1989 British Grand Prix

Infobox Grand Prix race report
Type = F1
Grand Prix = British
Country = UK

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Official name = XLII Shell British Grand Prix
Date = July 16
Year = 1989
Race_No = 8
Season_No = 16
Location = Silverstone Circuit
Silverstone, Northamptonshire
Course = Permanent racing facility
Course_mi = 2.969
Course_km = 4.778
Distance_laps = 64
Distance_mi = 190.080
Distance_km = 305.904
Weather = Warm, dry, sunny
Pole_Driver = Ayrton Senna
Pole_Country = Brazil
Pole_Team = McLaren-Honda
Pole_Time = 1:09.099
Fast_Driver = Nigel Mansell
Fast_Country = UK
Fast_Team = Ferrari
Fast_Time = 1:12.017
Fast_L

First_Driver = Alain Prost
First_Country = France
First_Team = McLaren-Honda
Second_Driver = Nigel Mansell
Second_Country= UK
Second_Team = Ferrari
Third_Driver = Alessandro Nannini
Third_Country = Italy
Third_Team = Benetton-FordThe 1989 British Grand Prix was a Formula One race held at Silverstone on July 16, 1989.

Ayrton Senna spinning out of the lead allowed his team-mate Alain Prost to win ahead of the Ferrari of Nigel Mansell.

Minardi needed to score at least 3 points to avoid "relegation" to the pre-qualifying sessions, and they actually achieved that with the two drivers, Pierluigi Martini and Luis Perez-Sala finishing 5th and 6th. This meant that Onyx was not able to "promote" themselves out of pre-qualifying, despite scoring a 5th place at Paul Ricard.

Classification

Notes

*First points: Luis Perez-Sala

References

* "Unless otherwise indicated, all race results are taken from cite web |title=The Official Formula 1 website |url=http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1989/238/ |accessdate=2007-08-04

F1 race report
Name_of_race = British Grand Prix
Year_of_race = 1989
Previous_race_in_season = 1989 French Grand Prix
Next_race_in_season = 1989 German Grand Prix
Previous_year's_race = 1988 British Grand Prix
Next_year's_race = 1990 British Grand Prix