1989 Swedish motorcycle Grand Prix

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1989 Swedish motorcycle Grand Prix - Wikipedia

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1989 Swedish Grand Prix

Race details

Race 13 of 15 races in the
1989 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season

Date

13 August 1989

Official name

Swedish TT^[1]^[2]^[3]

Location

Scandinavian Raceway

Course

Permanent racing facility
4.025 km (2.501 mi)

500cc

Pole position
Rider	Wayne Rainey
Time	1:32.490
Fastest lap
Rider	Christian Sarron
Time	1:31.990
Podium
First	Eddie Lawson
Second	Christian Sarron
Third	Wayne Gardner

250cc

Pole position
Rider	Carlos Cardús
Time	1:36.740
Fastest lap
Rider	Sito Pons
Time	1:36.360
Podium
First	Sito Pons
Second	Reinhold Roth
Third	Jacques Cornu

125cc

Pole position
Rider	Àlex Crivillé
Time	1:43.610
Fastest lap
Rider	Àlex Crivillé
Time	1:42.770
Podium
First	Àlex Crivillé
Second	Hans Spaan
Third	Koji Takada

The 1989 Swedish motorcycle Grand Prix was the thirteenth round of the 1989 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 11–13 August 1989 at the Anderstorp circuit.

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."^[4]

500 cc classification

Pos.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Points
1	Eddie Lawson	Rothmans Kanemoto Honda	Honda	30	46:31.950	20
2	Christian Sarron	Sonauto Gauloises Blondes Yamaha Mobil 1	Yamaha	30	+5.650	17
3	Wayne Gardner	Rothmans Honda Team	Honda	30	+25.030	15
4	Niall Mackenzie	Marlboro Yamaha Team Agostini	Yamaha	30	+31.630	13
5	Kevin Magee	Team Lucky Strike Roberts	Yamaha	30	+51.550	11
6	Ron Haslam	Suzuki Pepsi Cola	Suzuki	30	+55.450	10
7	Pierfrancesco Chili	HB Honda Gallina Team	Honda	30	+55.660	9
8	Adrien Morillas	Team ROC Elf Honda	Honda	30	+55.840	8
9	Rob McElnea	Cabin Racing Team	Honda	30	+1:33.500	7
10	Tadahiko Taira	Yamaha Motor Company	Yamaha	29	+1 Lap	6
11	Alessandro Valesi	Team Iberia	Yamaha	29	+1 Lap	5
12	Simon Buckmaster	Racing Team Katayama	Honda	29	+1 Lap	4
13	Fabio Biliotti	Racing Team Katayama	Honda	28	+2 Laps	3
14	Bruno Kneubühler	Romer Racing Suisse	Honda	28	+2 Laps	2
15	Juan Lopez Mella	Club Motocross Pozuelo	Honda	28	+2 Laps	1
16	Nicholas Schmassman	FMS	Honda	28	+2 Laps
17	Timo Paavilainen		Suzuki	28	+2 Laps
Ret	Torbjorn Bastiansen		Suzuki		Retirement
Ret	Andreas Leuthe	Librenti Corse	Suzuki		Retirement
Ret	Wayne Rainey	Team Lucky Strike Roberts	Yamaha		Retirement
Ret	Alan Carter		Honda		Retirement
Ret	Kevin Schwantz	Suzuki Pepsi Cola	Suzuki		Retirement
Ret	Rachel Nicotte		Chevallier Yamaha		Retirement
Ret	Peter Linden	Team Heukeroff	Honda		Retirement
DNS	Marco Gentile	Fior Marlboro	Fior		Did not start
DNS	Josef Doppler		Honda		Did not start
DNS	Luca Cadalora	Marlboro Yamaha Team Agostini	Yamaha		Did not start
DNQ	Francisco Gonzales	Club Motocross Pozuelo	Honda		Did not qualify
DNQ	Ian Pratt		Suzuki		Did not qualify
DNQ	Aki Dahli		Honda		Did not qualify
Sources:^[5]^[6]

References

^ "Alle Grand-Prix uitslagen en bijzonderheden, van 1973 (het jaar dat Jack begon met racen) tot heden". Archive.li. Archived from the original on 25 July 2015. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
^ Mitchell, Malcolm. "1989 500cc Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
^ "Anderstorp Raceway | the Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Archived from the original on 2018-05-21. Retrieved 2018-05-21.
^ Scott, Michael: "Wayne Rainey", page 140. Haynes Publishing, 1997
^ "1989 Swedish MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
^ "SWEDISH GRAND PRIX · 500cc Race Classification 1989". Motogp.com. Retrieved 15 September 2018.

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