Racing Against Time: The Intensity of 1989 F1 Pre-Qualifying (60fps)

8:00 AM Friday morning, 13 qualifiers, one hour. Only 4 will advance. Who will be the lucky ones?

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0:00 Intro / Entry List
0:25 Zakspeed
0:47 Onyx
0:57 Zakspeed
1:12 Euro Brun
1:36 Nicola Larini, Osella
2:53 Euro Brun
3:03 Nicola Larini, Osella
3:29 Piercarlo Ghinzani, Osella
3:54 Gregor Foitek, Euro Brun
5:18 Nicola Larini, Osella
6:30 Gregor Foitek, Euro Brun
6:42 Nicola Larini, Osella
7:33 Gregor Foitek, Euro Brun
7:45 Piercarlo Ghinzani, Osella
7:58 Onyx girls
8:16 Aguri Suzuki, Zakspeed
9:25 Larini and Ghinzani, Osella
9:36 Stefan Johansson, Onyx
9:55 Bertrand Gachot, Onyx
11:10 Stefano Modena, Brabham
12:29 Martin Brundle, Brabham
13:44 Alex Caffi, Dallara
13:54 Onyx team after session red-flagged
14:08 Martin Brundle, Brabham
14:25 Bertrand Gachot, Onyx
16:23 Philippe Alliot
16:33 View from Pit Straight
17:28 Joachim Winkelhock, AGS
18:32 Bernd Schneider, Zakspeed
19:07 Bertrand Gachot, Onyx
19:31 Nicola Larini, Osella
20:53 Joachim Winkelhock, AGS
21:47 Volker Weidler, Rial
22:05 Pierre-Henri Raphanel, Coloni
23:05 Volker Weidler, Rial
24:56 Pre-Qualifying Results

From Maurice Hamilton, Autocourse:
"As if things were not difficult enough for the unfortunate 'second-class citizens' of the paddock, the organizers took it upon themselves to wash part of the track shortly before pre=qualifying began. Indeed, they chose to hose down the very fast section from the top of the hairpin to the new pits. Thus the unlucky 13 took to the track with rain tires fitted, even though 60 percent of the circuit was bone dry.
Not surprisingly, the quick times were established towards the end of the session and it was then that Gregor Foitek chose to have a major accident in the fast curves just beyond the old pits. Foitek emerged unhurt but his accident had sprayed mud and debris everywhere. At this point, Martin Brundle was fourth fastest and a qualifier despite having been forced to switch to the spare car when his engine failed. The spare was set up for Modena and Brundle was far from comfortable. But at least he had made it and Foitek's accident seemed to settle the issue.

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Then Alex Caffi produced one very quick lap in the midst of the chaos and Brundle was out. And, to make matters worse, or better, depending on your point of view, Modena was the quickest. Larini, reveling in a new chassis which he felt proved his theory that the old car had never been the same following his shunt at Imola, was second quickest ahead of Johansson. Stefan made the most of a car which was far from perfect and a track which was far from easy - as Foitek would prove. Indeed, the accident came at the worst possible moment for Bertrand Gachot, who was in the middle of a flying lap on qualifying tires when he came across the unconventionally parked Euro Brun moments after it had come to rest.
Aguri Suzuki had clouted the wall with his Zakspeed, while Bernd Schneider suffered from clutch trouble. Elsewhere, the nose cone on Winkelhock's AGS was dragging on the ground, while the nose actually fell of Weidler's Rial. Not that it made much difference to either driver, since they were not remotely on the pace."

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