Portuguese Grand Prix

Date
Sun 23rd September 1990 (UTC)
Sun 23rd September 1990 (Local)

Timestamp
1990-09-23T00:00:00

Time

00:00:00 UTC (00:00:00 Local)

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League
Formula 1

Season
1990

Round
13

Status

Location
Circuito Estoril

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Description

The 1990 Portuguese Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 23 September 1990 at Autódromo do Estoril. It was the thirteenth race of the 1990 FIA Formula One World Championship. The race was the 19th Portuguese Grand Prix and the seventh to be held at Estoril. It was scheduled to be held over 71 laps of the 4.35-kilometre (2.70 mi) circuit but was stopped after 61 laps, a race distance of 265.35 kilometres (164.88 mi), after an accident involving the Arrows of Alex Caffi and the Lola of Aguri Suzuki.

Nigel Mansell took pole position in his Ferrari and was leading when the race was stopped, thus taking his only victory of the season and his last for the Ferrari team. Mansell finished 2.8 seconds ahead of Drivers' Championship leader Ayrton Senna in the McLaren-Honda, who in turn finished 1.3 seconds ahead of rival Alain Prost in the other Ferrari. Senna thus extended his lead over Prost to 18 points with three races remaining.

This also marked the first race in which an effective traction control system was used in Formula One. Scuderia Ferrari used the system on Prost's Ferrari 641; which gave the Frenchman an eventual third-place podium finish. Mansell's 641 was also equipped with the same traction control system; however, the Englishman decided to switch his system off for the race. Nonetheless, he still won the race.

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Result List

01	Nigel Mansell	1:22:11.014
02	Ayrton Senna	+0:02.808
03	Alain Prost	+0:04.189
04	Gerhard Berger	+0:05.896
05	Nelson Piquet	+0:57.418
06	Alessandro Nannini	+0:58.249
07	Riccardo Patrese	+1 Lap
08	Jean Alesi	+1 Lap
09	Michele Alboreto	+1 Lap
10	Nicola Larini	+2 Laps
11	Pierluigi Martini	+2 Laps
12	Maurício Gugelmin	+2 Laps
13	Alex Caffi	DNF
14	Aguri Suzuki	Collision
15	Emanuele Pirro	+3 Laps
16	Philippe Alliot	DNF
17	David Brabham	DNF
18	Ivan Capelli	DNF
19	Thierry Boutsen	DNF
20	Éric Bernard	DNF
21	Stefano Modena	DNF
22	Martin Donnelly	DNF
23	Derek Warwick	DNF
24	Yannick Dalmas	DNF
25	Andrea De Cesaris	DNF
26	Satoru Nakajima	DNF
27	Olivier Grouillard	Did not qualify
28	Paolo Barilla	Did not qualify
29	Gabriele Tarquini	Did not qualify