1990 Italian Grand Prix

1990 Italian Grand Prix
Race 12 of 16 in the 1990 Formula One World Championship
Race details
Date 9 September 1990
Official name Coca-Cola 61º Gran Premio d'Italia
Location Autodromo Nazionale di Monza
Monza, Lombardy, Italy
Course Permanent racing facility
Course length 5.800 km (3.604 miles)
Distance 53 laps, 307.400 km (191.009 miles)
Weather Hot, dry, sunny
Pole position
Driver McLaren-Honda
Time 1:22.533
Fastest lap
Driver Brazil Ayrton Senna McLaren-Honda
Time 1:26.254 on lap 46
Podium
First McLaren-Honda
Second Ferrari
Third McLaren-Honda
Lap leaders

The 1990 Italian Grand Prix (formally the Coca-Cola 61º Gran Premio d'Italia[1]) was a Formula One motor race held at Monza on 9 September 1990. It was the twelfth race of the 1990 Formula One World Championship. The race was the 60th Italian Grand Prix and the 55th to be held at Monza.

The 53-lap race was won by Brazilian driver Ayrton Senna, driving a McLaren-Honda. Senna took pole position, led every lap and set the fastest race lap, thus achieving a Grand Slam. Senna's Driver's Championship rival, Frenchman Alain Prost, finished second in his Ferrari, some six seconds behind, with Senna's Austrian teammate Gerhard Berger third.

The win enabled Senna to extend his lead over Prost in the Drivers' Championship to 16 points with four races remaining.

  1. ^ "Motor Racing Programme Covers: 1990". The Programme Covers Project. Retrieved 18 March 2022.