1991 Italian Formula One Championship

1991 Italian Formula One Championship season
Alain Prost successfully defended his Drivers Championship.
Season
Races	6
Start date	28th April
Start Event	San Marino Grand Prix
End date	8th December
End Event	F1 Indoor Trophy
Awards
Driver's Champion	Alain Prost
Constructor's Champion	Ferrari
Seasons
Previous season	Next season
1990	1992

All information on this page is not part of canon.

The 1991 Italian Formula One Championship was the fourth season of the of Italian Formula One Championship. Another dominant season for reigning champions Alain Prost and Ferrari was both expected and delivered; for the first time, Ferrari provided customer engines to the Minardi team - but this coincided with Minardi's worst showing in the Italian Championship. This year also marked the first instance of a non-Italian constructor, as Lotus entered their driver Johnny Herbert in the Indoor Trophy; the competition organisers made clear however that this did not constitute a full-season entry. The season would see fourteen drivers compete for eight different teams.

Teams and Drivers

Team	Chassis	Engine	Race Drivers	Rounds
Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 642	Ferrari 037 3.5 V12	Jean Alesi	1-5
			Alain Prost	1-5
Minardi Team	Minardi M191	Ferrari 037 3.5 V12	Pierluigi Martini	1-5
			Gianni Morbidelli	All
			Marco Apicella	6
BMS Scuderia Italia	Dallara F191	Judd GV 3.5 V10	Emanuele Pirro	1-5
			JJ Lehto	All
Fondmetal	Fondmetal Fomet-1	Ford Cosworth DFR 3.5 V8	Olivier Grouillard	1-5
			Gabriele Tarquini	6
Coloni Racing	Coloni C4	Ford Cosworth DFR 3.5 V8	Pedro Chaves	1-5
Modena Team	Modena-Lambo 291	Lamborghini 3512 3.5 V12	Nicola Larini	1-5
			Eric van de Poele	1-5
Andrea Moda Formula	Coloni C4B	Ford Cosworth DFR 3.5 V8	Antonio Tamburini	6
Team Lotus	Lotus 102B	Judd EV 3.5 V8	Johnny Herbert	6

Calendar

As usual, the calendar would contain the four core events of the San Marino, Monaco and Italian Grands Prix, in addition to the Indoor Trophy. On this occasion, the two additional events selected to complete the calendar were the British Grand Prix at Silverstone and the German Grand Prix at the Hockenheimring.

	Race	Venue	Date	Winning driver	Winning team
1	San Marino Grand Prix	Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari	28th April	JJ Lehto	Scuderia Italia
2	Monaco Grand Prix	Circuit de Monaco	12th May	Jean Alesi	Ferrari
3	British Grand Prix	Silverstone Circuit	14th July	Alain Prost	Ferrari
4	German Grand Prix	Hockenheimring	28th July	Jean Alesi	Ferrari
5	Italian Grand Prix	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	8th September	Alain Prost	Ferrari
6	F1 Indoor Trophy	Bologna Motor Show	8th December	Gabriele Tarquini	Fondmetal

Championship Standings

Championship points are awarded to the top four cars at each event. Constructors earn the points for their best car at any given event.

Position	1	2	3	4
Points	5	3	2	1

Drivers Championship

Pos	Driver	SMR	MON	GBR	GER	ITA	IND	Points
1	Alain Prost	DNS	2	1	3†	1		15
2	Jean Alesi	Ret	1	Ret	1	Ret		10
3	Emanuele Pirro	DNQ	3	2	3	3		9
4	JJ Lehto	1	4†	5	4	Ret	4	8
5	Pierluigi Martini	2	5	2	Ret	Ret		6
6	Gabriele Tarquini						1	5
7	Gianni Morbidelli	4†	Ret	4	Ret	2	5	5
8	Johnny Herbert						2	3
9	Eric van de Poele	3	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ		2
10	Antonio Tamburini						3	2
11	Nicola Larini	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	Ret	4		1
12	Marco Apicella						6	0
13	Olivier Grouillard	Ret	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ		0
14	Pedro Chaves	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ		0

Constructors Championship

Pos	Team	SMR	MON	GBR	GER	ITA	IND	Points
1	Ferrari	Ret	1	1	1	1		20
2	Scuderia Italia	1	3	3	2	3	4	15
3	Minardi	2	5	2	Ret	2	5	9
4	Fondmetal	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	Ret	1	5
5	Lotus						2	3
6	Modena	3	DNQ	DNQ	Ret	4		3
7	Andrea Moda						3	2
8	Coloni	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ		0

† Driver did not finish, but was classified due to being among the last four cars running