The 1990 Italian Grand Prix (formally the Coca-Cola 61° Gran Premio d'Italia) was a Formula One motor race held at Autodromo Nazionale di Monza, 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 in Formula One, Honda. Senna took pole position, led every lap and set the fastest race lap, thus achieving a List of Formula One driver records#Grand Slam, Grand Slam. Senna's Driver's Championship rival, Frenchman Alain Prost, finished second in his Scuderia Ferrari, 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.

Qualifying

Pre-qualifying report

The Friday morning pre-qualifying session at Monza followed a similar pattern to the previous race at 1990 Belgian Grand Prix, Spa, with the same four drivers progressing to the main qualifying sessions. Olivier Grouillard was fastest again in the Osella, his tenth pre-qualification from twelve attempts. Bertrand Gachot achieved his best pre-qualifying position of the season so far in second place in the Scuderia Coloni, Coloni, his second success at this stage. The Automobiles Gonfaronnaises Sportives, AGS cars both pre-qualified again in third and fourth, with Gabriele Tarquini outpacing Yannick Dalmas this time. Therefore the same three cars missed out on pre-qualification, namely the two EuroBruns and the Life Racing Engines, Life. Fifth again was the EuroBrun of Roberto Moreno, just under six tenths of a second slower than Dalmas, although Claudio Langes was nearly 6.5 seconds further adrift in the sister car. Bruno Giacomelli was 20 seconds further behind in the Life, having only managed two laps at the team's home event before a substantial engine failure. It was the last appearance for their unusual, but hugely underdeveloped W12 engine.

Pre-qualifying classification

Qualifying report

Qualifying classification

Race

Race report

Near the end of the first lap, Derek Warwick ran wide at the Parabolica, his Lotus 102, Lotus hitting the guard rail at around and flipping upside down. Warwick clambered out of the car unhurt.Warwick Flips at Monza and Walks Away – 1990 Italian GP
/ref> The race was stopped on the second lap and restarted over the original distance, with Warwick taking the spare car and eventually retiring with a clutch failure. Jean Alesi became the first retirement as he went off Variante del Rettifilo on lap 5 and hit the wall, as the Lotus of Martin Donnelly (racing driver), Martin Donnelly had a dramatic engine failure at the start of lap 14. And Alboreto in the Arrows spun off at Ascari with only 1 lap to go.

Race classification

Championship standings after the race

;Drivers' Championship standings ;Constructors' Championship standings *

References

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