World Sports Prototype Championship Suzuka 1989 - Grid

Event: WSPC Suzuka, Japan		Date: 9.4.1989
Track: Suzuka Circuit (Japan), 5.859 kms	Organiser: Suzuka Circuit Land, SMSC
World Sports Prototype Championship Suzuka
FIA World Sports-Prototype Championship (round 1)

(Grid Positions)

Grid	No.	Drivers	Car	Entrant	Q Time	Km/h
1^st	37	Geoff Lees / Johnny Dumfries	Toyota 89C-V	Toyota Team Tom's	1:50.635	190.649
2^nd	36	Hitoshi Ogawa / Paolo Barilla	Toyota 89C-V	Toyota Team Tom's	1:51.553
3^rd	1	Jan Lammers / Patrick Tambay	Jaguar XJR-9	Silk Cut Jaguar	1:53.319
4^th	61	Jean-Louis Schlesser / Mauro Baldi	Sauber-Mercedes C9/88	Team Sauber Mercedes	1:53.474
5^th	72	Harald Grohs / Akihiko Nakaya	Porsche 962 C	Obermaier Primagaz (From A Racing)	1:53.928
6^th	24	Masahiro Hasemi / Anders Olofsson	Nissan R88C	Nissan Motorsports International	1:54.347
7^th	23	Kazuyoshi Hoshino / Toshio Suzuki	Nissan R88C	Nissan Motorsports International	1:54.518
8^th	100	George Fouché / Steven Andskar	Porsche 962 C GTi	Richard Lloyd Racing (Trust Racing Team)	1:54.770
9^th	55	Vern Schuppan / Eje Elgh	Porsche 962 C	Team Davey (Omron Racing Team)	1:55.084
10^th	7	Bob Wollek / Frank Jelinski	Porsche 962 C	Joest Racing	1:55.191
11^th	85	Takao Wada / Akio Morimoto	Nissan R88V	Nissan Motorsports Int'l (Cabin Racing Team with Le Mans)	1:55.250
12^th	2	John Nielsen / Andy Wallace	Jaguar XJR-9	Silk Cut Jaguar	1:55.307
13^th	34	Kunimitsu Takahashi / Stanley Dickens	Porsche 962 C	Porsche Alméras Montpellier (Advan Alpha Nova)	1:56.258
14^th	11	Masanori Sekiya / Hideki Okada	Porsche 962 CK6	Porsche Kremer Racing (Leyton House Racing Team)	1:56.636
15^th	21	Eliseo Salazar / Ray Bellm	Spice SE89C Ford	Spice Engineering	1:56.951
16^th	10	Giovanni Lavaggi / Bruno Giacomelli	Porsche 962 CK6	Porsche Kremer Racing	1:57.397
17^th	201	Takashi Yorino / Tetsuya Oota	Mazda 767	Mazdaspeed	1:57.715
18^th	5	Harald Huysman / Juha Varjosaari	Porsche 962 C	Repsol Brun Motorsport	1:57.744
19^th	202	Yoshimi Katayama / Yojiro Terada	Mazda 767B	Mazdaspeed	1:58.024
20^th	50	Roland Ratzenberger / Keiichi Suzuki	Toyota 89C-V	Toyota Team Tom's (SARD)	1:58.646
21^st	40	Kazuo Mogi / Kenji Takahashi	Porsche 962 C	Swiss Team Salamin (Advan Alpha Tomei)	1:58.722
22^nd	14	Derek Bell / Tiff Needell	Porsche 962 C GTi	Richard Lloyd Racing (Cabin Racing)	1:58.966
23^rd	6	Jésus Pareja / Walter Brun	Porsche 962 C	Repsol Brun Motorsport	1:59.728
24^th	17	Jochen Dauer / Franz Konrad	Porsche 962 C	Dauer Racing	2:00.270
25^th	16	Oscar Larrauri / Maurizio Sandro Sala	Porsche 962 C	Repsol Brun Motorsport	2:00.740
26^th	13	Pascal Fabre / Alessandro Santin	Cougar C22S Porsche	Courage Competition	2:00.789
27^th	20	Tim Lee-Davey / Jürgen Barth	Porsche 962 C	Team Davey	2:01.052
28^th	22	Thorkild Thyrring / Wayne Taylor	Spice SE89C Ford	Spice Engineering	2:02.589
29^th	8	Jean-Louis Ricci / Claude Ballot-Léna	Porsche 962 C	Joest Racing	2:04.676
30^th	62	Kenny Acheson	Sauber-Mercedes C9/88	Team Sauber Mercedes	2:05.831
31^st	103	Almo Coppelli / Bernard Thuner	Spice SE88C Ford	France Prototeam	2:05.860
32^nd	101	Fermin Velez / Nick Adams	Spice SE86C Hart	Chamberlain Engineering	2:06.309	163.893
33^rd	107	Jari Nurminen / Luigi Taverna	Tiga GC289 Ford	Tiga Race Team	2:07.299
34^th	108	John Sheldon / Leif Lindström	Tiga GC289 Ford	Roy Baker Racing	2:14.684

Other present cars:

No.	Drivers	Car	Entrant
26	Henri Pescarolo / Alain Ferté	Spice SE88/9C Ford	France Prototeam
29	Franco Scapini / Gianfranco Tacchino	Lancia LC2/89	Mussato Action Car
61T	Jean-Louis Schlesser / Massimo Baldi / Kenny Acheson / Jochen Mass	Sauber-Mercedes C9/88	Team Sauber Mercedes

Entered cars that did not arrive:

No.	Drivers	Car	Entrant
18	David Leslie / Brian Redman	Aston Martin AMR1	Aston Martin