1989 Hungarian Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 10 of 16 in the 1989 Formula One season | |||
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| Date | 13 August 1989 | ||
| Official name | V Pop 84 Magyar Nagydíj | ||
| Location |
Hungaroring Budapest, Hungary |
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| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 3.968 km (2.466 mi) | ||
| Distance | 77 laps, 305.536 km (189.850 mi) | ||
| Weather | Hot dry, sunny | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Williams-Renault | ||
| Time | 1:19.726 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Nigel Mansell
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Ferrari | |
| Time | 1:22.637 on lap 66 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Ferrari | ||
| Second | McLaren-Honda | ||
| Third | Williams-Renault | ||
The 1989 Hungarian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Hungaroring on 13 August 1989. It was the tenth race of the 1989 Formula One season.
Nigel Mansell won the race for Ferrari after a marvellous overtaking manoeuvre on Ayrton Senna as the two came upon a back-marker at the same time. It was his second victory for the Italian team.
Riccardo Patrese took a surprise pole position in his Williams, the first and only non-McLaren pole of the season, beating Senna by three-tenths of a second. In another surprise, Alex Caffi was just six-tenths behind Senna in third, the Pirelli tyres on his Dallara offering better grip than the Goodyears used by most of the top teams. Thierry Boutsen in the second Williams was fourth, ahead of the second McLaren of world championship leader Alain Prost in fifth. The top ten was completed by Gerhard Berger in the Ferrari, Alessandro Nannini in the Benetton, Stefano Modena in the Brabham, Derek Warwick in the Arrows and Pierluigi Martini in the Minardi.
Mansell, meanwhile, had a dismal qualifying and could only manage 12th, nearly seven-tenths behind team-mate Berger and over two seconds behind Patrese, and later complained of traffic.
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