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Race details
Race 14 of 16 in the 1990 Formula One season
Circuit Jerez
Date September 30, 1990
Official name XXXI Gran Premio Tio Pepe de España
Location Circuito Permanente de Jerez
Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
Course Permanent racing facility
4.218 km (2.6209 mi)
Distance 73 laps, 307.918 km (191.328 mi)
Weather Dry, hot, sunny
Pole position
Driver 25px Brazil Ayrton Senna McLaren-Honda
Time 1:18.387
Fastest lap
Driver 25px Italy Riccardo Patrese Williams-Renault
Time 1:24.513 on lap 53
Podium
First 25px France Alain Prost Ferrari
Second 25px UK Nigel Mansell Ferrari
Third 25px Italy Alessandro Nannini Benetton-Ford

The 1990 Spanish Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 30 September, 1990 at Jerez. It was the 31st Spanish Grand Prix and the fifth and last time the Grand Prix was held at the Jerez circuit before moving to a new larger facility near Barcelona in Catalunya, though it was not the last time Formula One raced here; F1 returned twice in the 1990s for a race titled the European Grand Prix.

Ferrari drivers dominated the race with reigning world champion Alain Prost leading his teammate Nigel Mansell home by 22 seconds for a 1-2 finish. British Team Lotus driver Martin Donnelly had a horrific crash during Friday practice; the seat of his Lotus 102 broke free and was flung clear of the wreck. Donnelly received serious injuries that took months of recovery, bringing an end to his Formula One career, although he later returned to racing. Team Lotus decided not to retire from the race, and Derek Warwick was close to the point-scoring positions when he became the race's final retirement on lap 63 with a broken gearbox in the other Lotus 102.

The race also turned out to be the last race of Alessandro Nannini's Formula One career. Nannini claimed the final podium position of the race in his Benetton B190, the ninth podium of his career, finishing ahead of the Williams pair of Thierry Boutsen and Riccardo Patrese for which he and his Brazilian team mate Nelson Piquet had been season-long rivals. One week after the race, his right arm was severed in a helicopter accident. Nannini recovered and returned to racing as a touring car driver.

At the start of the race, Gerhard Berger, desperate to move up from his fifth place on the grid, gave Jean Alesi no room, resulting in Alesi moving to the outside, where he was hit and put out of the race by Riccardo Patrese.

The Larrousse-Lola of Aguri Suzuki claimed the final championship point of the race, continuing an encouraging season for the French team. It was an encouraging race for another French team, Yannick Dalmas and Gabriele Tarquini both qualified in AGS JH25s in a first for the team, but AGS never again got two cars onto a Formula One grid. Dalmas finished in ninth position, the highlight of the season for the small French team.

McLaren driver Ayrton Senna's lap 53 retirement with a failed radiator reduced his lead in the world championship over Prost to nine points with just the Japanese and Australian Grands Prix remaining in the season. This increased tensions between the two championship protagonists, leading to a showdown at the Suzuka racetrack in Japan, every bit as controversial as their clash twelve months prior at the 1989 Japanese Grand Prix.

Classification[]

Pre Qualifying[]

Pos No Driver Constructor Time Gap
1 18 25px France Yannick Dalmas AGS-Ford 1:22.470
2 17 25px Italy Gabriele Tarquini AGS-Ford 1:22.592 +0.122
3 14 25px France Olivier Grouillard Osella-Ford 1:22.708 +0.238
4 31 25px Belgium Bertrand Gachot Coloni-Ford 1:24.603 +2.133
5 33 25px Brazil Roberto Moreno EuroBrun-Judd 1:24.621 +2.151
6 34 25px Italy Claudio Langes EuroBrun-Judd 1:25.736 +3.266
7 39 25px Italy Bruno Giacomelli Life 1:42.699 +20.229

Qualifying[]

Pos No Driver Constructor Q1 Q2 Gap
1 27 25px Brazil Ayrton Senna McLaren-Honda 1:18.900 1:18.387
2 1 25px France Alain Prost Ferrari 1:20.026 1:18.824 +0.437
3 2 25px UK Nigel Mansell Ferrari 1:21.005 1:19.106 +0.719
4 4 25px France Jean Alesi Tyrrell-Ford 1:19.923 1:19.604 +1.217
5 28 25px Austria Gerhard Berger McLaren-Honda 1:19.643 1:19.618 +1.231
6 6 25px Italy Riccardo Patrese Williams-Renault 1:20.562 1:19.647 +1.260
7 5 25px Belgium Thierry Boutsen Williams-Renault 1:20.721 1:19.689 +1.302
8 20 25px Brazil Nelson Piquet Benetton-Ford 1:21.111 1:19.700 +1.313
9 19 25px Italy Alessandro Nannini Benetton-Ford 1:21.383 1:20.367 +1.980
10 11 25px UK Derek Warwick Lotus-Lamborghini 1:22.111 1:20.610 +2.223
11 23 25px Italy Pierluigi Martini Minardi-Ford 1:22.255 1:21.060 +2.673
12 15 25px Brazil Maurício Gugelmin Leyton House-Judd 1:23.019 1:21.167 +2.780
13 26 25px France Philippe Alliot Ligier-Ford 1:23.783 1:21.170 +2.783
14 3 25px Japan Satoru Nakajima Tyrrell-Ford 1:22.690 1:21.215 +2.828
15 30 25px Japan Aguri Suzuki Lola-Lamborghini 1:21.740 1:21.244 +2.857
16 21 25px Italy Emanuele Pirro Dallara-Ford 1:23.485 1:21.277 +2.890
17 22 25px Italy Andrea de Cesaris Dallara-Ford 1:22.953 1:21:467 +3.080
18 29 25px France Éric Bernard Lola-Lamborghini 1:22.403 1:21.551 +3.164
19 16 25px Italy Ivan Capelli Leyton House-Judd 1:23.866 1:21.916 +3.529
20 25 25px Italy Nicola Larini Ligier-Ford 1:23.290 1:21.996 +3.609
21 14 25px France Olivier Grouillard Osella-Ford 1:24.784 1:22.288 +3.901
22 17 25px Italy Gabriele Tarquini AGS-Ford 1:23.260 1:22.466 +4.079
23 12 25px UK Martin Donnelly Lotus-Lamborghini 1:22.659 +4.272
24 18 25px France Yannick Dalmas AGS-Ford 1:23.249 1:22.716 +4.329
25 8 25px Italy Stefano Modena Brabham-Judd 1:23.641 1:23.133 +4.746
26 9 25px Italy Michele Alboreto Arrows-Ford 1:24.043 1:23.161 +4.774
27 7 25px Australia David Brabham Brabham-Judd 1:25.899 1:23.163 +4.776
28 24 25px Italy Paolo Barilla Minardi-Ford 1:25.093 1:23.274 +4.887
29 10 25px Germany Bernd Schneider Arrows-Ford 1:24.675 1:23.924 +5.537
30 31 25px Belgium Bertrand Gachot Coloni-Ford 1:26.593 1:25.114 +6.727

Race[]

Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 1 25px France Alain Prost Ferrari 73 1:48:01.461 2 9
2 2 25px UK Nigel Mansell Ferrari 73 +22.064 3 6
3 19 25px Italy Alessandro Nannini Benetton-Ford 73 +34.874 9 4
4 5 25px Belgium Thierry Boutsen Williams-Renault 73 +43.296 7 3
5 6 25px Italy Riccardo Patrese Williams-Renault 73 +57.530 6 2
6 30 25px Japan Aguri Suzuki Lola-Lamborghini 73 +1:03.728 15 1
7 25 25px Italy Nicola Larini Ligier-Ford 72 +1 Lap 20
8 15 25px Brazil Maurício Gugelmin Leyton House-Judd 72 +1 Lap 12
9 18 25px France Yannick Dalmas AGS-Ford 72 +1 Lap 23
10 9 25px Italy Michele Alboreto Arrows-Ford 71 +2 Laps 25
Ret 11 25px UK Derek Warwick Lotus-Lamborghini 63 Gearbox 10
Ret 16 25px Italy Ivan Capelli Leyton House-Judd 59 Physical 19
Ret 28 25px Austria Gerhard Berger McLaren-Honda 56 Collision 5
Ret 27 25px Brazil Ayrton Senna McLaren-Honda 53 Radiator 1
Ret 20 25px Brazil Nelson Piquet Benetton-Ford 47 Battery 8
Ret 22 25px Italy Andrea de Cesaris Dallara-Ford 47 Engine 17
Ret 14 25px France Olivier Grouillard Osella-Ford 45 Wheel Bearing 21
Ret 23 25px Italy Pierluigi Martini Minardi-Ford 41 Spun Off 11
Ret 26 25px France Philippe Alliot Ligier-Ford 22 Spun Off 13
Ret 29 25px France Éric Bernard Lola-Lamborghini 20 Gearbox 18
Ret 3 25px Japan Satoru Nakajima Tyrrell-Ford 13 Spun Off 14
Ret 17 25px Italy Gabriele Tarquini AGS-Ford 5 Engine 22
Ret 8 25px Italy Stefano Modena Brabham-Judd 5 Collision 24
Ret 4 25px France Jean Alesi Tyrrell-Ford 0 Spun Off 4
Ret 21 25px Italy Emanuele Pirro Dallara-Ford 0 Throttle 16
DNS 12 25px UK Martin Donnelly Lotus-Lamborghini Injured
DNQ 7 25px Australia David Brabham Brabham-Judd
DNQ 24 25px Italy Paolo Barilla Minardi-Ford
DNQ 10 25px Germany Bernd Schneider Arrows-Ford
DNQ 31 25px Belgium Bertrand Gachot Coloni-Ford
DNPQ 33 25px Brazil Roberto Moreno EuroBrun-Judd
DNPQ 34 25px Italy Claudio Langes EuroBrun-Judd
DNPQ 39 25px Italy Bruno Giacomelli Life-Judd

Notes[]

Standings after the race[]

Drivers' Championship standings
Pos Driver Points
1 25px Brazil Ayrton Senna 78
2 25px France Alain Prost 69
3 25px Austria Gerhard Berger 40
4 25px Great Britain Nigel Mansell 31
5 25px Belgium Thierry Boutsen 30
Constructors' Championship standings
Pos Constructor Points
1 25px Great Britain McLaren-Honda 118
2 25px Italy Ferrari 100
3 25px Great Britain Williams-Renault 49
4 25px Great Britain Benetton-Ford 47
5 25px Great Britain Tyrrell-Ford 15
  • Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

References[]


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1990 Portuguese Grand Prix
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1990 Japanese Grand Prix
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1989 Spanish Grand Prix
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