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| Race 8 of 15 races in the 1989 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | 11 June 1989 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Official name | Yu Grand Prix [1] [2] [3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Automotodrom Rijeka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1989 Yugoslavian motorcycle Grand Prix was the eighth round of the 1989 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 9–11 June 1989 at the Automotodrom Grobnik circuit, near Rijeka.
Another pole for Kevin Schwantz, but Wayne Rainey gets a little gap after the light, and is chased by Eddie Lawson, Schwantz, Kevin Magee and Pierfrancesco Chili. Soon, the usual trio develops at the front. Lawson takes the lead, but makes a mistake and goes off-track, letting Schwantz and Rainey through and getting dropped from the leading group, though remaining in the third place.
Schwantz wants a win and Rainey wants as many riders between him and Lawson, so Schwantz has to earn the gap he gets from Rainey. Magee and Sarron fight for fourth.
Schwantz wins it ahead of Rainey and Lawson, and Rainey pulls ahead slightly in the standings.
| Pos. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Points | ||
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| 1 |  Kevin Schwantz | Suzuki Pepsi Cola | Suzuki | 30 | 45:10.967 | 20 | ||
| 2 | Wayne Rainey | Team Lucky Strike Roberts | Yamaha | 30 | +1.193 | 17 | ||
| 3 | Eddie Lawson | Rothmans Kanemoto Honda | Honda | 30 | +15.670 | 15 | ||
| 4 |  Kevin Magee | Team Lucky Strike Roberts | Yamaha | 30 | +41.545 | 13 | ||
| 5 |  Christian Sarron | Sonauto Gauloises Blondes Yamaha Mobil 1 | Yamaha | 30 | +41.673 | 11 | ||
| 6 | Mick Doohan | Rothmans Honda Team | Honda | 30 | +1:05.736 | 10 | ||
| 7 | Randy Mamola | Cagiva Corse | Cagiva | 30 | +1:12.921 | 9 | ||
| 8 |  Ron Haslam | Suzuki Pepsi Cola | Suzuki | 30 | +1:22.452 | 8 | ||
| 9 |  Pierfrancesco Chili | HB Honda Gallina Team | Honda | 30 | +1:31.927 | 7 | ||
| 10 | Dominique Sarron | Team ROC Elf Honda | Honda | 29 | +1 Lap | 6 | ||
| 11 | Rob McElnea | Cabin Racing Team | Honda | 29 | +1 Lap | 5 | ||
| 12 | Niall Mackenzie | Marlboro Yamaha Team Agostini | Yamaha | 29 | +1 Lap | 4 | ||
| 13 | Massimo Broccoli | Cagiva Corse | Cagiva | 29 | +1 Lap | 3 | ||
| 14 | Simon Buckmaster | Racing Team Katayama | Honda | 29 | +1 Lap | 2 | ||
| 15 |  Michael Rudroff | HRK Motors | Honda | 29 | +1 Lap | 1 | ||
| 16 |  Bruno Kneubühler | Romer Racing Suisse | Honda | 29 | +1 Lap | |||
| 17 | Marco Papa | Team Greco | Paton | 28 | +2 Laps | |||
| 18 | Stefan Klabacher | Honda | 28 | +2 Laps | ||||
| 19 |  Francisco Gonzales | Club Motocross Pozuelo | Honda | 27 | +3 Laps | |||
| 20 | Nicholas Schmassman | FMS | Honda | 27 | +3 Laps | |||
| 21 |  Rudolf Zeller | Manhattan | 27 | +3 Laps | ||||
| Ret | Vittorio Scatola | Honda | Retirement | |||||
| Ret | Michael Kaplam | Honda | Retirement | |||||
| Ret | Marco Gentile | Fior Marlboro | Fior | Retirement | ||||
| Ret | Alessandro Valesi | Team Iberia | Yamaha | Retirement | ||||
| Ret |  Andreas Leuthe | Librenti Corse | Suzuki | Retirement | ||||
| Ret | Freddie Spencer | Marlboro Yamaha Team Agostini | Yamaha | Retirement | ||||
| DNQ | Donato Battistoni | Honda | Did not qualify | |||||
| DNQ | Claude Albert | Suzuki | Did not qualify | |||||
| DNQ | Helmut Schutz | Rallye Sport | Honda | Did not qualify | ||||
| Sources: [4] [5] | ||||||||
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