1991 Mexican Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 6 of 16 in the 1991 Formula One season | |||
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| Date | 16 June 1991 | ||
| Location |
Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez Mexico City, Mexico |
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| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 4.421 km (2.747 mi) | ||
| Distance | 69 laps, 305.049 km (189.549 mi) | ||
| Weather | Mostly Cloudy 24 °C (75 °F) |
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| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Williams-Renault | ||
| Time | 1:16.696 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Nigel Mansell
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Williams-Renault | |
| Time | 1:16.788 on lap 61 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Williams-Renault | ||
| Second | Williams-Renault | ||
| Third | McLaren-Honda | ||
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The 1991 Mexican Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Mexico City, on 16 June 1991. It was the sixth race of the 1991 Formula One season. As of 2016 it is the most recent F1 race to feature a Porsche-powered vehicle.
In the run-up to the race, Tyrrell had lost talented designer Harvey Postlethwaite to the Mercedes-Benz sportscar team. Meanwhile, Ayrton Senna had been injured in a jet-ski incident, but he also suffered a big accident at the high speed Peraltada corner during qualifying, (in which the car rolled and landed upside down) but thankfully he emerged unscathed.
For the second race in succession, the Williams team filled the front row with Riccardo Patrese ahead of Nigel Mansell. Senna recovered from his dramatic accident on the Friday to take third on Saturday, with Jean Alesi fourth for Ferrari. Senna's McLaren team-mate Gerhard Berger was fifth ahead of Benetton's Nelson Piquet, the winner of the previous race in Canada. The top ten was completed by Alain Prost in the second Ferrari, Stefano Modena in the Tyrrell, Roberto Moreno in the second Benetton and, remarkably, Olivier Grouillard in the Fondmetal. The latter seven drivers were separated by little more than 0.3 of a second.
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