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1989 Portuguese Grand Prix


I don't know if people remember this race, but Mansell was given a black flag for reversing his car in the pitlane. He however continued the race and resulted in a collision with Senna. Not very cool.

Also, during this race, the Minardi team led their one and only lap of their F1 career.

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I remember this race well indeed Xav.
The entire 1989 season was one of missed opportunities for Senna, he managed to DNF a number of times for a variety of reasons which all combined to him missing out on the WDC.

Nice to see Martini in the lead in his Minardi, they were very racy back then, I think he qualified around 3rd for the Spanish GP a week later?

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