Английская Википедия:1989 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix

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The 1989 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix was the first round of the 1989 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 24 to 26 March 1989 at the Suzuka Circuit.

500 cc race report

Wayne Rainey gets the lead and opens a small gap in the first lap, with Kevin Schwantz moving into second to chase him down. Wayne Gardner and Freddie Spencer go off-track, but get back in the race, while Doohan has a mechanical and Pierfrancesco Chili crashes out.

Schwantz soon catches and passes Rainey at the chicane in a typical late-braking move that leaves Rainey without much room. Rainey, not wanting to let Schwantz through, almost hits Schwantz’ back wheel and loses a lot of time. Schwantz will repeat the chicane pass two more times. From about half-race on, Rainey and Schwantz get in an epic fight, seemingly incapable of wanting to let the other take the lead. Rainey is so committed to staying in front of Schwantz that he does a downhill wheelie on the approach to the hairpin; on this lap alone they swap the lead at least 5 times.

Last lap sees Rainey ahead on the straight, but Schwantz passes into Turn One and manages to hold the lead to the finish line. Crossing the line, Rainey’s arm-flailing betrays his fury, but he manages to extend a hand of congratulations as he comes alongside Schwantz on the cool-down lap. Lawson battles his way through a handful of riders to take 3rd.

Rainey says of the last lap: “I couldn’t see my pit board so I was watching the circuit’s own lap counter over the start line. That clicks down as the leaders go underneath it, but I didn’t realize that. I read L2. I was following Kevin and thinking: why’s he riding so wild when there’s still another lap left? He was being real aggressive, and I was sitting right on him, planning how the next lap I’d draught him on the back straight, then not let him pass me at the chicane. Then we came across the start-finish line and there was the checker. It really pissed me off. Towards the end of 1988 we’d started saying hello to one another. It wasn’t just the two of us anymore. Now our rivalry started to heat up again.”

Файл:Ezio Gianola 1989 Japanese GP.jpg

Ezio Gianola, riding his bike at the 125cc race, which he went on to win.

500 cc classification

Pos.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	Шаблон:Flagicon Kevin Schwantz	Suzuki Pepsi Cola	Suzuki	22	48:48.370	3	20
2	Шаблон:Flagicon Wayne Rainey	Team Lucky Strike Roberts	Yamaha	22	+0.420	2	17
3	Шаблон:Flagicon Eddie Lawson	Rothmans Kanemoto Honda	Honda	22	+30.670	10	15
4	Шаблон:Flagicon Wayne Gardner	Rothmans Honda Team	Honda	22	+35.190	4	13
5	Шаблон:Flagicon Kevin Magee	Team Lucky Strike Roberts	Yamaha	22	+36.420	5	11
6	Шаблон:Flagicon Niall Mackenzie	Marlboro Yamaha Team Agostini	Yamaha	22	+39.540	8	10
7	Шаблон:Flagicon Christian Sarron	Sonauto Gauloises Blondes Yamaha Mobil 1	Yamaha	22	+48.470	11	9
8	Шаблон:Flagicon Tadahiko Taira	Yamaha Motor Company	Yamaha	22	+48.540	1	8
9	Шаблон:Flagicon Norihiko Fujiwara	Yamaha Motor Company	Yamaha	22	+1:09.280	16	7
10	Шаблон:Flagicon Shinichi Itoh	Team HRC	Honda	22	+1:09.280	12	6
11	Шаблон:Flagicon Bubba Shobert	Cabin Racing Team	Honda	22	+1:18.990	14	5
12	Шаблон:Flagicon Ron Haslam	Suzuki Pepsi Cola	Suzuki	22	+1:23.880	13	4
13	Шаблон:Flagicon Shunji Yatsushiro	Team HRC	Honda	22	+1:25.670	19	3
14	Шаблон:Flagicon Freddie Spencer	Marlboro Yamaha Team Agostini	Yamaha	22	+1:26.000	9	2
15	Шаблон:Flagicon Kunio Machii	Yamaha Motor Company	Yamaha	22	+1:29.480	15	1
16	Шаблон:Flagicon Randy Mamola	Cagiva Corse	Cagiva	22	+1:45.800	17
17	Шаблон:Flagicon Takazumi Katayama		Yamaha	22	+1:46.240	22
18	Шаблон:Flagicon Dominique Sarron	Team ROC Elf Honda	Honda	22	+2:12.130	23
19	Шаблон:Flagicon Katunori Shinozaki		Suzuki	21	+1 Lap	26
20	Шаблон:Flagicon Marco Gentile	Fior Marlboro	Fior	21	+1 Lap	27
21	Шаблон:Flagicon Keiji Kinoshita		Honda	21	+1 Lap	28
22	Шаблон:Flagicon Yoshimasa Matsumoto		Honda	20	+2 Laps	30
23	Шаблон:Flagicon Francisco Gonzales	Club Motocross Pozuelo	Honda	20	+2 Laps	31
Ret	Шаблон:Flagicon Doug Polen		Suzuki		Retirement	20
Ret	Шаблон:Flagicon Alessandro Valesi	Team Iberia	Yamaha		Retirement	24
Ret	Шаблон:Flagicon Osamu Hiwatashi		Suzuki		Retirement	18
Ret	Шаблон:Flagicon Hikaru Miyagi		Honda		Retirement	21
Ret	Шаблон:Flagicon Norio Iobe		Honda		Retirement	25
Ret	Шаблон:Flagicon Mick Doohan	Rothmans Honda Team	Honda		Retirement	6
Ret	Шаблон:Flagicon Pierfrancesco Chili	HB Honda Gallina Team	Honda		Retirement	7
DNS	Шаблон:Flagicon Simon Buckmaster	Racing Team Katayama	Honda		Did not Start	29
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