1990 Monaco Grand Prix

The four successful pre-qualifiers in the one-hour Thursday morning session were the same four drivers as at the previous race at Imola , in the same order. The Larrousse - Lola cars finished first and second for the third time in a row, with Éric Bernard again outpacing his teammate Aguri Suzuki . The Osella of Olivier Grouillard was third fastest, followed by Roberto Moreno in the EuroBrun .

The AGS drivers were frozen out in fifth and sixth, with Gabriele Tarquini considerably faster than Yannick Dalmas on this occasion. Seventh was Claudio Langes in the second EuroBrun, six seconds off Bernard's pace. The other two runners were far behind; Bertrand Gachot was over twelve seconds adrift in the Coloni after another engine failure, with the team now in some disarray, [ 1 ] but still nearly two seconds faster than the Life , driven again by Bruno Giacomelli . This time, however, the I...

At the start there was an overly long delay between the red and green lights, which caused the drivers to be a little more agitated than usual, resulting in an accident between Prost and Berger at the Mirabeau corner. The track was blocked and the race had to be stopped. At the second start everything went to plan and Senna led from Prost, Alesi, Berger, Patrese and Boutsen, with Pirro being the first retirement when his engine blew on the opening lap. Eighth-placed Nigel Mansell was the centre ...

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