1989 Monaco Grand Prix

The event, officially called the Grand Prix de Monaco, was the third round of the 1989 Formula One World Championship and was held at the Circuit de Monaco in Monte Carlo, Monaco.^[1] Free and qualifying practice sessions were held on Thursday 4 May and Saturday 6 May, with a morning warm-up session and the main Grand Prix race held on Sunday 7 May 1989.^[1] Thirty-nine cars were entered by twenty list of Formula One constructors, although Scuderia Ferrari withdrew one of their entries as Gerhard Berger had been injured during the previous race.^[1] Ferrari made changes to Nigel Mansell's cars to try and avoid a repeat of the failure that had caused Berger's prior crash, but were unable to complete certain planned upgrades in time for this event as they had to replace the car destroyed in Imola.^[1] Automobiles Gonfaronnaises Sportives (AGS), Arrows, Brabham, EuroBrun, Ligier, Larrousse, Team Lotus, McLaren, Onyx Grand Prix, Williams, and Zakspeed all brought updates or modifications to their cars for this race.^[1] March Engineering debuted Adrian Newey's CG891 at this event.^[1] Thirteen teams used Goodyear tyres whilst the other seven teams used Pirelli tyres.^[1]

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The field was one fewer in Monaco as Ferrari had elected not to run a second car to replace Berger, who had been injured in an accident during the last race at Imola (the Austrian was present in the pits at Monaco, but even with the Ferrari 640's revolutionary semi-automatic gearbox meaning he did not have to take his hands off the steering wheel, the burns on his hands were not sufficiently recovered to be able to take on the Circuit de Monaco). However, unlike the similar situation at the first race in Brazil, no extra pre-qualifier would be allowed through to the main qualifying sessions, and due to the much tighter confines of both the circuit and the pits, Monaco would only run with 29 cars.^[1]

Brabham again topped the time sheets during the Thursday morning pre-qualifying session, with Stefano Modena fastest, but the Dallara of Alex Caffi was only 0.141 seconds behind. Third was Pierre-Henri Raphanel, who put in a fine performance in his Coloni, pre-qualifying for the first, and ultimately, only time. The fourth pre-qualifier was the other Brabham, driven by Martin Brundle, who edged out the Osella of Piercarlo Ghinzani by just two-hundredths of a second.

Joining Ghinzani on the sidelines were Stefan Johansson in the Onyx, then Nicola Larini in the other Osella, followed by Bernd Schneider in the Zakspeed. Ninth was the other Onyx of Bertrand Gachot, ahead of the sole EuroBrun driven by Gregor Foitek. The Rial of Volker Weidler was eleventh, followed by Aguri Suzuki in the other Zakspeed. Slowest on this occasion was Joachim Winkelhock in the AGS.^[3]

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Time	Gap
1	8	Stefano Modena	Brabham-Judd	1:26.957
2	21	Alex Caffi	Dallara-Ford	1:27.098	+0.141
3	32	Pierre-Henri Raphanel	Coloni-Ford	1:27.590	+0.633
4	7	Martin Brundle	Brabham-Judd	1:27.774	+0.817
5	18	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Osella-Ford	1:27.795	+0.838
6	36	Stefan Johansson	Onyx-Ford	1.27.821	+0.864
7	17	Nicola Larini	Osella-Ford	1:28.555	+1.598
8	34	Bernd Schneider	Zakspeed-Yamaha	1:28.610	+1.653
9	37	Bertrand Gachot	Onyx-Ford	1:28.897	+1.940
10	33	Gregor Foitek	EuroBrun-Judd	1:29.423	+2.466
11	39	Volker Weidler	Rial-Ford	1:29.498	+2.541
12	35	Aguri Suzuki	Zakspeed-Yamaha	1:30.528	+2.571
13	41	Joachim Winkelhock	AGS-Ford	1:32.274	+4.317

Tyrrell had a new car that looked sleek and promising, but only Jonathan Palmer hit the track with it on the first day of practice and qualifying. Michele Alboreto's car wasn't finished yet (it would be by Saturday practice and qualifying) and he point blank refused to drive the older car. Ayrton Senna was on pole by a full second over teammate Alain Prost with Thierry Boutsen sharing row two with the surprisingly competitive Brabham of Martin Brundle. Nigel Mansell was fifth followed by Derek Warwick (who's all-out driving in the under-powered Arrows-Ford had found a new fan in the spectating Gerhard Berger), Riccardo Patrese, Stefano Modena, Alex Caffi, and Andrea de Cesaris.

It was at this race that many in the paddock started noticing that the Pirelli qualifying tyres were superior to Goodyear's (the Brabhams and Caffi's Dallara ran on Pirelli rubber).

For the second Monaco in a row, Team Lotus, previous winners in the Principality on 7 different occasions (1960, 1961, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1974 and 1987), would start the Monaco Grand Prix with only one car in the field. As he had done in 1988, Japanese driver Satoru Nakajima failed to qualify. Triple World Champion Nelson Piquet, never at ease on the Monaco streets, qualified 19th, 4.738 seconds behind his reigning World Champion countryman.

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Q1	Q2	Gap
1	1	Ayrton Senna	McLaren-Honda	1:24.126	1:22.308
2	2	Alain Prost	McLaren-Honda	1:24.671	1:23.456	+1.148
3	5	Thierry Boutsen	Williams-Renault	1:25.540	1:24.332	+2.024
4	7	Martin Brundle	Brabham-Judd	1:26.970	1:24.580	+2.272
5	27	Nigel Mansell	Ferrari	1:25.363	1:24.735	+2.427
6	9	Derek Warwick	Arrows-Ford	1:26.606	1:24.791	+2.483
7	6	Riccardo Patrese	Williams-Renault	1:27.138	1:25.021	+2.713
8	8	Stefano Modena	Brabham-Judd	1:27.598	1:25.086	+2.778
9	21	Alex Caffi	Dallara-Ford	1:27.894	1:25.481	+3.173
10	22	Andrea de Cesaris	Dallara-Ford	1:26.617	1:25.515	+3.207
11	23	Pierluigi Martini	Minardi-Ford	1:28.469	1:26.288	+3.980
12	4	Michele Alboreto	Tyrrell-Ford	No time	1:26.388	+4.080
13	40	Gabriele Tarquini	AGS-Ford	1:26.603	1:26.422	+4.114
14	15	Maurício Gugelmin	March-Judd	1:28.917	1:26.522	+4.214
15	19	Alessandro Nannini	Benetton-Ford	1:28.608	1:26.599	+4.291
16	26	Olivier Grouillard	Ligier-Ford	1:27.040	1:26.792	+4.484
17	30	Philippe Alliot	Lola-Lamborghini	1:26.975	1:26.857	+4.549
18	32	Pierre-Henri Raphanel	Coloni-Ford	1:30.264	1:27.011	+4.703
19	11	Nelson Piquet	Lotus-Judd	1:29.047	1:27.046	+4.738
20	10	Eddie Cheever	Arrows-Ford	1:28.461	1:27.117	+4.809
21	25	René Arnoux	Ligier-Ford	1:30.003	1:27.182	+4.874
22	16	Ivan Capelli	March-Judd	1:29.800	1:27.302	+4.994
23	3	Jonathan Palmer	Tyrrell-Ford	1:29.151	1:27.452	+5.144
24	20	Johnny Herbert	Benetton-Ford	1:29.661	1:27.706	+5.398
25	31	Roberto Moreno	Coloni-Ford	1:30.209	1:27.721	+5.413
26	24	Luis Pérez-Sala	Minardi-Ford	1:28.886	1:27.786	+5.478
27	38	Christian Danner	Rial-Ford	1:28.737	1:27.910	+5.602
28	29	Yannick Dalmas	Lola-Lamborghini	1:29.794	1:27.946	+5.638
29	12	Satoru Nakajima	Lotus-Judd	1:28.568	1:28.419	+6.111