1989 Hungarian Grand Prix
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Mogyoród, Pest, Hungary[1]
| 1989 Hungarian Grand Prix | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Race 10 of 16 in the 1989 Formula One World Championship | |||
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| Race details | |||
| Date | 13 August 1989 | ||
| Official name | Pop 84 Magyar Nagydíj | ||
| Location |
Hungaroring Mogyoród, Pest, Hungary[1] | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 3.968 km (2.466 miles) | ||
| Distance | 77 laps, 305.536 km (189.850 miles) | ||
| Weather | Cloudy | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Williams-Renault | ||
| Time | 1:19.726 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Nigel Mansell | Ferrari | |
| Time | 1:22.637 on lap 66 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Ferrari | ||
| Second | McLaren-Honda | ||
| Third | Williams-Renault | ||
|
Lap leaders | |||
The 1989 Hungarian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Hungaroring on 13 August 1989. It was the tenth race of the 1989 Formula One World Championship.
The 77-lap race was won by Nigel Mansell, driving a Ferrari. After qualifying only 12th, Mansell charged through the field and took the lead with an opportunistic overtaking manoeuvre on Ayrton Senna in the McLaren-Honda as the two were lapping Stefan Johansson in the Onyx-Ford. Senna finished 26 seconds behind Mansell, with Thierry Boutsen third in a Williams-Renault.
Senna's teammate and Drivers' Championship rival, Alain Prost, finished fourth, meaning that his lead over Senna in the championship was reduced to 14 points.
Pre-qualifying report
The Hungaroring had been changed from the year before; the tight, slow S-bends at Turns 3, 4 and 5 had been changed in character and bypassed. Turn 3 remained, but was now taken much faster as what were Turns 4 and 5 were bypassed, thus extending the straight now from Turn 3 into the new Turns 4 and 5; raising the circuit's average speed by 10 percent.
In the Friday morning pre-qualifying session, an Onyx topped the time sheets for the fourth Grand Prix in succession. Stefan Johansson was comfortably fastest, and his team-mate Bertrand Gachot also pre-qualified in fourth. Both drivers had re-signed with Onyx for 1990. For the first time this season, Piercarlo Ghinzani went through to the main qualifying sessions, in second place. For the third time this season, and for the first time since the US Grand Prix, he outpaced his Osella team-mate Nicola Larini, who missed out in fifth position. The Larrousse-Lola of Michele Alboreto was the other pre-qualifier in third, the Italian suffering from a cracked rib. His team-mate Philippe Alliot was down in sixth, the first time either he or a Larrousse-Lamborghini had failed to pre-qualify.[2]
The AGS cars of Yannick Dalmas and Gabriele Tarquini were seventh and ninth respectively, while Zakspeed drivers Bernd Schneider and Aguri Suzuki, still hampered by their underpowered V8 Yamaha engines, were eighth and twelfth. Roberto Moreno was tenth in the Coloni, while his team-mate Pierre-Henri Raphanel was unable to post a representative time and was bottom of the time sheets in his last appearance for the team. Gregor Foitek was still unable to pre-qualify the new EuroBrun car, and was eleventh fastest.[2]
Pre-qualifying classification
| Pos | No | Driver | Constructor | Time | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 36 |  Stefan Johansson |
Onyx-Ford | 1:22.836 | — |
| 2 | 18 |  Piercarlo Ghinzani |
Osella-Ford | 1:24.086 | +1.250 |
| 3 | 29 | Michele Alboreto |
Lola-Lamborghini | 1:24.323 | +1.487 |
| 4 | 37 |  Bertrand Gachot |
Onyx-Ford | 1:24.412 | +1.576 |
| 5 | 17 | Nicola Larini |
Osella-Ford | 1:24.601 | +1.765 |
| 6 | 30 |  Philippe Alliot |
Lola-Lamborghini | 1:24.928 | +2.092 |
| 7 | 41 | Yannick Dalmas |
AGS-Ford | 1:25.571 | +2.735 |
| 8 | 34 |  Bernd Schneider |
Zakspeed-Yamaha | 1:25.613 | +2.777 |
| 9 | 40 | Gabriele Tarquini |
AGS-Ford | 1:25.685 | +2.849 |
| 10 | 31 |  Roberto Moreno |
Coloni-Ford | 1:26.903 | +4.067 |
| 11 | 33 |  Gregor Foitek |
EuroBrun-Judd | 1:27.478 | +4.642 |
| 12 | 35 |  Aguri Suzuki |
Zakspeed-Yamaha | 1:28.113 | +5.277 |
| 13 | 32 | Pierre-Henri Raphanel |
Coloni-Ford | 1:45.971 | +22.135 |
Qualifying report
Riccardo Patrese took a surprise pole position in his Williams-Renault, the first and only non-McLaren-Honda pole of the season, beating Ayrton Senna by three-tenths of a second. It was only the third pole of Patrese's career and his first since the 1983 Italian Grand Prix. It was also the first pole position for the Renault V10 engine.
In another surprise, Alex Caffi took third in his Dallara-Ford-Cosworth, just six-tenths behind Senna, with Thierry Boutsen fourth in the second Williams-Renault. Drivers' Championship leader Alain Prost was fifth in the second McLaren-Honda, with Gerhard Berger sixth in the V12 Ferrari. The top ten was completed by Alessandro Nannini in the Benetton-Ford, Stefano Modena in the Brabham-Judd, Derek Warwick in the Arrows Ford-Cosworth and Pierluigi Martini in the Minardi Ford-Cosworth.
Nigel Mansell could only manage 12th in the second Ferrari, nearly seven-tenths behind teammate Berger and over two seconds behind Patrese, and later complained of traffic. After realising that he would not crack the top 10 in qualifying, Mansell instead used final qualifying to work on his race set up, something he hoped would pay dividends on race day.
Qualifying classification
| Pos | No | Driver | Constructor | Q1 | Q2 | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | Riccardo Patrese |
Williams-Renault | 1:19.726 | 1:20.644 | — |
| 2 | 1 | Ayrton Senna |
McLaren-Honda | 1:21.576 | 1:20.039 | +0.313 |
| 3 | 21 | Alex Caffi |
Dallara-Ford | 1:21.040 | 1:20.704 | +0.978 |
| 4 | 5 | Thierry Boutsen |
Williams-Renault | 1:23.492 | 1:21.001 | +1.275 |
| 5 | 2 | Alain Prost |
McLaren-Honda | 1:21.076 | 1:22.267 | +1.350 |
| 6 | 28 |  Gerhard Berger |
Ferrari | 1:21.304 | 1:21.270 | +1.544 |
| 7 | 19 | Alessandro Nannini |
Benetton-Ford | 1:21.448 | 1:21.301 | +1.575 |
| 8 | 8 | Stefano Modena |
Brabham-Judd | 1:23.090 | 1:21.472 | +1.746 |
| 9 | 9 |  Derek Warwick |
Arrows-Ford | 1:23.111 | 1:21.617 | +1.891 |
| 10 | 23 | Pierluigi Martini |
Minardi-Ford | 1:21.746 | 1:32.546 | +2.020 |
| 11 | 4 | Jean Alesi |
Tyrrell-Ford | 1:23.853 | 1:21.799 | +2.073 |
| 12 | 27 | Nigel Mansell |
Ferrari | 1:22.544 | 1:21.951 | +2.225 |
| 13 | 15 | Maurício Gugelmin |
March-Judd | 1:22.949 | 1:22.083 | +2.357 |
| 14 | 16 | Ivan Capelli |
March-Judd | 1:22.445 | 1:22.088 | +2.362 |
| 15 | 7 | Martin Brundle |
Brabham-Judd | 1:22.970 | 1:22.296 | +2.570 |
| 16 | 10 |  Eddie Cheever |
Arrows-Ford | 1:23.251 | 1:22.374 | +2.648 |
| 17 | 11 | Nelson Piquet |
Lotus-Judd | 1:22.837 | 1:22.406 | +2.680 |
| 18 | 22 | Andrea de Cesaris |
Dallara-Ford | 1:23.463 | 1:22.410 | +2.684 |
| 19 | 3 | Jonathan Palmer |
Tyrrell-Ford | 1:24.670 | 1:22.578 | +2.852 |
| 20 | 12 | Satoru Nakajima |
Lotus-Judd | 1:23.996 | 1:22.630 | +2.904 |
| 21 | 37 | Bertrand Gachot |
Onyx-Ford | 1:22.634 | 1:23.720 | +2.908 |
| 22 | 18 | Piercarlo Ghinzani |
Osella-Ford | 1:23.091 | 1:22.763 | +3.037 |
| 23 | 24 |  Luis Pérez-Sala |
Minardi-Ford | 1:23.017 | 1:24.188 | +3.291 |
| 24 | 36 | Stefan Johansson |
Onyx-Ford | 1:23.372 | 1:23.148 | +3.422 |
| 25 | 20 | Emanuele Pirro |
Benetton-Ford | 1:23.772 | 1:23.399 | +3.673 |
| 26 | 29 | Michele Alboreto |
Lola-Lamborghini | 1:23.733 | 1:25.660 | +4.007 |
| 27 | 25 | René Arnoux |
Ligier-Ford | 1:25.862 | 1:24.003 | +4.277 |
| 28 | 26 | Olivier Grouillard |
Ligier-Ford | 1:24.702 | 1:25.169 | +4.976 |
| 29 | 38 | Christian Danner |
Rial-Ford | 1:26.485 | 1:25.017 | +5.291 |
| 30 | 39 | Volker Weidler |
Rial-Ford | 1:28.112 | 1:26.320 | +6.594 |