1988 San Marino Grand Prix

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Results from the 1988 Formula One San Marino Grand Prix held at Imola on May 1, 1988.

Contents 1 Race summary 2 Classification 3 Notes 4 References

[edit] Race summary

The McLaren of Ayrton Senna led from the start, whilst his teammate Alain Prost had a poor start and dropped to 6th place. Whilst he was able to recover these places, he could not catch Senna who controlled the gap according to the traffic. Maintaining a lead of 6-10 seconds, Senna slowed on the last lap reducing the gap to 2.3 seconds at the line.

Nelson Piquet battled with an underpowered Lotus to maintain 3rd place ahead of a train of cars. He was lucky to make it to the finish line as the extra boost needed to keep the position cut severely into his fuel quota.

Nigel Mansell made a superb drive from a poor 11th place on the grid to be up to 3rd place by lap 40 before retiring due to a faulty voltage regulator.

Thierry Boutsen's Benetton came home in 4th ahead of Gerhard Berger in the Ferrari and rounding out the points was Alessandro Nannini. He had been fighting for 3rd place with Piquet, but despite being consistently closer in the corners, he had to yield to the Lotus' superior power on the straights. They tangled and Nannini dropped to 7th, but put in the fastest atmospheric lap to climb to 5th. He had to settle for 6th after Berger drove him onto the grass at the Acqua Minerale chicane.

[edit] Classification

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	12	Ayrton Senna	McLaren-Honda	60	1:32:41.264	1	9
2	11	Alain Prost	McLaren-Honda	60	+ 2.334	2	6
3	1	Nelson Piquet	Lotus-Honda	59	+ 1 Lap	3	4
4	20	Thierry Boutsen	Benetton-Ford	59	+ 1 Lap	8	3
5	28	Gerhard Berger	Ferrari	59	+ 1 Lap	5	2
6	19	Alessandro Nannini	Benetton-Ford	59	+ 1 Lap	4	1
7	18	Eddie Cheever	Arrows-Megatron	59	+ 1 Lap	7
8	2	Satoru Nakajima	Lotus-Honda	59	+ 1 Lap	12
9	17	Derek Warwick	Arrows-Megatron	58	+ 2 Laps	14
10	14	Philippe Streiff	AGS-Ford	58	+ 2 Laps	13
11	24	Luis Perez-Sala	Minardi-Ford	58	+ 2 Laps	18
12	29	Yannick Dalmas	Larrousse-Ford	58	+ 2 Laps	19
13	6	Riccardo Patrese	Williams-Judd	58	+ 2 Laps	6
14	3	Jonathan Palmer	Tyrrell-Ford	58	+ 2 Laps	23
15	15	Mauricio Gugelmin	March-Judd	58	+ 2 Laps	20
16	23	Adrián Campos	Minardi-Ford	57	+ 3 Laps	22
17	30	Philippe Alliot	Larrousse-Ford	57	+3 Laps	15
18	27	Michele Alboreto	Ferrari	54	Engine	10
NC	33	Stefano Modena	Euro Brun-Ford	52	Not Classified	26
Ret	4	Julian Bailey	Tyrrell-Ford	48	Gearbox	21
Ret	5	Nigel Mansell	Williams-Judd	42	Engine	11
Ret	31	Gabriele Tarquini	Coloni-Ford	40	Fuel System	17
Ret	36	Alex Caffi	Dallara-Ford	38	Gearbox	24
Ret	9	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Zakspeed	36	Gearbox	25
Ret	16	Ivan Capelli	March-Judd	2	Gearbox	9
Ret	22	Andrea de Cesaris	Rial-Ford	1	Suspension	16
DSQ	21	Nicola Larini	Osella		Excluded
DNQ	32	Oscar Larrauri	Euro Brun-Ford
DNQ	26	Stefan Johansson	Ligier-Judd
DNQ	25	René Arnoux	Ligier-Judd

[edit] Notes

• Pole position: Ayrton Senna - 1:27.148^[1]
• Fastest lap: Alain Prost - 1:29.685 on lap 53^[1]
• Larini was excluded from the race because his car failed pre-race scrutineering.

[edit] References

• Unless otherwise indicated, all race results are taken from The Official Formula 1 website. Retrieved on 2007-07-12.

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