1991 Austrian motorcycle Grand Prix

Pole position
Fastest lap
Podium

Pole position
Fastest lap
Podium

1991 Austrian Grand Prix
Race details
Race 7 of 15 races in the; 1991 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	9 June 1991
Official name	Großer Preis von Österreich
Location	Salzburgring
Course	Permanent racing facility; 4.243 km (2.636 mi);
500 cc
Pole position
Fastest lap
Podium
250 cc
Pole position
Fastest lap
Podium
125 cc
Pole position
Fastest lap
Podium
Sidecar (B2A)
Pole position
Fastest lap
Podium

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.^[4]

500 cc classification[]

Pos.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	Mick Doohan	Rothmans Honda Team	Honda	29	38:03.841	1	20
2	Wayne Rainey	Marlboro Team Roberts	Yamaha	29	+0.185	3	17
3	Kevin Schwantz	Lucky Strike Suzuki	Suzuki	29	+15.625	2	15
4	Wayne Gardner	Rothmans Honda Team	Honda	29	+15.827	4	13
5	Eddie Lawson	Cagiva Corse	Cagiva	29	+38.688	6	11
6	Juan Garriga	Ducados Yamaha	Yamaha	29	+59.489	8	10
7	Doug Chandler	Roberts B Team	Yamaha	29	+1:13.608	9	9
8	Didier de Radiguès	Lucky Strike Suzuki	Suzuki	28	+1 lap	7	8
9	John Kocinski	Marlboro Team Roberts	Yamaha	28	+1 lap	5	7
10	Eddie Laycock	Millar Racing	Yamaha	28	+1 lap	11	6
11	Michael Rudroff	Rallye Sport	Honda	27	+2 laps	13	5
12	Marco Papa	Cagiva Corse	Cagiva	27	+2 laps	12	4
Ret	Adrien Morillas	Sonauto Yamaha Mobil 1	Yamaha	4	Retired	10
DNQ	Cees Doorakkers	HEK-Baumachines	Honda		Did not qualify
DNQ		Doppler Racing	Yamaha		Did not qualify
DNQ		Team Romero Racing	Yamaha		Did not qualify
DNQ		Rallye Sport	Honda		Did not qualify
DNQ		Librenti Corse	Suzuki		Did not qualify
DNQ		Schmassman Technotron	Honda		Did not qualify
DNQ		MT Racing	Honda		Did not qualify
Sources:^[5]^[6]^[7]

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		Aprilia	24	+1:20.874		4
13	Martin Wimmer	Suzuki	24	+1:21.043	12	3
14		Aprilia	24	+1:21.234		2
15		Honda	24	+1:22.801		1
16	Fausto Ricci	Yamaha	24	+1:23.529
17	Eskil Suter	Aprilia	24	+1:40.552
18		Aprilia	23	+1 lap
19		Aprilia	23	+1 lap
20		Yamaha	23	+1 lap
21		Honda	23	+1 lap
22		Aprilia	23	+1 lap
23		Yamaha	23	+1 lap
24		Aprilia	23	+1 lap
25		Aprilia	23	+1 lap
26		Yamaha	23	+1 lap
27		Yamaha	23	+1 lap
28		Yamaha	23	+1 lap
Ret		Yamaha	23	Retired
Ret		Aprilia	18	Retired	4
Ret		Honda	10	Retired
Ret		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
^[7]

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		JJ Cobas	22	+3.834	8	8
9		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		Honda	22	+29.231		4
13	Olivier Petrucciani	Aprilia	22	+29.288		3
14	Maurizio Vitali	Gazzaniga	22	+29.538		2
15		Honda	22	+29.620		1
16	Julián Miralles	JJ Cobas	22	+30.405
17		Honda	22	+30.532
18	Herri Torrontegui	JJ Cobas	22	+30.597
19		Honda	22	+30.747
20		Derbi	22	+30.797
21	Gabriele Debbia	Aprilia	22	+30.993	3
22	Ezio Gianola	Derbi	22	+51.228	13
23		Honda	22	+53.468
24		Honda	22	+53.568
25		Honda	22	+53.896
26		Honda	22	+54.289	15
27		Honda	22	+54.489
28		Honda	22	+56.592
29		Honda	22	+1:33.788
30		Honda	21	+1 lap
31		Gazzaniga	18	+4 laps
Ret		Honda	21	Retired
Ret	Bruno Casanova	Honda	14	Retired	12
Ret		Honda	12	Retired
Ret		Honda	10	Retired
Ret	Kazuto Sakata	Honda	9	Retired	14
DNQ		Honda
DNQ		Honda
DNQ	Robin Appleyard	Honda
DNQ		Honda
DNQ	Janez Pintar	Honda
DNQ		Honda
DNQ		Honda
DNQ		Honda
DNQ	Hubert Abold	Honda
DNQ	Taru Rinne	Honda
DNQ		Honda
^[7]

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		Eckhart Rösinger	LCR-Yamaha	22	+16.174		15
4	Klaus Klaffenböck	Christian Parzer	LCR	22	+16.511	9	13
5		Charly Güdel	LCR-Krauser	22	+16.735	5	11
6		Shaun Smith	LCR-Krauser	22	+17.141		10
7		Bruno Hiller	Bohnhorst	22	+18.107	11	9
8	Egbert Streuer	Peter Essaff	LCR-Yamaha	22	+30.693	10	8
9		Nick Roche	LCR	22	+50.156		7
10		Jan Kuyt	LCR-Krauser	22	+51.465	13	6
11		Gary Irlam	LCR	22	+51.594	12	5
12		Thomas Schröder	ADM	22	+53.107		4
13		Peter Markwalder	LCR-ADM	22	+57.867		3
14		Michel van Puyvelde	Krauser	22	+59.430		2
15	Darren Dixon	Sean Dixon	LCR-Krauser	22	+1:27.816	15	1
16		Urs Egloff	Yamaha	22	+1:30.638	4
17		Rinie Bettgens	LCR	21	+1 lap
Ret		David Smith	Windle-ADM	10	Retired
Ret		Bryan Houghton	Krauser	8	Retired	7
Ret		Killian Wyssen	LCR-Krauser	7	Retired	6
Ret		Simon Prior	LCR-Krauser	4	Retired
Ret	Alain Michel	Simon Birchall	Krauser	0	Retired	2
Ret		Martin Zurbrügg	LCR-Yamaha	0	Retired	14
DNS		Trevor Hopkinson	LCR-Yamaha			8
DNQ		Adolf Hänni	LCR
DNQ		Guy Scott	LCR
DNQ		Peter Berglund	LCR
DNQ		Jurg Egli	Yamaha
^[7]

References[]

^ "Grand Prix uitslagen en bijzonderheden 1991". Archive.today. 25 July 2015. Archived from the original on 25 July 2015. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
^ Mitchell, Malcolm. "1991 500cc Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". www.progcovers.com.
^ Mitchell, Malcolm. "Salzburgring - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
^ Schwantz, Kevin: Blurred Past Archived 2006-05-19 at the Wayback Machine kevinschwantz.com 1994.
^ "1991 Austrian MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". 13 June 2017.
^ "motogp.com · AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX · 500cc Race Classification 1991". www.motogp.com.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d Scott, Michael (ed.). Motocourse 1991-1992. Hazleton Publishing. pp. 112–113. ISBN 0-905138-88-0.

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[1] "Grand Prix uitslagen en bijzonderheden 1991". Archive.today. 25 July 2015. Archived from the original on 25 July 2015. Retrieved 20 May 2018.

[2] Mitchell, Malcolm. "1991 500cc Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". www.progcovers.com.

[3] Mitchell, Malcolm. "Salzburgring - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 20 May 2018.

[4] Schwantz, Kevin: Blurred Past Archived 2006-05-19 at the Wayback Machine kevinschwantz.com 1994.

[5] "1991 Austrian MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". 13 June 2017.

[6] "motogp.com · AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX · 500cc Race Classification 1991". www.motogp.com.

[motocourse-7] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d Scott, Michael (ed.). Motocourse 1991-1992. Hazleton Publishing. pp. 112–113. ISBN 0-905138-88-0.

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