1991 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix

  1991 Spanish Grand Prix

Race details
Race 4 of 15 races in the 1991 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	12 May 1991
Location	Jerez
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.218 km (2.621 mi)
500 cc
Pole position
Rider	Wayne Rainey	Yamaha
Time	1:46.881
Fastest lap
Rider	Wayne Rainey	Yamaha
Time	1:47.615
Podium
First	Michael Doohan	Honda
Second	John Kocinski	Yamaha
Third	Wayne Rainey	Yamaha
250 cc
Pole position
Rider	Helmut Bradl	Honda
Time	1:49.108
Fastest lap
Rider	Helmut Bradl	Honda
Time	1:50.002
Podium
First	Helmut Bradl	Honda
Second	Luca Cadalora	Honda
Third	Loris Reggiani	Aprilia
125 cc
Pole position
Rider	Noboru Ueda	Honda
Time	1:54.647
Fastest lap
Rider	Ezio Gianola	Derbi
Time	1:54.038
Podium
First	Noboru Ueda	Honda
Second	Fausto Gresini	Honda
Third	Loris Capirossi	Honda
Sidecars
Pole position
Rider	Alain Michel	Krauser
Passenger	Simon Birchall
Time	1:50.817
Fastest lap
Rider	Steve Webster	Krauser
Passenger	Gavin Simmons
Time	1:52.237
Podium
First	Steve Webster	Krauser
	Gavin Simmons
Second	Paul Güdel	LCR-Krauser
	Charly Güdel
Third	Steve Abbott	LCR-Krauser
	Shaun Smith

The 1991 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix was the fourth round of the 1991 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 10–12 May 1991 at the Jerez circuit.

500 cc race report

Wayne Rainey’s 3rd pole in 4 races; takes turn 1 from Mick Doohan, John Kocinski, Eddie Lawson and Kevin Schwantz.

Rainey and Doohan get a little gap to Kocinski, then it’s a large gap to 4th. Doohan starts to open a gap from Rainey, who starts to get pressure from his teammate Kocinski.

Kocinski passes Rainey without much finesse. Doohan wins with a large gap and Kocinski’s 2nd place takes 2 points from Rainey’s standing, so he’s now 4 points behind Doohan.

Rainey says that his tire blistered and had to nurse it on the right-handers.^[1] Schwantz' Suzuki holed a piston while he was battling for 4th place.

500 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	Mick Doohan	Honda	29	52:42.650	3	20
2	John Kocinski	Yamaha	29	+9.920	2	17
3	Wayne Rainey	Yamaha	29	+13.463	1	15
4	Juan Garriga	Yamaha	29	+34.955	6	13
5	Jean-Philippe Ruggia	Yamaha	29	+39.276	9	11
6	Eddie Lawson	Cagiva	29	+46.684	5	10
7	Wayne Gardner	Honda	29	+53.944	7	9
8	Didier de Radiguès	Suzuki	29	+55.155	10	8
9	Adrien Morillas	Yamaha	29	+1:11.117	11	7
10	Doug Chandler	Yamaha	29	+1:31.628	8	6
11	Eddie Laycock	Yamaha	28	+1 lap	12	5
12	Marco Papa	Honda	28	+1 lap	13	4
13	Cees Doorakkers	Honda	28	+1 lap	14	3
14	Hans Becker	Yamaha	27	+2 laps	15	2
15	Michael Rudroff	Honda	27	+2 laps		1
Ret	Kevin Schwantz	Suzuki	11	Retired	4
Ret	Niggi Schmassman	Honda	6	Retired
DNQ	Helmut Schutz	Honda
DNQ	Martin Trosch	Honda
DNQ	Andreas Leuthe	Suzuki
[2]

250 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	Helmut Bradl	Honda	24	44:22.222	1	20
2	Luca Cadalora	Honda	24	+0.451	2	17
3	Loris Reggiani	Aprilia	24	+4.156	7	15
4	Masahiro Shimizu	Honda	24	+6.285	3	13
5	Pierfrancesco Chili	Aprilia	24	+6.793	4	11
6	Carlos Cardús	Honda	24	+8.186	5	10
7	Jochen Schmid	Honda	24	+37.638	13	9
8	Martin Wimmer	Suzuki	24	+41.905	11	8
9	Doriano Romboni	Honda	24	+46.974		7
10	Alberto Puig	Yamaha	24	+49.647	12	6
11	Carlos Lavado	Yamaha	24	+1:04.453	15	5
12	Jean-Pierre Jeandat	Honda	24	+1:11.980		4
13	Leon van der Heyden	Honda	24	+1:14.709		3
14	Patrick van der Goorbergh	Yamaha	24	+1:17.124		2
15	Urs Jucker	Yamaha	24	+1:25.505		1
16	Jaime Mariano	Aprilia	24	+1:38.203
17	Bernard Hänggeli	Aprilia	24	+1:39.797
18	Ian Newton	Yamaha	23	+1 lap
19	Fausto Ricci	Yamaha	23	+1 lap
20	Jean Foray	Yamaha	23	+1 lap
Ret	Erkka Korpiaho	Aprilia	21	Retired
Ret	Renzo Colleoni	Aprilia	16	Retired	14
Ret	Paolo Casoli	Yamaha	15	Retired	9
Ret	Corrado Catalano	Honda	9	Retired
Ret	Àlex Crivillé	JJ Cobas	7	Retired	8
Ret	Andreas Preining	Aprilia	6	Retired	10
Ret	Frédéric Protat	Aprilia	4	Retired
Ret	Kevin Mitchell	Yamaha	4	Retired
Ret	Marcellino Lucchi	Aprilia	2	Retired
Ret	Wilco Zeelenberg	Honda	1	Retired	6
Ret	Dominique Sarron	Yamaha	1	Retired
Ret	Harald Eckl	Aprilia	1	Retired
DNS	Stefan Prein	Honda
[3]

125 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	Noboru Ueda	Honda	22	42:23.780	1	20
2	Fausto Gresini	Honda	22	+0.987	3	17
3	Loris Capirossi	Honda	22	+15.199	11	15
4	Gabriele Debbia	Aprilia	22	+15.440	10	13
5	Jorge Martínez	JJ Cobas	22	+15.860	2	11
6	Bruno Casanova	Honda	22	+23.815	9	10
7	Ralf Waldmann	Honda	22	+27.403	5	9
8	Hans Spaan	Honda	22	+36.338	13	8
9	Dirk Raudies	Honda	22	+36.422		7
10	Manuel Herreros	JJ Cobas	22	+48.602		6
11	Hisashi Unemoto	Honda	22	+53.170	14	5
12	Herri Torrontegui	JJ Cobas	22	+53.521		4
13	Adolf Stadler	JJ Cobas	22	+53.845	8	3
14	Julián Miralles	JJ Cobas	22	+54.021		2
15	Luis Alvaro	Derbi	22	+54.883	15	1
16	Alessandro Gramigni	Aprilia	22	+54.930	12
17	Peter Öttl	Rotax	22	+58.183
18	Steve Patrickson	Honda	22	+59.052
19	Arie Molenaar	Honda	22	+1:03.016
20	Ian McConnachie	Honda	22	+1:04.666
21	Nobuyuki Wakai	Honda	22	+1:05.208
22	Robin Appleyard	Honda	22	+1:12.692
23	Manuel Hernández	Honda	22	+1:18.821
24	Alain Bronec	Honda	22	+1:21.511
25	Javier Debon	JJ Cobas	22	+1:26.182
26	Jos van Dongen	Honda	22	+1:29.294
27	Peter Galvin	Honda	21	+1 lap
Ret	Ezio Gianola	Derbi	20	Retired	4
Ret	Emilio Cuppini	Gazzaniga	12	Retired
Ret	Thierry Feuz	Honda	10	Retired
Ret	Heinz Lüthi	Honda	6	Retired	7
Ret	Koji Takada	Honda	6	Retired
Ret	Alfred Waibel	Honda	3	Retired
Ret	Gimmi Bosio	Honda	1	Retired	6
Ret	Kazuto Sakata	Honda	0	Retired
Ret	Maurizio Vitali	Gazzaniga	0	Retired
DNS	Serafino Foti	Honda
DNQ	Stefan Bragger	Honda
DNQ	Hans Koopman	Honda
DNQ	Kinya Wada	Honda
DNQ	Alan Patterson	Honda
DNQ	Stefan Kurfiss	Honda
DNQ	Hubert Abold	Honda
DNQ	Wolfgang Fritz	Honda
DNQ	René Dünki	Honda
DNQ	Taru Rinne	Honda
DNQ	Phillip Unhola	Honda
[3]

Sidecar classification

Pos	Rider	Passenger	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	Steve Webster	Gavin Simmons	Krauser	22	41:53.700	2	20
2	Paul Güdel	Charly Güdel	LCR-Krauser	22	+4.062	4	17
3	Steve Abbott	Shaun Smith	LCR-Krauser	22	+4.380	5	15
4	Rolf Biland	Kurt Waltisperg	LCR-ADM	22	+4.594	3	13
5	Yoshisada Kumagaya	Bryan Houghton	Krauser	22	+35.154	8	11
6	Markus Egloff	Urs Egloff	Yamaha	22	+50.510	6	10
7	Derek Brindley	Nick Roche	LCR	22	+53.098	12	9
8	Ralph Bohnhorst	Geral de Haas	LCR	22	+1:18.654		8
9	Masato Kumano	Eckhart Rösinger	LCR-Yamaha	22	+1:19.320		7
10	Tony Wyssen	Killian Wyssen	LCR-Krauser	22	+1:26.836	13	6
11	Theo van Kempen	Jan Kuyt	LCR-Krauser	22	+1:28.089	15	5
12	Klaus Klaffenböck	Christian Parzer	LCR	22	+1:50.872	14	4
13	Werner Kraus	Thomas Schröder	ADM	22	+1:58.758		3
14	Tony Baker	Simon Prior	LCR-Krauser	22	+1:58.834		2
15	René Progin	Gary Irlam	LCR	21	+1 lap		1
16	Kenny Howles	Alan Langton	Krauser	21	+1 lap
17	Egbert Streuer	Peter Essaff	LCR-Yamaha	21	+1 lap	10
18	Alain Michel	Simon Birchall	Krauser	21	+1 lap	1
19	Billy Gällros	Peter Berglund	Krauser	21	+1 lap
20	Gary Thomas	Michel van Puyvelde	Krauser	21	+1 lap
21	Alfred Zurbrügg	Martin Zurbrügg	LCR-Yamaha	20	+2 laps	7
Ret	Darren Dixon	Sean Dixon	LCR-Krauser	3	Retired	11
Ret	Barry Brindley	Tony Atkinson	LCR-Yamaha	2	Retired	9
Ret	Markus Bösiger	Bruno Hiler	ADM	1	Retired
Ret	Barry Smith	David Smith	Windle-ADM	1	Retired
DNQ	Frank Voigt	Holger Voigt	Schuh-Spezial
DNQ	Reiner Kosta	Jurg Egli	Yamaha
[4]

References

1. Scott, Michael: "Wayne Rainey", page 153. Haynes Publishing, 1997.
2. Scott, Michael (ed.). Motocourse 1991-1992. Hazleton Publishing. pp. 88–89. ISBN 0-905138-88-0.
3. Scott, Michael (ed.). Motocourse 1991-1992. Hazleton Publishing. ISBN 0-905138-88-0.
4. Scott, Michael (ed.). Motocourse 1991-1992. Hazleton Publishing. pp. 80–81. ISBN 0-905138-88-0.