Alfonso de Vinuesa (Aerond GP2 Career)

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Alfonso de Vinuesa in his Brabham overalls, 1990
Details
Name	Alfonso de Vinuesa
Born	13 Dec 1958
Nationality	Spanish
Achievements
Pole Position at the 1988 Detroit Grand Prix

Alfonso de Vinuesa (born 13th December 1958 in Madrid, Spain) is a former Formula One racing driver in Aerond's Grand Prix 2 Career. During his career, Alfonso de Vinuesa drove for the EuroBrun, Brabham and Lamborghini Formula One teams.

1988 season

• World Drivers Champion: Template:FRA Alain Prost (McLaren)
• World Constructors Champion: Template:GBR McLaren-Honda (Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna)
• Alfonso de Vinuesa (EuroBrun): 15th, 4 points

The 1988 Formula One season was dominated by McLaren-Honda, who won 14 of the season's 16 Grands Prix. For the opening quarter of the season, Ayrton Senna was peerless, winning all four races. However, he entered a months-long winless rut that lasted until the Japanese Grand Prix; his teammate Alain Prost was able to mount a Championship-winning comeback. The season was also notable for two of the most impressive rookie performances in recent memory by the Spaniard Alfonso de Vinuesa. At the Detroit Grand Prix, he managed to score a shock pole position in changing conditions, as he managed to set a clean lap in the best conditions of the entire qualifying session. Sadly his car did not last the full race distance on that occasion. It did do so at the Hungaroring though, where a defensive masterclass managed to earn him his first-ever Formula One podium.

1989 season

• World Drivers Champion: Ayrton Senna (McLaren)
• World Constructors Champion: Template:GBR McLaren-Honda (Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna)
• Alfonso de Vinuesa (Brabham): 19th, 2 points

The 1989 season again begun with a quartet (soon to become a quintet) of consecutive Ayrton Senna Grand Prix victories. For Prost though, it was not more of the same: he was able to post only one race win all season long, and finished with exactly half of his teammate's points in a flaccid Championship defence that saw him sink to third in the Championship behind Williams' Thierry Boutsen. Apart from Senna, the only other driver to win more than once was Lotus-Honda's Satoru Nakajima: the Japanese driver scored victories at the French, Hungarian and Australian Grands Prix. Alfonso de Vinuesa struggled in his new drive at Brabham, where reliability woes were the norm. Only three times out of 16 did he see the chequered flag, the best of those results coming at the British Grand Prix where he scored two of Brabham's eventual four points for the season.

1990 season

• World Drivers Champion: Ayrton Senna (McLaren)
• World Constructors Champion: Template:GBR McLaren-Honda (Ayrton Senna, Gerhard Berger)
• Alfonso de Vinuesa (Brabham): 0 points

Much like the previous year, 1990 was dominated by McLaren-Honda's Ayrton Senna, followed closely by his loyal McLaren rear gunner Gerhard Berger. He won eight of his team's nine Grand Prix victories; his closest challenges come from Berger, Mansell, Nannini and Patrese: the only drivers to win races ahead of Senna. Elsewhere, Andrea de Cesaris (Ferrari), Alessandro Nannini (Benetton) and Martin Donnelly (Tyrrell) all scored their maiden Grand Prix victories in a season that saw a much more competitive field overall. However one team that was far less competitive was Brabham: Alfonso de Vinuesa was reunited with former teammate Stefano Modena, but neither was ultimately able to crack the points due partly to a continuous string of misfortunes.

1991 season (as of France)

• World Drivers Championship leader: Riccardo Patrese (Williams)
• World Constructors Championship leader: Template:GBR Williams-Renault (Riccardo Patrese, Alain Prost)
• Alfonso de Vinuesa (Lamborghini): 9th, 5 points

Ahead of the 1991 season, Alfonso de Vinuesa moved teams to the brand new Lamborghini outfit in Modena, where he would be united with recurring teammate Stefano Modena for a third successive Constructor. The team performed well, with each driver taking two points finishes in each of the first five races, the highlight being the shock de Vinuesa podium in Canada. Further up the field, Riccardo Patrese made a career-best start to the season, although at this point he finds himself defending the lead from three of the grid's star drivers: Mansell, Prost and Senna.

Racing career results

International Formula 3000

Season	Team	#	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Pts	Pos
1986	Template:GBR Peter Gethin Racing	42	March 86B	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	SIL	VAL	PAU	SPA	IMO	MUG	PER	OST	BIR	BUG	JAR Ret	0	-
1987	Template:GBR BS Automotive	16	Lola T87/50	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	SIL 6	VAL Ret	SPA 16	PAU	DON	PER	BRH DNQ	BIR DNQ	IMO	BUG	JAR	1	19th

Formula One

Season	Team	#	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Pts	Pos
1988	EuroBrun Racing	32	EuroBrun ER188	Ford Cosworth DFZ 3.5 V8	BRA Ret	SMR DNPQ	MON DNPQ	MEX DNPQ	CAN DNPQ	DET Ret	FRA Ret	GBR DNPQ	GER DNPQ	HUN 3	BEL DNPQ	ITA DNPQ	POR Ret	ESP Ret	JPN Ret	AUS Ret	4	15th
1989	Template:GBR Motor Racing Developments	7	Brabham BT58	Judd EV 3.5 V8	BRA Ret	SMR 9	MON Ret	MEX Ret	USA Ret	CAN 10	FRA Ret	GBR 5	GER Ret	HUN Ret	BEL Ret	ITA Ret	POR Ret	ESP Ret	JPN Ret	AUS 11†	2	19th
1990	Template:GBR Motor Racing Developments	7	Brabham BT59	Judd EV 3.5 V8	BRA 8	SMR 16†	MON 12†	MEX Ret	CAN 9	DET Ret	FRA Ret	GBR Ret	GER 17	HUN 10	BEL Ret	ITA Ret	POR 14	ESP Ret	JPN Ret	AUS 14	0	-
1991	Modena Team SpA	35	Lamborghini 291	Lamborghini 3512 3.5 V12	USA 8	BRA 6	SMR Ret	MON Ret	CAN 3	MEX Ret	FRA Ret	GBR ENT	GER ENT	HUN ENT	BEL ENT	ITA ENT	POR ENT	ESP ENT	JPN ENT	AUS ENT	5 *	9th *

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