1991 German motorcycle Grand Prix

Mick Doohan was on pole, Wayne Rainey was 1 second back in 4th, with Eddie Lawson on the front row again on the ever-improving Cagiva.

Doohan took the lead at the start ahead from Rainey, Eddie Lawson and John Kocinski. Doohan and Rainey developed a small gap to Kevin Schwantz, Lawson and Wayne Gardner. In the stadium section, Rainey tried to go through the inside of Doohan, but going off the racing line proved too slippery and he had to sit-up and got Schwantz on his back wheel.

Rainey recovered his rhythm and passed Doohan, but Schwantz was closing. Kocinski crashed out. Doohan re-took the lead of the trio with Rainey and Schwantz.

Another Rainey/Doohan battle ended inconclusively when Rainey came alongside Doohan and pointed to Doohan’s back tire which was shedding chunks. Going into the stadium section, Schwantz took the lead and Doohan started dropping back.

Last lap: Rainey was in front of Schwantz. Schwantz stayed behind Rainey through the first chicane, trying to build momentum for a draft pass. He managed it and took the lead from Rainey.

It looked like Schwantz has made a tactical error, letting Rainey draft him on the last straight that leads into the stadium section. Rainey draft passed and prepared for the right turn, but Schwantz swung out from behind and performs a spectacular late-braking pass—the RGV was squirming from side-to-side and the back tire was hopping up and down leaving a dashed black line of rubber. Schwantz got it under control and made the turn, but Rainey wasn't giving up and tried to stay on Schwantz’ left as they headed to a left turn, but Schwantz had better drive coming out of the previous turn and got in front of Rainey and stayed there to the line.

After the race Rainey commentated: “... I thought I was pretty lucky that we beat Doohan there when he had a problem. That’s who I was racing for the championship.”^[4]

Pos.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	Kevin Schwantz	Lucky Strike Suzuki	Suzuki	18	+36:20.491	2	20
2	Wayne Rainey	Marlboro Team Roberts	Yamaha	18	+0.016	4	17
3	Mick Doohan	Rothmans Honda Team	Honda	18	+8.944	1	15
4	Eddie Lawson	Cagiva Corse	Cagiva	18	+11.568	3	13
5	Wayne Gardner	Rothmans Honda Team	Honda	18	+25.500	6	11
6	Didier de Radiguès	Lucky Strike Suzuki	Suzuki	18	+1:00.264	7	10
7	Juan Garriga	Ducados Yamaha	Yamaha	18	+1:11.175	8	9
8	Adrien Morillas	Sonauto Yamaha Mobil 1	Yamaha	18	+1:24.711	12	8
9	Doug Chandler	Roberts B Team	Yamaha	18	+1:41.466	10	7
10	Eddie Laycock	Millar Racing	Yamaha	17	+1 lap	13	6
11	Cees Doorakkers	HEK-Baumachines	Honda	17	+1 lap	14	5
12	Michael Rudroff	Rallye Sport	Honda	17	+1 lap	15	4
13	Hans Becker	Team Romero Racing	Yamaha	17	+1 lap		3
14	Simon Buckmaster	Padgett's Racing Team	Suzuki	17	+1 lap		2
Ret	John Kocinski	Marlboro Team Roberts	Yamaha	8	Retired	5
DNS	Jean-Philippe Ruggia	Sonauto Yamaha Mobil 1	Yamaha		Did not start	9
DNS	Alex Barros	Cagiva Corse	Cagiva		Did not start	11
DNQ	Josef Doppler	Doppler Racing	Honda		Did not qualify
DNQ	Helmut Schutz	Rallye Sport	Honda		Did not qualify
DNQ	Niggi Schmassman	Schmassman Technotron	Honda		Did not qualify
DNQ	Martin Trösch	MT Racing	Honda		Did not qualify
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Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	Helmut Bradl	Honda	15	31:59.456	1	20
2	Carlos Cardús	Honda	15	+13.517	5	17
3	Wilco Zeelenberg	Honda	15	+14.034	3	15
4	Luca Cadalora	Honda	15	+23.707	9	13
5	Masahiro Shimizu	Honda	15	+43.569	7	11
6	Andreas Preining	Aprilia	15	+43.756	6	10
7	Àlex Crivillé	JJ Cobas	15	+43.825	12	9
8	Jochen Schmid	Honda	15	+43.960	8	8
9	Martin Wimmer	Suzuki	15	+44.219	10	7
10	Stefan Prein	Honda	15	+44.585	11	6
11	Paolo Casoli	Yamaha	15	+45.081	13	5
12	Harald Eckl	Aprilia	15	+47.530	14	4
13	Doriano Romboni	Honda	15	+50.256	15	3
14	Jean-Pierre Jeandat	Honda	15	+59.494		2
15	Carlos Lavado	Yamaha	15	+1:04.087		1
16	Dominique Sarron	Yamaha	15	+1:21.210
17	Bernd Kassner	Yamaha	15	+1:21.432
18	Fausto Ricci	Yamaha	15	+1:46.045
19	Patrick van der Goorbergh	Yamaha	15	+1:50.704
20	Kevin Mitchell	Yamaha	15	+1:50.882
21	Jean Foray	Yamaha	15	+1:50.946
22	Marcellino Lucchi	Aprilia	15	+1:53.122
23	Wayne Doran	Aprilia	15	+1:58.967
24	Ian Newton	Yamaha	15	+2:09.344
25	Peter Linden	Honda	14	+1 lap
Ret	Corrado Catalano	Honda	8	Retired
Ret	Bernard Hänggeli	Aprilia	7	Retired
Ret	Pierfrancesco Chili	Aprilia	6	Retired	2
Ret	Loris Reggiani	Aprilia	4	Retired	4
Ret	Renzo Colleoni	Aprilia	3	Retired
Ret	Urs Jucker	Yamaha	3	Retired
Ret	Jaime Mariano	Aprilia	1	Retired
DNS	Alberto Puig	Yamaha
DNS	Frédéric Protat	Aprilia
DNS	Leon van der Heyden	Honda
DNS	Erkka Korpiaho	Aprilia
DNS	Stefano Pennese	Aprilia
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