1989 Australian Grand Prix

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1989 Australian Grand Prix
Race 16 of 16 in the 1989 Formula One World Championship ← Previous race Next race →
Race details
Date	5 November 1989
Official name	LIV Foster's Australian Grand Prix
Location	Adelaide Street Circuit Adelaide, South Australia
Course	Temporary street circuit
Course length	3.780 km (2.349 miles)
Distance	70 laps, 264.600 km (164.43 miles)
Scheduled distance	81 laps, 306.81 km (190.269 miles)
Weather	Wet, cool
Pole position
Driver	Ayrton Senna	McLaren-Honda
Time	1:16.665
Fastest lap
Driver	Satoru Nakajima	Lotus-Judd
Time	1:38.480 on lap 64
Podium
First	Thierry Boutsen	Williams-Renault
Second	Alessandro Nannini	Benetton-Ford
Third	Riccardo Patrese	Williams-Renault
Lap leaders

The 1989 Australian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Adelaide on 5 November 1989. It was the sixteenth and final race of the 1989 Formula One World Championship.

The race took place in wet conditions, with only 70 of the scheduled 81 laps run before the two-hour time limit was reached. It was stopped and restarted following a first-lap collision, with Frenchman Alain Prost declining to take the restart in his McLaren-Honda. Prost's Brazilian teammate, Ayrton Senna, started from pole position and led the first 13 laps before colliding with the Brabham-Judd of Briton Martin Brundle, after which Belgian Thierry Boutsen led the remainder of the race in his Williams-Renault. Boutsen won by 28 seconds from Italian Alessandro Nannini in a Benetton-Ford, with another Italian, Riccardo Patrese, third in the other Williams-Renault.

This was the final Formula One race for Frenchman René Arnoux, American Eddie Cheever and Italian Piercarlo Ghinzani, and the final race entered by Briton Jonathan Palmer, who failed to qualify. It was also the final race entered by the German Zakspeed and Rial teams.