Race

Sunshine greeted the drivers on race day and at the start it was Patrese who got away from Senna, Berger, Boutsen, and Piquet. Senna was desperate to get by Patrese and at the start of lap 2 he swept into the lead, bringing Berger with him. The McLaren duo proceeded to rocket off into the distance while further back the action was thick and furious with Prost charging through the field from his poor grid position and with Piquet moving up to third. Berger's run in second place came to an early end when he had to stop for new tyres on lap 13, leaving Piquet in second but under immense pressure from his old rival Nigel Mansell, who swept past him shortly after. The story of the day was still Prost as he continued his charge through the field, eventually taking second from Mansell with 15 laps to go. Prost proceeded to set off after Senna, who was slowing with tyre problems, the Brazilian had gambled on not making a stop for fresh rubber. On Lap 60 Prost swept past Senna and three laps later Senna's rear tyre exploded, taking him out of the race, which was the 100th Grand Prix he had started. The real battle ended up being for second place between Mansell and Berger. It culminated in Mansell's legendary pass around the outside of Berger going into the ultra-fast Peraltada corner. Some called it brave, some called it suicidal, either way Mansell finished second behind Prost with Berger being third from Alessandro Nannini, Boutsen, and Piquet.

Classification

Pre Qualifying

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Time	Gap
1	14	Olivier Grouillard	Osella-Ford	1:25.281	—
2	29	Éric Bernard	Lola-Lamborghini	1:25.456	+0.175
3	33	Roberto Moreno	EuroBrun-Judd	1:26.724	+1.443
4	30	Aguri Suzuki	Lola-Lamborghini	1:27.511	+2.230
5	18	Yannick Dalmas	AGS-Ford	1:27.830	+2.549
6	17	Gabriele Tarquini	AGS-Ford	1:28.499	+3.218
7	31	Bertrand Gachot	Coloni-Subaru	1:28.805	+3.524
8	34	Claudio Langes	EuroBrun-Judd	1:40.414	+15.133
9	39	Bruno Giacomelli	Life	4:07.475	+2:42.194

Qualifying

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Q1	Q2	Gap
1	28	Gerhard Berger	McLaren-Honda	1:17.227	1:17.850	—
2	6	Riccardo Patrese	Williams-Renault	1:18.215	1:17.498	+0.271
3	27	Ayrton Senna	McLaren-Honda	1:18.417	1:17.670	+0.443
4	2	Nigel Mansell	Ferrari	1:17.938	1:17.732	+0.505
5	5	Thierry Boutsen	Williams-Renault	1:19.062	1:17.883	+0.656
6	4	Jean Alesi	Tyrrell-Ford	1:18.727	1:18.282	+1.055
7	23	Pierluigi Martini	Minardi-Ford	1:18.526	1:18.590	+1.299
8	20	Nelson Piquet	Benetton-Ford	1:19.022	1:18.561	+1.334
9	3	Satoru Nakajima	Tyrrell-Ford	1:19.551	1:18.575	+1.348
10	8	Stefano Modena	Brabham-Judd	1:18.592	1:19.817	+1.365
11	11	Derek Warwick	Lotus-Lamborghini	1:19.557	1:18.951	+1.724
12	12	Martin Donnelly	Lotus-Lamborghini	1:19.769	1:18.994	+1.767
13	1	Alain Prost	Ferrari	1:19.378	1:19.026	+1.799
14	19	Alessandro Nannini	Benetton-Ford	1:19.909	1:19.227	+2.000
15	22	Andrea de Cesaris	Dallara-Ford	1:21.635	1:19.865	+2.638
16	24	Paolo Barilla	Minardi-Ford	1:19.897	1:21.242	+2.670
17	9	Michele Alboreto	Arrows-Ford	1:21.212	1:19:941	+2.714
18	21	Emanuele Pirro	Dallara-Ford	1:21.067	1:20.044	+2.817
19	30	Aguri Suzuki	Lola-Lamborghini	1:21.077	1:20.268	+3.041
20	14	Olivier Grouillard	Osella-Ford	1:20.274	1:21.167	+3.047
21	7	David Brabham	Brabham-Judd	1:20.447	1:20.636	+3.220
22	26	Philippe Alliot	Ligier-Ford	1:21.451	1:20.657	+3.430
23	35	Gregor Foitek	Onyx-Ford	1:21.012	1:21.400	+3.785
24	25	Nicola Larini	Ligier-Ford	1:21.584	1:21.116	+3.889
25	29	Éric Bernard	Lola-Lamborghini	1:21.273	1:21.677	+4.046
26	36	JJ Lehto	Onyx-Ford	1:21.519	1:21.687	+4.292
27	16	Ivan Capelli	Leyton House-Judd	1:23.639	1:21.544	+4.317
28	15	Maurício Gugelmin	Leyton House-Judd	1:22.612	1:21.665	+4.438
29	10	Alex Caffi	Arrows-Ford	1:22.278	1:22.154	+4.927
30	33	Roberto Moreno	EuroBrun-Judd	1:21.142	—	+3.915

Race

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	1	Alain Prost	Ferrari	69	1:32:35.783	13	9
2	2	Nigel Mansell	Ferrari	69	+ 25.351	4	6
3	28	Gerhard Berger	McLaren-Honda	69	+ 25.530	1	4
4	19	Alessandro Nannini	Benetton-Ford	69	+ 41.099	14	3
5	5	Thierry Boutsen	Williams-Renault	69	+ 46.669	5	2
6	20	Nelson Piquet	Benetton-Ford	69	+ 46.943	8	1
7	4	Jean Alesi	Tyrrell-Ford	69	+ 49.077	6
8	12	Martin Donnelly	Lotus-Lamborghini	69	+ 1:06.142	12
9	6	Riccardo Patrese	Williams-Renault	69	+ 1:09.918	2
10	11	Derek Warwick	Lotus-Lamborghini	68	+ 1 Lap	11
11	8	Stefano Modena	Brabham-Judd	68	+ 1 Lap	10
12	23	Pierluigi Martini	Minardi-Ford	68	+ 1 Lap	7
13	22	Andrea de Cesaris	Dallara-Ford	68	+ 1 Lap	15
14	24	Paolo Barilla	Minardi-Ford	67	+ 2 Laps	16
15	35	Gregor Foitek	Onyx-Ford	67	+ 2 Laps	23
16	25	Nicola Larini	Ligier-Ford	67	+ 2 Laps	24
17	9	Michele Alboreto	Arrows-Ford	66	+ 3 Laps	17
18	26	Philippe Alliot	Ligier-Ford	66	+ 3 Laps	22
19	14	Olivier Grouillard	Osella-Ford	65	+ 4 Laps	20
20	27	Ayrton Senna	McLaren-Honda	63	Tyre	3
Ret	36	JJ Lehto	Onyx-Ford	26	Engine	26
Ret	29	Éric Bernard	Lola-Lamborghini	12	Brakes	25
Ret	30	Aguri Suzuki	Lola-Lamborghini	11	Collision	19
Ret	3	Satoru Nakajima	Tyrrell-Ford	11	Collision	9
Ret	7	David Brabham	Brabham-Judd	11	Electrical	21
Ret	21	Emanuele Pirro	Dallara-Ford	10	Engine	18
DSQ	33	Roberto Moreno	EuroBrun-Judd		Push start
DNQ	16	Ivan Capelli	Leyton House-Judd
DNQ	15	Maurício Gugelmin	Leyton House-Judd
DNQ	10	Alex Caffi	Arrows-Ford
DNPQ	18	Yannick Dalmas	AGS-Ford
DNPQ	17	Gabriele Tarquini	AGS-Ford
DNPQ	31	Bertrand Gachot	Coloni-Subaru
DNPQ	34	Claudio Langes	EuroBrun-Judd
DNPQ	39	Bruno Giacomelli	Life

Standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 Ayrton Senna 31 2= Alain Prost 23 2= Gerhard Berger 23 4= Jean Alesi 13 4= Nigel Mansell 13

Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 1 McLaren-Honda 54 2 Ferrari 36 3= Williams-Renault 20 3= Benetton-Ford 20 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". Archived

from the original on 3 July 2007. http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1990/220/. Retrieved 2007-08-05. 

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