| 1990 Canadian Grand Prix | |||
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| Race 5 of 16 in the1990 Formula One World Championship | |||
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| Race details | |||
| Date | June 10, 1990 | ||
| Official name | XXVIII Grand Prix Molson du Canada | ||
| Location | Circuit Gilles Villeneuve Montreal, Quebec,Canada | ||
| Course | Partial street circuit | ||
| Course length | 4.390 km (2.728 miles) | ||
| Distance | 70 laps, 307.300 km (190.947 miles) | ||
| Weather | Warm and cloudy with temperatures approaching 19.8 °C (67.6 °F); wind speeds up to 27.8 kilometres per hour (17.3 mph)[1] | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | McLaren-Honda | ||
| Time | 1:20.399 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |  Gerhard Berger | McLaren-Honda | |
| Time | 1:22.077 on lap 70 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | McLaren-Honda | ||
| Second | Benetton-Ford | ||
| Third | Ferrari | ||
Lap leaders | |||
The1990 Canadian Grand Prix was aFormula One motor race held on 10 June 1990 atCircuit Gilles Villeneuve. It was Race 5 of 16 in the1990 Formula One World Championship. It was the 28thCanadian Grand Prix and the 12th to be held at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. The race was held over 70 laps of the 4.390 km (2.728 mi) circuit for a race distance of 307 kilometres.
The race was won for the second time by Brazilian driverAyrton Senna driving aMcLaren MP4/5B. It was Senna's third win for the season having won the season-openingUnited States Grand Prix and theMonaco Grand Prix just two weeks earlier. Senna won by ten seconds over fellow BrazilianNelson Piquet who drove aBenetton B190. Three seconds further back in third was British driverNigel Mansell driving aFerrari 641.
The win allowed Senna to gain a twelve-point lead in the drivers' championship over his McLaren teammateGerhard Berger. His nearest competitive rival, Ferrari driverAlain Prost had less than half of Senna's points.
In the Friday morning pre-qualifying session,Roberto Moreno was fastest by over three tenths of a second in theEuroBrun, despite a continued lack of testing.Olivier Grouillard was second fastest in the soleOsella, with theLarrousse-Lolas in third and fourth. For the first time this season,Aguri Suzuki was faster than his team-mateÉric Bernard.[2]
In fifth place, failing to pre-qualify by a hundredth of a second, wasGabriele Tarquini in theAGS, with his team-mateYannick Dalmas in sixth. It was the fourth double failure to pre-qualify for the French team. The other three entrants were a long way behind:Bertrand Gachot was seventh in theColoni, nearly 16 seconds slower than Moreno.Claudio Langes had been fired by EuroBrun prior to this event, but had been reinstated; he was eighth fastest, nearly 19 seconds slower than his team-mate Moreno.[2] Slowest again, and nearly 22 seconds off the pace, wasBruno Giacomelli, who managed seven laps in theLife before his engine failed. The team were at this point talking toBrabham andLotus, hoping to purchase some usedJudd CV engines, the same type that EuroBrun were using.[3]
| Pos | No | Driver | Constructor | Time | Gap |
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| 1 | 33 |  Roberto Moreno | EuroBrun-Judd | 1:28.268 | — |
| 2 | 14 |  Olivier Grouillard | Osella-Ford | 1:28.589 | +0.321 |
| 3 | 30 |  Aguri Suzuki | Lola-Lamborghini | 1:29.372 | +1.104 |
| 4 | 29 | Éric Bernard | Lola-Lamborghini | 1:29.844 | +1.576 |
| 5 | 17 |  Gabriele Tarquini | AGS-Ford | 1:29.855 | +1.587 |
| 6 | 18 | Yannick Dalmas | AGS-Ford | 1:30.460 | +2.192 |
| 7 | 31 |  Bertrand Gachot | Coloni-Subaru | 1:44.185 | +15.917 |
| 8 | 34 | Claudio Langes | EuroBrun-Judd | 1:47.118 | +18.850 |
| 9 | 39 | Bruno Giacomelli | Life | 1:50.253 | +21.985 |
The qualifying session on Saturday was wet, therefore Friday's times were used to decide the grid order.Ayrton Senna was fastest in theMcLaren, with his team-mateGerhard Berger alongside him on the front row.[2]
| Pos | No | Driver | Constructor | Q1 | Q2 | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 27 | Ayrton Senna | McLaren-Honda | 1:20.399 | 1:30.514 | — |
| 2 | 28 | Gerhard Berger | McLaren-Honda | 1:20.465 | 1:33.240 | +0.066 |
| 3 | 1 | Alain Prost | Ferrari | 1:20.826 | 1:31.514 | +0.427 |
| 4 | 19 | Alessandro Nannini | Benetton-Ford | 1:21.302 | 1:30.575 | +0.903 |
| 5 | 20 | Nelson Piquet | Benetton-Ford | 1:21.568 | 1:27.124 | +1.169 |
| 6 | 5 | Thierry Boutsen | Williams-Renault | 1:21.599 | — | +1.200 |
| 7 | 2 |  Nigel Mansell | Ferrari | 1:21.641 | 1:27.647 | +1.242 |
| 8 | 4 | Jean Alesi | Tyrrell-Ford | 1:21.748 | — | +1.349 |
| 9 | 6 | Riccardo Patrese | Williams-Renault | 1:22.018 | 44:52.525 | +1.619 |
| 10 | 8 | Stefano Modena | Brabham-Judd | 1:22.660 | 1:29.062 | +2.261 |
| 11 | 11 | Derek Warwick | Lotus-Lamborghini | 1:22.673 | — | +2.274 |
| 12 | 12 | Martin Donnelly | Lotus-Lamborghini | 1:22.703 | 1:35.198 | +2.304 |
| 13 | 3 | Satoru Nakajima | Tyrrell-Ford | 1:23.605 | — | +3.205 |
| 14 | 9 | Michele Alboreto | Arrows-Ford | 1:23.744 | — | +3.345 |
| 15 | 14 | Olivier Grouillard | Osella-Ford | 1:23.779 | 1:30.872 | +3.380 |
| 16 | 23 | Pierluigi Martini | Minardi-Ford | 1:23.795 | 1:40.047 | +3.396 |
| 17 | 26 | Philippe Alliot | Ligier-Ford | 1:23.899 | 1:31.797 | +3.500 |
| 18 | 30 | Aguri Suzuki | Lola-Lamborghini | 1:23.915 | 1:32.777 | +3.516 |
| 19 | 21 | Emanuele Pirro | Dallara-Ford | 1:24.269 | 1:38.775 | +3.870 |
| 20 | 25 | Nicola Larini | Ligier-Ford | 1:24.285 | 1:30.091 | +3.886 |
| 21 | 35 |  Gregor Foitek | Onyx-Ford | 1:24.397 | 1:42.487 | +3.998 |
| 22 | 36 |  JJ Lehto | Onyx-Ford | 1:24.425 | 1:40.607 | +4.026 |
| 23 | 29 | Éric Bernard | Lola-Lamborghini | 1:24.451 | 1:32.750 | +4.052 |
| 24 | 16 | Ivan Capelli | Leyton House-Judd | 1:24.554 | 7:00.728 | +4.155 |
| 25 | 22 | Andrea de Cesaris | Dallara-Ford | 1:24.621 | 1:36.629 | +4.222 |
| 26 | 10 | Alex Caffi | Arrows-Ford | 1:25.113 | 1:39.209 | +4.714 |
| 27 | 33 | Roberto Moreno | EuroBrun-Judd | 1:25.172 | 1:31.097 | +4.773 |
| 28 | 15 | Maurício Gugelmin | Leyton House-Judd | 1:25.712 | 1:45.435 | +5.313 |
| 29 | 24 | Paolo Barilla | Minardi-Ford | 1:25.951 | 1:51.583 | +5.552 |
| 30 | 7 |  David Brabham | Brabham-Judd | 1:26.771 | 1:36.453 | +6.372 |
In a race with a McLaren front row, the team looked strong. Senna maintained the lead coming into the first corner with Berger second, but the Austrian was deemed to have jumped the start. A few laps into the race it was announced that Berger would have a one-minute penalty added to his race time. As a consequence, after a round of pitstops for new tyres, Senna allowed his teammate to pass him going into the hairpin so that the Austrian could set about gaining time in relation to his competitors.
The weather conditions were moist, making for a mildly slippery track. This caused spins for many. The first of the spinners wasPierluigi Martini who spun off at turn 2 on the first lap. Thierry Boutsen, the1989 winner, spun mid-race while trying to pass Prost approaching a corner, and hit the Ligier of Nicola Larini as he spun.
Nannini spun off the track into a tyre wall. Shortly afterwards on lap 26, Jean Alesi lost control while challenging another car and spun into the same tyre barrier, ending up on top of Nannini's abandonedBenetton B190. The Benetton was written off when hit by theTyrrell, leaving team mechanics with a massive rebuild before the next race inMexico.
In the end, Berger had crossed the line first but was awarded a one-minute penalty for a jumped start, which was added to his overall race time, dropping him to fourth in the final order. Following Berger's penalty, Senna took the victory, whilst Piquet finished second after a determined battle with the two Ferraris where he forced his way past Prost's Ferrari going into the hairpin. It was the Benetton driver's first podium finish since the1988 Australian Grand Prix. Prost was later passed at the same place by teammate Mansell who went on to finish third.
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