Suzuka 480 km race in 1990

Pit area of ​​the Suzuka International Racing Course

The Suzuka 480 km race in 1990 , also known as the FIA WSPC - Fuji Film Cup, Suzuka Circuit , took place on April 8 at the Suzuka International Racing Course . The race was the first round of the sports car world championship this year.

The race

As in the previous year , the Sauber-Mercedes C9s registered by Sauber won the first race of the season in the World Sports Car Championship . Again there was a double victory and again Jean-Louis Schlesser and Mauro Baldi were the overall winners. Second was veteran Jochen Mass , who shared the cockpit of the C9 with the young debutant Karl Wendlinger . Schlesser and Baldi had to start in the replacement C9 because the new vehicle, the Mercedes-Benz C11 , had an accident during training.

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	C1	1T	Team Sauber Mercedes	Jean-Louis Schlesser Mauro Baldi	Mercedes-Benz C9	82
2	C1	2	Team Sauber Mercedes	Jochen Mass Karl Wendlinger	Mercedes-Benz C9	82
3	C1	24	Nissan Motorsports International	Masahiro Hasemi Anders Olofsson	Nissan R89C	81
4th	C1	36	Toyota Team Tom's	Geoff Lee's Hitoshi Ogawa	Toyota 90C-V	81
5	C1	11	Porsche Kremer Racing	Kunimitsu Takahashi Kazuo Mogi	Porsche 962C	80
6th	C1	15th	Brun Motorsport	Oscar Larrauri Harald Huysman	Porsche 962C	80
7th	C1	17th	Brun Motorsport	George Fouché Steven Andskär	Porsche 962C GTi	80
8th	C1	34	Almeras Fréres team	Tiff Needell Derek Bell	Porsche 962C	80
9	C1	19th	Team Davey	Eje Elgh Vern Schuppan	Porsche 962C	79
10	C1	39	Swiss Team Salamin	Akihiko Nakaya Volker Weidler	Porsche 962C	79
11	C1	8th	Joest Porsche Racing	Jonathan Palmer Henri Pescarolo	Porsche 962C	79
12	C1	13	Courage Compétition	Pascal Fabre Lionel Robert	Cougar C24S	78
13	C1	10	Porsche Kremer Racing	Bernd Schneider Hideki Okada	Porsche 962 CK6	77
14th	C1	12	Courage Compétition	Will Hoy Kenji Takahashi	Porsche 962C	77
15th	C1	14th	Richard Lloyd Racing	Manuel Reuter Luis Pérez-Sala	Porsche 962C GTi	77
16	C1	9	Joest Porsche Racing	Stanley Dickens Louis Krages	Porsche 962C	76
17th	C1	20th	Team Davey	Tim Lee-Davey Alfonso Toledano	Porsche 962C	76
18th	C1	21st	Spice engineering	Bernard Jourdain Eliseo Salazar	Spice SE90C	75
19th	C1	32	Konrad Motorsport	Franz Konrad Jean-Louis Ricci	Porsche 962C	75
20th	C1	37	Toyota Team Tom's	Aguri Suzuki Johnny Dumfries	Toyota 90C-V	73
21st	C1	30th	GP motorsport	David Hobbs Philippe de Henning	Spice SE90C	60
Disqualified
22nd	C1	27	Obermaier Primagaz	Otto Altenbach Jürgen Lässig	Porsche 962C	78
Failed
23	C1	38	Toyota Team Tom's	Roland Ratzenberger Pierre-Henri Raphanel	Toyota 90C-V	79
24	C1	3	Silk Cut Jaguar	Martin Brundle Alain Ferté	Jaguar XJR-11	77
25th	C1	16	Brun Motorsport	Jesús Pareja Walter Brun	Porsche 962C	74
26th	C1	23	Nissan Motorsports International	Kazuyoshi Hoshino Andrew Gilbert-Scott	Nissan R90CP	65
27	C1	25th	Nissan Motorsports International	Takao Wada Kenny Acheson	Nissan R89C	45
28	C1	4th	Silk Cut Jaguar	Jan Lammers Andy Wallace	Jaguar XJR-11	44
29	C1	26th	Obermaier Primagaz	Harald Grohs	Porsche 962C	39
30th	C1	35	Louis Descartes	François Migault Louis Descartes	ALD C289	36
31	C1	22nd	Spice engineering	Tim Harvey Bruno Giacomelli	Spice SE90C	28
32	C1	7th	Joest Porsche Racing	Bob Wollek Frank Jelinski	Porsche 962C	23
33	C1	40	The Berkeley Team London	Ranieri Randaccio Stefano Sebastiani	Spice SE89C	14th
34	C1	29	Chamberlain Engineering	Tsunehisa Asai Jirou Yoneyama	British Barn BB90	13
Not started
35	C1	1	Team Sauber Mercedes	Jean-Louis Schlesser Mauro Baldi	Mercedes-Benz C11	1
Not qualified
36	C1	28	Chamberlain Engineering	Cor Euser Fermín Vélez	Spice SE89C	2
37	C1	41	Alba Formula Team	Gianfranco Brancatelli Marco Brand	Alba AR20	3

¹ Accident in training ² disqualified after illegal refueling ³ not qualified

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 C9	Overall victory

Racing data

• Registered: 37
• Started: 34
• Rated: 21
• Race classes: 1
• Spectators: 25,000
• Race day weather: cold and windy
• Route length: 5.859 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 2: 43: 45.429 hours
• Overall laps of the winning team: 82
• Total distance of the winning team: 480.438 km
• Winner's average: 176.034 km / h
• Pole position: Geoff Lees - Toyota 90C-V (# 36) - 1: 48.716 = 194.014 km / h
• Fastest race lap: Martin Brundle - Jaguar XJR-11 (# 3) - 1: 53.732 = 185.457 km / h
• Racing series: 1st round of the 1990 World Sports Car 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 Mexico race 1989

Sports car world championship

Succession race 480-km race at Monza in 1990