Alternate F1 - The Revolutionary Era - 1989 Season

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Mexican Grand Prix

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Pre-Qualifying
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1) Osella-Judd 2:39.625
2) Rial-Ford 2:40.518
3) Zakspeed-Yamaha 2:41.278
4) Ligier-Judd 2:42.060
5) Coloni-Judd 2:50.670


Qualifying
Because I'm intellectually challenged, I forgot to screenshot the full qualifying results, and all I was left with was GP2's "Starting Grid" print-out. My apologies.

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       ³                       Race Starting Grid                       ³       
       ³                       ------------------                       ³       
       ³            Mexico - Hermanos Rodriguez, Mexico City            ³       
       ³                            (69 Laps)                           ³       
       ³                                                                ³       
       ³                                                                ³       
       ³                                                                ³       
       ³Pole                1                                           ³       
       ³             Gerhard Berger                                     ³       
       ³               1m 16.652s                   2                   ³       
       ³                                   Alessandro Nannini           ³       
       ³Row 2               3                  1m 16.681s               ³       
       ³              Ayrton Senna                                      ³       
       ³               1m 16.769s                   4                   ³       
       ³                                      Nigel Mansell             ³       
       ³Row 3               5                  1m 16.798s               ³       
       ³           Guillaume Gauthier                                   ³       
       ³               1m 16.810s                   6                   ³       
       ³                                       Alain Prost              ³       
       ³Row 4               7                  1m 16.836s               ³       
       ³              J.E. Voeckler                                     ³       
       ³               1m 16.917s                   8                   ³       
       ³                                      F.M. Voeckler             ³       
       ³Row 5               9                  1m 16.923s               ³       
       ³              Chris Dagnall                                     ³       
       ³               1m 17.227s                  10                   ³       
       ³                                       Jean Alesi               ³       
       ³Row 6              11                  1m 17.339s               ³       
       ³          Brendon Cassidy, Sr.                                  ³       
       ³               1m 17.466s                  12                   ³       
       ³                                    Gabriele Tarquini           ³       
       ³Row 7              13                  1m 17.875s               ³       
       ³            Pierluigi Martini                                   ³       
       ³               1m 17.882s                  14                   ³       
       ³                                    Michele Alboreto            ³       
       ³Row 8              15                  1m 18.074s               ³       
       ³             Satoru Nakajima                                    ³       
       ³               1m 18.080s                  16                   ³       
       ³                                    Mauricio Gugelmin           ³       
       ³Row 9              17                  1m 18.336s               ³       
       ³              Harvey Jones                                      ³       
       ³               1m 18.529s                  18                   ³       
       ³                                   Jack Christopherson          ³       
       ³Row 10             19                  1m 18.530s               ³       
       ³               Alex Caffi                                       ³       
       ³               1m 18.812s                  20                   ³       
       ³                                      Robert Kagan              ³       
       ³Row 11             21                  1m 19.006s               ³       
       ³             Martin Brundle                                     ³       
       ³               1m 19.079s                  22                   ³       
       ³                                     Thierry Boutsen            ³       
       ³Row 12             23                  1m 19.085s               ³       
       ³            Andrea de Cesaris                                   ³       
       ³               1m 19.118s                  24                   ³       
       ³                                     Stefano Modena             ³       
       ³Row 13             25                  1m 19.184s               ³       
       ³            Stefan Johansson                                    ³       
       ³               1m 19.236s                  26                   ³       
       ³                                     Roberto Moreno             ³       
       ³ DNQ               27                  1m 19.431s               ³
       ³            Isabella Noriko                                     ³     
       ³                   DNQ                     28                   ³       
       ³                                     Nicola Larini              ³
       ³                                           DNQ                  ³       
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Race
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Lap Charts
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Final Championship Standings
Driver's championship
Constructor's Championship

Congratulations to Ayrton Senna, Ferrari and Biscione on becoming 1989's World Champions.
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Final Post-Season Budgets

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As the dust settles on another brilliant year of racing a new World Champion has been crowned, the prancing horse gallops once more, and post-season prize money has been handed out. Before I reveal the final budgets of the 1989 season, here's a quick reject podium.

3rd: Zakspeed - A respectable 5th place in the 1988 WCC with 9 points promised greater things for the German squad in 1989. However, the team's decision to hitch their wagon to the Yamaha horse proved to be a costly mistake. Overweight, under-powered and horrendous to drive, the boat of an engine saw the team drop into Pre-Qualifying in the first reshuffle of the year - with the team only making one more start in the remaining 12 races. After racking up 24 failures to qualify, the team decided to withdraw from Formula One to focus on World Touring Car Masters.

2nd: Benetton - Benetton's tragic foray into a team of their own has reached a sorry end after another season of chronic underperformance. Dealt the devastating blow of losing works Ford engine status to Arrows in the off-season, the hopes were for consistent points finishes from the lineup of Thierry Boutsen and Kazuki Fushida. Things started off badly, with Fushida proved hilariously out of his depth after two failures to qualify. Singing Roberto Moreno as a replacement for Fushida was a shrewd move, but things went from bad to worse. The car was both overweight and ill-handling, and as the season wore on both drivers struggled more and more to scrape onto the grid, with Boutsen and Moreno eventually racking up 4 failures to qualify between them. The team would end the season on 0 points, but the final nail was already in the coffin - the Benetton family had decided to sell their own team and instead move their sponsorship to the Arrows team.

1st: Ligier - Experienced lead driver, check. Young French talent in the second seat, check. Semi-competitive Judd engines, check. Yet somehow Ligier fell to pre-qualifying after four races and never escaped, slumping to 26 failures to qualify - the worst of any team bar the woeful Coloni. So what happened? Yannick Dalmas' skills proved to be completely inadequate, with the Frenchman acting as a lead weight for his team-mate Riccardo Patrese who on the pace of the leading cars in Pre-Qualifying throughout the season. Whenever Dalmas did string together a lap good enough for Ligier to progress into main qualifying, horrendous reliability issues meant that Patrese would only go on to finish 2 of the 6 races he started. And Dalmas didn't even make the grid once. 1989 has been the worst season in the French team's history, leaving the future of the team in serious doubt.

Now, as promised - the final budgets for 1989, taking into account all 16 races, end-of-season prize money, and sponsorship:

Final Budgets
Ferrari £60,000,000
Tyrrell £35,000,000
Williams £50,000,000
McLaren £65,000,000
Arrows £58,000,000
Lotus £48,000,000
March £30,000,000
Osella £25,000,000
Scuderia Italia £39,000,000
Minardi £44,000,000
Ligier £26,000,000
Larrousse £37,000,000
Coloni £15,000,000
Rial £28,000,000
AGS £29,000,000
Oreca £38,000,000 *
* The Benetton team has been sold to French Formula 3000 outfit Oreca.
** Zakspeed are not listed due to their withdrawal from Formula One.

After 1 and a half years of gestation, the 1989 season of canon F1 has finally drawn to a close. Stay tuned for the 1990 thread, which will feature all the details of the new season including new teams, and will see far more user engagement. Goodbye for now.
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