1988 Mexican Grand Prix

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Results from the 1988 Formula One Mexican Grand Prix held at Mexico City on May 29, 1988.

Contents 1 Classification 2 Qualifying 3 Race summary 4 Notes

[edit] Classification

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	11	Alain Prost	McLaren-Honda	67	1'30:16.2	2	9
2	12	Ayrton Senna	McLaren-Honda	67	7.104	1	6
3	28	Gerhard Berger	Ferrari	67	57.314	3	4
4	27	Michele Alboreto	Ferrari	66	+ 1 Lap	5	3
5	17	Derek Warwick	Arrows-Megatron	66	+ 1 Lap	9	2
6	18	Eddie Cheever	Arrows-Megatron	66	+ 1 Lap	7	1
7	19	Alessandro Nannini	Benetton-Ford	65	+ 2 Laps	8
8	20	Thierry Boutsen	Benetton-Ford	64	+ 3 Laps	11
9	29	Yannick Dalmas	Larrousse-Ford	64	+ 3 Laps	22
10	26	Stefan Johansson	Ligier-Judd	63	+ 4 Laps	24
11	24	Luis Perez-Sala	Minardi-Ford	63	+ 4 Laps	25
12	14	Philippe Streiff	AGS-Ford	63	+ 4 Laps	19
13	32	Oscar Larrauri	Euro Brun-Ford	63	+ 4 Laps	26
14	31	Gabriele Tarquini	Coloni-Ford	62	+ 5 Laps	21
15	9	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Zakspeed	61	+ 6 Laps	18
16	16	Ivan Capelli	March-Judd	61	+ 6 Laps	10
Ret	1	Nelson Piquet	Lotus-Honda	58	Engine	4
Ret	22	Andrea de Cesaris	Rial-Ford	52	Gearbox	12
Ret	2	Satoru Nakajima	Lotus-Honda	27	Engine	6
Ret	5	Nigel Mansell	Williams-Judd	20	Engine	14
Ret	10	Bernd Schneider	Zakspeed	16	Engine	15
Ret	6	Riccardo Patrese	Williams-Judd	16	Engine	17
Ret	25	René Arnoux	Ligier-Judd	13	Collision	20
Ret	36	Alex Caffi	Dallara-Ford	13	Brakes	23
Ret	15	Mauricio Gugelmin	March-Judd	10	Electrical	16
Ret	30	Philippe Alliot	Larrousse-Ford	0	Suspension	13
DSQ	33	Stefano Modena	Euro Brun-Ford		Excluded
DNQ	3	Jonathan Palmer	Tyrrell-Ford
DNQ	21	Nicola Larini	Osella
DNQ	4	Julian Bailey	Tyrrell-Ford

[edit] Qualifying

The McLaren team dominated-Ayrton Senna took pole from Alain Prost with a lap time that was over a second faster than Nigel Mansell's 1987 time.Gerhard Berger and Nelson Piquet made up the 2nd row,whilst Satoru Nakajima and Alessandro Nannini put in excellent performance,whilst Mansell could only make 14th whilst battling suspension problems. The session was dominated by Philippe Alliot's terrifying crash after his Lola lost control coming out of the 150mph Peraltada hairpin that leads onto the pit straight.It collided with the pit wall and barrelrolled down the straight,disintegrating as it did so and coming to rest upside down in the middle of the track.Remarkably,Alliot was not only unhurt,but the car was rebuilt sufficiently to enable him to compete in the race.

[edit] Race summary

The first start was aborted due to Nannini stalling his Benetton.On the second start,Prost took the lead.Senna was slightly slowed by a pop off valve problem,but soon passed Piquet.From then until the finish the McLarens held the first two places.Berger had passed Piquet for 3rd place and was catching Senna when he backed off at half distance after receiving a 'low fuel' warning(which turned out to be incorrect.On lap 28 Nakajima retired with a broken turbo to be followed on lap 59 by teammate Piquet with a similar engine failure.The two Ferraris thus finished 3rd and 4th ahead of the two Arrows of Derek Warwick and Eddie Cheever who had a race-long duel and were separated by just 0.7s at the line and the two Benettons.Yannick Dalmas fought his way from 22nd up to 9th at the flag,whilst Bernd Schneider had run as high as 11th in his first Grand Prix before retiring on lap 17. Alain Prost took a new lap record,a full second faster than Piquet's previous target.

[edit] Notes

• Fastest Lap: Alain Prost 1'18.608

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