1991 Monaco Grand Prix

The 1991 Monaco Grand Prix was a Formula One race held at Monaco on May 12, 1991.

Report

Ayrton Senna shocked no-one by taking pole position, but second place was a surprise with Stefano Modena taking full advantage of the superior Pirelli qualifying tyres to be second followed by Patrese, Piquet, a disappointing Mansell, Berger, Prost, Moreno, Alesi, and de Cesaris. Alex Caffi had a huge accident in practice and would not participate in the race. Elsewhere Martin Brundle was disqualified for missing a weight check. At the start Senna got away well followed by Patrese, Mansell, and Prost. In the usual first corner mayhem Berger ran into the back of Piquet, dropping the Austrian to the back of the pack and breaking Piquet's suspension, Berger would later crash out. Senna quickly built up a huge lead over Modena and Patrese, and both the chasers were eliminated on lap 42 when Modena's engine blew in the tunnel spreading oil on the track which caused Patrese to crash. Senna now had a huge lead over Prost and Mansell, but the Englishman was in no mood to stay third and passed Prost with a daring move going into the chicane. Prost would later pit to repair a loose wheel and problems with the stop dropped him down to fifth. Senna duly won his fourth Monaco Grand Prix in five years by 18 seconds over Mansell, who drove a brilliant race, Alesi, Moreno, Prost, and Emanuelle Pirro in the Dallara. The second place finish was Nigel Mansell's first points of the season and the gearbox issues that had troubled the start of his season did not re-appear.

Classification

Notes

*Pole position: Ayrton Senna - 1:20.344cite book| last = Henry | first = Alan | authorlink = Alan Henry | title = AUTOCOURSE 1991-92 | publisher = Hazleton Publishing | date = 1991 | pages = p134 | isbn = 0-905138-87-2]
*Fastest lap: Alain Prost - 1:24.368 on lap 77cite book| last = Henry | first = Alan | authorlink = Alan Henry | title = AUTOCOURSE 1991-92 | publisher = Hazleton Publishing | date = 1991 | pages = p135 | isbn = 0-905138-87-2]
*Last race: Julian Bailey
*Gerhard Berger made an error at the first corner at the start and he demoted to 26th.
*Mansell's first points of the season (2nd position)
*Martin Brundle DSQ for not weighing in by FIA Stewards
*Alex Caffi had a huge shunt by the swimming pool section of the circuit in the Footwork-Porsche
*Stefano Modena in the Tyrrell Honda V10 put in a stunning qualifying lap to join the front row of the grid with Senna in his V12 powered Honda Marlboro McLaren
*In the opening stages of the race, a marshal picking up some debris from an earlier incident at Ste Devote was almost clipped by Ayrton Senna
*Ayrton Senna's 4th victory out of 4 races in the 1991 season

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/1991/204/ | accessdate = 2007-08-08

F1 race report
Name_of_race = Monaco Grand Prix
Year_of_race = 1991
Previous_race_in_season = 1991 San Marino Grand Prix
Next_race_in_season = 1991 Canadian Grand Prix
Previous_year's_race = 1990 Monaco Grand Prix
Next_year's_race = 1992 Monaco Grand Prix