1991 Austrian motorcycle Grand Prix

  1991 Austrian Grand Prix

Race details
Race 7 of 15 races in the 1991 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	9 June 1991
Location	Salzburgring
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.243 km (2.626 mi)
500 cc
Pole position
Rider	Mick Doohan	Honda
Time	1:17.826
Fastest lap
Rider	Wayne Rainey	Yamaha
Time	1:18.085
Podium
First	Mick Doohan	Honda
Second	Wayne Rainey	Yamaha
Third	Kevin Schwantz	Suzuki
250 cc
Pole position
Rider	Helmut Bradl	Honda
Time	1:22.948
Fastest lap
Rider	Carlos Cardús	Honda
Time	1:22.631
Podium
First	Helmut Bradl	Honda
Second	Carlos Cardús	Honda
Third	Wilco Zeelenberg	Honda
125 cc
Pole position
Rider	Ralf Waldmann	Honda
Time	1:31.417
Fastest lap
Rider	Jorge Martínez	Honda
Time	1:30.874
Podium
First	Fausto Gresini	Honda
Second	Ralf Waldmann	Honda
Third	Noboru Ueda	Honda
Sidecars
Pole position
Rider	Steve Webster	Krauser
Passenger	Gavin Simmons
Time	1:24.823
Fastest lap
Rider	Ralph Bohnhorst	Bohnhorst
Passenger	Bruno Hiller
Time	1:25.149
Podium
First	Steve Webster	Krauser
	Gavin Simmons
Second	Rolf Biland	LCR-ADM
	Kurt Waltisperg
Third	Masato Kumano	LCR-Yamaha
	Eckhart Rösinger

The 1991 Austrian motorcycle Grand Prix was the seventh round of the 1991 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 7–9 June 1991 at the Salzburgring.

500 cc race report

Mick Doohan dominates qualifying with more than a second under Kevin Schwantz in 2nd place.

At the start, Wayne Rainey gets the first turn from Wayne Gardner, Doohan and John Kocinski. Doohan gets past Gardner and he and Rainey start forming a gap at the front. Kocinski starts putting pressure on Gardner.

Doohan takes the lead, with Rainey doing everything he can to stay in contact. Schwantz starts moving through the field. It ends in that order.

Schwantz complains that with two laps to go, Gardner almost pushed him into a barrier, and there are heated words after the race.

500 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	Mick Doohan	Honda	29	38:03.841	1	20
2	Wayne Rainey	Yamaha	29	+0.185	3	17
3	Kevin Schwantz	Suzuki	29	+15.625	2	15
4	Wayne Gardner	Honda	29	+15.827	4	13
5	Eddie Lawson	Cagiva	29	+38.688	6	11
6	Juan Garriga	Yamaha	29	+59.489	8	10
7	Doug Chandler	Yamaha	29	+1:13.608	9	9
8	Didier de Radiguès	Suzuki	28	+1 lap	7	8
9	John Kocinski	Yamaha	28	+1 lap	5	7
10	Eddie Laycock	Yamaha	28	+1 lap	11	6
11	Michael Rudroff	Honda	27	+2 laps	13	5
12	Marco Papa	Cagiva	27	+2 laps	12	4
Ret	Adrien Morillas	Yamaha	4	Retired	10
DNQ	Cees Doorakkers	Honda
DNQ	Sepp Doppler	Yamaha
DNQ	Hans Becker	Yamaha
DNQ	Helmut Schutz	Honda
DNQ	Andreas Leuthe	Suzuki
DNQ	Niggi Schmassman	Honda
DNQ	Martin Trösch	Honda

250 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	Helmut Bradl	Honda	24	33:23.857	1	20
2	Carlos Cardús	Honda	24	+7.818	3	17
3	Wilco Zeelenberg	Honda	24	+8.157	5	15
4	Pierfrancesco Chili	Aprilia	24	+9.054	2	13
5	Luca Cadalora	Honda	24	+18.878	7	11
6	Masahiro Shimizu	Honda	24	+32.197	9	10
7	Jochen Schmid	Honda	24	+36.707	10	9
8	Loris Reggiani	Aprilia	24	+48.198	6	8
9	Àlex Crivillé	JJ Cobas	24	+1:03.281	8	7
10	Stefan Prein	Honda	24	+1:03.387	14	6
11	Paolo Casoli	Yamaha	24	+1:08.090	11	5
12	Harald Eckl	Aprilia	24	+1:20.874		4
13	Martin Wimmer	Suzuki	24	+1:21.043	12	3
14	Erkka Korpiaho	Aprilia	24	+1:21.234		2
15	Corrado Catalano	Honda	24	+1:22.801		1
16	Fausto Ricci	Yamaha	24	+1:23.529
17	Eskil Suter	Aprilia	24	+1:40.552
18	Jaime Mariano	Aprilia	23	+1 lap
19	Stefano Pennese	Aprilia	23	+1 lap
20	Bernd Kassner	Yamaha	23	+1 lap
21	Katsuyoshi Kozono	Honda	23	+1 lap
22	Bernard Hänggeli	Aprilia	23	+1 lap
23	Patrick van der Goorbergh	Yamaha	23	+1 lap
24	Renato Colleoni	Aprilia	23	+1 lap
25	Renzo Colleoni	Aprilia	23	+1 lap
26	Ian Newton	Yamaha	23	+1 lap
27	Jean Foray	Yamaha	23	+1 lap
28	Wayne Doran	Yamaha	23	+1 lap
Ret	Urs Jucker	Yamaha	23	Retired
Ret	Andreas Preining	Aprilia	18	Retired	4
Ret	Jean-Pierre Jeandat	Honda	10	Retired
Ret	Peter Linden	Honda	8	Retired
Ret	Doriano Romboni	Honda	5	Retired	13
Ret	Frédéric Protat	Aprilia	4	Retired
Ret	Marcellino Lucchi	Aprilia	2	Retired	15
DNS	Carlos Lavado	Yamaha
DNS	Kevin Mitchell	Yamaha

125 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	Fausto Gresini	Honda	22	33:47.096	5	20
2	Ralf Waldmann	Honda	22	+0.048	1	17
3	Noboru Ueda	Honda	22	+0.452	6	15
4	Dirk Raudies	Honda	22	+1.427	7	13
5	Hans Spaan	Honda	22	+1.580	9	11
6	Loris Capirossi	Honda	22	+3.609	2	10
7	Jorge Martínez	Honda	22	+3.800		9
8	Adolf Stadler	JJ Cobas	22	+3.834	8	8
9	Heinz Lüthi	Honda	22	+4.287	4	7
10	Peter Öttl	Rotax	22	+7.017	11	6
11	Alessandro Gramigni	Aprilia	22	+29.176	10	5
12	Nobuyuki Wakai	Honda	22	+29.231		4
13	Olivier Petrucciani	Aprilia	22	+29.288		3
14	Maurizio Vitali	Gazzaniga	22	+29.538		2
15	Alain Bronec	Honda	22	+29.620		1
16	Julián Miralles	JJ Cobas	22	+30.405
17	Gimmi Bosio	Honda	22	+30.532
18	Herri Torrontegui	JJ Cobas	22	+30.597
19	Hisashi Unemoto	Honda	22	+30.747
20	Luis Alvaro	Derbi	22	+30.797
21	Gabriele Debbia	Aprilia	22	+30.993	3
22	Ezio Gianola	Derbi	22	+51.228	13
23	Peter Galvin	Honda	22	+53.468
24	Ian McConnachie	Honda	22	+53.568
25	Johnny Wickström	Honda	22	+53.896
26	Alfred Waibel	Honda	22	+54.289	15
27	Steve Patrickson	Honda	22	+54.489
28	Jos van Dongen	Honda	22	+56.592
29	Wolfgang Fritz	Honda	22	+1:33.788
30	Kinya Wada	Honda	21	+1 lap
31	Emilio Cuppini	Gazzaniga	18	+4 laps
Ret	Thierry Feuz	Honda	21	Retired
Ret	Bruno Casanova	Honda	14	Retired	12
Ret	Serafino Foti	Honda	12	Retired
Ret	Arie Molenaar	Honda	10	Retired
Ret	Kazuto Sakata	Honda	9	Retired	14
DNQ	Stefan Kurfiss	Honda
DNQ	Manuel Hernández	Honda
DNQ	Robin Appleyard	Honda
DNQ	Hans Koopman	Honda
DNQ	Janez Pintar	Honda
DNQ	Stefan Brägger	Honda
DNQ	Alan Patterson	Honda
DNQ	René Dünki	Honda
DNQ	Hubert Abold	Honda
DNQ	Taru Rinne	Honda
DNQ	Jean-Claude Selini	Honda

Sidecar classification

Pos	Rider	Passenger	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	Steve Webster	Gavin Simmons	Krauser	22	31:43.039	1	20
2	Rolf Biland	Kurt Waltisperg	LCR-ADM	22	+15.773	3	17
3	Masato Kumano	Eckhart Rösinger	LCR-Yamaha	22	+16.174		15
4	Klaus Klaffenböck	Christian Parzer	LCR	22	+16.511	9	13
5	Paul Güdel	Charly Güdel	LCR-Krauser	22	+16.735	5	11
6	Steve Abbott	Shaun Smith	LCR-Krauser	22	+17.141		10
7	Ralph Bohnhorst	Bruno Hiller	Bohnhorst	22	+18.107	11	9
8	Egbert Streuer	Peter Essaff	LCR-Yamaha	22	+30.693	10	8
9	Derek Brindley	Nick Roche	LCR	22	+50.156		7
10	Theo van Kempen	Jan Kuyt	LCR-Krauser	22	+51.465	13	6
11	René Progin	Gary Irlam	LCR	22	+51.594	12	5
12	Werner Kraus	Thomas Schröder	ADM	22	+53.107		4
13	Markus Bösiger	Peter Markwalder	LCR-ADM	22	+57.867		3
14	Gary Thomas	Michel van Puyvelde	Krauser	22	+59.430		2
15	Darren Dixon	Sean Dixon	LCR-Krauser	22	+1:27.816	15	1
16	Markus Egloff	Urs Egloff	Yamaha	22	+1:30.638	4
17	Jos van Stekelenburg	Rinie Bettgens	LCR	21	+1 lap
Ret	Barry Smith	David Smith	Windle-ADM	10	Retired
Ret	Yoshisada Kumagaya	Bryan Houghton	Krauser	8	Retired	7
Ret	Tony Wyssen	Killian Wyssen	LCR-Krauser	7	Retired	6
Ret	Tony Baker	Simon Prior	LCR-Krauser	4	Retired
Ret	Alain Michel	Simon Birchall	Krauser	0	Retired	2
Ret	Alfred Zurbrügg	Martin Zurbrügg	LCR-Yamaha	0	Retired	14
DNS	Barry Brindley	Trevor Hopkinson	LCR-Yamaha			8
DNQ	Hans Hügli	Adolf Hänni	LCR
DNQ	Peter Lemstra	Guy Scott	LCR
DNQ	Billy Gällros	Peter Berglund	LCR
DNQ	Reiner Kosta	Jurg Egli	Yamaha

References

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