Monza 480 km race in 1990

Mercedes-Benz C11 , winning car from Mauro Baldi and Jean-Louis Schlesser

The 29th 1000 km race in Monza , also FIA WSPC - Trofeo Caracciolo, Autodromo Nazionale di Monza , took place on April 29, 1990 over a distance of 480 kilometers at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza and was the second race of the sports car world championship this year.

The race

The Mercedes-Benz C11 , the new race car from Sauber Motorsport for the sports car world championship, made its racing debut in Monza. The C11 was a further development of the C9 and was powered by the tried and tested biturbo-charged five-liter V8 Mercedes-Benz M119HL . For the first time since the W 196 of 1955, when Mercedes withdrew from motorsport , a racing car was officially named Mercedes-Benz again.

On the day of the race, an exciting three-way battle developed between the two Mercedes-Benz cars owned by Mauro Baldi / Jean-Louis Schlesser and Jochen Mass / Karl Wendlinger against the Jaguar XJR-11 owned by Martin Brundle and Alain Ferté , the Baldi and Schlesser after a driving time of almost two Hours won with a lead of eight seconds over the teammates. Another 20 seconds behind the Brundle / Ferté Jaguar came in third overall.

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	C1	1	Team Sauber Mercedes	Mauro Baldi Jean-Louis Schlesser	Mercedes-Benz C11	83
2	C1	2	Team Sauber Mercedes	Jochen Mass Karl Wendlinger	Mercedes-Benz C11	83
3	C1	3	Silk Cut Jaguar	Martin Brundle Alain Ferté	Jaguar XJR-11	83
4th	C1	4th	Silk Cut Jaguar	Jan Lammers Andy Wallace	Jaguar XJR-11	82
5	C1	7th	Joest Porsche Racing	Bob Wollek Frank Jelinski	Porsche 962C	82
6th	C1	22nd	Spice engineering	Wayne Taylor Eric van de Poele	Spice SE90C	81
7th	C1	23	Nissan Motorsports International	Julian Bailey Kenny Acheson	Nissan R90CK	81
8th	C1	8th	Joest Porsche Racing	Jonathan Palmer Tiff Needell	Porsche 962C	81
9	C1	10	Porsche Kremer Racing	Sarel van der Merwe Bernd Schneider	Porsche 962CK6	80
10	C1	11	Porsche Kremer Racing	Anders Olofsson Anthony Reid	Porsche 962CK6	79
11	C1	21st	Spice engineering	Fermín Vélez Bernard Jourdain	Spice SE90C	79
12	C1	17th	Brun Motorsport	Massimo Sigala Eje Elgh	Porsche 962C	79
13	C1	13	Courage Compétition	Pascal Fabre Beppe Gabbiani	Cougar C24S	79
14th	C1	6th	Joest Racing	Henri Pescarolo Jean-Louis Ricci	Porsche 962C	78
15th	C1	26th	Obermaier Racing	Jürgen Oppermann Harald Grohs	Porsche 962C	77
16	C1	39	Swiss Team Salamin	Antoine Salamin Luigi Taverna	Porsche 962C	76
17th	C1	14th	Richard Lloyd Racing	Manuel Reuter James Weaver	Porsche 962C	70
Disqualified
18th	C1	20th	Team Davey	Alfonso Toledano Fulvio Ballabio Bruno Giacomelli	Porsche 962C	76
19th	C1	16	Brun Motorsport	Jesús Pareja Walter Brun	Porsche 962C	62
Failed
20th	C1	34	Nissan Motorsports International	Mark Blundell Gianfranco Brancatelli	Nissan R90CK	79
21st	C1	9	Joest Porsche Racing	Stanley Dickens Louis Krages	Porsche 962C	77
22nd	C1	33	Konrad Motorsport	Raul Boesel	Porsche 962C	65
23	C1	37T	Toyota Team Tom's	Johnny Dumfries Roberto Ravaglia	Toyota 89C-V	56
24	C1	40	The Berkeley Team London	Ranieri Randaccio Pasquale Barberio	Spice SE89C	50
25th	C1	15th	Brun Motorsport	Oscar Larrauri Harald Huysman	Porsche 962C	20th
26th	C1	28	Chamberlain Engineering	Cor Euser Mario Hytten	Spice SE89C	20th
27	C1	30th	GP motorsport	Will Hoy Philippe de Henning	Spice SE90C	14th
28	C1	27	Obermaier Racing	Jürgen Lässig Otto Altenbach	Porsche 962C	11
29	C1	35	Louis Descartes	François Migault Denis Morin	ALD C289	8th
30th	C1	32	Konrad Motorsport	Franz Konrad Almo Coppelli	Porsche 962C	7th
31	C1	36	Toyota Team Tom's	Geoff Lee's Aguri Suzuki	Toyota 90C-V	4th
32	C1	29	Chamberlain Engineering	Nick Adams Charles Zwolsman Sr.	Spice SE90C	1
Not started
33	C1	19th	Team Davey	Bruno Giacomelli Fulvio Ballabio	Porsche 962C	1
34	C1	1T	Team Sauber Mercedes	Jean-Louis Schlesser	Mercedes-Benz C9	2
35	C1	4T	Silk Cut Jaguar	Andy Wallace	Jaguar XJR-11	3
36	C1	37	Toyota Team Tom's	Johnny Dumfries Roberto Ravaglia	Toyota 89C-V	4th
37	C1	23T	Nissan Motorsports International		Nissan R90CK	5
Not qualified
38	C1	12	Courage Compétition	Bernard Thuner Costa's lot	Cougar C24S	6th
39	C1	34	Alméras Fréres team	Jacques Alméras Jean-Marie Alméras	Porsche 962C	7th
40	C1	41	Formula Alba team	Fabio Mancini Marco Brand	Alba AR20	8th

¹ Engine damage in warm-up ² Training car ³ Training car ⁴ Accident in training ⁵ Training car ⁶ Engine damage in qualification training ⁷ Engine overheated in qualification training ⁸ Engine damage in qualification training

Only in the entry list

No further reports are known for this race.

Class winner

class	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
C1	Jean-Louis Schlesser	Mauro Baldi	Mercedes-Benz C11	Overall victory

Racing data

• Registered: 40
• Started: 32
• Valued: 17
• Race classes: 1
• Spectators: 20,000
• Race day weather: sunny, warm and dry
• Route length: 5.800 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 2:17: 11.735 hours
• Overall laps of the winning team: 83
• Total distance of the winning team: 481,400 km
• Winner's average: 210.532 km / h
• Pole position: Mauro Baldi - Mercedes-Benz C11 (# 1) - 1: 29.165 = 234.173 km / h
• Fastest race lap: Jochen Mass - Mercedes-Benz C11 (# 2) - 1: 33.426 = 223.492 km / h
• Racing series: 2nd round of the 1990 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 480 km Suzuka race in 1990

Sports car world championship

Succession race 480-km race at Silverstone 1990