1990 July 03 & 04 - Lambo 1 first test with Mauro Baldi @ Imola

Scheduled to make his first appearance on track at the 1990 Mexican GP (   • 1990 F1 Mexican GP - GLAS F1 Team bos...   ) with driver Giovanni Aloi, the disapearance of the GLAS team financer Fernando Gonzalez Luna forced car builder Lamborghini to take their Lambo 1 F1 car on their own and start a testing program that saw Mauro Baldi making the Lambo 1 track debut at Imola on July 03 & 04, 1990.
According to 90 Autosprint # 28, test were very good, car had no problem, although Baldi had a crash. Before that he had completed 68 laps with a best time of 1m31.851 and a max speed of 301 km/h.
Just to have a comparison: during 1990 San Marino GP, the fastest lap was scored by Nannini with 1m27.156. Baldi time would have been 19th.
This clip was show during 1990 Belgian GP qualifying broadcast on RAI 2 (   • Gran Premio del Belgio 1990, Qualific...   )

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