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Detroit Grand Prix

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Sun 19th June 1988 12:00am Local
Sun 19th June 1988 12:00am UTC

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League
Formula 1

Season
1988

Round
Round 6

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Detroit

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The 1988 Detroit Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on June 19, 1988 in Detroit, Michigan. It was the sixth race of the 1988 Formula One season and the last of three back-to-back races in the continent of North America.
The drivers became outspoken about their dislike of the race. Senna likened the last laps to driving in heavy rain as the track had broken up so badly, while he, Prost and Boutsen argued that if Formula One wanted to stay in Detroit, it needed to move elsewhere in the city. Even though there were some negotiations to move the event to another street circuit on nearby Belle Isle, these plans ultimately fell through, and thus this was the last Formula One Detroit Grand Prix. For the next three years, F1 raced at a street circuit in Phoenix, Arizona, in an event officially known as the United States Grand Prix.
The Detroit street circuit hosted three CART races in 1989, 1990 and 1991 (the unpopular chicane before the pits being removed), before CART moved to the Belle Isle circuit in 1992.


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01			Ayrton Senna	McLaren Formula 1 Team	1:54:56.035
02			Alain Prost	McLaren Formula 1 Team	+0:38.713
03			Thierry Boutsen	Benetton Formula	+1 Lap
04			Andrea De Cesaris	Rial Racing	+1 Lap
05			Jonathan Palmer	Tyrrell Racing	+1 Lap
06			Pierluigi Martini	Minardi	+1 Lap
08			Alex Caffi	Dallara	+2 Laps
09			Julian Bailey	Tyrrell Racing	DNF
10			Sergio Perez	Minardi	DNF
13			Michele Alboreto	Scuderia Ferrari HP	DNF
14			René Arnoux	Ligier	DNF
15			Maurício Gugelmin	March Engineering	DNF
16			Riccardo Patrese	Williams Racing	DNF
17			Nelson Piquet	Lotus F1	DNF
19			Derek Warwick	Arrows Grand Prix International	DNF
20			Nigel Mansell	Williams Racing	DNF
21			Philippe Streiff	AGS	DNF
22			Alessandro Nannini	Benetton Formula	DNF
23			Eddie Cheever	Arrows Grand Prix International	DNF
24			Nicola Larini	Osella	DNF
25			Gerhard Berger	Scuderia Ferrari HP	DNF
26			Stefan Johansson	Ligier	DNF
27			Ivan Capelli	March Engineering	DNF
28			Satoru Nakajima	Lotus F1	Did not qualify
29			Bernd Schneider	Zakspeed	Did not qualify
30			Piercarlo Ghinzani	Zakspeed	Did not qualify

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