1989 German Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 9 of 16 in the 1989 Formula One season | |||
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| Date | 30 July 1989 | ||
| Official name | LI Grosser Mobil 1 Preis von Deutschland | ||
| Location |
Hockenheimring near Heidelberg, West Germany |
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| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 6.797 km (4.2234 mi) | ||
| Distance | 45 laps, 305.865 km (190.055 mi) | ||
| Weather | Warm, cloudy | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | McLaren-Honda | ||
| Time | 1:42.300 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Ayrton Senna
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McLaren-Honda | |
| Time | 1:45.884 on lap 43 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | McLaren-Honda | ||
| Second | McLaren-Honda | ||
| Third | Ferrari | ||
The 1989 German Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Hockenheimring on 30 July 1989.
Pre-qualifying had been reorganised going into the second half of the season; no points in the first half of the season meant that the Larrousse team with their Lamborghini V12 engines joined the session, where Philippe Alliot was now partnered by Michele Alboreto who had left Tyrrell over a rumored sponsorship dispute before the French Grand Prix (Alboreto was personally sponsored by Marlboro and Ken Tyrrell had signed the rival Camel brand as the team's major sponsor. Ironically Marlboro ended their contract with Alboreto shortly after he left Tyrrell which allowed him to join the Camel backed Larrousse team). Roberto Moreno was also forced to pre-qualify in the second half of the season, thus joining his Coloni team mate Pierre-Henri Raphanel. Despite his sixth-place finish at the Mexican Grand Prix, this was not enough to prevent Gabriele Tarquini from having to pre-qualify his AGS, so the Italian now joined his new team mate Yannick Dalmas in the session. Stefano Modena's third place and team mate Martin Brundle's sixth-place finish at the Monaco Grand Prix resulted in the Brabham team no longer having to pre-qualify for the remainder of the season, while Alex Caffi's fourth place in the same race, as well as a sixth in Canada, meant the Italian would not have to pre-qualify his Dallara either. Volker Weidler also found himself free of pre-qualifying thanks to his Rial team mate Christian Danner's fourth-place finish at the United States Grand Prix, despite the fact he had never finished any of the pre-qualifying sessions beforehand in a position higher than seventh. In the pre-qualifying session itself, Alboreto beat Dalmas by mere 0.001 second for the last berth in the qualifying sessions.
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