1989 Swedish motorcycle Grand Prix

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The 1989 Swedish motorcycle Grand Prix was held August 13 at Anderstorp.

[edit] 500 cc race report

Wayne Rainey takes pole, then it’s Kevin Schwantz and Eddie Lawson. Rainey gets the start, and Lawson moves into second, followed by Schwantz.

A lead group forms, with Rainey, a small gap to Lawson, then another small gap to Schwantz, Kevin Magee and Christian Sarron.

Schwantz cruises into the pits with a mechanical, and Lawson closes the gap to Rainey and moves into the lead. Sarron is in third a couple of bike lengths behind, and Wayne Gardner passes Magee for fourth spot.

With two laps to go, Rainey is right behind Lawson and highsides on the exit of a right-hander. It’s a long tumble, but he gets up and doesn’t try to pick up the bike. Though it’s Rainey’s only real mistake all year, Lawson’s consistency and improvement brings him the win and a lead in the standings by 13.5 points. Sarron takes second, Gardner third.

Says Lawson of the lap that saw Rainey go down: “That was my fastest lap of the race; I’d never got on the throttle that early all race. When I cracked it open, Wayne followed me, and there was no way the Dunlop was going to do that. It wasn’t Wayne, it was the tyres.”^[1]

1	Eddie Lawson	46:31.950
2	Christian Sarron	+ 5.650
3	Wayne Gardner	+ 25.030
4	Niall Mackenzie	+ 31.630
5	Kevin Magee	+ 51.550
6	Ron Haslam	+ 55.450
7	Pierfrancesco Chili	+ 55.660
8	A. Morillas	+ 55.840
9	Rob McElnea	+ 1:33.500
10	T. Taira	+ 1 lap
11	A. Valesi	+ 1 lap
12	D. Buckmaster	+ 1 lap
13	F. Biliotti	+ 2 laps
14	Bruno Kneubühler	+ 2 laps
15	J. López Mella	+ 2 laps
16	N. Schmassman	+ 2 laps
17	T. Paavilainen	+ 2 laps
	T. Bastiansen	ret.
	A. Leuthe	ret.
	Wayne Rainey	ret.
	A. Carter	ret.
	J. Doppler	ret.
	Kevin Schwantz	ret.
	M. Gentile	ret.
	R. Nicotte	ret.
	P. Linden	ret.
	L. Cadalora	ret.

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Scott, Michael: "Wayne Rainey", page 140. Haynes Publishing, 1997

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1	1989 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix Report
2	1989 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix Report
3	1989 United States motorcycle Grand Prix Report
4	1989 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix Report
5	1989 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix Report
6	1989 German motorcycle Grand Prix Report
7	1989 Austrian motorcycle Grand Prix Report
8	1989 Yugoslavian motorcycle Grand Prix Report
9	1989 Dutch TT Report
10	1989 Belgian motorcycle Grand Prix Report
11	1989 French motorcycle Grand Prix Report
12	1989 British motorcycle Grand Prix Report
13	1989 Swedish motorcycle Grand Prix Report
14	1989 Czechoslovakian motorcycle Grand Prix Report
15	1989 Brazilian motorcycle Grand Prix Report

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