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| 1990 British Grand Prix | |||
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| Race 8 of 16 in the1990 Formula One World Championship | |||
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| Race details | |||
| Date | 15 July 1990 | ||
| Official name | XLIII Foster's British Grand Prix | ||
| Location | Silverstone Circuit Silverstone,Northamptonshire, England | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 4.778 km (2.969 miles) | ||
| Distance | 64 laps, 305.904 km (190.080 miles) | ||
| Weather | Hot, dry, sunny | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Ferrari | ||
| Time | 1:07.428 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |  Nigel Mansell | Ferrari | |
| Time | 1:11.291 on lap 51 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Ferrari | ||
| Second | Williams-Renault | ||
| Third | McLaren-Honda | ||
Lap leaders | |||
The1990 British Grand Prix was aFormula One motor race held atSilverstone on 15 July 1990. It was the eighth race of the1990 Formula One World Championship. It was the 45thBritish Grand Prix and the 26th to be held at Silverstone, which was the fastest circuit on the F1 calendar at the time. The race was held over 64 laps of the 4.78-kilometre (2.97 mi) circuit for a race distance of 305.9 kilometres (190.1 mi).
The race was won by FrenchmanAlain Prost, driving aFerrari. Prost's teammate, local heroNigel Mansell, tookpole position and led before retiring with a gearbox failure nine laps from the end. BelgianThierry Boutsen finished second in aWilliams-Renault, with BrazilianAyrton Senna third in aMcLaren-Honda.
The win, Prost's third in succession and fourth of the season, gave him the lead of the Drivers' Championship, two points ahead of Senna.
At this event Ricardo Patrese made history by becoming the first ever F1 driver to compete in 200 F1 GP's.
In Friday morning pre-qualifying, theLarrousse-Lolas were again first and second, their fifth 1–2 of the season, withÉric Bernard nearly a second faster than team-mateAguri Suzuki. As at the previous Grand Prix inFrance, third fastest wasGabriele Tarquini in theAGS. This time, the fourth pre-qualifying spot went toOlivier Grouillard in the soleOsella.
These four were comfortably faster than the other runners, the fastest of which wasRoberto Moreno in a revisedEuroBrun in fifth place. Sixth wasYannick Dalmas in the other AGS, his sixth failure to pre-qualify so far this season.Claudio Langes was seventh in the other, unrevised EuroBrun, withBertrand Gachot a distant eighth in theColoni after its engine destroyed itself yet again.[1]Subaru ended their involvement with the Coloni team after this Grand Prix, with eight consecutive failures to pre-qualify, and the team were to source new engines for the next race inGermany.[2] TheLife team had no pit garage in which to prepare their car, and worked on the grass near the pits.[1] Their car, still driven byBruno Giacomelli, suffered an electrical failure after five laps, and was bottom of the time sheets again. Team manager Sergio Barbasio announced that they would stick with the hopeless in-houseW12 engine, citing a lack of time to prepare the chassis for theJudd CV engines purchased fromLotus. However, Italian sources claimed that Life had simply been unable to complete the purchase due to lack of funds.[1]
| Pos | No | Driver | Constructor | Time | Gap |
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| 1 | 29 |  Éric Bernard | Lola-Lamborghini | 1:10.254 | |
| 2 | 30 |  Aguri Suzuki | Lola-Lamborghini | 1:11.128 | +0.874 |
| 3 | 17 |  Gabriele Tarquini | AGS-Ford | 1:11.516 | +1.262 |
| 4 | 14 | Olivier Grouillard | Osella-Ford | 1:11.953 | +1.699 |
| 5 | 33 |  Roberto Moreno | EuroBrun-Judd | 1:12.554 | +2.300 |
| 6 | 18 | Yannick Dalmas | AGS-Ford | 1:12.653 | +2.399 |
| 7 | 34 | Claudio Langes | EuroBrun-Judd | 1:15.059 | +4.805 |
| 8 | 31 |  Bertrand Gachot | Coloni-Subaru | 1:19.230 | +8.976 |
| 9 | 39 | Bruno Giacomelli | Life | 1:25.947 | +15.693 |
Mansell qualified on pole more than half a second in front of Senna, at an average speed of 158 mph (252 km/h).
| Pos | No | Driver | Constructor | Q1 | Q2 | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | Nigel Mansell | Ferrari | 1:08.336 | 1:07.428 | |
| 2 | 27 | Ayrton Senna | McLaren-Honda | 1:08.071 | 1:09.055 | +0.643 |
| 3 | 28 |  Gerhard Berger | McLaren-Honda | 1:08.246 | 1:08.674 | +0.818 |
| 4 | 5 | Thierry Boutsen | Williams-Renault | 1:09.102 | 1:08.291 | +0.863 |
| 5 | 1 | Alain Prost | Ferrari | 1:09.110 | 1:08.336 | +0.908 |
| 6 | 4 | Jean Alesi | Tyrrell-Ford | 1:09.147 | 1:08.370 | +0.942 |
| 7 | 6 | Riccardo Patrese | Williams-Renault | 1:08.677 | 1:08.864 | +1.249 |
| 8 | 29 | Éric Bernard | Lola-Lamborghini | 1:09.560 | 1:09.003 | +1.575 |
| 9 | 30 | Aguri Suzuki | Lola-Lamborghini | 1:09.243 | 1:09.865 | +1.815 |
| 10 | 16 | Ivan Capelli | Leyton House-Judd | 1:10.691 | 1:09.308 | +1.880 |
| 11 | 20 | Nelson Piquet | Benetton-Ford | 1:09.684 | 1:09.407 | +1.979 |
| 12 | 3 | Satoru Nakajima | Tyrrell-Ford | 1:09.937 | 1:09.608 | +2.180 |
| 13 | 19 | Alessandro Nannini | Benetton-Ford | 1:09.782 | 1:09.641 | +2.213 |
| 14 | 12 | Martin Donnelly | Lotus-Lamborghini | 1:10.786 | 1:09.741 | +2.313 |
| 15 | 15 | Maurício Gugelmin | Leyton House-Judd | 1:11.167 | 1:10.044 | +2.616 |
| 16 | 11 | Derek Warwick | Lotus-Lamborghini | 1:10.552 | 1:10.092 | +2.664 |
| 17 | 10 | Alex Caffi | Arrows-Ford | 1:10.480 | 1:10.110 | +2.682 |
| 18 | 23 | Pierluigi Martini | Minardi-Ford | 1:10.568 | 1:10.303 | +2.875 |
| 19 | 21 | Emanuele Pirro | Dallara-Ford | 1:11.413 | 1:10.847 | +3.419 |
| 20 | 8 | Stefano Modena | Brabham-Judd | 1:11.070 | 1:11.600 | +3.642 |
| 21 | 25 | Nicola Larini | Ligier-Ford | 1:11.942 | 1:11.180 | +3.752 |
| 22 | 26 | Philippe Alliot | Ligier-Ford | 1:12.483 | 1:11.215 | +3.787 |
| 23 | 22 | Andrea de Cesaris | Dallara-Ford | 1:11.705 | 1:11.234 | +3.806 |
| 24 | 24 | Paolo Barilla | Minardi-Ford | 1:11.498 | 1:11.387 | +3.959 |
| 25 | 9 | Michele Alboreto | Arrows-Ford | 1:11.562 | 1:12.644 | +4.134 |
| 26 | 17 | Gabriele Tarquini | AGS-Ford | 1:12.506 | 1:11.681 | +4.253 |
| DNQ | 14 | Olivier Grouillard | Osella-Ford | 1:12.179 | 1:11.710 | +4.282 |
| DNQ | 7 |  David Brabham | Brabham-Judd | 1:11.741 | 1:13.016 | +4.313 |
| DNQ | 36 |  JJ Lehto | Onyx-Ford | 1:12.712 | 1:12.631 | +5.203 |
| DNQ | 35 |  Gregor Foitek | Onyx-Ford | 1:13.413 | 1:13.271 | +5.843 |
Local heroNigel Mansell led until his gearbox began to malfunction. He was overtaken (against team orders, and to Mansell's chagrin) byAlain Prost and remained in second until his gearbox failed completely on lap 57. After retiring from the race Mansell famously threw his gloves into the crowd and announced he would retire from Formula One at the end of the season, a decision he later reversed.
Riccardo Patrese became the first driver ever to start 200 Grands Prix. On race day, he retired after damage was sustained in a collision with theBenetton ofAlessandro Nannini on lap 27, whilst his team-mateThierry Boutsen reached the podium and finished second.
Éric Bernard andAguri Suzuki both scored the best results of their career up to this point. For Suzuki, it was the first points scoring finish of his career.
Ivan Capelli was the charger in the race. Starting 10th he spun early to avoid the collision between Patrese andAlessandro Nannini. Then racing with a broken exhaust header he charged hard, eventually passingGerhard Berger for 3rd and for a time being the fastest driver on the track before retiring on lap 48 with a fuel leak.
Ligier needed at least a top eight finish to avoid pre-qualification, butNicola Larini could not do better than 10th place, while teammate Philippe Alliot only managed to finish 13th.
This would be the last motor race on the original high-speed Silverstone circuit; the day after the race, a construction crew funded byTom Walkinshaw immediately began work on reprofiling and incorporating the newly designed corners.
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