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1989 Spanish Grand Prix
1989 Spanish Grand Prix
Race 14 of 16 in the 1989 Formula One World Championship
Race details
Date	1 October 1989
Official name	XXXI Gran Premio Tio Pepe de España
Location	Circuito Permanente de Jerez; Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
Course	Permanent racing facility
Course length	4.218 km (2.6209 miles)
Distance	73 laps, 307.918 km (191.328 miles)
Weather	Dry, hot, sunny
Pole position
Driver	Ayrton Senna;
Time	1:20.291
Fastest lap
Driver	Ayrton Senna
Time	1:25.779 on lap 55
Podium
First	Ayrton Senna;
Second	Gerhard Berger;
Third	Alain Prost;
	Lap leaders ;

The 1989 Spanish Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Jerez on 1 October 1989. It was the fourteenth race of the 1989 Formula One World Championship. The 73-lap race was won from pole position by Ayrton Senna, driving a McLaren-Honda. Gerhard Berger was second in a Ferrari, while Senna's teammate and Drivers' Championship rival Alain Prost was third.

With Nigel Mansell banned from the race and fined $50,000 following his disqualification and collision with Senna in Portugal the previous week, Ferrari entered only one car for Berger. Senna's win kept the Drivers' Championship alive, but Prost's result meant that the Brazilian had to win both remaining races in order to beat the Frenchman to the title.

Qualifying

Pre-qualifying report

Osella topped a pre-qualifying session for the first time this season as Nicola Larini was fastest by four tenths of a second, ahead of Onyx driver JJ Lehto. Larini's team-mate Piercarlo Ghinzani was third, only the second time in 1989 he had progressed to the main qualifying sessions. The fourth pre-qualifier was the Larrousse-Lola of Philippe Alliot.

Gabriele Tarquini was fifth in his AGS, his sixth successive failure to pre-qualify. Stefan Johansson was down in sixth in the other Onyx after an engine failure, failing to pre-qualify after his podium achievement at the previous race. Roberto Moreno was seventh in the Coloni, with the other Larrousse-Lola of Michele Alboreto down in eighth, his lowest placing thus far. The usual suspects were in the lower positions, with ninth-placed Bernd Schneider notching up his thirteenth consecutive failure to pre-qualify in the Zakspeed, followed by Yannick Dalmas in the other AGS. Schneider's team-mate Aguri Suzuki was eleventh, his fourteenth failure, ahead of Oscar Larrauri's EuroBrun. Bottom of the timings was Enrico Bertaggia in the second Coloni, over two seconds behind his team-mate Moreno.^[1]

Pre-qualifying classification

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Time	Gap
1	17	Nicola Larini	Osella-Ford	1:23.566	—
2	37	JJ Lehto	Onyx-Ford	1:23.958	+0.392
3	18	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Osella-Ford	1:24.586	+1.020
4	30	Philippe Alliot	Lola-Lamborghini	1:24.610	+1.044
5	40	Gabriele Tarquini	AGS-Ford	1:24.847	+1.281
6	36	Stefan Johansson	Onyx-Ford	1:24.944	+1.378
7	31	Roberto Moreno	Coloni-Ford	1:25.074	+1.508
8	29	Michele Alboreto	Lola-Lamborghini	1:25.646	+2.080
9	34	Bernd Schneider	Zakspeed-Yamaha	1:25.673	+2.107
10	41	Yannick Dalmas	AGS-Ford	1:26.131	+2.565
11	35	Aguri Suzuki	Zakspeed-Yamaha	1:26.609	+3.043
12	33	Oscar Larrauri	EuroBrun-Judd	1:26.803	+3.237
13	32	Enrico Bertaggia	Coloni-Ford	1:27.236	+3.670

Qualifying report

Ayrton Senna blasted around the 4.218 km (2.6209 mi) Jerez circuit in 1:20.291 to take his pole position record to 40. Gerhard Berger was second in his Ferrari 640, only 0.274 seconds behind the man who would be his 1990 teammate at McLaren. Over a second behind Senna in third was world championship leader Alain Prost in his McLaren, with the surprise of late season qualifying, Pierluigi Martini, fourth in his Minardi, the Pirelli qualifying tyres once again coming to the fore. Martini had been an incredible second fastest after Friday qualifying, only 0.388 slower than Senna.

Philippe Alliot snared a career best fifth place on the grid in his Larrousse, proving that both the Lola chassis and the Lamborghini V12 designed by Mauro Forghieri was starting to come good. It also enhanced Alliot's reputation as a demon qualifier.

Williams-Renault entered two different model cars for their drivers Thierry Boutsen and Riccardo Patrese. Boutsen qualified 21st the new Williams FW13 that had debuted in Portugal, while Patrese reverted to the older model FW12C and ended up sixth on the grid ahead his former Brabham teammate Nelson Piquet in a surprisingly fast Lotus.

René Arnoux (Ligier) and the Rial pair of Pierre-Henri Raphanel and Gregor Foitek all failed to qualify for the race.

Qualifying classification

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Q1	Q2	Gap
1	1	Ayrton Senna	McLaren-Honda	1:21.855	1:20.291	—
2	28	Gerhard Berger	Ferrari	1:22.276	1:20.565	+0.274
3	2	Alain Prost	McLaren-Honda	1:23.113	1:21.368	+1.077
4	23	Pierluigi Martini	Minardi-Ford	1:22.243	1:21.479	+1.188
5	30	Philippe Alliot	Lola-Lamborghini	1:23.597	1:21.708	+1.417
6	6	Riccardo Patrese	Williams-Renault	1:24.033	1:21.777	+1.486
7	11	Nelson Piquet	Lotus-Judd	1:23.235	1:21.922	+1.631
8	7	Martin Brundle	Brabham-Judd	1:23.761	1:22.133	+1.842
9	4	Jean Alesi	Tyrrell-Ford	1:24.615	1:22.363	+2.072
10	20	Emanuele Pirro	Benetton-Ford	1:24.647	1:22.567	+2.276
11	17	Nicola Larini	Osella-Ford	1:23.538	1:22.620	+2.329
12	8	Stefano Modena	Brabham-Judd	1:23.679	1:22.826	+2.535
13	3	Jonathan Palmer	Tyrrell-Ford	1:23.494	1:23.052	+2.761
14	19	Alessandro Nannini	Benetton-Ford	1:24.233	1:23.105	+2.814
15	22	Andrea de Cesaris	Dallara-Ford	1:24.900	1:23.186	+2.895
16	9	Derek Warwick	Arrows-Ford	1:24.161	1:23.222	+2.931
17	37	JJ Lehto	Onyx-Ford	1:24.322	1:23.243	+2.952
18	12	Satoru Nakajima	Lotus-Judd	—	1:23.309	+3.018
19	16	Ivan Capelli	March-Judd	1:23.401	—	+3.110
20	24	Luis Pérez-Sala	Minardi-Ford	1:23.908	1:23.443	+3.152
21	5	Thierry Boutsen	Williams-Renault	1:24.839	1:23.657	+3.366
22	10	Eddie Cheever	Arrows-Ford	1:24.222	1:23.729	+3.438
23	21	Alex Caffi	Dallara-Ford	1:24.658	1:23.763	+3.472
24	26	Olivier Grouillard	Ligier-Ford	1:24.991	1:23.931	+3.640
25	18	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Osella-Ford	1:26.147	1:24.003	+3.712
26	15	Maurício Gugelmin	March-Judd	1:28.311	1:24.707	+4.416
27	25	René Arnoux	Ligier-Ford	1:26.767	1:25.190	+4.899
28	39	Pierre-Henri Raphanel	Rial-Ford	1:28.311	1:25.443	+5.152
29	38	Gregor Foitek	Rial-Ford	—	1:29.226	+8.935

Race

Race report

McLaren's reigning World Champion Ayrton Senna took the pole, set the fastest race lap and kept the world championship alive with his sixth win of the season. Second with his third podium finish in a row following his second in Italy and his win in the previous race in Portugal was the Ferrari 640 of Gerhard Berger. World Championship leader Alain Prost finished third in his McLaren-Honda in what was his last race finish for the team with whom he won the 1985 and 1986 World Drivers' Championships.

Rounding out the points were the 'find of the season' Jean Alesi in his Tyrrell in fourth, the older model Williams-Renault of Patrese in fifth in what would be the FW12C's final race, and giving the Lamborghini V12 its first ever points finish in Formula One was Alliot in what would be the best drive of his Grand Prix career.

Prost's third place gave him a 16-point lead over Senna with only two races to go. If he was to retain his title, the Brazilian would need to win in both Japan and Australia.

Race classification

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	1	Ayrton Senna	McLaren-Honda	73	1:47:48.264	1	9
2	28	Gerhard Berger	Ferrari	73	+ 27.051	2	6
3	2	Alain Prost	McLaren-Honda	73	+ 53.788	3	4
4	4	Jean Alesi	Tyrrell-Ford	72	+ 1 Lap	9	3
5	6	Riccardo Patrese	Williams-Renault	72	+ 1 Lap	6	2
6	30	Philippe Alliot	Lola-Lamborghini	72	+ 1 Lap	5	1
7	22	Andrea de Cesaris	Dallara-Ford	72	+ 1 Lap	15
8	11	Nelson Piquet	Lotus-Judd	71	+ 2 Laps	7
9	9	Derek Warwick	Arrows-Ford	71	+ 2 Laps	16
10	3	Jonathan Palmer	Tyrrell-Ford	71	+ 2 Laps	13
Ret	10	Eddie Cheever	Arrows-Ford	61	Engine	22
Ret	20	Emanuele Pirro	Benetton-Ford	59	Spun Off	10
Ret	21	Alex Caffi	Dallara-Ford	55	Engine	23
Ret	7	Martin Brundle	Brabham-Judd	51	Spun Off	8
Ret	15	Maurício Gugelmin	March-Judd	47	Collision	26
Ret	24	Luis Pérez-Sala	Minardi-Ford	47	Spun Off	20
Ret	5	Thierry Boutsen	Williams-Renault	40	Fuel Pump	21
Ret	26	Olivier Grouillard	Ligier-Ford	34	Engine	24
Ret	23	Pierluigi Martini	Minardi-Ford	27	Spun Off	4
Ret	16	Ivan Capelli	March-Judd	23	Transmission	19
Ret	37	JJ Lehto	Onyx-Ford	20	Gearbox	17
Ret	18	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Osella-Ford	17	Gearbox	25
Ret	19	Alessandro Nannini	Benetton-Ford	14	Spun Off	14
Ret	8	Stefano Modena	Brabham-Judd	11	Electrical	12
Ret	17	Nicola Larini	Osella-Ford	6	Suspension	11
Ret	12	Satoru Nakajima	Lotus-Judd	0	Collision	18
DNQ	25	René Arnoux	Ligier-Ford
DNQ	39	Pierre-Henri Raphanel	Rial-Ford
DNQ	38	Gregor Foitek	Rial-Ford
DNPQ	40	Gabriele Tarquini	AGS-Ford
DNPQ	36	Stefan Johansson	Onyx-Ford
DNPQ	31	Roberto Moreno	Coloni-Ford
DNPQ	29	Michele Alboreto	Lola-Lamborghini
DNPQ	35	Aguri Suzuki	Zakspeed-Yamaha
DNPQ	41	Yannick Dalmas	AGS-Ford
DNPQ	34	Bernd Schneider	Zakspeed-Yamaha
DNPQ	33	Oscar Larrauri	EuroBrun-Judd
DNPQ	32	Enrico Bertaggia	Coloni-Ford
Source:^[2]

Championship standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings

Pos	Driver	Points
1	Alain Prost	76 (81)
2	Ayrton Senna	60
3	Nigel Mansell	38
4	Riccardo Patrese	30
5	Thierry Boutsen	24
Source: ^[3]

Constructors' Championship standings

Pos	Constructor	Points
1	McLaren-Honda	141
2	Ferrari	59
3	Williams-Renault	54
4	Benetton-Ford	22
5	Tyrrell-Ford	16
Source: ^[3]

Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

References

^ Walker, Murray (1989). Murray Walker's Grand Prix Year. First Formula Publishing. pp. 117–124. ISBN 1-870066-22-7.
^ "1989 Spanish Grand Prix". formula1.com. Archived from the original on 18 January 2015. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
^ ^a ^b "Spain 1988 - Championship • STATS F1". www.statsf1.com. Retrieved 20 March 2019.

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