1990 World Sportscar Championship season

1990 World Sportscar Championship season
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The 1990 World Sportscar Championship season was the 38th season of FIA World Sportscar Championship racing. It featured the 1990 FIA World Sports-Prototype Championship for Drivers and the 1990 FIA World Sports-Prototype Championship for Teams, both of which were contested over a series for cars running under the FIA's Group C formula. The series ran from April 8, 1990 to October 7, 1990 and was composed of nine races.

Schedule

Rnd	Race	Circuit	Date
1	Fujifilm Cup (480 km)	Suzuka Circuit	April 8
2	Trofeo Caracciolo (480km)	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	April 29
3	British Empire Trophy (480 km)	Silverstone Circuit	May 20
4	Coupes de Spa (480km)	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	June 3
5	480 km Dijon	Dijon-Prenois	July 22
6	ADAC Sportwagen WM (480km)	Nürburgring	August 19
7	Shell Donington Trophy (480 km)	Donington Park	September 2
8	Mondial Players Ltd. (480 km)	Circuit Gilles Villeneuve	September 23
9	Trofeo Hermanos Rodriguez (480 km)	Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez	October 7

Season results

Teams' Championship points were awarded for the top 6 placed cars in the order of 9-6-4-3-2-1, with the following exceptions:

• Teams were only awarded points for their highest finishing car; any other team cars were merely skipped in the points standings.
• Teams were not awarded points if the car did not complete 75% of the winner's distance.

Drivers' Championship points were awarded for the top 6 placed cars in the order of 9-6-4-3-2-1, with the following exceptions:

• Drivers failing to drive the car at least 30% of the laps in a race were not awarded points.
• Drivers were not awarded points if the car did not complete 75% of the winner's distance.

Races

Rnd	Circuit	Winning Team	Results
		Winning Drivers
1	Suzuka	Team Sauber Mercedes	Results
		Jean-Louis Schlesser Mauro Baldi
2	Monza	Team Sauber Mercedes	Results
		Jean-Louis Schlesser Mauro Baldi
3	Silverstone	Silk Cut Jaguar	Results
		Martin Brundle Alain Ferté
4	Spa-Francorchamps	Team Sauber Mercedes	Results
		Jochen Mass Karl Wendlinger
5	Dijon-Prenois	Team Sauber Mercedes	Results
		Jean-Louis Schlesser Mauro Baldi
6	Nürburgring	Team Sauber Mercedes	Results
		Jean-Louis Schlesser Mauro Baldi
7	Donington	Team Sauber Mercedes	Results
		Jean-Louis Schlesser Mauro Baldi
8	Gilles Villeneuve	Team Sauber Mercedes	Results†
		Jean-Louis Schlesser Mauro Baldi
9	Hermanos Rodriguez	Team Sauber Mercedes	Results
		Jochen Mass Michael Schumacher

† - Race failed to cover 75% of planned distance, half points were awarded.

Teams Championship

Pos	Team	Chassis	Engine	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Rd 6	Rd 7	Rd 8	Rd 9	Total
1	Team Sauber Mercedes	Sauber C9 Mercedes-Benz C11	Mercedes M119 5.0L Turbo V8 Mercedes M119 5.0L Turbo V8	9	9		9	9	9	9	4.5	9	67.5
2	Silk Cut Jaguar	Jaguar XJR-11	Jaguar JV6 3.5L Turbo V6		4	9	6	3	4			4	30
3	Nissan Motorsports Intl.	Nissan R89C Nissan R90CP Nissan R90CK	Nissan VRH35Z 3.5L Turbo V8 Nissan VRH35Z 3.5L Turbo V8 Nissan VRH35Z 3.5L Turbo V8	4			4	4	2	3	3	6	26
4	Spice Engineering	Spice SE90C	Ford Cosworth DFR 3.5L V8		1	4	3	1		4			13
5	Joest Porsche Racing	Porsche 962C	Porsche Type-935 3.2L Turbo Flat-6		2	3			1		0.5	2	8.5
6	Porsche Kremer Racing	Porsche 962C Porsche 962CK6	Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6 Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6	2		2					1.5		5.5
7	Brun Motorsport	Porsche 962C	Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6	1		1	2						4
8	Toyota Team Tom's	Toyota 89C-V Toyota 90C-V	Toyota R36V 3.6L Turbo V8 Toyota R36V 3.6L Turbo V8	3									3
9	Richard Lloyd Racing	Porsche 962C GTi	Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6				1				2		3

Drivers Championship

Pos	Driver	Team	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Rd 6	Rd 7	Rd 8	Rd 9	Total
1=	Jean-Louis Schlesser	Team Sauber Mercedes	9	9			9	9	9	4.5		49.5
1=	Mauro Baldi	Team Sauber Mercedes	9	9			9	9	9	4.5		49.5
3	Jochen Mass	Team Sauber Mercedes	6	6		9	6	6	6		9	48
4	Andy Wallace	Silk Cut Jaguar		3	6	6	3	3			4	25
5=	Michael Schumacher	Team Sauber Mercedes					6	6			9	21
5=	Karl Wendlinger	Team Sauber Mercedes	6	6		9						21
7	Jan Lammers	Silk Cut Jaguar		3	6	6	3	3				21
8	Martin Brundle	Silk Cut Jaguar		4	9		2	4				19
9	Julian Bailey	Nissan Motorsports Intl.				4	4		1	3	6	18
10	Mark Blundell	Nissan Motorsports Intl.					4	2	1	3	6	16
11	Kenny Acheson	Nissan Motorsports Intl.				4			3	1	3	11
12	Alain Ferté	Silk Cut Jaguar		4			2	4				10
13=	Bob Wollek	Joest Porsche Racing		2	3			1		0.5	1	7.5
13=	Frank Jelinski	Joest Porsche Racing		2	3			1		0.5	1	7.5
15=	Fermín Vélez	Chamberlain Engineering Spice Engineering			4	3						7
15=	Tim Harvey	Spice Engineering				3			4			7
17	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Team Sauber Mercedes							6			6
18	Bruno Giacomelli	Spice Engineering Team Davey			4				2			6
19	Gianfranco Brancatelli	Nissan Motorsports Intl. Alba Racing Team							3		3	6
20=	Anders Olofsson	Nissan Motorsports Intl. Porsche Kremer Racing	4									4
20=	Cor Euser	Chamberlain Engineering Spice Engineering							4			4
20=	Masahiro Hasemi	Nissan Motorsports Intl.	4									4
20=	Davy Jones	Silk Cut Jaguar									4	4
24	Oscar Larrauri	Brun Motorsport	1		1	2						4
25	Bernd Schneider	Porsche Kremer Racing			2					1.5		3.5
26=	Geoff Lees	Toyota Team Tom's	3									3
26=	Hitoshi Ogawa	Toyota Team Tom's	3									3
28=	Manuel Reuter	Richard Lloyd Racing				1				2		3
28=	Eric van de Poele	Spice Engineering		1					2			3
28=	Steven Andskär	Brun Motorsport Porsche Kremer Racing Richard Lloyd Racing			2	1						3
31=	Jonathan Palmer	Joest Porsche Racing									2	2
31=	Hans-Joachim Stuck	Joest Porsche Racing									2	2
31=	Kunimitsu Takahashi	Porsche Kremer Racing	2									2
31=	Kazuo Mogi	Porsche Kremer Racing	2									2
35	Wayne Taylor	Spice Engineering		1			1					2
36=	Harald Huysman	Brun Motorsport	1									1
36=	Eliseo Salazar	Spice Engineering					1					1

See also

1990 24 Hours of Le Mans, a race for Group C Sports Prototypes which did not count towards the 1990 World Sports-Prototype Championship.

External links

• Points table for the 1990 World Sports-Prototype Championship for Drivers Retrieved from wspr-racing.com on 7 February 1990
• Points table for the 1990 World Sports-Prototype Championship for Teams Retrieved from wspr-racing.com on 7 February 1990
• 1990 World Sports-Prototype Championship - round results
• Round 3 photos: Silverstone
• Round 5 photos: Dijon-Prenois
• Round 7 photos: Donington Park
• Round 8 photos: Montreal