1992 San Marino Grand Prix
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| 1992 San Marino Grand Prix | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Race 5 of 16 in the 1992 Formula One World Championship | |||
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| Race details | |||
| Date | 17 May 1992 | ||
| Official name | XII Gran Premio Iceberg di San Marino | ||
| Location |
Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari Imola, Emilia-Romagna, Italy | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 5.040 km (3.132 miles) | ||
| Distance | 60 laps, 302.400 km (187.903 miles) | ||
| Weather | Sunny | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Williams-Renault | ||
| Time | 1:21.842 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Riccardo Patrese | Williams-Renault | |
| Time | 1:26.100 on lap 60 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Williams-Renault | ||
| Second | Williams-Renault | ||
| Third | McLaren-Honda | ||
|
Lap leaders | |||
The 1992 San Marino Grand Prix (formally the XII Gran Premio Iceberg di San Marino) was a Formula One motor race held at Imola on 17 May 1992. It was the fifth race of the 1992 Formula One World Championship.
The 60-lap race was won from pole position by Nigel Mansell, driving a Williams-Renault. Mansell became the first driver to win the first five races of the season. Teammate Riccardo Patrese was second, with Ayrton Senna third in a McLaren-Honda.
Pre-qualifying report
In the Friday morning pre-qualifying session, Michele Alboreto was fastest for the first time this season in the Footwork. He was half a second faster than the Venturi Larrousse of Bertrand Gachot, who was himself a couple of tenths of a second faster than his team-mate Ukyo Katayama. The fourth pre-qualifier was again Andrea Chiesa, nearly a second behind in the Fondmetal.[1]
As in Spain, the two cars failing to pre-qualify were the Andrea Modas of Roberto Moreno and Perry McCarthy. Moreno had tested with the team here at Imola, and improved the car prior to the Grand Prix weekend,[1] and the result was that he was just 0.463 of a second behind Chiesa. McCarthy drove his first seven laps in the car, with no windscreen and an ill-fitting seat,[2] and posted a time around 8.6 seconds slower than Moreno before stopping with a differential problem.[3]
Pre-qualifying classification
| Pos | No | Driver | Constructor | Time | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 | Michele Alboreto |
Footwork-Mugen-Honda | 1:26.865 | |
| 2 | 29 |  Bertrand Gachot |
Venturi-Lamborghini | 1:27.407 | +0.542 |
| 3 | 30 |  Ukyo Katayama |
Venturi-Lamborghini | 1:27.601 | +0.736 |
| 4 | 14 |  Andrea Chiesa |
Fondmetal-Ford | 1:28.480 | +1.615 |
| 5 | 34 |  Roberto Moreno |
Andrea Moda-Judd | 1:28.943 | +2.078 |
| 6 | 35 |  Perry McCarthy |
Andrea Moda-Judd | 1:37.537 | +10.672 |
Qualifying report
In the main qualifying session the Lotus of Mika Häkkinen, the Fondmetal of Andrea Chiesa, and the Brabhams of Damon Hill and Eric van de Poele were eliminated. This turned out to be the only race of 1992 in which Häkkinen failed to qualify.
Mansell took pole position by over a second from Williams team-mate Riccardo Patrese, who crashed at Tamburello corner two weeks before. The McLarens of Ayrton Senna and Gerhard Berger took up the second row, while the Benettons of Michael Schumacher and Martin Brundle filled the third row. The top ten was completed by the Ferraris of Jean Alesi and Ivan Capelli, the Footwork of Michele Alboreto, and the Ligier of Thierry Boutsen.
Mansell's pole position saw one of Formula One's hottest streaks come to an end, as Senna had taken pole in each of the previous seven races at Imola.
Qualifying classification
| Pos | No | Driver | Constructor | Q1 | Q2 | Gap | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | Nigel Mansell |
Williams-Renault | 1:21.842 | 1:22.440 | ||
| 2 | 6 | Riccardo Patrese |
Williams-Renault | 1:23.876 | 1:22.895 | +1.053 | |
| 3 | 1 | Ayrton Senna |
McLaren-Honda | 1:23.086 | 1:23.151 | +1.244 | |
| 4 | 2 |  Gerhard Berger |
McLaren-Honda | 1:23.418 | 1:24.393 | +1.576 | |
| 5 | 19 |  Michael Schumacher |
Benetton-Ford | 1:23.701 | 1:24.177 | +1.859 | |
| 6 | 20 | Martin Brundle |
Benetton-Ford | 1:25.239 | 1:23.904 | +2.062 | |
| 7 | 27 | Jean Alesi |
Ferrari | 1:23.970 | 1:24.103 | +2.128 | |
| 8 | 28 | Ivan Capelli |
Ferrari | 1:24.274 | 1:24.192 | +2.350 | |
| 9 | 9 | Michele Alboreto |
Footwork-Mugen-Honda | 1:24.706 | 1:26.519 | +2.864 | |
| 10 | 25 |  Thierry Boutsen |
Ligier-Renault | 1:25.043 | 1:25.276 | +3.201 | |
| 11 | 10 | Aguri Suzuki |
Footwork-Mugen-Honda | 1:25.134 | 1:25.909 | +3.292 | |
| 12 | 16 | Karl Wendlinger |
March-Ilmor | 1:27.019 | 1:25.483 | +3.641 | |
| 13 | 26 | Érik Comas |
Ligier-Renault | 1:25.739 | 1:25.543 | +3.701 | |
| 14 | 4 | Andrea de Cesaris |
Tyrrell-Ilmor | 1:25.637 | 1:26.337 | +3.795 | |
| 15 | 22 | Pierluigi Martini |
Dallara-Ferrari | 1:25.838 | 1:26.331 | +3.996 | |
| 16 | 21 |  JJ Lehto |
Dallara-Ferrari | 1:25.865 | 1:26.215 | +4.023 | |
| 17 | 30 | Ukyo Katayama |
Venturi-Lamborghini | 1:26.900 | 1:25.982 | +4.140 | |
| 18 | 33 | Maurício Gugelmin |
Jordan-Yamaha | 1:26.056 | 1:26.659 | +4.214 | |
| 19 | 29 | Bertrand Gachot |
Venturi-Lamborghini | 1:26.403 | 1:26.182 | +4.340 | |
| 20 | 3 | Olivier Grouillard |
Tyrrell-Ilmor | 1:26.953 | 1:26.404 | +4.562 | |
| 21 | 24 | Gianni Morbidelli |
Minardi-Lamborghini | 1:26.681 | 1:27.051 | +4.839 | |
| 22 | 15 | Gabriele Tarquini |
Fondmetal-Ford | 1:26.959 | 1:26.765 | +4.923 | |
| 23 | 32 | Stefano Modena |
Jordan-Yamaha | 1:26.900 | 1:26.774 | +4.932 | |
| 24 | 17 | Paul Belmondo |
March-Ilmor | 1:28.515 | 1:27.194 | +5.352 | |
| 25 | 23 | Christian Fittipaldi |
Minardi-Lamborghini | 1:27.229 | 1:27.282 | +5.387 | |
| 26 | 12 | Johnny Herbert |
Lotus-Ford | 1:27.270 | 1:27.357 | +5.428 | |
| 27 | 11 | Mika Häkkinen |
Lotus-Ford | 1:27.437 | 1:27.912 | +5.595 | |
| 28 | 14 | Andrea Chiesa |
Fondmetal-Ford | 1:27.756 | no time | +5.914 | |
| 29 | 8 | Damon Hill |
Brabham-Judd | no time | 1:28.423 | +6.581 | |
| 30 | 7 | Eric van de Poele |
Brabham-Judd | 1:29.347 | 1:28.832 | +6.990 | |
| Source:[4][5][6] | |||||||
