Race · Round 6 of 16 · 24 June 1990

1990 Mexican Grand Prix

Alain Prost won for Ferrari from 13th on the grid at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez. With this win, Alain Prost set a new record of 41 championship Grand Prix wins.

Dry, with cloud · High of 19 °C, 18.3 mm of rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

ERA5's reanalysis, through Open-Meteo, of the circuit's whole local day and not the race's hours, for the grid cell the circuit sits in and not the track, so a shower can be missing from it. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.

Circuit: Autodromo Hermanos RodriguezMexico City, Mexico
Winner: Alain ProstFerrari
Pole: Gerhard Berger
Fastest lap: Alain Prost
Entries: 3520 classified

Two sources disagree about this race

Conditions

dryagainst18.3 mm of rain on the day, modelled

The race's Wikipedia article's words are read as dry: by data/harvest.py's rule, which finds no rain, showers or wet track in them, or by a reading declared there (race_weather_reported holds the words). ERA5's reanalysis of 24 June 1990, through Open-Meteo, holds 18.3 mm of rain over 24 hours of that day in the grid cell the circuit is in - a heavy-precipitation day, 10 mm or more. A daily total cannot say whether the rain fell during the race, and a grid cell is not the track, so neither is overruled. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_Mexican_Grand_Prix; weather data by Open-Meteo.com, https://open-meteo.com/

Recorded rather than resolved, and open for somebody to settle. Every one is listed on the quality page. If you can settle it against a source that can be checked, report what you have.

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Alain Prost	Ferrari	641	13	69	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Nigel Mansell	Ferrari	641	4	69	Finished	6
3	Gerhard Berger	McLaren	MP4/5B	1	69	Finished	4
4	Alessandro Nannini	Benetton	—	14	69	Finished	3
5	Thierry Boutsen	Williams	FW13B	5	69	Finished	2
6	Nelson Piquet	Benetton	—	8	69	Finished	1
7	Jean Alesi	Tyrrell	—	6	69	Finished	0
8	Martin Donnelly	Team Lotus	102	12	69	Finished	0
9	Riccardo Patrese	Williams	FW13B	2	69	Finished	0
10	Derek Warwick	Team Lotus	102	11	68	Finished	0
11	Stefano Modena	Brabham	—	10	68	Finished	0
12	Pierluigi Martini	Minardi	—	7	68	Finished	0
13	Andrea de Cesaris	Dallara	F190	15	68	Finished	0
14	Paolo Barilla	Minardi	—	16	67	Finished	0
15	Gregor Foitek	Onyx	—	23	67	Finished	0
16	Nicola Larini	Ligier	JS33B	24	67	Finished	0
17	Michele Alboreto	Arrows	—	17	66	Finished	0
18	Philippe Alliot	Ligier	JS33B	22	66	Finished	0
19	Olivier Grouillard	Osella	—	20	65	Finished	0
20	Ayrton Senna	McLaren	MP4/5B	3	63	Tyre	0
DNF	Jyrki Järvilehto	Onyx	—	26	26	Engine	0
DNF	Éric Bernard	Lola	—	25	12	Brakes	0
DNF	Aguri Suzuki	Lola	—	19	11	Collision	0
DNF	Satoru Nakajima	Tyrrell	—	9	11	Collision	0
DNF	David Brabham	Brabham	—	21	11	Electrical	0
DNF	Emanuele Pirro	Dallara	F190	18	10	Engine	0
DSQ	Roberto Moreno	EuroBrun	ER189B	—	—	Push start	0
DNQ	Ivan Capelli	Leyton House	CG901	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Mauricio Gugelmin	Leyton House	CG901	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Alex Caffi	Arrows	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNPQ	Yannick Dalmas	AGS	—	—	—	DNPQ	0
DNPQ	Gabriele Tarquini	AGS	—	—	—	DNPQ	0
DNPQ	Bertrand Gachot	Coloni	C3B	—	—	DNPQ	0
DNPQ	Claudio Langes	EuroBrun	ER189B	—	—	DNPQ	0
DNPQ	Bruno Giacomelli	Life	L190	—	—	DNPQ	0

A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.

F1DB layout mexico-city-2 · 4.421 km · 14 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Alain Prost	13	1	69
Nigel Mansell	4	2	69
Gerhard Berger	1	3	69
Alessandro Nannini	14	4	69
Thierry Boutsen	5	5	69
Nelson Piquet	8	6	69
Jean Alesi	6	7	69
Martin Donnelly	12	8	69
Riccardo Patrese	2	9	69
Derek Warwick	11	10	68
Stefano Modena	10	11	68
Pierluigi Martini	7	12	68
Andrea de Cesaris	15	13	68
Paolo Barilla	16	14	67
Gregor Foitek	23	15	67
Nicola Larini	24	16	67
Michele Alboreto	17	17	66
Philippe Alliot	22	18	66
Olivier Grouillard	20	19	65
Ayrton Senna	3	20	63
Jyrki Järvilehto	26	DNF	26
Éric Bernard	25	DNF	12
Aguri Suzuki	19	DNF	11
Satoru Nakajima	9	DNF	11
David Brabham	21	DNF	11
Emanuele Pirro	18	DNF	10

1 entry with no recorded grid slot or lap count is in the classification and not drawn.

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Gerhard Berger	McLaren	28	1:17.227	—	0 m	—
2	Riccardo Patrese	Williams	6	1:17.498	+0.271	16 m	+0.271
3	Ayrton Senna	McLaren	27	1:17.670	+0.443	25 m	+0.172
4	Nigel Mansell	Ferrari	2	1:17.732	+0.505	29 m	+0.062
5	Thierry Boutsen	Williams	5	1:17.883	+0.656	38 m	+0.151
6	Jean Alesi	Tyrrell	4	1:18.282	+1.055	60 m	+0.399
7	Pierluigi Martini	Minardi	23	1:18.526	+1.299	74 m	+0.244
8	Nelson Piquet	Benetton	20	1:18.561	+1.334	76 m	+0.035
9	Satoru Nakajima	Tyrrell	3	1:18.575	+1.348	77 m	+0.014
10	Stefano Modena	Brabham	8	1:18.592	+1.365	78 m	+0.017
11	Derek Warwick	Team Lotus	11	1:18.951	+1.724	99 m	+0.359
12	Martin Donnelly	Team Lotus	12	1:18.994	+1.767	101 m	+0.043
13	Alain Prost	Ferrari	1	1:19.026	+1.799	103 m	+0.032
14	Alessandro Nannini	Benetton	19	1:19.227	+2.000	114 m	+0.201
15	Andrea de Cesaris	Dallara	22	1:19.865	+2.638	151 m	+0.638
16	Paolo Barilla	Minardi	24	1:19.897	+2.670	153 m	+0.032
17	Michele Alboreto	Arrows	9	1:19.941	+2.714	155 m	+0.044
18	Emanuele Pirro	Dallara	21	1:20.044	+2.817	161 m	+0.103
19	Aguri Suzuki	Lola	30	1:20.268	+3.041	174 m	+0.224
20	Olivier Grouillard	Osella	14	1:20.274	+3.047	174 m	+0.006
21	David Brabham	Brabham	7	1:20.447	+3.220	184 m	+0.173
22	Philippe Alliot	Ligier	26	1:20.657	+3.430	196 m	+0.210
23	Gregor Foitek	Onyx	35	1:21.012	+3.785	217 m	+0.355
24	Nicola Larini	Ligier	25	1:21.116	+3.889	223 m	+0.104
25	Éric Bernard	Lola	29	1:21.273	+4.046	232 m	+0.157
26	Jyrki Järvilehto	Onyx	36	1:21.519	+4.292	246 m	+0.246
27	Ivan Capelli	Leyton House	16	1:21.544	+4.317	247 m	+0.025
28	Mauricio Gugelmin	Leyton House	15	1:21.665	+4.438	254 m	+0.121
29	Alex Caffi	Arrows	10	1:22.154	+4.927	282 m	+0.489

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Pit stops

Pit stops are recorded from 1994. F1DB, the source of every stop here, holds none before then, so this race has no stints to draw.

Practice sessions Pre-qualifying · Practice 1 · Practice 2 · Warm-up

Pre-qualifying

Pre-qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Olivier Grouillard	Osella	14	1:25.281	—	0 m	—	—
2	Éric Bernard	Lola	29	1:25.456	+0.175	9 m	+0.175	—
3	Roberto Moreno	EuroBrun	33	1:26.724	+1.443	75 m	+1.268	—
4	Aguri Suzuki	Lola	30	1:27.511	+2.230	116 m	+0.787	—
5	Yannick Dalmas	AGS	18	1:27.830	+2.549	132 m	+0.319	—
6	Gabriele Tarquini	AGS	17	1:28.499	+3.218	167 m	+0.669	—
7	Bertrand Gachot	Coloni	31	1:28.805	+3.524	183 m	+0.306	—
8	Claudio Langes	EuroBrun	34	1:40.414	+15.133	785 m	+11.609	—
9	Bruno Giacomelli	Life	39	4:07.475	+2:42.194	8,408 m	+2:27.061	—

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Practice 1

Practice 1
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Nigel Mansell	Ferrari	2	1:18.813	—	0 m	—	—
2	Riccardo Patrese	Williams	6	1:18.885	+0.072	4 m	+0.072	—
3	Gerhard Berger	McLaren	28	1:19.150	+0.337	19 m	+0.265	—
4	Pierluigi Martini	Minardi	23	1:19.184	+0.371	21 m	+0.034	—
5	Alessandro Nannini	Benetton	19	1:19.217	+0.404	23 m	+0.033	—
6	Stefano Modena	Brabham	8	1:19.221	+0.408	23 m	+0.004	—
7	Ayrton Senna	McLaren	27	1:19.748	+0.935	52 m	+0.527	—
8	Alain Prost	Ferrari	1	1:19.794	+0.981	55 m	+0.046	—
9	Satoru Nakajima	Tyrrell	3	1:20.102	+1.289	72 m	+0.308	—
10	Nelson Piquet	Benetton	20	1:20.217	+1.404	79 m	+0.115	—
11	Derek Warwick	Team Lotus	11	1:20.484	+1.671	94 m	+0.267	—
12	Andrea de Cesaris	Dallara	22	1:20.759	+1.946	109 m	+0.275	—
13	Thierry Boutsen	Williams	5	1:20.774	+1.961	110 m	+0.015	—
14	Martin Donnelly	Team Lotus	12	1:20.817	+2.004	112 m	+0.043	—
15	Jean Alesi	Tyrrell	4	1:20.984	+2.171	122 m	+0.167	—
16	Olivier Grouillard	Osella	14	1:21.156	+2.343	131 m	+0.172	—
17	Jyrki Järvilehto	Onyx	36	1:21.257	+2.444	137 m	+0.101	—
18	Paolo Barilla	Minardi	24	1:21.496	+2.683	151 m	+0.239	—
19	Roberto Moreno	EuroBrun	33	1:21.583	+2.770	155 m	+0.087	—
20	Philippe Alliot	Ligier	26	1:21.607	+2.794	157 m	+0.024	—
21	Gregor Foitek	Onyx	35	1:21.897	+3.084	173 m	+0.290	—
22	David Brabham	Brabham	7	1:22.066	+3.253	182 m	+0.169	—
23	Alex Caffi	Arrows	10	1:22.120	+3.307	186 m	+0.054	—
24	Emanuele Pirro	Dallara	21	1:22.136	+3.323	186 m	+0.016	—
25	Michele Alboreto	Arrows	9	1:22.913	+4.100	230 m	+0.777	—
26	Aguri Suzuki	Lola	30	1:23.028	+4.215	236 m	+0.115	—
27	Ivan Capelli	Leyton House	16	1:24.046	+5.233	294 m	+1.018	—
28	Nicola Larini	Ligier	25	1:25.100	+6.287	353 m	+1.054	—
29	Mauricio Gugelmin	Leyton House	15	1:25.451	+6.638	372 m	+0.351	—
30	Éric Bernard	Lola	29	1:30.578	+11.765	660 m	+5.127	—

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Practice 2

Practice 2
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Thierry Boutsen	Williams	5	1:17.679	—	0 m	—	—
2	Nigel Mansell	Ferrari	2	1:18.093	+0.414	24 m	+0.414	—
3	Gerhard Berger	McLaren	28	1:18.144	+0.465	26 m	+0.051	—
4	Jean Alesi	Tyrrell	4	1:18.255	+0.576	33 m	+0.111	—
5	Satoru Nakajima	Tyrrell	3	1:18.321	+0.642	37 m	+0.066	—
6	Riccardo Patrese	Williams	6	1:18.484	+0.805	46 m	+0.163	—
7	Ayrton Senna	McLaren	27	1:18.485	+0.806	46 m	+0.001	—
8	Martin Donnelly	Team Lotus	12	1:18.528	+0.849	48 m	+0.043	—
9	Nelson Piquet	Benetton	20	1:18.593	+0.914	52 m	+0.065	—
10	Pierluigi Martini	Minardi	23	1:18.614	+0.935	53 m	+0.021	—
11	Alessandro Nannini	Benetton	19	1:18.914	+1.235	70 m	+0.300	—
12	Alain Prost	Ferrari	1	1:18.930	+1.251	71 m	+0.016	—
13	Stefano Modena	Brabham	8	1:19.199	+1.520	87 m	+0.269	—
14	Derek Warwick	Team Lotus	11	1:19.250	+1.571	89 m	+0.051	—
15	Emanuele Pirro	Dallara	21	1:19.350	+1.671	95 m	+0.100	—
16	Nicola Larini	Ligier	25	1:19.539	+1.860	106 m	+0.189	—
17	Andrea de Cesaris	Dallara	22	1:19.870	+2.191	125 m	+0.331	—
18	Aguri Suzuki	Lola	30	1:19.901	+2.222	126 m	+0.031	—
19	Jyrki Järvilehto	Onyx	36	1:19.948	+2.269	129 m	+0.047	—
20	Gregor Foitek	Onyx	35	1:19.950	+2.271	129 m	+0.002	—
21	Paolo Barilla	Minardi	24	1:20.311	+2.632	150 m	+0.361	—
22	Éric Bernard	Lola	29	1:20.572	+2.893	165 m	+0.261	—
23	Alex Caffi	Arrows	10	1:20.642	+2.963	169 m	+0.070	—
24	Michele Alboreto	Arrows	9	1:20.698	+3.019	172 m	+0.056	—
25	David Brabham	Brabham	7	1:20.706	+3.027	172 m	+0.008	—
26	Philippe Alliot	Ligier	26	1:21.065	+3.386	193 m	+0.359	—
27	Olivier Grouillard	Osella	14	1:21.090	+3.411	194 m	+0.025	—
28	Roberto Moreno	EuroBrun	33	1:21.445	+3.766	214 m	+0.355	—
29	Ivan Capelli	Leyton House	16	1:21.660	+3.981	227 m	+0.215	—
30	Mauricio Gugelmin	Leyton House	15	1:22.067	+4.388	250 m	+0.407	—

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Warm-up

Warm-up
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Gerhard Berger	McLaren	28	1:19.823	—	0 m	—	—
2	Ayrton Senna	McLaren	27	1:19.930	+0.107	6 m	+0.107	—
3	Nelson Piquet	Benetton	20	1:20.242	+0.419	23 m	+0.312	—
4	Nigel Mansell	Ferrari	2	1:20.398	+0.575	32 m	+0.156	—
5	Thierry Boutsen	Williams	5	1:20.462	+0.639	35 m	+0.064	—
6	Riccardo Patrese	Williams	6	1:20.579	+0.756	42 m	+0.117	—
7	Alessandro Nannini	Benetton	19	1:20.928	+1.105	61 m	+0.349	—
8	Alain Prost	Ferrari	1	1:21.012	+1.189	66 m	+0.084	—
9	Jean Alesi	Tyrrell	4	1:21.056	+1.233	68 m	+0.044	—
10	Martin Donnelly	Team Lotus	12	1:21.253	+1.430	79 m	+0.197	—
11	Aguri Suzuki	Lola	30	1:21.308	+1.485	82 m	+0.055	—
12	Stefano Modena	Brabham	8	1:21.594	+1.771	98 m	+0.286	—
13	Pierluigi Martini	Minardi	23	1:21.759	+1.936	107 m	+0.165	—
14	Éric Bernard	Lola	29	1:21.796	+1.973	109 m	+0.037	—
15	Satoru Nakajima	Tyrrell	3	1:21.904	+2.081	115 m	+0.108	—
16	Derek Warwick	Team Lotus	11	1:21.964	+2.141	119 m	+0.060	—
17	Emanuele Pirro	Dallara	21	1:22.025	+2.202	122 m	+0.061	—
18	Andrea de Cesaris	Dallara	22	1:22.110	+2.287	127 m	+0.085	—
19	Michele Alboreto	Arrows	9	1:22.122	+2.299	127 m	+0.012	—
20	Gregor Foitek	Onyx	35	1:22.602	+2.779	154 m	+0.480	—
21	Philippe Alliot	Ligier	26	1:22.901	+3.078	170 m	+0.299	—
22	Paolo Barilla	Minardi	24	1:22.923	+3.100	172 m	+0.022	—
23	David Brabham	Brabham	7	1:23.282	+3.459	192 m	+0.359	—
24	Olivier Grouillard	Osella	14	1:23.595	+3.772	209 m	+0.313	—
25	Jyrki Järvilehto	Onyx	36	1:24.114	+4.291	238 m	+0.519	—
26	Nicola Larini	Ligier	25	1:24.459	+4.636	257 m	+0.345	—

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

The cars in this race

The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.

Coloni C3
C3-1 · Matthias v.d. Elbe · CC BY-SA 3.0 · unchecked

A photograph marked unchecked has a file name that does not name the car it is shown for. Most are still the right car, filed under the driver rather than the machine — but nobody has confirmed these one by one.

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Where this comes from

Round: 6 of 1990
Grand Prix: Mexican Grand Prix
Dates: 24 Jun 1990
Layout raced: Shortened circuit · 4.421 km · 15 turns
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Ferrari
Entrant: Ferrari
Confidence: reference

The layout raced and its figures are this register’s, from its own sources; the figures under the race’s drawing are F1DB’s, and at some circuits the two disagree.