1989 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
1989 F.I.M. Grand Prix motorcycle racing season | |||
Previous: | 1988 | Next: | 1990 |
The 1989 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 41st F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season.
Season summary
Defending champion Eddie Lawson stunned most observers by switching from the Yamaha to Honda in the offseason then proceeded to win the championship, becoming the first man to win two consecutive 500cc championships on two different brands. On why he left Yamaha for Honda: "Giacomo Agostini, the Marlboro Yamaha team manager, started playing games, saying stuff like, 'I don't know if we can pay you the same as we did in 1988.' I'd just won my third title, so that was tough to hear. Also, I found out Ago was talking to Kevin Schwantz. I met with Erv and told him that I needed a change. When Marlboro discovered I was talking with Honda, they doubled their offer, but it was too late. I actually took a pay cut to ride the Honda."[1]
Wayne Rainey and Kevin Schwantz continued to perform impressively while Freddie Spencer made a less than successful comeback attempt with the Marlboro Yamaha team. Australian Wayne Gardner was out for most of the season after breaking his leg at Laguna Seca but not before winning the inaugural Grand Prix in his home country. Another Australian made his Grand Prix debut for the Rothmans Honda team with Mick Doohan scoring a third place finish at the Hockenheimring. The FIM awarded half points for the rain-drenched Belgian Grand Prix after organisers restarted the race three times contrary to FIM race regulations. The Nations Grand Prix at Misano was boycotted by most of the top riders for safety reasons.
Sito Pons won a second consecutive 250 championship for Honda while Spanish teenager, Àlex Crivillé won the 125 crown on a JJ Cobas. Derbi rider Manuel Herreros had the honor of winning the final 80cc championship as the class would be discontinued after 1989.
Grands Prix
Final standings
500cc standings[2][3]
Place | Rider | Number | Country | Team | Machine | JPN |
AUS |
USA |
ESP |
NAT |
GER |
AUT |
YUG |
Points[4] | Wins | Poles | F.Laps |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Eddie Lawson | 1 | United States | Rothmans-Kanemoto Honda | NSR500 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | Ret | 2 | 2 | 3 | 228 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
2 | Wayne Rainey | 3 | United States | Lucky Strike-Yamaha | YZR500 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | Ret | 1 | 3 | 2 | 210.5 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
3 | Christian Sarron | 4 | France | Gauloises-Yamaha | YZR500 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 4 | Ret | 5 | 4 | 5 | 165.5 | 1 | ||
4 | Kevin Schwantz | 34 | United States | Pepsi-Suzuki | RGV500 | 1 | Ret | 2 | Ret | Ret | Ret | 1 | 1 | 162.5 | 6 | 9 | 8 |
5 | Kevin Magee | 5 | Australia | Lucky Strike-Yamaha | YZR500 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 138.5 | |||||
6 | Pier-Francesco Chili | 9 | Italy | HB-Honda | NSR500 | Ret | Ret | 7 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 122 | 1 | 1 | |
7 | Niall Mackenzie | 6 | United Kingdom | Marlboro-Yamaha | YZR500 | 6 | Ret | 5 | 3 | Ret | Ret | 12 | 103 | ||||
8 | Ron Haslam | 8 | United Kingdom | Pepsi-Suzuki | RGV500 | 12 | 7 | Ret | 7 | Ret | Ret | 7 | 8 | 86 | |||
9 | Michael Doohan | 27 | Australia | Rothmans-Honda | NSR500 | Ret | 8 | 8 | Ret | Ret | 3 | 8 | 6 | 81 | |||
10 | Wayne Gardner | 2 | Australia | Rothmans-Honda | NSR500 | 4 | 1 | Ret | 67 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
11 | Rob McElnea | 10 | United Kingdom | Cabin - Honda | NSR500 | Ret | 10 | 11 | 11 | 52.5 | |||||||
12 | Simon Buckmaster | 35 | United Kingdom | Katayama - Honda | NSR500 | Ret | 12 | 13 | 13 | 2 | 14 | 13 | 14 | 43.5 | |||
13 | Alessandro Valesi | 15 | Italy | Iberna - Yamaha | YZR500 | Ret | 11 | 11 | 10 | Ret | 13 | 12 | 25 | 40 | |||
14 | Tadahiko Taira | 21 | Japan | Tech-21 - Yamaha | YZR500 | 8 | 6 | Ret | 8 | 39 | 1 | ||||||
15 | Dominique Sarron | 7 | France | Elf-Honda | NSR500 | 18 | 10 | 10 | 9 | Ret | 8 | 10 | 10 | 39 | |||
16 | Freddie Spencer | USA | 14 | Ret | Ret | 5 | Ret | 9 | 9 | 27 | 33,5 | ||||||
17 | Randy Mamola | USA | 16 | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | 12 | Ret | 7 | 33 | ||||||
18 | Marco Gentile | Switzerland | 20 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 4 | Ret | 14 | 24 | 33 | ||||||
19 | Adrien Morillas | France | 26 | ||||||||||||||
20 | Michael Rudroff | Germany | 15 | 15 | 20 | 3 | 21 | 19 | 15 | 18 | |||||||
21 | Norihiko Fujiwara | Japan | 9 | Ret | 6 | Ret | 17 | ||||||||||
22 | Bubba Shobert | USA | 11 | Ret | 9 | 12 | |||||||||||
23 | Josef Doppler | Austria | 18 | 5 | 22 | 16 | 11 | ||||||||||
24 | Alois Mayer | Germany | 6 | Ret | Ret | 10 | |||||||||||
25 | Romolo Balbi | Italy | 7 | 9 | |||||||||||||
26 | Luca Cadalora | Italy | 8 | ||||||||||||||
27 | Francisco Gonzales | Spain | 23 | Ret | 16 | Ret | 8 | Ret | 22 | 19 | 8 | ||||||
28 | Niggi Schmassman | Switzerland | 14 | Ret | Ret | 10 | Ret | 21 | 20 | 8 | |||||||
29 | Massimo Broccoli | Italy | 11 | Ret | 13 | 8 | |||||||||||
30 | Michael Dowson | Australia | 9 | 7 | |||||||||||||
31 | Andy Leuthe | Luxembourg | Ret | 9 | Ret | 26 | 7 | ||||||||||
32 | Shinichi Ito | Japan | 10 | 6 | |||||||||||||
33 | Fabio Biliotti | Italy | 6 | ||||||||||||||
34 | Bruno Kneubühler | Switzerland | 14 | 16 | Ret | 15 | 15 | 16 | 6 | ||||||||
35 | John Kocinski | USA | 5,5 | ||||||||||||||
36 | Ernst Gschwender | Germany | 11 | 5 | |||||||||||||
37 | Fred Merkel | USA | Ret | 5 | |||||||||||||
38 | Thierry Crine | France | 4 | ||||||||||||||
39 | Roger Burnett | Great Britain | 4 | ||||||||||||||
40 | Juan Lopez Mella | Spain | 14 | Ret | 19 | Ret | 4 | ||||||||||
41 | Shuji Yatsushiro | Japan | 13 | 3 | |||||||||||||
42 | Alberto Rota | Italy | 3 | ||||||||||||||
43 | Cees Doorakkers | Netherlands | 2,5 | ||||||||||||||
44 | Eddie Laycock | Ireland | 15 | 2 | |||||||||||||
45 | Peter Linden | Sweden | 23 | 1 | |||||||||||||
46 | Kunio Machii | Japan | 15 | 1 | |||||||||||||
Hansjoerg Butz | Germany | 16 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Marco Papa | Italy | Ret | Ret | Ret | 17 | 0 | |||||||||||
Claude Albert | France | 17 | Ret | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||
Vincenzo Cascino | Italy | 17 | Ret | 0 | |||||||||||||
Georg Robert Jung | Germany | Ret | 17 | 0 | |||||||||||||
Takazumi Katayama | Japan | 17 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Rachel Nicotte | France | 17 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Stefan Klabacher | Germany | Ret | 24 | 18 | 18 | 0 | |||||||||||
Vittorio Scatola | Italy | Ret | 18 | 22 | 0 | ||||||||||||
Katunori Shinozaki | Japan | 19 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Steve Williams | United Kingdom | 19 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Karl Dauer | Austria | Ret | 20 | 0 | |||||||||||||
Petr Schleef | Germany | 20 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Rudolf Zeller | Austria | 24 | 21 | 0 | |||||||||||||
Keiji Kinoshita | Japan | 21 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Ian Pratt | United Kingdom | 21 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Yoshimasa Matsumoto | Japan | 22 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Fabien Pilloud | France | 22 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Pavel Dekanek | Czech Republic | 23 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Michael Kaplam | Austria | 23 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Hans Klingebiel | Germany | 26 | 25 | 0 | |||||||||||||
Helmut Schutz | Germany | 25 | Ret | 0 | |||||||||||||
Thomas Berghammer | Austria | 26 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Doug Polen | USA | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Osamu Hiwatashi | Japan | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Hikaru Miyagi | Japan | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Norio Iobe | Japan | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Greg Drew | Australia | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Malcolm Campbell | Australia | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||||
James Judd | Australia | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||||
David Busby | USA | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Eugene Brown | USA | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Michael Wild | USA | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Raymond Roche | France | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Moreno Vacondio | Italy | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Walther Maier | Germany | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Roland Busch | Germany | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Martin Troesch | Germany | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Donato Battistoni | Italy | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||||
250cc standings[5][6]
Place | Rider | Number | Country | Team | Machine | Points | Wins |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Sito Pons | 1 | Spain | Campsa-Honda | NSR250 | 262 | 7 |
2 | Reinhold Roth | 5 | Germany | HB Römer-Honda | NSR250 | 190 | 2 |
3 | Jacques Cornu | 3 | Switzerland | Lucky Strike Elf-Honda | NSR250 | 187 | 1 |
4 | Carlos Cardús | 9 | Spain | Repsol-Honda | NSR250 | 162 | 1 |
5 | Luca Cadalora | 6 | Italy | Marlboro Yamaha-Agostini | YZR250 | 127 | 2 |
6 | Masahiro Shimizu | 10 | Japan | Ajinomoto-Honda | NSR250 | 116 | 0 |
7 | Jean-Philippe Ruggia | 7 | France | Gauloises Blondes-Yamaha | YZR250 | 110 | 0 |
8 | Juan Garriga | 2 | Spain | Ducados-Yamaha | YZR250 | 98 | 0 |
9 | Helmut Bradl | 17 | Germany | HB Rallye Sport-Honda | NSR250 | 88 | 0 |
10 | Martin Wimmer | 14 | Germany | Hein Gericke-Aprilia | RS250 | 62 | 0 |
11 | Loris Reggiani | 52 | |||||
12 | Didier de Radiguès | 51 | |||||
13 | Wilco Zeelenberg | 41 | |||||
14 | John Kocinski | 40 | |||||
15 | Toshihiko Honma | 36 | |||||
16 | Jochen Schmid | 36 | |||||
17 | Carlos Lavado | 31 | |||||
18 | Alex Barros | 30 | |||||
19 | Garry Cowan | 25 | |||||
20 | Jim Filice | 22 | |||||
21 | Renzo Colleoni | 21 | |||||
22 | Ivan Palazzese | 19 | |||||
23 | Alberto Puig | 18 | |||||
24 | Harald Eckl | 18 | |||||
25 | Marcellino Lucchi | 17 | |||||
26 | Daniel Amatriain | 14 | |||||
27 | Alain Bronec | 11 | |||||
28 | Tadayuki Okada | 10 | |||||
29 | Toshinobu Shiomori | 9 | |||||
30 | Jose Morillas | 9 | |||||
31 | Stefano Caracchi | 9 | |||||
32 | Fausto Ricci | 8 | |||||
33 | Alberto Rota | 6 | |||||
34 | Patrick van den Goorbergh | 6 | |||||
35 | Daryl Beattie | 4 | |||||
36 | Kevin Mitchell | 4 | |||||
37 | Paolo Casoli | 4 | |||||
38 | Andy Preining | 4 | |||||
39 | Maurizio Vitali | 2 | |||||
40 | Luis Lavado | 2 | |||||
41 | Junya Arai | 1 | |||||
41 | Harald Becker | 1 | |||||
41 | Manfred Herweh | 1 | |||||
41 | August Auinger | 1 | |||||
125cc standings
Place | Rider | Number | Country | Machine | Points | Wins |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Àlex Crivillé | 28 | Spain | JJ Cobas | 166 | 5 |
2 | Hans Spaan | 3 | Netherlands | Honda | 152 | 4 |
3 | Ezio Gianola | 2 | Italy | Honda | 138 | 2 |
4 | Hisashi Unemoto | 11 | Japan | Honda | 104 | |
5 | Fausto Gresini | 22 | Italy | Aprilia | 102 | |
6 | Koji Takada | 18 | Japan | Honda | 99 | |
7 | Stefan Prein | 8 | West Germany | Honda | 92 | |
8 | Julian Miralles | 4 | Spain | Derbi | 90 | |
9 | Jorge Martínez | 1 | Spain | Derbi | 72 | 1 |
10 | Alan Scott | 12 | United States | Honda | 54 | |
11 | Adi Stadler | 53 | ||||
12 | Robin Milton | 46 | ||||
13 | Luis Miguel Reyes | 35 | ||||
14 | Domenico Brigaglia | 34 | ||||
15 | Dirk Raudies | 29 | ||||
16 | Alfred Waibel | 25 | ||||
17 | Taru Rinne | 23 | ||||
18 | Lucio Pietroniro | 22 | ||||
19 | Bruno Casanova | 20 | ||||
20 | Doriano Romboni | 20 | ||||
21 | Flemming Kistrup | 18 | ||||
22 | Robin Appleyard | 18 | ||||
23 | Thierry Feuz | 15 | ||||
24 | Masayuki Hirose | 13 | ||||
25 | Herri Torrontegui | 13 | ||||
26 | Kenichi Yoshida | 11 | ||||
27 | Jean Claude Selini | 11 | ||||
28 | Masato Shima | 10 | ||||
29 | Corrado Catalano | 10 | ||||
30 | Johnny Wickstroem | 10 | ||||
31 | Yutaka Fujihara | 9 | ||||
32 | Kazuaki Yamashita | 8 | ||||
33 | Hubert Abold | 8 | ||||
34 | Shinichi Fujiyama | 7 | ||||
35 | Kazuja Yamada | 6 | ||||
36 | Gerhard Waibel | 6 | ||||
37 | Mike Leitner | 4 | ||||
38 | Gabriele Debbia | 3 | ||||
39 | Jean Pierre Jeandat | 3 | ||||
40 | Stuart Edwards | 3 | ||||
42 | Bady Hassaine | 2 | ||||
42 | Josef Fischer | 2 | ||||
44 | Alex Bedford | 1 | ||||
44 | Heinz Lüthi | 1 | ||||
44 | Herve Duffard | 1 | ||||
80cc standings
Place | Rider | Number | Country | Machine | Points | Wins |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Manuel Herreros | 4 | Spain | Derbi | 92 | |
2 | Stefan Dörflinger | 3 | Switzerland | Krauser | 80 | |
3 | Peter Öttl | 5 | West Germany | Krauser | 75 | 3 |
4 | Herri Torrontegui | Spain | Krauser | 75 | 2 | |
5 | Gabriele Gnani | 10 | Italy | Gnani | 45 | |
6 | Paolo Priori | Italy | Krauser | 41 | ||
7 | Bogdan Nikolov | 6 | Bulgaria | Krauser | 40 | |
8 | Jorge Martínez | Spain | Derbi | 35 | 1 | |
9 | Jaime Mariano | Spain | Casal | 33 | ||
10 | Jörg Seel | West Germany | Seel | 32 | ||
11 | Andres Sanchez | 30 | ||||
12 | Julian Miralles | 26 | ||||
13 | Hans Koopman | 23 | ||||
14 | Ralf Waldmann | 23 | ||||
15 | Josè Saez | 20 | ||||
16 | Bernd Völkel | 13 | ||||
17 | Jos Van Dongen | 13 | ||||
18 | Bert Smit | 12 | ||||
19 | Stefan Kurfiss | 12 | ||||
20 | Luis Alvaro | 10 | ||||
21 | Giuseppe Ascareggi | 9 | ||||
22 | Roberto Sassone | 7 | ||||
23 | Janos Szabo | 6 | ||||
24 | Zdravko Matulja | 5 | ||||
25 | Jacques Bernard | 5 | ||||
26 | Janez Pintar | 4 | ||||
27 | Stefan Brägger | 4 | ||||
28 | Thomas Engl | 3 | ||||
29 | Günter Schrinhofer | 3 | ||||
30 | René Dünki | 3 | ||||
31 | Mathias Ehinger | 2 | ||||
32 | Heinz Paschen | 1 | ||||
33 | Xavier Arumi | 1 | ||||
References
- Büla, Maurice & Schertenleib, Jean-Claude (2001). Continental Circus 1949-2000. Chronosports S.A. ISBN 2-940125-32-5
- "The Official MotoGP website". Retrieved 2010-07-06.
- ↑ Ienatsch, Nick (December 2009). "Eddie Lawson: 20 Years Later". CycleWorld.com. Retrieved 2009-12-18.
- ↑ 1989 500cc Final Standings at MotoGP.com
- ↑ 1989 500cc Entries List at www.f1network.net
- ↑ The points for the Belgian round were halved because of too many re-starts.
- ↑ 1989 250cc Final Standings at MotoGP.com
- ↑ 1989 250cc Entries List at www.f1network.net
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