Alfonso de Vinuesa (Aerond GP2 Career)
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Alfonso de Vinuesa in his Brabham overalls | |
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Name | Alfonso de Vinuesa |
Born | 13 Dec 1958 |
Nationality | Spanish |
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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 and Brabham Formula One teams.
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1988 season
- World Drivers Champion: Alain Prost (McLaren)
- World Constructors Champion: 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: 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 (in progress)
- World Drivers Championship leader: Ayrton Senna (McLaren)
- World Constructors Championship leader: McLaren-Honda (Ayrton Senna, Gerhard Berger)
- Alfonso de Vinuesa (Brabham): 0 points
Much like the previous year, 1990 has been relatively dominated by McLaren-Honda's Ayrton Senna. He has won all five of his team's Grand Prix victories; his closest challenges come from his new teammate Gerhard Berger and Benetton's new recruit Thierry Boutsen. 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 less competitive was Brabham: Alfonso de Vinuesa was reunited with former teammate Stefano Modena, but by the Belgian Grand Prix neither had been able to crack the points.
Racing career results
International Formula 3000
Formula One