Sports car world championship 1990

Mercedes-Benz C11

The 1990 World Sports Car Championship was the 38th season of this championship. It started on April 8th and ended on October 7th.

championship

As in 1989 , Sauber was the dominant racing team of the season in 1990 . Again, the Swiss team only had to admit defeat in one championship run when Martin Brundle and Alain Ferté won the 480 km race at Silverstone in the Jaguar XJR-11 . For the first time since 1955 , there was again a Mercedes-Benz world championship car, the C11 . The way in which the world championship points are awarded has been changed to match the counting method in the Formula 1 world championship . Points are awarded as follows: 9-6-4-3-2-1. Only vehicles of the C1 class were allowed to start.

Jean-Louis Schlesser , who shared the title with his team-mate Mauro Baldi , was again driver world champion .

Racing calendar

No.	date	Race name / circuit	team	Overall winner	vehicle	championship
1	April 8th	Suzuka 480km race ( Suzuka International Racing Course )	Team Sauber Mercedes	Jean-Louis Schlesser Mauro Baldi	Mercedes-Benz C9	Brands and drivers
2	April 29	480 km race from Monza ( Autodromo Nazionale di Monza )	Team Sauber Mercedes	Jean-Louis Schlesser Mauro Baldi	Mercedes-Benz C11	Brands and drivers
3	May 20th	480km Silverstone Race ( Silverstone Circuit )	Silk Cut Jaguar	Martin Brundle Alain Ferté	Jaguar XJR-11	Brands and drivers
4th	3rd of June	480km Spa-Francorchamps race ( Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps )	Team Sauber Mercedes	Karl Wendlinger Jochen Mass	Mercedes-Benz C11	Brands and drivers
5	22nd of July	480km Dijon Race ( Circuit de Dijon-Prenois )	Team Sauber Mercedes	Jean-Louis Schlesser Mauro Baldi	Mercedes-Benz C11	Brands and drivers
6th	August 19th	480 km race on the Nürburgring ( Nürburgring )	Team Sauber Mercedes	Jean-Louis Schlesser Mauro Baldi	Mercedes-Benz C11	Brands and drivers
7th	September 2nd	480km Donington Race ( Donington Park )	Team Sauber Mercedes	Jean-Louis Schlesser Mauro Baldi	Mercedes-Benz C11	Brands and drivers
8th	September 23rd	Montreal 480km ( Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve )	Team Sauber Mercedes	Jean-Louis Schlesser Mauro Baldi	Mercedes-Benz C11	Brands and drivers
9	October 7th	480km Mexico race ( Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez )	Team Sauber Mercedes	Michael Schumacher Jochen Mass	Mercedes-Benz C11	Brands and drivers

Sports prototype world championship for racing teams

Overall rating

position	team	vehicle	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	total
1	Team Sauber Mercedes	Sauber C9 Mercedes-Benz C11	9	9		9	9	9	9	4.5	9	67.5
2	Silk Cut Jaguar	Jaguar XJR-14		4th	9	6th	3	4th			4th	30th
3	Nissan Motorsports International	Nissan R89C Nissan R90CK	4th			4th	4th	2	3	3	6th	26th
4th	Spice engineering	Spice SE90C		1	4th	3	1		4th			13
5	Joest Porsche Racing	Porsche 962C		2	3			1		0.5	2	8.5
6th	Porsche Kremer Racing	Porsche 962C Porsche 962CK6	2		2					1.5		5.5
7th	Brun Motorsport	Porsche 962C	1		1	2						4th
8 =	Richard Lloyd Racing	Porsche 962C GTi				1				2		3
8 =	Toyota Team Tom's	Toyota 89C-V Toyota 90C-V	3									3

Drivers World Championship

Overall rating

position	driver	constructor	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	total
1 =	Jean-Louis Schlesser	Clean Mercedes-Benz	9	9			9	9	9	4.5		49.5
1 =	Mauro Baldi	Clean Mercedes-Benz	9	9			9	9	9	4.5		49.5
3	Jochen Mass	Clean Mercedes-Benz	6th	6th		9	6th	6th	6th		9	48
4th	Andy Wallace	jaguar		3	6th	6th	3	3			4th	25th
5 =	Michael sSchumacher	Mercedes Benz					6th	6th			9	21st
5 =	Karl Wendlinger	Clean Mercedes-Benz	6th	6th		9						21st
5 =	Jan Lammers	jaguar		3	6th	6th	3	3				21st
8th	Martin Brundle	jaguar		4th	9		2	4th				19th
9	Julian Bailey	Nissan				4th	4th		1	3	6th	18th
10	Mark Blundell	Nissan					4th	2	1	3	6th	16
11	Kenny Acheson	Nissan				4th			3	1	3	11
12	Alain Ferté	jaguar		4th			2	4th				10
13 =	Bob Wollek	Porsche		2	3			1		0.5	1	7.5
13 =	Frank Jelinski	Porsche		2	3			1		0.5	1	7.5
15 =	Fermín Vélez	Spice			4th	3						7th
15 =	Tim Harvey	Spice				3			4th			7th
17 =	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Mercedes Benz							6th			6th
17 =	Bruno Giacomelli	Spice Porsche			4th				2			6th
17 =	Gianfranco Brancatelli	Nissan Alba							3		3	6th
20 =	Not so Olofsson	Porsche Nissan	4th									4th
20 =	Cor Euser	Spice							4th			4th
20 =	Masahiro Hasemi	Nissan	4th									4th
20 =	Davy Jones	jaguar									4th	4th
20 =	Oscar Larrauri	Porsche	1		1	2						4th
25th	Bernd Schneider	Porsche			2					1.5		3.5
26 =	Manuel Reuter	Porsche				1				2		3
26 =	Geoff Lees	Toyota	3									3
26 =	Hitoshi Ogawa	Toyota	3									3
26 =	Eric van de Poele	Spice		1					2			3
26 =	Steven Andskar	Porsche			2	1						3
31 =	Jonathan Palmer	Porsche									2	2
31 =	Hans-Joachim Stuck	Porsche									2	2
31 =	Kunimitsu Takahashi	Porsche	2									2
31 =	Kazuo Mogi	Porsche	2									2
31 =	Wayne Taylor	Porsche		1			1					2
36 =	Harald Huysman	Porsche		1								1
36 =	Eliseo Salazar	Porsche					1					1

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 .
• Thomas Nehlert: Group C. The sports car races 1982–1992. Petrolpics, Bonn 2011, ISBN 3-940306-14-2 .

Web links

• Results at Classic Cars