Australian Grand Prix

Date & Time
Sun 5th November 1989 12:00am Local
Sun 5th November 1989 12:00am UTC

Poster

Your Rating (Click a Star)

Total Rating
(0 users)

Thumb

Square Poster
no thumb

League
Formula 1

Season
1989

Round
Round 16

Status

Location

Adelaide Street Circuit

Video Highlights

Event Statistics

Description

The 1989 Australian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Adelaide on 5 November 1989. It was the sixteenth and final race of the 1989 Formula One World Championship.

The race took place in wet conditions, with only 70 of the scheduled 81 laps run before the two-hour time limit was reached. It was stopped and restarted following a first-lap collision, with Frenchman Alain Prost declining to take the restart in his McLaren-Honda. Prost's Brazilian teammate, Ayrton Senna, started from pole position and led the first 13 laps before colliding with the Brabham-Judd of Briton Martin Brundle, after which Belgian Thierry Boutsen led the remainder of the race in his Williams-Renault. Boutsen won by 28 seconds from Italian Alessandro Nannini in a Benetton-Ford, with another Italian, Riccardo Patrese, third in the other Williams-Renault.

This was the final Formula One race for Frenchman René Arnoux, American Eddie Cheever and Italian Piercarlo Ghinzani, and the final race entered by Briton Jonathan Palmer, who failed to qualify. It was also the final race entered by the German Zakspeed and Rial teams.

Reports

Result List

01	Thierry Boutsen	Williams Racing	2:00:17.421
02	Alessandro Nannini	Benetton Formula	+0:28.658
03	Riccardo Patrese	Williams Racing	+0:37.683
04	Satoru Nakajima	Lotus F1	+0:42.331
05	Emanuele Pirro	Benetton Formula	+2 Laps
06	Pierluigi Martini	Minardi	+3 Laps
07	Maurício Gugelmin	March Engineering	+4 Laps
08	Stefano Modena	Brabham	+6 Laps
09	Eddie Cheever	Arrows Grand Prix International	DNF
10	JJ Lehto	Onyx Grand Prix	DNF
11	Olivier Grouillard	Ligier	DNF
12	Nelson Piquet	Lotus F1	DNF
13	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Osella	DNF
14	Nigel Mansell	Scuderia Ferrari HP	DNF
15	Ayrton Senna	McLaren Formula 1 Team	DNF
16	Alex Caffi	Dallara	DNF
17	Ivan Capelli	March Engineering	DNF
18	Andrea De Cesaris	Dallara	DNF
19	Martin Brundle	Brabham	DNF
20	Derek Warwick	Arrows Grand Prix International	DNF
22	Gerhard Berger	Scuderia Ferrari HP	DNF
23	Jean Alesi	Tyrrell Racing	DNF
24	René Arnoux	Ligier	DNF
25	Alain Prost	McLaren Formula 1 Team	DNF
26	Nicola Larini	Osella	DNF
27	Jonathan Palmer	Tyrrell Racing	Did not qualify
28	Sergio Perez	Minardi	Did not qualify
29	Bertrand Gachot	Rial Racing	Did not qualify
30	Pierre Hojbjerg	Rial Racing	Did not qualify
31	Stefan Johansson	Onyx Grand Prix	Did not prequalify
33	Bernd Schneider	Zakspeed	Did not prequalify
36	Aguri Suzuki	Zakspeed	Did not prequalify
37	Yannick Dalmas	AGS	Did not prequalify
38	Gabriele Tarquini	AGS	Did not prequalify