1990 USA Grand Prix

 1990 USA Grand Prix

Racing data
1st of 16 races in the 1990 Formula 1 World Championship
Surname:	Iceberg USA Grand Prix
Date:	March 11, 1990
Place:	Phoenix
Course:	Phoenix Street Circuit
Length:	273.456 km in 72 laps of 3.798 km
Weather:	overcast and cool
Spectator:	~ 35,000
Pole position
Driver:	Gerhard Berger	McLaren Honda
Time:	1: 28.664 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Gerhard Berger	McLaren Honda
Time:	1: 31.050 min (lap 34)
Podium
First:	Ayrton Senna	McLaren Honda
Second:	Jean Alesi	Tyrrell-Ford
Third:	Thierry Boutsen	Williams-Renault

The 1990 US Grand Prix took place in Phoenix on March 11th and was the first race of the 1990 Formula 1 World Championship .

Reports

background

The winter of 1989/90 was marked by disputes between the FIA and McLaren over Ayrton Senna's disqualification after the 1989 Japanese Grand Prix and Senna's claim that this was imposed by FIA President Jean-Marie Balestre with the aim of his compatriot Alain Cheers to make world champions. Senna was then given an additional fine and also had to surrender his super license for half a year. Until shortly before the start of the 1990 season, it was unclear whether he would ever return to Formula 1.

The two German teams Zakspeed and Rial Racing decided against participating in the Formula 1 World Championship again. At AGS , Osella , Brabham , Coloni , Arrows and Onyx there were profound changes in the team structure, some of which were accompanied by a change of ownership.

The most striking change in the field of drivers was the change from world champion Alain Prost to Ferrari , which was announced last year , which means that the team will start the season with numbers 1 and 2, to the chagrin of McLaren team boss Ron Dennis, instead of the starting numbers 27 and 28 that have been used for years could. In return, McLaren took over Gerhard Berger as a new team-mate from Vice World Champion Ayrton Senna, who gave in shortly before the start of the season, publicly apologized for his remarks and thus got his license back.

Williams retained the driver pairing Thierry Boutsen and Riccardo Patrese and hired Adrian Newey as a new co-designer alongside Patrick Head . Alessandro Nannini's new teammate at Benetton was Nelson Piquet , who received a performance-related contract from team boss Flavio Briatore , which guaranteed him a million dollars for every win in addition to a fixed base salary.

Team Arrows , nicknamed Footwork , hired the two Italians Michele Alboreto and Alex Caffi as new regular drivers. Since the latter was unable to start the season due to injuries sustained in a bicycle accident, Bernd Schneider stepped in for him.

In addition to Larrousse with drivers Éric Bernard and Aguri Suzuki , Lotus from then on also used a Lamborghini engine. The two British Derek Warwick and Martin Donnelly were signed as successors for Nelson Piquet and Satoru Nakajima . Nakajima became Jean Alesi's teammate at Tyrrell . Ligier competed with Nicola Larini and Philippe Alliot . The Brabham team signed Gregor Foitek and Stefano Modena and, like EuroBrun , used Judd engines with Roberto Moreno and the newcomer Claudio Langes as well as the Leyton House renamed March team, which kept the driver pairing Maurício Gugelmin and Ivan Capelli .

In BMS Scuderia Italia was Andrea de Cesaris retained as a regular driver. He should be accompanied by Emanuele Pirro . However, due to illness, he could not start the season in Phoenix, so that his compatriot Gianni Morbidelli got the chance to make his Formula 1 debut. Another newcomer was Gary Brabham , a son of the former world champion Jack Brabham , who competed for the newly founded Life team, which competed with its own engine. The Coloni team was sold to its new engine supplier Subaru . Bertrand Gachot was hired as a driver.

Onyx, Minardi and AGS each started the new year with the driver pairings with whom they had finished the 1989 season . Some teams started the season with modified vehicles from the previous year.

training

Although the entry list was slightly smaller compared to the 1989 season, a pre-qualification still had to take place in order to reduce the number of participants in the two regular qualification rounds to 30. The teams Osella, Larrousse, EuroBrun, AGS, Life and Coloni had to go through the pre-selection that took place on Friday morning.

Philippe Alliot was excluded from the rest of the race weekend due to the use of outside help during practice .

When it was raining, only a few pilots competed for the second qualifying round on Saturday and could not achieve any time improvements due to the wet track conditions. The starting line-up was based on the lap times achieved on Friday.

Behind Gerhard Berger, who took pole position, Pierluigi Martini and Andrea de Cesaris, two drivers from teams equipped with Pirelli tires, qualified for front starting positions. Jean Alesi followed ahead of Ayrton Senna, Nelson Piquet and Alain Prost.

run

Alesi took the lead ahead of Berger, de Cesaris and Senna. The latter fought his way up to second place by the ninth lap. In the 33rd lap he took the lead for the first time. Alesi countered immediately successfully. On lap 35, however, the Brazilian finally took the lead and won. Thierry Boutsen, who overtook Nelson Piquet on lap 28, was third behind Alesi. Behind Piquet, Stefano Modena and Satoru Nakajima finished fifth and sixth.

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Scuderia Ferrari SpA	1	Alain Prost	Ferrari 641	Ferrari 036 3.5 V12	G
	2	Nigel Mansell
Tyrrell Racing Organization	3	Satoru Nakajima	Tyrrell 018	Ford Cosworth DFR 3.5 V8	P
	4th	Jean Alesi
Canon Williams team	5	Thierry Boutsen	Williams FW13B	Renault RS2 3.5 V10	G
	6th	Riccardo Patrese
Motor Racing Developments	7th	Gregor Foitek	Brabham BT58	Judd EV 3.5 V8	P
	8th	Stefano Modena
Footwork Arrows Racing	9	Michele Alboreto	Arrows A11B	Ford Cosworth DFR 3.5 V8	G
	10	Bernd Schneider	Arrows A11
Camel Team Lotus	11	Derek Warwick	Lotus 102	Lamborghini 3512 3.5 V12	G
	12	Martin Donnelly
Fondmetal Osella	14th	Olivier Grouillard	Osella FA1M	Ford Cosworth DFR 3.5 V8	P
Leyton House Racing	15th	Maurício Gugelmin	Leyton House CG901	Judd EV 3.5 V8	G
	16	Ivan Capelli
AGS Racing	17th	Gabriele Tarquini	AGS JH24	Ford Cosworth DFR 3.5 V8	G
	18th	Yannick Dalmas
Benetton Formula Ltd	19th	Alessandro Nannini	Benetton B189B	Ford Cosworth HBA4 3.5 V8	G
	20th	Nelson Piquet
BMS Scuderia Italia	21st	Gianni Morbidelli	Dallara 190	Ford Cosworth DFR 3.5 V8	P
	22nd	Andrea de Cesaris
SCM Minardi team	23	Pierluigi Martini	Minardi M189		P
	24	Paolo Barilla
Ligier Gitanes	25th	Nicola Larini	Ligier JS33B		G
	26th	Philippe Alliot
Honda Marlboro McLaren	27	Ayrton Senna	McLaren MP4 / 5B	Honda RA100E 3.5 V10	G
	28	Gerhard Berger
Espo Larrousse F1	29	Eric Bernard	Lola LC89B	Lamborghini 3512 3.5 V12	G
	30th	Aguri Suzuki
Subaru Coloni Racing	31	Bertrand Gachot	Coloni C3B	Subaru 1235 3.5 V12	P
EuroBrun Racing	33	Roberto Moreno	EuroBrun ER189B	Judd CV 3.5 V8	P
	34	Claudio Langes
Moneytron Onyx Formula One	35	Stefan Johansson	Onyx ORE-1	Ford Cosworth DFR 3.5 V8	G
	36	JJ Lehto
Life Racing Engines	39	Gary Brabham	Life L190	Life F35 3.5 W12	G

Classifications

Qualifying

Item	driver	constructor	Pre-qualification		1. Qualification training		2. Qualification training		begin
			time	Ø speed	time	Ø speed	time	Ø speed
01	Gerhard Berger	McLaren Honda	-	-	1: 28.664	154.209 km / h	1: 53.486	120.480 km / h	01
02	Pierluigi Martini	Minardi-Ford	-	-	1: 28.731	154.093 km / h	2: 33.083	89.316 km / h	02
03	Andrea de Cesaris	Dallara-Ford	-	-	1: 29.019	153.594 km / h	1: 57.435	116.429 km / h	03
04th	Jean Alesi	Tyrrell-Ford	-	-	1: 29.408	152.926 km / h	1: 54.738	119.165 km / h	04th
05	Ayrton Senna	McLaren Honda	-	-	1: 29.431	152.887 km / h	1: 52.015	122.062 km / h	05
06th	Nelson Piquet	Benetton-Ford	-	-	1: 29.862	152.153 km / h	1: 55.449	118.432 km / h	06th
07th	Alain Prost	Ferrari	-	-	1: 29.910	152.072 km / h	1: 56.661	117,201 km / h	07th
08th	Olivier Grouillard	Osella-Ford	1: 33.181	146.734 km / h	1: 29.947	152.010 km / h	-	-	08th
09	Thierry Boutsen	Williams-Renault	-	-	1: 30.059	151.820 km / h	1: 52.771	121.244 km / h	09
10	Stefano Modena	Brabham-Judd	-	-	1: 30.127	151.706 km / h	-	-	10
11	Satoru Nakajima	Tyrrell-Ford	-	-	1: 30.130	151.701 km / h	-	-	11
12	Riccardo Patrese	Williams-Renault	-	-	1: 30.213	151.561 km / h	1: 53.530	120.433 km / h	12
13	Nicola Larini	Ligier-Ford	-	-	1: 30.424	151.208 km / h	-	-	13
14th	Paolo Barilla	Minardi-Ford	-	-	1: 31.194	149.931 km / h	-	-	14th
15th	Eric Bernard	Lola Lamborghini	1: 32.711	147.478 km / h	1: 31.226	149.878 km / h	-	-	15th
16	Roberto Moreno	EuroBrun-Judd	1: 32.292	148.147 km / h	1: 31.247	149.844 km / h	1: 51.538	122.584 km / h	16
17th	Nigel Mansell	Ferrari	-	-	1: 31.363	149.654 km / h	1: 52.405	121.639 km / h	17th
18th	Aguri Suzuki	Lola Lamborghini	1: 33.331	146.498 km / h	1: 31.414	149.570 km / h	-	-	18th
19th	Martin Donnelly	Lotus Lamborghini	-	-	1: 31.650	149.185 km / h	1: 49.942	124.364 km / h	19th
20th	Bernd Schneider	Arrows Ford	-	-	1: 31.892	148.792 km / h	-	-	20th
21st	Michele Alboreto	Arrows Ford	-	-	1: 31.948	148.701 km / h	1: 54.499	119.414 km / h	21st
22nd	Alessandro Nannini	Benetton-Ford	-	-	1: 31.984	148.643 km / h	-	-	22nd
23	Gregor Foitek	Brabham-Judd	-	-	1: 32.398	147.977 km / h	-	-	23
24	Derek Warwick	Lotus Lamborghini	-	-	1: 32,400	147.974 km / h	2: 05.974	108.537 km / h	24
25th	Maurício Gugelmin	Leyton House-Judd	-	-	1: 32.904	147.171 km / h	-	-	25th
26th	Ivan Capelli	Leyton House-Judd	-	-	1: 33.044	146.950 km / h	-	-	26th
DNQ	Stefan Johansson	Onyx Ford	-	-	1: 33.468	146.283 km / h	-	-	-
DNQ	Gianni Morbidelli	Dallara-Ford	-	-	1: 34.292	145.005 km / h	-	-	-
DNQ	JJ Lehto	Onyx Ford	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
DSQ	Philippe Alliot	Ligier-Ford	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
DNPQ	Gabriele Tarquini	AGS-Ford	1: 35.420	143.291 km / h	-	-	-	-	-
DNPQ	Yannick Dalmas	AGS-Ford	1: 35.481	143.199 km / h	-	-	-	-	-
DNPQ	Claudio Langes	EuroBrun-Judd	1: 37.399	140.379 km / h	-	-	-	-	-
DNPQ	Gary Brabham	Life	2: 07.147	107.535 km / h	-	-	-	-	-
DNPQ	Bertrand Gachot	Coloni-Subaru	5: 15.010	43.404 km / h	-	-	-	-	-

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	Ayrton Senna	McLaren Honda	72	0	1: 52: 32.829	05	1: 32.178
02	Jean Alesi	Tyrrell-Ford	72	0	+ 8.685	04th	1: 32.221
03	Thierry Boutsen	Williams-Renault	72	0	+ 54.080	09	1: 32.915
04th	Nelson Piquet	Benetton-Ford	72	0	+1: 08.358	06th	1: 32.865
05	Stefano Modena	Brabham-Judd	72	0	+1: 09.503	10	1: 33.147
06th	Satoru Nakajima	Tyrrell-Ford	71	0	+ 1 lap	11	1: 32.707
07th	Pierluigi Martini	Minardi-Ford	71	1	+ 1 lap	02	1: 31.568
08th	Eric Bernard	Lola Lamborghini	71	0	+ 1 lap	15th	1: 32.681
09	Riccardo Patrese	Williams-Renault	71	1	+ 1 lap	12	1: 32.222
10	Michele Alboreto	Arrows Ford	70	0	+ 2 rounds	21st	1: 34.517
11	Alessandro Nannini	Benetton-Ford	70	1	+ 2 rounds	22nd	1: 32.694
12	Bernd Schneider	Arrows Ford	70	1	+ 2 rounds	20th	1: 33.573
13	Roberto Moreno	EuroBrun-Judd	67	1	+ 5 rounds	16	1: 35.446
14th	Maurício Gugelmin	Leyton House-Judd	66	0	+ 6 rounds	25th	1: 37.058
-	Paolo Barilla	Minardi-Ford	54	1	DNF	14th	1: 34.265	task
-	Aguri Suzuki	Lola Lamborghini	53	0	DNF	18th	1: 33.819	Lathe operator
-	Nigel Mansell	Ferrari	49	0	DNF	17th	1: 32.814	Clutch damage
-	Gerhard Berger	McLaren Honda	44	1	DNF	01	1: 31.050	Gearbox damage
-	Gregor Foitek	Brabham-Judd	39	0	DNF	23	1: 34.156	accident
-	Olivier Grouillard	Osella-Ford	39	2	DNF	08th	1: 35.350	accident
-	Andrea de Cesaris	Dallara-Ford	25th	0	DNF	03	1: 34.067	Engine failure
-	Alain Prost	Ferrari	21st	0	DNF	07th	1: 33.170	Gearbox damage
-	Ivan Capelli	Leyton House-Judd	20th	0	DNF	26th	1: 35.598	Electrical damage
-	Derek Warwick	Lotus Lamborghini	06th	0	DNF	24	1: 35.396	Suspension damage
-	Nicola Larini	Ligier-Ford	04th	1	DNF	13	1: 36.971	accident
-	Martin Donnelly	Lotus Lamborghini	00	0	DNS	19th	-	not started

World Cup stands after the race

The first six of the race got 9, 6, 4, 3, 2 and 1 point (s) respectively.

Driver ranking

Item driver constructor Points 01  Ayrton Senna McLaren Honda 9 02  Jean Alesi Tyrrell-Ford 6th 03  Thierry Boutsen Williams-Renault 4th

Item driver constructor Points 04th  Nelson Piquet Benetton-Ford 3 05  Stefano Modena Brabham-Judd 2 06th  Satoru Nakajima Tyrrell-Ford 1

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  McLaren Honda 9 02  Tyrrell-Ford 7th 03  Williams-Renault 4th

Item constructor Points 04th  Benetton-Ford 3 05  Brabham-Judd 2

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fight at the limit. The Formula 1 Chronicle 1950–2000 , ed. v. Willy Knupp, RTL book edition: Zeitgeist Verlag: Düsseldorf / Gütersloh 2000, ISBN 3-89748-277-0 , p. 282
2. ↑ Fight at the limit. The Formula 1 Chronicle 1950–2000 , ed. v. Willy Knupp, RTL book edition: Zeitgeist Verlag: Düsseldorf / Gütersloh 2000, ISBN 3-89748-277-0 , p. 283
3. ↑ "Training" ( memento of the original from November 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Motorsportarchiv.de; accessed on November 1, 2013)  
4. ^ "Report" (accessed on November 1, 2013)
5. ↑ "World Cup stands" ( Memento of the original from November 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Motorsportarchiv.de; accessed on November 1, 2013)  

Web links

Commons : US Grand Prix 1990  - Collection of images, videos, and audio files

• Race result on the official Formula 1 website
• Race result on "Motorsportarchiv.de"