1989 Portuguese Grand Prix
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Estoril, Portugal
| 1989 Portuguese Grand Prix | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Race 13 of 16 in the 1989 Formula One World Championship | |||
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| Race details | |||
| Date | 24 September 1989 | ||
| Official name | XXIII Grande Prémio de Portugal | ||
| Location |
Autódromo do Estoril Estoril, Portugal | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 4.350 km (2.703 miles) | ||
| Distance | 71 laps, 308.850 km (191.910 miles) | ||
| Weather | Hot, dry, sunny | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | McLaren-Honda | ||
| Time | 1:15.468 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Gerhard Berger | Ferrari | |
| Time | 1:18.986 on lap 49 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Ferrari | ||
| Second | McLaren-Honda | ||
| Third | Onyx-Ford | ||
|
Lap leaders | |||
The 1989 Portuguese Grand Prix (formally the XXIII Grande Prémio de Portugal) was a Formula One motor race held at the Autódromo do Estoril in Estoril, Portugal on 24 September 1989. It was the thirteenth race of the 1989 Formula One World Championship.
The 71-lap race was won by Austrian driver Gerhard Berger, driving a Ferrari, with Frenchman Alain Prost second in a McLaren-Honda and Swede Stefan Johansson third in an Onyx-Ford. Prost's teammate and Drivers' Championship rival, Brazilian Ayrton Senna, retired following a collision with the Ferrari of Briton Nigel Mansell, who had been black-flagged for reversing in the pit lane. As a result, Prost moved 24 points clear of Senna in the championship with three races remaining.
As well as Johansson taking Onyx's only podium finish, the race also saw Italian Pierluigi Martini lead for one lap – the first and only time the Minardi team led a Formula One race – and ten drivers from ten different teams finish in the top ten places. The race was also Prost's 150th Grand Prix start and the last start for the Coloni team, though it would continue in F1 until the end of 1991.
Pre-qualifying report
Onyx returned to the top of the Friday morning time sheets as Stefan Johansson was fastest by half a second. His new team-mate was Finnish driver JJ Lehto, who had replaced Bertrand Gachot since the last race, after Gachot openly criticised the team and was fired. In his first Formula One event, Lehto just missed out on pre-qualification after a suspension failure during the session, leaving him fifth. The Larrousse-Lola cars both pre-qualified again, with Philippe Alliot second and Michele Alboreto fourth. The other driver to go through to the main qualifying sessions was Roberto Moreno in third place in the Coloni.[1]
Yannick Dalmas had originally pre-qualified in third place in his AGS, but was excluded from the session and his times were deleted, after mistakenly using the wrong tyres. Also excluded was Osella driver Nicola Larini, for missing a weight check, although he had already failed to pre-qualify, being only ninth fastest.[1]
The other drivers who failed to proceed any further included the other Osella of Piercarlo Ghinzani, who outpaced his team-mate in sixth, and Oscar Larrauri, despite an improvement to seventh in the EuroBrun. Eighth was Gabriele Tarquini in the other AGS, ahead of the Zakspeeds of Aguri Suzuki and Bernd Schneider. Slowest by nearly four seconds was the second Coloni of Enrico Bertaggia, the third time in a row the Italian had been bottom of the time sheets.[1]
Pre-qualifying classification
| Pos | No | Driver | Constructor | Time | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 36 |  Stefan Johansson |
Onyx-Ford | 1:18.623 | — |
| 2 | 30 |  Philippe Alliot |
Lola-Lamborghini | 1:19.164 | +0.541 |
| 3 | 31 |  Roberto Moreno |
Coloni-Ford | 1:19.780 | +1.157 |
| 4 | 29 |  Michele Alboreto |
Lola-Lamborghini | 1:19.869 | +1.246 |
| 5 | 37 |  JJ Lehto |
Onyx-Ford | 1:20.880 | +2.257 |
| 6 | 18 | Piercarlo Ghinzani |
Osella-Ford | 1:21.021 | +2.398 |
| 7 | 33 |  Oscar Larrauri |
EuroBrun-Judd | 1:21.326 | +2.703 |
| 8 | 40 | Gabriele Tarquini |
AGS-Ford | 1:21.881 | +3.258 |
| 9 | 35 |  Aguri Suzuki |
Zakspeed-Yamaha | 1:24.116 | +5.493 |
| 10 | 34 |  Bernd Schneider |
Zakspeed-Yamaha | 1:24.732 | +6.109 |
| 11 | 32 | Enrico Bertaggia |
Coloni-Ford | 1:28.526 | +9.903 |
| EX | 41 | Yannick Dalmas |
AGS-Ford | — | — |
| EX | 17 | Nicola Larini |
Osella-Ford | — | — |
Qualifying report
Qualifying saw McLaren's Ayrton Senna take his tenth pole position of the season, with the Ferrari of Gerhard Berger alongside him on the front row. Nigel Mansell took third in the other Ferrari, with Alain Prost fourth in the other McLaren. Pierluigi Martini impressed by qualifying fifth in his Minardi, ahead of the two Williams of Riccardo Patrese and Thierry Boutsen in sixth and eighth respectively, with Alex Caffi seventh in the Dallara. The top ten was completed by Luis Pérez-Sala in the second Minardi and Martin Brundle in the Brabham. Further down the grid, Stefan Johansson took 12th in his Onyx after setting the fastest time in pre-qualifying, while another pre-qualifier, Roberto Moreno, took 15th, the best-ever grid position for the Coloni team.
This was Christian Danner's last Formula One qualifying attempt as he was fired by Rial after this race.[2]
The Minardi, Dallara, Brabham and Coloni teams all had their tyres supplied by Pirelli, whose special qualifying tyres were generally regarded as being superior to those of Goodyear. However, Goodyear's race tyres were still acknowledged as being superior to Pirelli's.[3]
Qualifying classification
| Pos | No | Driver | Constructor | Q1 | Q2 | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Ayrton Senna |
McLaren-Honda | 1:15.496 | 1:15.468 | — |
| 2 | 28 | Gerhard Berger |
Ferrari | 1:16.799 | 1:16.059 | +0.591 |
| 3 | 27 |  Nigel Mansell |
Ferrari | 1:17.387 | 1:16.193 | +0.725 |
| 4 | 2 | Alain Prost |
McLaren-Honda | 1:17.336 | 1:16.204 | +0.736 |
| 5 | 23 | Pierluigi Martini |
Minardi-Ford | 1:16.938 | 1:17.161 | +1.470 |
| 6 | 6 | Riccardo Patrese |
Williams-Renault | 1:17.281 | 1:17.852 | +1.813 |
| 7 | 21 | Alex Caffi |
Dallara-Ford | 1:18.623 | 1:17.661 | +2.193 |
| 8 | 5 |  Thierry Boutsen |
Williams-Renault | 1:17.801 | 1:17.888 | +2.333 |
| 9 | 24 |  Luis Pérez-Sala |
Minardi-Ford | 1:17.844 | 1:18.305 | +2.376 |
| 10 | 7 | Martin Brundle |
Brabham-Judd | 1:17.874 | 1:17.995 | +2.406 |
| 11 | 8 | Stefano Modena |
Brabham-Judd | 1:18.589 | 1:18.093 | +2.625 |
| 12 | 36 | Stefan Johansson |
Onyx-Ford | 1:19.281 | 1:18.105 | +2.637 |
| 13 | 19 | Alessandro Nannini |
Benetton-Ford | 1:18.115 | 1:18.359 | +2.647 |
| 14 | 15 | Maurício Gugelmin |
March-Judd | 1:18.124 | 1:18.277 | +2.656 |
| 15 | 31 | Roberto Moreno |
Coloni-Ford | 1:18.196 | 1:20.512 | +2.728 |
| 16 | 20 | Emanuele Pirro |
Benetton-Ford | 1:18.340 | 1:18.328 | +2.860 |
| 17 | 30 | Philippe Alliot |
Lola-Lamborghini | 1:19.306 | 1:18.386 | +2.918 |
| 18 | 3 | Jonathan Palmer |
Tyrrell-Ford | 1:19.172 | 1:18.404 | +2.936 |
| 19 | 22 | Andrea de Cesaris |
Dallara-Ford | 1:18.442 | 1:18.511 | +2.974 |
| 20 | 11 | Nelson Piquet |
Lotus-Judd | 1:18.482 | 1:18.682 | +3.014 |
| 21 | 29 | Michele Alboreto |
Lola-Lamborghini | 1:18.563 | 1:18.846 | +3.095 |
| 22 | 9 | Derek Warwick |
Arrows-Ford | 1:18.711 | 1:18.892 | +3.243 |
| 23 | 25 | René Arnoux |
Ligier-Ford | 1:18.767 | 1:19.979 | +3.299 |
| 24 | 16 | Ivan Capelli |
March-Judd | 1:19.079 | 1:18.785 | +3.317 |
| 25 | 12 | Satoru Nakajima |
Lotus-Judd | 1:19.278 | 1:19.165 | +3.697 |
| 26 | 10 |  Eddie Cheever |
Arrows-Ford | 1:19.247 | 1:20.006 | +3.779 |
| 27 | 4 | Johnny Herbert |
Tyrrell-Ford | 1:19.515 | 1:19.264 | +3.796 |
| 28 | 26 | Olivier Grouillard |
Ligier-Ford | 1:19.605 | 1:19.436 | +3.968 |
| 29 | 39 | Pierre-Henri Raphanel |
Rial-Ford | No time | 1:21.435 | +5.967 |
| 30 | 38 | Christian Danner |
Rial-Ford | 1:21.678 | 1:22.423 | +6.210 |
