1990 Portuguese Grand Prix
The Grand Prix of Portugal in 1990 took place on 23 September at the Autódromo Fernanda Pires da Silvaist near Estoril place and was the 13th race of the Formula 1 season 1990.
- 3.1 qualifying
- 3.2 race
- 4.1 Drivers' Championship
- 4.2 Constructors' Championship
Reports
Background
The only change compared to the Italian Grand Prix two weeks earlier was the fact that the team Life umrüstete his car by own engines on a Judd unit. However, it was not completed any timed lap for pre-qualification.
The change from Jean Alesi to Ferrari for next season was officially announced after the signing of Alessandro Nannini had failed. Alesi had originally also concluded a contract with Williams. The British team demanded as compensation a Formula 1 car from Ferrari.
Training
To the surprise of experts, none of the two McLaren drivers for the front row, but the Ferrari team-mate Nigel Mansell and Alain Prost qualified. The favorites Ayrton Senna and Gerhard Berger followed in the second row in front of Riccardo Patrese and Nelson Piquet.
Race
After an accident during the warm-up Satoru Nakajima decided not to participate in the race.
Mansell started badly and turned almost. Since Prost had to dodge, Senna, Berger and Piquet moved past him. Mansell could scarce defend third place compared to Piquet.
Only in the 13th round of cheers could go by Piquet. His behind the leading trio was around five seconds at this time. A further 13 laps he needed to catch up with his teammates Mansell and overtake him.
After most of the pilots had inserted a pit stop to change tires, Senna was before Mansell, Berger, Prost, Nannini and Piquet in the lead. In the 50th round Mansell took the lead position of Senna. With Prost sixth gear was in the meantime failed, so he was worried about being able to finish the race at all. In the course of a lapping maneuver collided Nigel Mansell with Philippe Alliot. While this was eliminated, the leader was able to continue the race virtually unaffected.
Despite the defective gear Prost moved into the 59th round past Berger and brought quickly to the second placed Senna. Then the race has aborted ten laps before the scheduled end due to a collision between Alex Caffi and Aguri Suzuki, as the recovery of Caffi proved to be complicated. Thus Mansell won ahead of Senna, Prost, Berger, Piquet and Nannini.
Ayrton Senna went with a lead of 18 championship points against Alain Prost in the last three races of the year.
Message list
Classifications
Qualifying
Race
WM stands after the race
The first six of the race were 9, 6, 4, 3, 2 and 1 point (s).