1990 British Grand Prix

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1990 British Grand Prix
Race 8 of 16 in the 1990 Formula One World Championship
Silverstone Circuit 1990.png
Race details
Date15 July 1990
Official name XLIII Foster's British Grand Prix
Location Silverstone Circuit
Silverstone, Northamptonshire, England
Course Permanent racing facility
Course length 4.778 km (2.969 miles)
Distance 64 laps, 305.904 km (190.080 miles)
Weather Hot, dry, sunny
Pole position
Driver Ferrari
Time 1:07.428
Fastest lap
Driver Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Nigel Mansell Ferrari
Time 1:11.291 on lap 51
Podium
First Ferrari
Second Williams-Renault
Third McLaren-Honda
Lap leaders
  • 1990 British Grand Prix

The 1990 British Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Silverstone on 15 July 1990. It was the eighth race of the 1990 Formula One World Championship. It was the 45th British Grand Prix and the 26th to be held at Silverstone, which was the fastest circuit on the F1 calendar at the time. The race was held over 64 laps of the 4.78-kilometre (2.97 mi) circuit for a race distance of 305.9 kilometres (190.1 mi).

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The race was won by Frenchman Alain Prost, driving a Ferrari. Prost's teammate, local hero Nigel Mansell, took pole position and led before retiring with a gearbox failure nine laps from the end. Belgian Thierry Boutsen finished second in a Williams-Renault, with Brazilian Ayrton Senna third in a McLaren-Honda.

The win, Prost's third in succession and fourth of the season, gave him the lead of the Drivers' Championship, two points ahead of Senna.

At this event Ricardo Patrese made history by becoming the first ever F1 driver to compete in 200 F1 GP's.

Qualifying

Pre-qualifying report

In Friday morning pre-qualifying, the Larrousse-Lolas were again first and second, their fifth 1–2 of the season, with Éric Bernard nearly a second faster than team-mate Aguri Suzuki. As at the previous Grand Prix in France, third fastest was Gabriele Tarquini in the AGS. This time, the fourth pre-qualifying spot went to Olivier Grouillard in the sole Osella.

These four were comfortably faster than the other runners, the fastest of which was Roberto Moreno in a revised EuroBrun in fifth place. Sixth was Yannick Dalmas in the other AGS, his sixth failure to pre-qualify so far this season. Claudio Langes was seventh in the other, unrevised EuroBrun, with Bertrand Gachot a distant eighth in the Coloni after its engine destroyed itself yet again. [1] Subaru ended their involvement with the Coloni team after this Grand Prix, with eight consecutive failures to pre-qualify, and the team were to source new engines for the next race in Germany. [2] The Life team had no pit garage in which to prepare their car, and worked on the grass near the pits. [1] Their car, still driven by Bruno Giacomelli, suffered an electrical failure after five laps, and was bottom of the time sheets again. Team manager Sergio Barbasio announced that they would stick with the hopeless in-house W12 engine, citing a lack of time to prepare the chassis for the Judd CV engines purchased from Lotus. However, Italian sources claimed that Life had simply been unable to complete the purchase due to lack of funds. [1]

Pre-qualifying classification

PosNoDriverConstructorTimeGap
129 Flag of France.svg Éric Bernard Lola-Lamborghini 1:10.254
230 Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg Aguri Suzuki Lola-Lamborghini 1:11.128+0.874
317 Flag of Italy.svg Gabriele Tarquini AGS-Ford 1:11.516+1.262
414 Flag of France.svg Olivier Grouillard Osella-Ford 1:11.953+1.699
533 Flag of Brazil (1968-1992).svg Roberto Moreno EuroBrun-Judd 1:12.554+2.300
618 Flag of France.svg Yannick Dalmas AGS-Ford 1:12.653+2.399
734 Flag of Italy.svg Claudio Langes EuroBrun-Judd 1:15.059+4.805
831 Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Bertrand Gachot Coloni-Subaru 1:19.230+8.976
939 Flag of Italy.svg Bruno Giacomelli Life 1:25.947+15.693

Qualifying report

Mansell qualified on pole more than half a second in front of Senna, at an average speed of 158 mph (252 km/h).

Qualifying classification

PosNoDriverConstructorQ1Q2Gap
12 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Nigel Mansell Ferrari 1:08.3361:07.428
227 Flag of Brazil (1968-1992).svg Ayrton Senna McLaren-Honda 1:08.0711:09.055+0.643
328 Flag of Austria.svg Gerhard Berger McLaren-Honda 1:08.2461:08.674+0.818
45 Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Thierry Boutsen Williams-Renault 1:09.1021:08.291+0.863
51 Flag of France.svg Alain Prost Ferrari 1:09.1101:08.336+0.908
64 Flag of France.svg Jean Alesi Tyrrell-Ford 1:09.1471:08.370+0.942
76 Flag of Italy.svg Riccardo Patrese Williams-Renault 1:08.6771:08.864+1.249
829 Flag of France.svg Éric Bernard Lola-Lamborghini 1:09.5601:09.003+1.575
930 Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg Aguri Suzuki Lola-Lamborghini 1:09.2431:09.865+1.815
1016 Flag of Italy.svg Ivan Capelli Leyton House-Judd 1:10.6911:09.308+1.880
1120 Flag of Brazil (1968-1992).svg Nelson Piquet Benetton-Ford 1:09.6841:09.407+1.979
123 Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg Satoru Nakajima Tyrrell-Ford 1:09.9371:09.608+2.180
1319 Flag of Italy.svg Alessandro Nannini Benetton-Ford 1:09.7821:09.641+2.213
1412 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Martin Donnelly Lotus-Lamborghini 1:10.7861:09.741+2.313
1515 Flag of Brazil (1968-1992).svg Maurício Gugelmin Leyton House-Judd 1:11.1671:10.044+2.616
1611 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Derek Warwick Lotus-Lamborghini 1:10.5521:10.092+2.664
1710 Flag of Italy.svg Alex Caffi Arrows-Ford 1:10.4801:10.110+2.682
1823 Flag of Italy.svg Pierluigi Martini Minardi-Ford 1:10.5681:10.303+2.875
1921 Flag of Italy.svg Emanuele Pirro Dallara-Ford 1:11.4131:10.847+3.419
208 Flag of Italy.svg Stefano Modena Brabham-Judd 1:11.0701:11.600+3.642
2125 Flag of Italy.svg Nicola Larini Ligier-Ford 1:11.9421:11.180+3.752
2226 Flag of France.svg Philippe Alliot Ligier-Ford 1:12.4831:11.215+3.787
2322 Flag of Italy.svg Andrea de Cesaris Dallara-Ford 1:11.7051:11.234+3.806
2424 Flag of Italy.svg Paolo Barilla Minardi-Ford 1:11.4981:11.387+3.959
259 Flag of Italy.svg Michele Alboreto Arrows-Ford 1:11.5621:12.644+4.134
2617 Flag of Italy.svg Gabriele Tarquini AGS-Ford 1:12.5061:11.681+4.253
DNQ14 Flag of France.svg Olivier Grouillard Osella-Ford 1:12.1791:11.710+4.282
DNQ7 Flag of Australia (converted).svg David Brabham Brabham-Judd 1:11.7411:13.016+4.313
DNQ36 Flag of Finland.svg JJ Lehto Onyx-Ford 1:12.7121:12.631+5.203
DNQ35 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Gregor Foitek Onyx-Ford 1:13.4131:13.271+5.843

Race

Race report

Local hero Nigel Mansell led until his gearbox began to malfunction. He was overtaken (against team orders, and to Mansell's chagrin) by Alain Prost and remained in second until his gearbox failed completely on lap 57. After retiring from the race Mansell famously threw his gloves into the crowd and announced he would retire from Formula One at the end of the season, a decision he later reversed.

Riccardo Patrese became the first driver ever to start 200 Grands Prix. On race day, he retired after damage was sustained in a collision with the Benetton of Alessandro Nannini on lap 27, whilst his team-mate Thierry Boutsen reached the podium and finished second.

Éric Bernard and Aguri Suzuki both scored the best results of their career up to this point. For Suzuki, it was the first points scoring finish of his career.

Ivan Capelli was the charger in the race. Starting 10th he spun early to avoid the collision between Patrese and Alessandro Nannini. Then racing with a broken exhaust header he charged hard, eventually passing Gerhard Berger for 3rd and for a time being the fastest driver on the track before retiring on lap 48 with a fuel leak.

Ligier needed at least a top eight finish to avoid pre-qualification, but Nicola Larini could not do better than 10th place, while teammate Philippe Alliot only managed to finish 13th.

This would be the last motor race on the original high-speed Silverstone circuit; the day after the race, a construction crew funded by Tom Walkinshaw immediately began work on reprofiling and incorporating the newly designed corners.

Race classification

PosNoDriverConstructorLapsTime/RetiredGridPoints
11 Flag of France.svg Alain Prost Ferrari 641:18:30.99959
25 Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Thierry Boutsen Williams-Renault 64+ 39.09246
327 Flag of Brazil (1968-1992).svg Ayrton Senna McLaren-Honda 64+ 43.08824
429 Flag of France.svg Éric Bernard Lola-Lamborghini 64+ 1:15.30283
520 Flag of Brazil (1968-1992).svg Nelson Piquet Benetton-Ford 64+ 1:24.003112
630 Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg Aguri Suzuki Lola-Lamborghini 63+ 1 lap91
710 Flag of Italy.svg Alex Caffi Arrows-Ford 63+ 1 lap17
84 Flag of France.svg Jean Alesi Tyrrell-Ford 63+ 1 lap6
98 Flag of Italy.svg Stefano Modena Brabham-Judd 62+ 2 laps20
1025 Flag of Italy.svg Nicola Larini Ligier-Ford 62+ 2 laps21
1121 Flag of Italy.svg Emanuele Pirro Dallara-Ford 62+ 2 laps19
1224 Flag of Italy.svg Paolo Barilla Minardi-Ford 62+ 2 laps24
1326 Flag of France.svg Philippe Alliot Ligier-Ford 61+ 3 laps22
1428 Flag of Austria.svg Gerhard Berger McLaren-Honda 60Throttle3
Ret2 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Nigel Mansell Ferrari 55Gearbox1
Ret16 Flag of Italy.svg Ivan Capelli Leyton House-Judd 48Fuel leak10
Ret12 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Martin Donnelly Lotus-Lamborghini 48Engine14
Ret11 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Derek Warwick Lotus-Lamborghini 46Engine16
Ret17 Flag of Italy.svg Gabriele Tarquini AGS-Ford 41Engine26
Ret9 Flag of Italy.svg Michele Alboreto Arrows-Ford 37Engine25
Ret6 Flag of Italy.svg Riccardo Patrese Williams-Renault 26Collision damage7
Ret3 Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg Satoru Nakajima Tyrrell-Ford 20Electrical12
Ret19 Flag of Italy.svg Alessandro Nannini Benetton-Ford 15Collision13
Ret22 Flag of Italy.svg Andrea de Cesaris Dallara-Ford 12Fuel system23
Ret23 Flag of Italy.svg Pierluigi Martini Minardi-Ford 3Alternator18
DNS15 Flag of Brazil (1968-1992).svg Maurício Gugelmin Leyton House-Judd 0Fuel pump15
DNQ14 Flag of France.svg Olivier Grouillard Osella-Ford
DNQ7 Flag of Australia (converted).svg David Brabham Brabham-Judd
DNQ36 Flag of Finland.svg JJ Lehto Onyx-Ford
DNQ35 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Gregor Foitek Onyx-Ford
DNPQ33 Flag of Brazil (1968-1992).svg Roberto Moreno EuroBrun-Judd
DNPQ18 Flag of France.svg Yannick Dalmas AGS-Ford
DNPQ34 Flag of Italy.svg Claudio Langes EuroBrun-Judd
DNPQ31 Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Bertrand Gachot Coloni-Subaru
DNPQ39 Flag of Italy.svg Bruno Giacomelli Life
Source: [3]

Championship standings after the race

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