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1989 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix

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Spain  1989 Spanish Grand Prix
Race details
Race 4 of 15 races in the
1989 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date30 April 1989
Official nameMarlboro Gran Premio de España de Motociclismo[1]
LocationCircuito Permanente de Jerez
Course
  • Permanent racing facility
  • 4.428 km (2.751 mi)
500cc
Pole position
Rider United States Wayne Rainey
Time 1:48.640
Fastest lap
Rider United States Kevin Schwantz
Time 1:48.790
Podium
First United States Eddie Lawson
Second United States Wayne Rainey
Third United Kingdom Niall Mackenzie
250cc
Pole position
Rider Italy Luca Cadalora
Time 1:50.520
Fastest lap
Rider Spain Juan Garriga
Time 1:51.080
Podium
First Italy Luca Cadalora
Second Spain Sito Pons
Third France Jean-Philippe Ruggia
125cc
Pole position
Rider Spain Àlex Crivillé
Time 1:56.330
Fastest lap
Rider Spain Àlex Crivillé
Time 1:56.610
Podium
First Spain Àlex Crivillé
Second Spain Jorge Martínez
Third Japan Koji Takada
80cc
Pole position
Rider Switzerland Stefan Dörflinger
Time 2:02.640
Fastest lap
Rider Unknown
Podium
First Spain Herri Torrontegui
Second Switzerland Stefan Dörflinger
Third West Germany Peter Öttl

The 1989 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix was the fourth round of the 1989 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 28–30 April 1989 at the Jerez circuit.

500 cc race report

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Wayne Rainey on pole goes into the first turn ahead of Pierfrancesco Chili, Eddie Lawson, and Kevin Schwantz. Schwantz wastes little time in catching and passing Rainey. As Schwantz pulls ahead, Rainey battles Lawson for the first time in the season, Lawson seeming to come to terms with the Honda. Rainey can only watch as Lawson passes and claws away at a gap.

Meanwhile, Chili tries passing Ron Haslam on the hairpin leading into the straight by braking late on the inside. Chili clumsily bumps Haslam, who’s in no mood to be shoved and decides to shove back, taking them both off-track, though Haslam’s detour end up being much longer than Chili’s.

Up ahead, Schwantz is enjoying a large lead with 5 laps to go when he throws it away, clutching his head in disbelief as he walks through the gravel. Lawson is handed the win, followed by Rainey and Mackenzie.

Schwantz:

"At Jerez there was four laps to go and I was almost six seconds in front of Eddie. I had watched the race the previous year after the bike broke and I remembered watching him haul in Rainey and keep Rainey from winning his first Grand Prix. I was thinking to myself, come on you've just got to keep above those five seconds. Get it down to less than five laps with more than five seconds and there's no way he can catch you.' "

"I had got there and done that. I went over the line and around the back of the big Kodak box that is a scoreboard with all the times on it. As I went past the back it changed to show four laps to go and more than five seconds, I thought, 'yeah I've got it,' and immediately fell off. It was just a loss of concentration, I thought I had it in the bag. I went into the corner, didn't have it down on my knee where I needed to be. The front end pushed and before I could even think, 'Oh shit', I was sitting on the haybales."[2]

The gap between Lawson and Rainey is now 10 points.

500 cc classification

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Pos. Rider Team Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 United States Eddie Lawson Rothmans Kanemoto Honda Honda 30 55:11.260 4 20
2 United States Wayne Rainey Team Lucky Strike Roberts Yamaha 30 +10.170 1 17
3 United Kingdom Niall Mackenzie Marlboro Yamaha Team Agostini Yamaha 30 +17.480 3 15
4 France Christian Sarron Sonauto Gauloises Blondes Yamaha Mobil 1 Yamaha 30 +27.300 5 13
5 United States Freddie Spencer Marlboro Yamaha Team Agostini Yamaha 30 +51.000 6 11
6 Italy Pierfrancesco Chili HB Honda Gallina Team Honda 30 +1:19.040 8 10
7 United Kingdom Ron Haslam Suzuki Pepsi Cola Suzuki 30 +1:29.450 10 9
8 Japan Tadahiko Taira Yamaha Motor Company Yamaha 30 +1:43.440 7 8
9 France Dominique Sarron Team ROC Elf Honda Honda 30 +1:46.870 12 7
10 Italy Alessandro Valesi Team Iberia Yamaha 30 +1:53.860 13 6
11 Italy Massimo Broccoli Cagiva Corse Cagiva 29 +1 Lap 16 5
12 Switzerland Marco Gentile Fior Marlboro Fior 29 +1 Lap 14 4
13 United Kingdom Simon Buckmaster Racing Team Katayama Honda 29 +1 Lap 15 3
14 Spain Juan Lopez Mella Club Motocross Pozuelo Honda 29 +1 Lap 17 2
15 Republic of Ireland Eddie Laycock Honda 29 +1 Lap 21 1
16 Switzerland Bruno Kneubuhler Romer Racing Suisse Honda 29 +1 Lap 18
17 France Claude Albert Suzuki 29 +1 Lap 24
18 Austria Josef Doppler Honda 29 +1 Lap 25
19 United Kingdom Steve Williams Flower Motorcycles Honda 29 +1 Lap 22
20 West Germany Michael Rudroff HRK Motors Honda 29 +1 Lap 23
21 United Kingdom Ian Pratt Racing Team Katayama Honda 29 +1 Lap 27
22 France Fabian Pilloud Honda 29 +1 Lap 29
Ret Switzerland Nicholas Schmassman FMS Honda Retirement 20
Ret Luxembourg Andreas Leuthe Librenti Corse Suzuki Retirement 26
Ret United States Kevin Schwantz Suzuki Pepsi Cola Suzuki Retirement 2
Ret United States Randy Mamola Cagiva Corse Cagiva Retirement 9
Ret Spain Francisco Gonzales Club Motocross Pozuelo Honda Retirement 28
Ret Italy Marco Papa Team Greco Paton Retirement 19
Ret Australia Mick Doohan Rothmans Honda Team Honda Retirement 11
DNQ Venezuela Larry Moreno Vacondio Suzuki Did not qualify
Sources: [3][4]

References

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  1. ^ "Grand Prix uitslagen en bijzonderheden 1989". Archive.li. Archived from the original on 2015-07-25. Retrieved 2018-09-12.
  2. ^ Schwantz, Kevin: Early GP Years Archived 2006-05-19 at the Wayback Machine kevinschwantz.com 1994.
  3. ^ "1989 Spanish MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". 13 June 2017.
  4. ^ "motogp.com · SPANISH GRAND PRIX · 500cc Race Classification 1989". www.motogp.com.


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