World Sports Prototype Championship Suzuka 1989 - Qualifying Results

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)

(Qualifying Results)

Pos.	No.	Drivers	Car	Entrant	Q Time	Km/h
1^st	37	Lees / Dumfries	Toyota 89C-V	Toyota Team Tom's	1:50.635	190.649
2^nd	36	Ogawa / Barilla	Toyota 89C-V	Toyota Team Tom's	1:51.553
3^rd	1	Lammers / Tambay	Jaguar XJR-9	Silk Cut Jaguar	1:53.319
4^th	61	Schlesser / Baldi / *Acheson	Sauber-Mercedes C9/88	Team Sauber Mercedes	1:53.474
5^th	72	Grohs / Nakaya	Porsche 962 C	Obermaier Primagaz (From A Racing)	1:53.928
6^th	24	Hasemi / Olofsson	Nissan R88C	Nissan Motorsports International	1:54.347
7^th	23	Hoshino / Suzuki	Nissan R88C	Nissan Motorsports International	1:54.518
8^th	100	Fouché / Andskar	Porsche 962 C GTi	Richard Lloyd Racing (Trust Racing Team)	1:54.770
9^th	55	Schuppan / Elgh	Porsche 962 C	Team Davey (Omron Racing Team)	1:55.084
10^th	7	Wollek / Jelinski	Porsche 962 C	Joest Racing	1:55.191
11^th	85	Wada / Morimoto	Nissan R88V	Nissan Motorsports Int'l (Cabin Racing Team with Le Mans)	1:55.250
12^th	2	Nielsen / Wallace	Jaguar XJR-9	Silk Cut Jaguar	1:55.307
13^th	34	Takahashi / Dickens	Porsche 962 C	Porsche Alméras Montpellier (Advan Alpha Nova)	1:56.258
14^th	11	Sekiya / Okada	Porsche 962 CK6	Porsche Kremer Racing (Leyton House Racing Team)	1:56.636
15^th	21	Salazar / Bellm / *Thyrring	Spice SE89C Ford	Spice Engineering	1:56.951
16^th	10	Lavaggi / Giacomelli	Porsche 962 CK6	Porsche Kremer Racing	1:57.397
17^th	201	Yorino / Oota	Mazda 767	Mazdaspeed	1:57.715
18^th	5	Huysman / Varjosaari	Porsche 962 C	Repsol Brun Motorsport	1:57.744
19^th	202	Katayama / Terada	Mazda 767B	Mazdaspeed	1:58.024
20^th	50	Ratzenberger / Suzuki	Toyota 89C-V	Toyota Team Tom's (SARD)	1:58.646
21^st	40	Mogi / Takahashi	Porsche 962 C	Swiss Team Salamin (Advan Alpha Tomei)	1:58.722
22^nd	14	Bell / Needell	Porsche 962 C GTi	Richard Lloyd Racing (Cabin Racing)	1:58.966
23^rd	6	Pareja / Brun	Porsche 962 C	Repsol Brun Motorsport	1:59.728
24^th	17	Dauer / Konrad	Porsche 962 C	Dauer Racing	2:00.270
25^th	16	Larrauri / Sandro Sala	Porsche 962 C	Repsol Brun Motorsport	2:00.740
26^th	13	Fabre / Santin	Cougar C22S Porsche	Courage Competition	2:00.789
27^th	20	Lee-Davey / Barth	Porsche 962 C	Team Davey	2:01.052
28^th	22	Thyrring / Taylor	Spice SE89C Ford	Spice Engineering	2:02.589
29^th	8	Ricci / Ballot-Léna	Porsche 962 C	Joest Racing	2:04.676
30^th	62	Acheson / Schlesser / Mass	Sauber-Mercedes C9/88	Team Sauber Mercedes	2:05.831
31^st	103	Coppelli / Thuner	Spice SE88C Ford	France Prototeam	2:05.860
32^nd	26	Pescarolo / Ferté	Spice SE88/9C Ford	France Prototeam	2:06.187
33^rd	101	Velez / Adams	Spice SE86C Hart	Chamberlain Engineering	2:06.309	163.893
34^th	107	Nurminen / Taverna	Tiga GC289 Ford	Tiga Race Team	2:07.299
35^th	108	Sheldon / Lindström	Tiga GC289 Ford	Roy Baker Racing	2:14.684
36^th	29	Scapini / Tacchino	Lancia LC2/89	Mussato Action Car	3:16.812

Other present cars:

No.	Drivers	Car	Entrant
61T	Schlesser / Baldi / Acheson / Mass	Sauber-Mercedes C9/88	Team Sauber Mercedes

Entered cars that did not arrive:

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