Mexico City 430 km race in 1991

Peugeot 905 Evo 1 Bis ; Keke Rosberg and Yannick Dalmas winners

The 430 km race of Mexico City 1991 , also FIA SWC - Trofeo Mexico, Hermanos Rodriguez , took place on October 6th at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez and was the seventh round of the sports car world championship of that year.

The race

After the success at the 430 km race in Magny-Cours , the Peugeot team, led by Jean Todt, also showed its strongest side at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez. With the debut of the new emergency car in the 430 km race at the Nürburgring , Peugeot was fully competitive again. In all four training parts, the warm-up and in the race, the Peugeot 905 Evo 1 Bis were the fastest vehicles. The double victory was the logical consequence of this superiority. In the drivers' world championship, Derek Warwick was able to catch up points on his Jaguar team- mate Teo Fabi with a sixth place overall . After engine failure on the Jaguar XJR-14 just before the start, Fabi was unable to take part in the race.

The Mexico City route has also hosted the Mexican Grand Prix since 1986 . Since some drivers from the field of participants in the 430 km race also had Formula 1 experience and the engine regulations of Group C have been identical to those of Formula 1 since 1989, the lap times of the Group C racing cars can be directly compared with them of contemporary Formula 1 vehicles.

In qualifying for the 430 km race, Philippe Alliot , Yannick Dalmas and Pascal Fabre each achieved faster lap times than in any of their Formula 1 races. In the qualifications for Formula 1 races in Mexico, however, Keke Rosberg , Derek Warwick , Bernd Schneider , David Brabham , Oscar Larrauri , Teo Fabi and Stefan Johansson were faster than in this sports car race . Likewise, Karl Wendlinger and Michael Schumacher , who only made their Formula 1 debut on this track at the 1992 Mexican Grand Prix , achieved faster lap times that year than in 1991 with their Sauber-Mercedes.

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	Cat. 1	6th	Peugeot Talbot Sport	Keke Rosberg Yannick Dalmas	Peugeot 905 Evo 1 bis	98
2	Cat. 1	5	Peugeot Talbot Sport	Philippe Alliot Mauro Baldi	Peugeot 905 Evo 1 bis	97
3	Cat. 2	14th	Team Salamin Primagaz Joest Racing	Bernd Schneider Louis Krages	Porsche 962C	94
4th	Cat. 1	8th	Euro Racing	Cor Euser Charles Zwolsman senior	Spice SE90C	93
5	Cat. 2	59	Team Salamin Primagaz Joest Racing	Derek Bell Giampiero Moretti	Porsche 962C	92
6th	Cat. 1	3	Silk Cut Jaguar	Derek Warwick David Brabham	Jaguar XJR-14	92
7th	Cat. 2	13	Courage Compétition	Pascal Fabre Lionel Robert	Cougar C26S	90
8th	Cat. 2	17th	Repsol Brun Motorsport	Jesús Pareja Massimo Sigala	Porsche 962C	89
9	Cat. 2	18th	Mazdaspeed	Pierre Dieudonné Yōjirō Terada	Mazda 787	89
10	Cat. 2	12	Courage Compétition	François Migault Tomás Saldaña	Cougar C26S	88
Failed
11	Cat. 1	1	Team Sauber Mercedes	Jean-Louis Schlesser Jochen Mass	Mercedes-Benz C291	80
12	Cat. 1	2	Team Sauber Mercedes	Karl Wendlinger Michael Schumacher	Mercedes-Benz C291	63
13	Cat. 1	21st	Konrad Motorsport	Stefan Johansson Franz Konrad	Konrad KM-011	36
14th	Cat. 1	15th	Repsol Brun Motorsport	Oscar Larrauri	Brun C91	31
15th	Cat. 2	11	Porsche Kremer Racing	Tomas Lopez Manuel Reuter	Porsche 962CK6	19th
16	Cat. 1	7th	Louis Descartes	Luigi Taverna Patrick Gonin	ALD C91	1
Not started
17th	Cat. 1	4th	Silk Cut Jaguar	Teo Fabi David Brabham	Jaguar XJR-14	1
18th	Cat. 1	T	Peugeot Talbot Sport	Keke Rosberg Yannick Dalmas Mauro Baldi Philippe Alliot	Peugeot 905 Evo 1 bis	2
19th	Cat. 1	1T	Team Sauber Mercedes	Jean-Louis Schlesser Jochen Mass	Mercedes-Benz C291	3
20th	Cat. 1	8T	Euro Racing	Cor Euser Charles Zolsman junior	Spice SE90C	4th

¹ engine failure before the start ² replacement cars ³ replacement cars ⁴ replacement cars

Only in the entry list

Here you will find teams, drivers and vehicles that were originally registered for the race but did not take part for a variety of reasons.

Item	class	No.	team	driver	chassis
21st	Cat. 2	15th	Veneto team	Almo Coppelli	Lancia LC2

Class winner

class	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
Cat. 1	Keke Rosberg	Yannick Dalmas	Peugeot 905 Evo 1 bis	Overall victory
Cat. 2	Bernd Schneider	Louis Krages	Porsche 962C	Rank 3

Racing data

• Registered: 21
• Started: 16
• Valued: 10
• Race classes: 2
• Spectators: 45,000
• Weather on race day: dry at first, rain at the end of the race
• Route length: 4.421 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 2: 29: 25.811 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 98
• Total distance of the winning team: 433.258 km
• Winner's average: 173.964 km / h
• Pole position: Philippe Alliot - Peugeot 905 Evo 1 Bis (# 5) - 1: 19.229 = 200.881 km / h
• Fastest race lap: Michael Schumacher - Mercedes-Benz C291 (# 2) - 1: 21.611 = 195.018 km / h
• Racing series: 7th round of the 1991 sports car world championship

literature

• Peter Higham: The Guinness Guide to International Motor Racing. A complete Reference from Formula 1 to Touring Car. Guinness Publishing Ltd., London 1995, ISBN 0-85112-642-1 .

Web links

• Race results

Previous race 430 km from Magny-Cours 1991

Sports car world championship

Succession race 430-km race at Autopolis 1991