1991 Canadian Grand Prix
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| 1991 Canadian Grand Prix | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Race 5 of 16 in the 1991 Formula One World Championship | |||
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| Race details | |||
| Date | 2 June 1991 | ||
| Location |
Circuit Gilles Villeneuve Montreal, Quebec, Canada | ||
| Course | Temporary street circuit | ||
| Course length | 4.430 km (2.753 miles) | ||
| Distance | 69 laps, 305.670 km (189.935 miles) | ||
| Weather |
Mild with temperatures approaching 25 °C (77 °F); Wind speeds up to 12 km/h (7.5 mph)[1] | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Williams-Renault | ||
| Time | 1:19.837 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Nigel Mansell | Williams-Renault | |
| Time | 1:22.385 on lap 65 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Benetton-Ford | ||
| Second | Tyrrell-Honda | ||
| Third | Williams-Renault | ||
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Lap leaders
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The 1991 Canadian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve on 2 June 1991. It was the fifth race of the 1991 FIA Formula One World Championship.
The 69-lap race was won by Nelson Piquet, driving a Benetton-Ford. Piquet took the 23rd and final win of his F1 career after old rival Nigel Mansell, driving a Williams-Renault, suddenly stopped halfway round the last lap while leading by almost a minute. Stefano Modena took second in a Tyrrell-Honda, while Mansell's team-mate Riccardo Patrese was third, having started from pole position. Piquet's win was the first for a car using Pirelli tyres since the 1986 Mexican Grand Prix when Gerhard Berger took Benetton's first ever Grand Prix victory and the last for the famed BMW turbo.
This was the last win for Pirelli as a tyre supplier in Formula One until the 2011 Australian Grand Prix.
Between the Monaco and Canadian Grands Prix, Cesare Fiorio had been fired as team manager of Ferrari and had been replaced by Piero Ferrari. Meanwhile, John Barnard had left as Benetton's technical director; he was replaced by Gordon Kimball (father of future IndyCar driver Charlie Kimball).
On the driver front, Julian Bailey's funding ran out and he was replaced at Lotus by Johnny Herbert, who subsequently failed to qualify for the race, while Alex Caffi was out of action for Footwork as a result of injuries sustained in a road accident. His place was taken by Stefan Johansson.
Qualifying
Pre-qualifying report
As at the previous Grand Prix in Monaco, the pre-qualifying session was dominated by the Scuderia Italia Dallara cars, and the Jordans. With Dallara's Emanuele Pirro fastest ahead of his team-mate JJ Lehto, followed by Jordan's Andrea de Cesaris and Bertrand Gachot, there was over a second between the four pre-qualifiers and the rest.
Those who failed to progress to the main qualifying sessions included Olivier Grouillard, fifth fastest for Fondmetal, his best result of the season so far. The Modena team was starting to run into financial difficulties, and the performance of their Lambo cars was also slipping, as Nicola Larini and Eric van de Poele ended the session down in sixth and seventh positions. Slowest was Pedro Chaves in the Coloni, despite a new Hart-prepared Cosworth DFR engine.[2]
Pre-qualifying classification
| Pos | No | Driver | Constructor | Time | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 21 |  Emanuele Pirro |
Dallara-Judd | 1:23.244 | — |
| 2 | 22 |  JJ Lehto |
Dallara-Judd | 1:23.480 | +0.236 |
| 3 | 33 | Andrea de Cesaris |
Jordan-Ford | 1:23.672 | +0.428 |
| 4 | 32 |  Bertrand Gachot |
Jordan-Ford | 1:23.719 | +0.475 |
| 5 | 14 |  Olivier Grouillard |
Fondmetal-Ford | 1:24.795 | +1.551 |
| 6 | 34 | Nicola Larini |
Lambo-Lamborghini | 1:25.736 | +2.492 |
| 7 | 35 | Eric van de Poele |
Lambo-Lamborghini | 1:26.900 | +3.656 |
| 8 | 31 |  Pedro Chaves |
Coloni-Ford | 1:34.475 | +11.231 |
Qualifying report
In practice Riccardo Patrese had a huge accident, walking away unhurt. In the qualifying sessions, Patrese took pole position from team-mate Mansell, out-qualifying him for the fifth straight race. Senna was third followed by Prost, Moreno, Berger, Alesi, Piquet, Modena, and Pirro.
Qualifying classification
| Pos | No | Driver | Constructor | Q1 | Q2 | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | Riccardo Patrese |
Williams-Renault | 1:37.593 | 1:19.837 | — |
| 2 | 5 | Nigel Mansell |
Williams-Renault | 1:35.065 | 1:20.225 | +0.388 |
| 3 | 1 |  Ayrton Senna |
McLaren-Honda | 1:35.843 | 1:20.318 | +0.481 |
| 4 | 27 | Alain Prost |
Ferrari | 1:36.003 | 1:20.656 | +0.819 |
| 5 | 19 | Roberto Moreno |
Benetton-Ford | 1:35.897 | 1:20.686 | +0.849 |
| 6 | 2 |  Gerhard Berger |
McLaren-Honda | 1:38.223 | 1:20.916 | +1.079 |
| 7 | 28 | Jean Alesi |
Ferrari | 1:35.257 | 1:21.227 | +1.390 |
| 8 | 20 | Nelson Piquet |
Benetton-Ford | 1:37.354 | 1:21.241 | +1.404 |
| 9 | 4 | Stefano Modena |
Tyrrell-Honda | 1:38.218 | 1:21.298 | +1.461 |
| 10 | 21 | Emanuele Pirro |
Dallara-Judd | 1:39.017 | 1:21.864 | +2.027 |
| 11 | 33 | Andrea de Cesaris |
Jordan-Ford | 1:37.097 | 1:22.154 | +2.317 |
| 12 | 3 |  Satoru Nakajima |
Tyrrell-Honda | 1:41.100 | 1:22.262 | +2.425 |
| 13 | 16 | Ivan Capelli |
Leyton House-Ilmor | 1:40.906 | 1:22.443 | +2.606 |
| 14 | 32 | Bertrand Gachot |
Jordan-Ford | 1:38.383 | 1:22.596 | +2.759 |
| 15 | 24 | Gianni Morbidelli |
Minardi-Ferrari | 1:39.780 | 1:22.993 | +3.156 |
| 16 | 25 | Thierry Boutsen |
Ligier-Lamborghini | 1:38.517 | 1:23.040 | +3.203 |
| 17 | 22 | JJ Lehto |
Dallara-Judd | 1:38.435 | 1:23.040 | +3.203 |
| 18 | 23 | Pierluigi Martini |
Minardi-Ferrari | 1:37.864 | 1:23.125 | +3.288 |
| 19 | 29 | Éric Bernard |
Lola-Ford | 1:38.013 | 1:23.260 | +3.423 |
| 20 | 7 | Martin Brundle |
Brabham-Yamaha | 1:38.405 | 1:23.516 | +3.679 |
| 21 | 9 | Michele Alboreto |
Footwork-Porsche | 1:41.196 | 1:23.529 | +3.692 |
| 22 | 30 | Aguri Suzuki |
Lola-Ford | 1:39.696 | 1:23.585 | +3.748 |
| 23 | 15 | Maurício Gugelmin |
Leyton House-Ilmor | 1:38.689 | 1:23.650 | +3.813 |
| 24 | 11 | Mika Häkkinen |
Lotus-Judd | 1:42.900 | 1:23.923 | +4.086 |
| 25 | 10 |  Stefan Johansson |
Footwork-Porsche | 1:49.019 | 1:24.433 | +4.596 |
| 26 | 26 | Érik Comas |
Ligier-Lamborghini | 1:39.670 | 1:24.460 | +4.623 |
| 27 | 18 | Fabrizio Barbazza |
AGS-Ford | 1:40.555 | 1:24.491 | +4.654 |
| 28 | 17 | Gabriele Tarquini |
AGS-Ford | 1:41.946 | 1:24.653 | +4.816 |
| 29 | 8 | Mark Blundell |
Brabham-Yamaha | 1:39.897 | 1:24.661 | +4.824 |
| 30 | 12 | Johnny Herbert |
Lotus-Judd | 1:39.113 | 1:24.732 | +4.895 |
