Race · Round 10 of 16 · 11 August 1991

1991 Hungarian Grand Prix

Ayrton Senna won for McLaren from pole at Hungaroring. 9 of the starters were not classified.

Dry · High of 27 °C, no rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

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Circuit: HungaroringMogyorod, Hungary
Winner: Ayrton SennaMcLaren
Pole: Ayrton Senna
Fastest lap: Bertrand Gachot
Entries: 3417 classified

Two sources disagree about this race

Position text

DNQagainstDNPQ

F1DB's race result has Caffi DNQ, but its own sheets say he failed pre-qualifying: sixth on the pre-qualifying sheet, behind the four who went through, and no qualifying row. The race article agrees with the sheets - sixth in Friday's pre-qualifying, one of the four who did not pre-qualify - citing Murray Walker's Grand Prix Year (1991). Both readings are a non-start, so his starts do not move. The race result is kept as F1DB publishes it. Source: https://github.com/f1db/f1db/tree/main/src/data/seasons/1991/races/10-hungary (race-results.yml against pre-qualifying-results.yml and qualifying-results.yml); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Hungarian_Grand_Prix

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	Ayrton Senna	McLaren	MP4/6	1	77	Finished	10
2	Nigel Mansell	Williams	FW14	3	77	Finished	6
3	Riccardo Patrese	Williams	FW14	2	77	Finished	4
4	Gerhard Berger	McLaren	MP4/6	5	77	Finished	3
5	Jean Alesi	Ferrari	—	6	77	Finished	2
6	Ivan Capelli	Leyton House	CG911	9	76	Finished	1
7	Andrea de Cesaris	Jordan	191	17	76	Finished	0
8	Roberto Moreno	Benetton	—	15	76	Finished	0
9	Bertrand Gachot	Jordan	191	16	76	Finished	0	fastest lap
10	Érik Comas	Ligier	—	25	75	Finished	0
11	Mauricio Gugelmin	Leyton House	CG911	13	75	Finished	0
12	Stefano Modena	Tyrrell	16	8	75	Finished	0
13	Gianni Morbidelli	Minardi	M191	23	75	Finished	0
14	Mika Hakkinen	Team Lotus	102B	26	74	Finished	0
15	Satoru Nakajima	Tyrrell	16	14	74	Finished	0
16	Nicola Larini	Modena	291	24	74	Finished	0
17	Thierry Boutsen	Ligier	—	19	71	Engine	0
DNF	Pierluigi Martini	Minardi	M191	18	65	Engine	0
DNF	Mark Blundell	Brabham	—	20	62	Tyre	0
DNF	Martin Brundle	Brabham	—	10	59	Physical	0
DNF	Jyrki Järvilehto	Dallara	F191	12	49	Engine	0
DNF	Nelson Piquet	Benetton	—	11	38	Gearbox	0
DNF	Éric Bernard	Lola	LC91	21	38	Engine	0
DNF	Aguri Suzuki	Lola	LC91	22	38	Engine	0
DNF	Emanuele Pirro	Dallara	F191	7	37	Engine	0
DNF	Alain Prost	Ferrari	—	4	28	Engine	0
DNQ	Olivier Grouillard	Fondmetal	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Michele Alboreto	Footwork	FA12C	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Eric van de Poele	Modena	291	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Michael Bartels	Team Lotus	102B	—	—	DNQ	0
DNPQ	Gabriele Tarquini	AGS	—	—	—	DNPQ	0
DNQ	Alex Caffi	Footwork	FA12C	—	—	DNQ	0
DNPQ	Fabrizio Barbazza	AGS	—	—	—	DNPQ	0
DNPQ	Pedro Chaves	Coloni	C4	—	—	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 hungaroring-2 · 3.975 km · 13 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
Ayrton Senna	1	1	77
Nigel Mansell	3	2	77
Riccardo Patrese	2	3	77
Gerhard Berger	5	4	77
Jean Alesi	6	5	77
Ivan Capelli	9	6	76
Andrea de Cesaris	17	7	76
Roberto Moreno	15	8	76
Bertrand Gachot	16	9	76
Érik Comas	25	10	75
Mauricio Gugelmin	13	11	75
Stefano Modena	8	12	75
Gianni Morbidelli	23	13	75
Mika Hakkinen	26	14	74
Satoru Nakajima	14	15	74
Nicola Larini	24	16	74
Thierry Boutsen	19	17	71
Pierluigi Martini	18	DNF	65
Mark Blundell	20	DNF	62
Martin Brundle	10	DNF	59
Jyrki Järvilehto	12	DNF	49
Nelson Piquet	11	DNF	38
Éric Bernard	21	DNF	38
Aguri Suzuki	22	DNF	38
Emanuele Pirro	7	DNF	37
Alain Prost	4	DNF	28

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Ayrton Senna	McLaren	1	1:16.147	—	0 m	—
2	Riccardo Patrese	Williams	6	1:17.379	+1.232	64 m	+1.232
3	Nigel Mansell	Williams	5	1:17.389	+1.242	65 m	+0.010
4	Alain Prost	Ferrari	27	1:17.690	+1.543	81 m	+0.301
5	Gerhard Berger	McLaren	2	1:17.705	+1.558	81 m	+0.015
6	Jean Alesi	Ferrari	28	1:18.410	+2.263	118 m	+0.705
7	Emanuele Pirro	Dallara	21	1:19.334	+3.187	166 m	+0.924
8	Stefano Modena	Tyrrell	4	1:19.748	+3.601	188 m	+0.414
9	Ivan Capelli	Leyton House	16	1:19.794	+3.647	190 m	+0.046
10	Martin Brundle	Brabham	7	1:19.976	+3.829	200 m	+0.182
11	Nelson Piquet	Benetton	20	1:19.984	+3.837	200 m	+0.008
12	Jyrki Järvilehto	Dallara	22	1:20.014	+3.867	202 m	+0.030
13	Mauricio Gugelmin	Leyton House	15	1:20.024	+3.877	202 m	+0.010
14	Satoru Nakajima	Tyrrell	3	1:20.565	+4.418	231 m	+0.541
15	Roberto Moreno	Benetton	19	1:20.584	+4.437	232 m	+0.019
16	Bertrand Gachot	Jordan	32	1:20.655	+4.508	235 m	+0.071
17	Andrea de Cesaris	Jordan	33	1:20.805	+4.658	243 m	+0.150
18	Pierluigi Martini	Minardi	23	1:20.823	+4.676	244 m	+0.018
19	Thierry Boutsen	Ligier	25	1:20.870	+4.723	247 m	+0.047
20	Mark Blundell	Brabham	8	1:20.954	+4.807	251 m	+0.084
21	Éric Bernard	Lola	29	1:21.267	+5.120	267 m	+0.313
22	Aguri Suzuki	Lola	30	1:21.601	+5.454	285 m	+0.334
23	Gianni Morbidelli	Minardi	24	1:21.654	+5.507	287 m	+0.053
24	Nicola Larini	Modena	34	1:21.896	+5.749	300 m	+0.242
25	Érik Comas	Ligier	26	1:22.258	+6.111	319 m	+0.362
26	Mika Hakkinen	Team Lotus	11	1:22.335	+6.188	323 m	+0.077
27	Olivier Grouillard	Fondmetal	14	1:22.438	+6.291	328 m	+0.103
28	Michele Alboreto	Footwork	9	1:22.521	+6.374	333 m	+0.083
29	Eric van de Poele	Modena	35	1:23.162	+7.015	366 m	+0.641
30	Michael Bartels	Team Lotus	12	1:23.248	+7.101	371 m	+0.086

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	Mark Blundell	Brabham	8	1:22.290	—	0 m	—	—
2	Martin Brundle	Brabham	7	1:23.716	+1.426	69 m	+1.426	—
3	Olivier Grouillard	Fondmetal	14	1:24.816	+2.526	122 m	+1.100	—
4	Michele Alboreto	Footwork	9	1:25.045	+2.755	133 m	+0.229	—
5	Gabriele Tarquini	AGS	17	1:25.230	+2.940	142 m	+0.185	—
6	Alex Caffi	Footwork	10	1:26.637	+4.347	210 m	+1.407	—
7	Fabrizio Barbazza	AGS	18	1:26.740	+4.450	215 m	+0.103	—
8	Pedro Chaves	Coloni	31	1:26.945	+4.655	225 m	+0.205	—

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	Ayrton Senna	McLaren	1	1:18.532	—	0 m	—	—
2	Gerhard Berger	McLaren	2	1:19.863	+1.331	67 m	+1.331	—
3	Nigel Mansell	Williams	5	1:19.914	+1.382	70 m	+0.051	—
4	Ivan Capelli	Leyton House	16	1:20.510	+1.978	100 m	+0.596	—
5	Jean Alesi	Ferrari	28	1:20.600	+2.068	105 m	+0.090	—
6	Alain Prost	Ferrari	27	1:21.176	+2.644	134 m	+0.576	—
7	Roberto Moreno	Benetton	19	1:21.407	+2.875	146 m	+0.231	—
8	Mark Blundell	Brabham	8	1:21.493	+2.961	150 m	+0.086	—
9	Andrea de Cesaris	Jordan	33	1:21.905	+3.373	171 m	+0.412	—
10	Nelson Piquet	Benetton	20	1:22.032	+3.500	177 m	+0.127	—
11	Emanuele Pirro	Dallara	21	1:22.033	+3.501	177 m	+0.001	—
12	Martin Brundle	Brabham	7	1:22.041	+3.509	178 m	+0.008	—
13	Stefano Modena	Tyrrell	4	1:22.251	+3.719	188 m	+0.210	—
14	Riccardo Patrese	Williams	6	1:22.730	+4.198	212 m	+0.479	—
15	Thierry Boutsen	Ligier	25	1:22.885	+4.353	220 m	+0.155	—
16	Satoru Nakajima	Tyrrell	3	1:23.110	+4.578	232 m	+0.225	—
17	Pierluigi Martini	Minardi	23	1:23.250	+4.718	239 m	+0.140	—
18	Mauricio Gugelmin	Leyton House	15	1:23.382	+4.850	245 m	+0.132	—
19	Michele Alboreto	Footwork	9	1:23.652	+5.120	259 m	+0.270	—
20	Aguri Suzuki	Lola	30	1:23.784	+5.252	266 m	+0.132	—
21	Jyrki Järvilehto	Dallara	22	1:24.002	+5.470	277 m	+0.218	—
22	Bertrand Gachot	Jordan	32	1:24.351	+5.819	295 m	+0.349	—
23	Olivier Grouillard	Fondmetal	14	1:24.362	+5.830	295 m	+0.011	—
24	Éric Bernard	Lola	29	1:24.736	+6.204	314 m	+0.374	—
25	Gianni Morbidelli	Minardi	24	1:24.919	+6.387	323 m	+0.183	—
26	Érik Comas	Ligier	26	1:25.300	+6.768	343 m	+0.381	—
27	Michael Bartels	Team Lotus	12	1:26.069	+7.537	381 m	+0.769	—
28	Nicola Larini	Modena	34	1:27.261	+8.729	442 m	+1.192	—
29	Mika Hakkinen	Team Lotus	11	1:27.583	+9.051	458 m	+0.322	—
30	Eric van de Poele	Modena	35	1:29.319	+10.787	546 m	+1.736	—

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	Ayrton Senna	McLaren	1	1:17.821	—	0 m	—	—
2	Alain Prost	Ferrari	27	1:17.921	+0.100	5 m	+0.100	—
3	Nigel Mansell	Williams	5	1:18.335	+0.514	26 m	+0.414	—
4	Gerhard Berger	McLaren	2	1:18.733	+0.912	47 m	+0.398	—
5	Ivan Capelli	Leyton House	16	1:19.626	+1.805	92 m	+0.893	—
6	Jean Alesi	Ferrari	28	1:19.657	+1.836	94 m	+0.031	—
7	Pierluigi Martini	Minardi	23	1:19.946	+2.125	109 m	+0.289	—
8	Riccardo Patrese	Williams	6	1:20.034	+2.213	113 m	+0.088	—
9	Stefano Modena	Tyrrell	4	1:20.158	+2.337	119 m	+0.124	—
10	Thierry Boutsen	Ligier	25	1:20.345	+2.524	129 m	+0.187	—
11	Andrea de Cesaris	Jordan	33	1:20.493	+2.672	136 m	+0.148	—
12	Roberto Moreno	Benetton	19	1:20.533	+2.712	139 m	+0.040	—
13	Mark Blundell	Brabham	8	1:20.602	+2.781	142 m	+0.069	—
14	Emanuele Pirro	Dallara	21	1:20.694	+2.873	147 m	+0.092	—
15	Martin Brundle	Brabham	7	1:20.749	+2.928	150 m	+0.055	—
16	Bertrand Gachot	Jordan	32	1:20.804	+2.983	152 m	+0.055	—
17	Nelson Piquet	Benetton	20	1:20.915	+3.094	158 m	+0.111	—
18	Érik Comas	Ligier	26	1:21.140	+3.319	170 m	+0.225	—
19	Satoru Nakajima	Tyrrell	3	1:21.239	+3.418	175 m	+0.099	—
20	Jyrki Järvilehto	Dallara	22	1:21.271	+3.450	176 m	+0.032	—
21	Mauricio Gugelmin	Leyton House	15	1:21.548	+3.727	190 m	+0.277	—
22	Nicola Larini	Modena	34	1:22.099	+4.278	219 m	+0.551	—
23	Mika Hakkinen	Team Lotus	11	1:22.232	+4.411	225 m	+0.133	—
24	Michele Alboreto	Footwork	9	1:22.255	+4.434	226 m	+0.023	—
25	Eric van de Poele	Modena	35	1:22.465	+4.644	237 m	+0.210	—
26	Olivier Grouillard	Fondmetal	14	1:22.528	+4.707	240 m	+0.063	—
27	Gianni Morbidelli	Minardi	24	1:22.745	+4.924	252 m	+0.217	—
28	Michael Bartels	Team Lotus	12	1:22.903	+5.082	260 m	+0.158	—
29	Éric Bernard	Lola	29	1:23.047	+5.226	267 m	+0.144	—
30	Aguri Suzuki	Lola	30	1:23.602	+5.781	295 m	+0.555	—

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	Alain Prost	Ferrari	27	1:21.364	—	0 m	—	—
2	Bertrand Gachot	Jordan	32	1:22.215	+0.851	42 m	+0.851	—
3	Riccardo Patrese	Williams	6	1:22.494	+1.130	55 m	+0.279	—
4	Ivan Capelli	Leyton House	16	1:22.783	+1.419	69 m	+0.289	—
5	Nigel Mansell	Williams	5	1:22.816	+1.452	71 m	+0.033	—
6	Ayrton Senna	McLaren	1	1:23.229	+1.865	91 m	+0.413	—
7	Jean Alesi	Ferrari	28	1:23.517	+2.153	105 m	+0.288	—
8	Gianni Morbidelli	Minardi	24	1:23.731	+2.367	116 m	+0.214	—
9	Pierluigi Martini	Minardi	23	1:24.203	+2.839	139 m	+0.472	—
10	Andrea de Cesaris	Jordan	33	1:24.445	+3.081	151 m	+0.242	—
11	Érik Comas	Ligier	26	1:24.489	+3.125	153 m	+0.044	—
12	Thierry Boutsen	Ligier	25	1:24.565	+3.201	156 m	+0.076	—
13	Mauricio Gugelmin	Leyton House	15	1:24.709	+3.345	163 m	+0.144	—
14	Nelson Piquet	Benetton	20	1:24.805	+3.441	168 m	+0.096	—
15	Gerhard Berger	McLaren	2	1:24.954	+3.590	175 m	+0.149	—
16	Éric Bernard	Lola	29	1:25.000	+3.636	178 m	+0.046	—
17	Stefano Modena	Tyrrell	4	1:25.153	+3.789	185 m	+0.153	—
18	Emanuele Pirro	Dallara	21	1:25.579	+4.215	206 m	+0.426	—
19	Aguri Suzuki	Lola	30	1:25.660	+4.296	210 m	+0.081	—
20	Mark Blundell	Brabham	8	1:25.821	+4.457	218 m	+0.161	—
21	Roberto Moreno	Benetton	19	1:25.848	+4.484	219 m	+0.027	—
22	Mika Hakkinen	Team Lotus	11	1:26.168	+4.804	235 m	+0.320	—
23	Nicola Larini	Modena	34	1:26.172	+4.808	235 m	+0.004	—
24	Jyrki Järvilehto	Dallara	22	1:26.207	+4.843	237 m	+0.035	—
25	Martin Brundle	Brabham	7	1:26.531	+5.167	252 m	+0.324	—
26	Satoru Nakajima	Tyrrell	3	1:26.990	+5.626	275 m	+0.459	—

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.

McLaren MP4/6
McLaren MP4-6 Honda · debun , cropped by Morio · CC BY 2.0

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: 10 of 1991
Grand Prix: Hungarian Grand Prix
Dates: 11 Aug 1991
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: McLaren
Entrant: McLaren-Honda
Confidence: reference

No layout is recorded for this round: this register has no layout timeline for the circuit, and a blank here is better than a guess.