1990 Friday F1 Qualifying
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0:00 Intro / Qualifying Results
0:40 Turn 3
2:13 Alesi on the limit
2:24 Lehto on a fast lap
2:35 Alesi on the limit again!
3:04 Alesi on the limit yet again!!
3:40 Turn 3 Apex
3:52 Donnelly on a fast lap
4:02 Gugelmin
4:12 Donnelly pushing hard
4:48 Alboreto on the limit
5:18 Donnelly at 10/10's
5:32 Pirro on a hot lap
5:42 Exit Turn 3 & Enter Turn 4 (Donnelly)
6:10 Suzuki V12 Lamborghini
6:36 Piquet
6:56 Mansell
7:06 Caffi kicks up some dust
7:24 Mansell screams by in Ferrari V12
7:41 Prost screams by entering the kink
8:00 Berger flies by
8:35 Overlooking kink (Boutsen)
9:22 Senna through kink
10:25 Senna exits fast bend
11:02 Grouillard on the limit
12:53 Prost
13:44 Senna in a hurry
14:36 Warwick on the limit
15:26 Warwick catches a slide!
16:00 Senna exits Turn 5
16:17 Prost making a lot of noise
16:43 Senna
With the sure knowledge that Friday was the end of the good weather there was no question of the qualifying hour seeing the front runners doing only two fast laps on their chosen qualifying tires. Every moment of track-time was needed to fit two days work into one and a lot of the drivers spent time out on the circuit on race tires working at their problems, restricting themselves to one fast lap in qualifying tyres. Those with spare cars were at an advantage here, being able to swap quickly from one car to the other, each car having its own particular characteristics as part of the test program. In actual fact many of the drivers made their best lap times running on relatively hard racing tires, rather than softer qualifying tires, simply because they were not really sufficiently far advanced with their experiments to get the best out of the softer rubber. Apart from the impending rain the total lack of pre-race testing on the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve meant there was no information in the memory-tank to assist them.
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The end result of this rather muddled first day of qualifying was not a lot different from normal, with Senna and Berger dominating the scene with the McLaren-Hondas and Prost a challenging third, but the two Benettons of Nannini and Piquet in fourth and fifth places surprised a lot of people as the Montreal circuit is pretty fast, with a-lap speed average around the 120mph mark. On the other hand there are a lot of fairly slow corners which call for good torque and low speed response, which is where a V8 engine can have an advantage over a V10 or a V12. The ‘wonder boy of Monte Carlo’, Jean Alesi, was still well up with a Tyrrell 019, holding eighth place, while Stefano Modena was going well in tenth place with a Brabham-Judd V8, ahead of the two Lamborghini-powered Lotus cars of Warwick and Donnelly. When the qualifying hour ended the atmosphere was getting very ‘heavy’ suggesting the approaching rain and it was generally accepted that only a freak of circumstance was going to alter the qualifying pattern, so anyone who had failed to get into the select twenty-six for the grid on this first afternoon hadn’t got much hope for improvement on Saturday.
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This was Ayrton Senna's 46th pole position, a record at the time.
Qualifying report by Denis Jenkinson of Motorsport.
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