1990 Alternate Formula One season

1990 Formula One season
Season
Races	17 16
Start date	11th March 1990
Start Event	Template:USA Iceberg United States Grand Prix
End date	4th November 1990
End Event	Template:AUS Foster's Australian Grand Prix
Awards
Driver's Champion	TBA
Constructor's Champion	TBA
Seasons
Previous season	Next season
1989	1991
Junior Categories
Tier 1	1990 International F3000 season

The 1990 Formula One season was the 41st Formula One World Championship season.

Teams and Drivers

Team	Constructor	Chassis	Engine	Tyre	#	Driver	Rounds
Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC [?]	Ferrari	Ferrari 641	Ferrari 035/5 3.5 V12	Template:Goodyear	1	Ayrton Senna	1-
					2	Template:GBR Nigel Mansell	1-
Template:GBR Rothmans Tyrrell Racing Organisation [?]	Tyrrell-Ford	Tyrrell 019	Ford DFR 3.5 V8	Template:Goodyear	3	Template:FRA Jean Alesi	1-
					4	Template:GBR Martin Donnelly	1-
Template:GBR Canon Williams Renault Team [?]	Williams-Renault	Williams FW13	Renault RS2 3.5 V10	Template:Goodyear	5	Template:FRA Jérémy-Étienne Voeckler	1-
					6	Template:FRA Alain Prost	1-
Template:GBR Honda Marlboro McLaren [?]	McLaren-Honda	McLaren MP4/6	Honda RA109E 3.5 V10	Template:Goodyear	7	Template:AUT Gerhard Berger	1-
					8	Alessandro Nannini	1-
Template:GBR Benetton Arrows Grand Prix International [?]	Arrows-Ford	Arrows A13	Ford HBA4 3.5 V8	Template:Goodyear	9	Template:GBR Chris Dagnall	1-
					10	Template:FRA Guillaume Gauthier	1-
Template:GBR Camel Team Lotus [?]	Lotus-Ford	Lotus 102	Ford DFR 3.5 V8	Template:Goodyear	11	Template:FRA Frédéric-Maxime Voeckler	1-
					12	Template:USA Brendon Cassidy	1-
Template:GBR Leyton House March Racing Team [?]	March-Honda	March CG901	Honda RA109E 3.5 V10	Template:Pirelli	15	Template:BEL Thierry Boutsen	1-
					16	Satoru Nakajima	1-
Osella Squadra Corse [?]	Osella-Judd	Osella FA1M	Judd EV 3.5 V8	Template:Pirelli	17	Nicola Larini	1-
					18	Template:BEL Bertrand Gachot	1-
Template:FRA ESPO Larrousse F1 [?]	Lola-Lamborghini	Lola LC90	Lamborghini 3512 3.5 V12	Template:Goodyear	19	Riccardo Patrese	1-
					20	Isabella Noriko	1-
BMS Scuderia Italia [?]	Dallara-Judd	Dallara F190	Judd EV 3.5 V8	Template:Pirelli	21	Emmanuele Pirro	1-
					22	Alex Caffi	1-
Minardi Team SpA [?]	Minardi-Ford	Minardi M190	Ford DFR 3.5 V8	Template:Pirelli	23	Pierluigi Martini	1-2
						Ivan Capelli	3
					24	Michele Alboreto	1-
Template:FRA Ligier Loto Yamaha [?]	Ligier-Yamaha	Ligier JS33	Yamaha OX99 3.5 V12	Template:Pirelli	25	Template:FRA Éric Bernard	1-
					26	Template:FRA Yannick Dalmas	1
						Template:FRA Olivier Grouillard	2-
Barilla Subaru Coloni SpA [?]	Coloni-Subaru	Coloni C2	Subaru 1235 3.5 F12	Template:Pirelli	29	Paolo Barilla	1-
					30	Giovanna Amati	1-
Rial Racing [?]	Rial-Lamborghini	Rial ARC2	Lamborghini 3512 3.5 V12	Template:Goodyear	31	Andrea de Cesaris	1-
					32	JJ Lehto	1-
Template:FRA Automobiles Gonfaronnaises Sportives [?]	AGS-Judd	AGS JH25	Judd EV 3.5 V8	Template:Goodyear	33	Template:GBR Jack Christopherson	1-
					34	Fabrizio Giovanardi	1-
Template:FRA Footwork Team Oreca [?]	Oreca-Ford	Oreca F90	Ford DFR 3.5 V8	Template:Pirelli	35	Template:FRA Érik Comas	1-
					36	Stefan Johansson	1-
Template:GBR Motor Racing Developments Ltd [?]	Brabham-Ford	Brabham BT56	Ford DFR 3.5 V8	Template:Pirelli	37	Template:GBR Mark Blundell	1-
					38	Template:AUS David Brabham	1-
Life Racing Engines [?]	Life	Life L190	Life F35 3.5 W12	Template:Pirelli	39	Bruno Giacomelli	1-
					40	Leonhard von Gottorp	1-

Team Changes

Pre-season

• The Benetton family elected to sell their under-performing team in favour of reverting to conventional sponsorship, entering into a title sponsorship deal with Arrows which saw the Arrows cars run in Benetton livery and the official team name changed to "Benetton Arrows Grand Prix International". Benetton chose to sponsor Arrows due to their Ford works engine status, a deal which was renewed for 1990 and saw the Leafield-based team have exclusive rights to the Ford HB engine. The Benetton team was sold to French Formula 3000 outfit Oreca, who entered the sport with financial backing from the Japanese logistics company Footwork. The new team would be called "Footwork Oreca" and run Ford DFR engines.
• Zakspeed entered financial difficulty over the off-season after main sponsor Imperial Tobacco removed their sponsorship in the form of the West brand of cigarettes. The team elected to withdraw from Formula One to focus on their championship-winning World Touring Car Masters squad.
• The paddock saw another new entrant in the form of Life Racing Engines, the eponymous team of Ernesto Vita, after the eccentric Italian failed to find any customers for his unconventional W12 engines.
• Formula 3000 team Onyx Racing did apply to enter the season but had to cancel their entry plans after running into financial difficulty.
• Another Formula 3000 team, Middlebridge Racing, entered the season under the Brabham name, bringing it back to the sport for the first time since 1986.

Driver Changes

Pre-Season

• Alain Prost would move from Ferrari to Renault-powered rivals Williams, ending a partnership with the Italian team dating back to 1987. His predecessor at Williams, Nigel Mansell, hence moved to Ferrari to partner world champion Ayrton Senna.
• New sponsors Benetton demanded that Arrows sign a World Champion, so Guillaume Gauthier moved from Lotus to partner Chris Dagnall. Brendon Cassidy would move to Gauthier's old seat at Lotus, marking the first time the British marque had signed an American driver since Mario Andretti.
• Satoru Nakajima moved to March from Tyrrell, taking his supply of Honda engines with him. Thierry Boutsen would also jump to the Bicester-based team from the defunct Benetton outfit.
• Intially, Christian Danner moved from Rial to Oreca. However, the German defaulted on his payments to the team, leading to Oreca signing another Rial driver from 1989 in the form of Stefan Johansson
• Michele Alboreto joined Minardi from fellow Italian midfielders BMS Scuderia Italia
• Bruno Giacomelli and Leonhard von Gottorp would both sign for Life, marking their return to Formula One in a full-time seat for the first time in over 5 years.
• Reigning F3000 champion Erik Comas moved up to Formula One with Oreca, the team with which he took the title. Fellow F3000 frontrunners graduating to F1 included runner-up Fabrizio Giovanardi partnering Jack Christopherson at AGS, Martin Donnelly moving to Tyrrell, Emmanuele Pirro at BMS Scuderia Italia and Mark Blundell at Brabham, while backmarkers Bertrand Gachot, JJ Lehto, Paolo Barilla and Giovanna Amati would also make their F1 debuts, for Osella, Rial and Coloni respectively.
• After making his debut for Zakspeed at the tail end of 1989, David Brabham would start his first full campaign with the team carrying his name, Brabham.
• Ligier handed sportscar racer Michel Ferte his Formula One debut, replacing Larrousse-bound Riccardo Patrese. However, Ferte would also default on payment to the team, leading to Ligier signing Éric Bernard.
• Martin Brundle, left out of a drive at AGS, took on the role of test driver at Williams
• A total of 15 drivers from 1989 would be left without a drive going into 1990 - of these, three (namely Robert Kagan, Harvey Jones and Valentino Nicchi) had chosen to retire from the sport.

Mid-Season

• After failing to pre-qualify for the United States Grand Prix Yannick Dalmas announced his retirement from Formula One, feeling that he could not perform to his best due to the effects of a bout of Legionnaire's disease he suffered in late 1988. He would be replaced at Ligier by Olivier Grouillard.
• Due to dangerous driving in the Brazilian Grand Prix, Pierluigi Martini was banned for one race. He would be replaced at Minardi for the Pacific Grand Prix by Ivan Capelli

Season Calendar

	Race	Track	Date	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Winning team
1	Template:USA Iceberg United States Grand Prix	Phoenix Street Circuit	March 11	Ayrton Senna	Ayrton Senna	Alessandro Nannini	Template:GBR McLaren-Honda
2	Nestlé Brazilian Grand Prix	Autodromo Hermano da Silva Ramos	March 25	Template:FRA Guillaume Gauthier	Template:GBR Chris Dagnall	Template:GBR Chris Dagnall	Template:GBR Arrows-Ford
3	Yaname Electronics Pacific Grand Prix	Autopolis	April 15	Ayrton Senna	Template:GBR Nigel Mansell	Template:FRA Alain Prost	Template:GBR Williams-Renault
4	Kronenbourg San Marino Grand Prix	Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari	May 6	Ayrton Senna	Template:FRA Alain Prost	Template:FRA Jérémy-Étienne Voeckler	Template:GBR Williams-Renault
5	Monaco Grand Prix	Circuit de Monaco	May 20	Ayrton Senna	Ayrton Senna	Ayrton Senna	Ferrari
6	Molson Canadian Grand Prix	Circuit Gilles Villeneuve	June 3
7	Marlboro Mexican Grand Prix	Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez	June 17
8	Template:FRA Rhône-Poulenc French Grand Prix	Circuit Paul Ricard	July 1
9	Template:GBR Shell Oils British Grand Prix	Silverstone Circuit	July 8
10	Mobil 1 German Grand Prix	Hockenheimring	July 12
11	Marlboro Hungarian Grand Prix	Hungaroring	August 5
12	Gazprom Soviet Grand Prix	Bikernieki Circuit	August 12	Cancelled
13	Template:BEL Iceberg Belgian Grand Prix	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	August 26
14	Coca-Cola Italian Grand Prix	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	September 9
15	Portuguese Grand Prix	Autodromo do Estoril	September 30
16	Fuji Television Japanese Grand Prix	Suzuka Circuit	October 21
17	Template:AUS Foster's Australian Grand Prix	Adelaide Street Circuit	November 4

Calendar Changes

• Japan held two Grands Prix for the first time with the addition of the Pacific Grand Prix at the newly constructed Autopolis circuit. The race would take place in the first half of the season.
• The United States Grand Prix would open the season for the first time with the race moving to an early March slot. This was due to the sweltering heat of the mid-June climate in Phoenix.
• The Mexican Grand Prix was moved from the end of the season to replace the United States Grand Prix's June slot.
• To avoid cold weather, the Belgian and Italian Grands Prix were swapped, and both Grands Prix moved a few weeks earlier to late August-early September, displacing the Portuguese Grand Prix which would instead take place on the last weekend of September.
• Following the Restoration of Independence of the Republic of Latvia on 4th May 1990 the future of the Soviet Grand Prix, held at the Bikernieki Circuit in the former Latvian SSR, was placed into doubt. With the new Latvian government not willing to host the race and the Soviet organisers unable to find a suitable replacement venue in time for the race's scheduled date of 12th August, the race was cancelled.

Standings

Drivers' Championship

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th
Points	9	6	4	3	2	1

Pos Driver USA BRA PAC SMR MON CAN MEX FRA GBR GER HUN BEL ITA POR JPN AUS Pts 1 Template:AUT Gerhard Berger 2 2 2 Ret 3 22 2 Template:GBR Chris Dagnall 3 1 Ret 2 Ret 19 3 Template:FRA Jérémy-Étienne Voeckler Ret 6 5 1 2 18 4 Template:FRA Alain Prost Ret 3 1 3 Ret 17 5 Alessandro Nannini 1 5 4 Ret Ret 14 6 Ayrton Senna 12† 7 3 Ret 1 13 7 Template:FRA Guillaume Gauthier 4 4 7 Ret Ret 6 8 Template:GBR Nigel Mansell Ret 8 6 16† 4 4 9 Isabella Noriko 5 Ret Ret Ret 5 4 10 Riccardo Patrese Ret Ret Ret 4 Ret 3 11 Emannuele Pirro Ret 10 10 5 8 2 12 Template:FRA Frédéric-Maxime Voeckler 6 Ret Ret 6 6 3 — Template:USA Brendon Cassidy Ret 9 9 7 Ret 0 — Template:FRA Jean Alesi 7 12 Ret 11 10 0 — Template:GBR Martin Donnelly 8 Ret DNQ DNQ DNQ 0 — J.J. Lehto 9 Ret 13 Ret Ret 0 — Template:FRA Erik Comas 10 13 Ret 13 14 0 — Stefan Johansson 11 Ret 16† 14 13 0 — Template:BEL Thierry Boutsen Ret 11 8 Ret Ret 0 — Michele Alboreto Ret Ret Ret 8 7 0 — Andrea De Cesaris Ret Ret 15 9 11 0 — Template:GBR Jack Christopherson Ret DNQ Ret 10 16† 0 — Alex Caffi Ret Ret 11 Ret 12 0 — Nicola Larini Ret Ret 14 12 DNPQ 0 — Satoru Nakajima Ret Ret 12 Ret 9 0 — Pierluigi Martini Ret DSQ EX 15† Ret 0 — Fabrizio Giovanardi DNQ Ret Ret Ret Ret 0 — Ivan Capelli Ret Ret 0 — Template:BEL Bertrand Gachot DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNPQ 0 — Template:GBR Mark Blundell DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ 15 0 — Template:AUS David Brabham DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNQ 0 — Template:FRA Éric Bernard DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ 0 — Paolo Barilla DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ 0 — Giovanna Amati DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ 0 — Leonhard von Gottorp DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ 0 — Bruno Giacomelli DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ 0 — Template:FRA Olivier Grouillard DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ 0 — Template:FRA Yannick Dalmas DNPQ 0 Constructor's Championship Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th Points 9 6 4 3 2 1 Pos Driver # USA BRA PAC SMR MON CAN MEX FRA GBR GER HUN BEL ITA POR JPN AUS Pts 1 Template:GBR McLaren-Honda 7 2 2 2 Ret 33 8 1 5 4 Ret 2 Template:GBR Williams-Renault 5 Ret 6 5 1 29 6 Ret 3 1 3 3 Template:GBR Arrows-Ford 9 3 1 Ret 2 25 10 4 4 7 Ret 4 Ferrari 1 12† 7 3 Ret 5 2 Ret 8 6 16† 5 Template:FRA Lola-Lamborghini 19 Ret Ret Ret 4 5 20 5 Ret Ret Ret 6 Dallara-Judd 21 Ret 10 10 5 2 22 Ret Ret 11 Ret 7 Template:GBR Lotus-Ford 11 6 Ret Ret 6 2 12 Ret 9 9 7 — Template:GBR Tyrrell-Ford 3 7 12 Ret 11 0 4 8 Ret DNQ DNQ DNQ — Template:GBR March-Honda 15 Ret 11 8 Ret 0 16 Ret Ret 12 Ret — Minardi-Ford 23 Ret DSQ Ret 15† 0 24 Ret Ret Ret 8 — Rial-Lamborghini 31 Ret Ret 15 9 0 32 9 Ret 13 Ret — Template:FRA Oreca-Ford 35 10 13 Ret 13 0 36 11 Ret 16† 14 — Template:FRA AGS-Judd 33 Ret DNQ Ret 10 0 34 DNQ Ret Ret Ret — Osella-Judd 17 Ret Ret 14 12 DNPQ 0 18 DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNPQ — Template:GBR Brabham-Ford 37 DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ 0 38 DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNQ — Template:FRA Ligier-Yamaha 25 DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ 0 26 DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ — Coloni-Subaru 29 DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ 0 30 DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ — Life 39 DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ 0 40 DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ