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Race 13 of 15 races in the 1989 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date | 13 August 1989 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Official name | Swedish TT[1][2][3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location | Scandinavian Raceway | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1989 Swedish motorcycle Grand Prix was the thirteenth round of the 1989 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 11–13 August 1989 at the Anderstorp circuit.
500 cc race report
[edit]Wayne Rainey takes pole, then it's Kevin Schwantz and Eddie Lawson. Rainey gets the start, and Lawson moves into second, followed by Schwantz.
A lead group forms, with Rainey, a small gap to Lawson, then another small gap to Schwantz, Kevin Magee and Christian Sarron.
Schwantz cruises into the pits with a mechanical, and Lawson closes the gap to Rainey and moves into the lead. Sarron is in third a couple of bike lengths behind, and Wayne Gardner passes Magee for fourth spot.
With two laps to go, Rainey is right behind Lawson and highsides on the exit of a right-hander. It's a long tumble, but he gets up and doesn't try to pick up the bike. Though it's Rainey's only real mistake all year, Lawson's consistency and improvement brings him the win and a lead in the standings by 13.5 points. Sarron takes second, Gardner third.
Says Lawson of the lap that saw Rainey go down: "That was my fastest lap of the race; I'd never got on the throttle that early all race. When I cracked it open, Wayne followed me, and there was no way the Dunlop was going to do that. It wasn’t Wayne, it was the tyres."[4]
500 cc classification
[edit]Pos. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Points | ||
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Rothmans Kanemoto Honda | Honda | 30 | 46:31.950 | 20 | ||
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Sonauto Gauloises Blondes Yamaha Mobil 1 | Yamaha | 30 | +5.650 | 17 | ||
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Rothmans Honda Team | Honda | 30 | +25.030 | 15 | ||
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Marlboro Yamaha Team Agostini | Yamaha | 30 | +31.630 | 13 | ||
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Team Lucky Strike Roberts | Yamaha | 30 | +51.550 | 11 | ||
6 | ![]() |
Suzuki Pepsi Cola | Suzuki | 30 | +55.450 | 10 | ||
7 | ![]() |
HB Honda Gallina Team | Honda | 30 | +55.660 | 9 | ||
8 | ![]() |
Team ROC Elf Honda | Honda | 30 | +55.840 | 8 | ||
9 | ![]() |
Cabin Racing Team | Honda | 30 | +1:33.500 | 7 | ||
10 | ![]() |
Yamaha Motor Company | Yamaha | 29 | +1 Lap | 6 | ||
11 | ![]() |
Team Iberia | Yamaha | 29 | +1 Lap | 5 | ||
12 | ![]() |
Racing Team Katayama | Honda | 29 | +1 Lap | 4 | ||
13 | ![]() |
Racing Team Katayama | Honda | 28 | +2 Laps | 3 | ||
14 | ![]() |
Romer Racing Suisse | Honda | 28 | +2 Laps | 2 | ||
15 | ![]() |
Club Motocross Pozuelo | Honda | 28 | +2 Laps | 1 | ||
16 | ![]() |
FMS | Honda | 28 | +2 Laps | |||
17 | ![]() |
Suzuki | 28 | +2 Laps | ||||
Ret | ![]() |
Suzuki | Retirement | |||||
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Librenti Corse | Suzuki | Retirement | ||||
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Team Lucky Strike Roberts | Yamaha | Retirement | ||||
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Honda | Retirement | |||||
Ret | ![]() |
Suzuki Pepsi Cola | Suzuki | Retirement | ||||
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Chevallier Yamaha | Retirement | |||||
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Team Heukeroff | Honda | Retirement | ||||
DNS | ![]() |
Fior Marlboro | Fior | Did not start | ||||
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Honda | Did not start | |||||
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Marlboro Yamaha Team Agostini | Yamaha | Did not start | ||||
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Club Motocross Pozuelo | Honda | Did not qualify | ||||
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Suzuki | Did not qualify | |||||
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Honda | Did not qualify | |||||
Sources:[5][6] |
References
[edit]- ^ "Alle Grand-Prix uitslagen en bijzonderheden, van 1973 (het jaar dat Jack begon met racen) tot heden". Archive.li. Archived from the original on 25 July 2015. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
- ^ Mitchell, Malcolm. "1989 500cc Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
- ^ "Anderstorp Raceway | the Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Archived from the original on 2018-05-21. Retrieved 2018-05-21.
- ^ Scott, Michael: "Wayne Rainey", page 140. Haynes Publishing, 1997
- ^ "1989 Swedish MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
- ^ "SWEDISH GRAND PRIX · 500cc Race Classification 1989". Motogp.com. Retrieved 15 September 2018.