1990 24 Hours of Le Mans

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The 1990 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 58th Grand Prix of Endurance, and took place on June 16 and 17 1990.

Pre-race

This was the first race after the installation of two chicanes along the Mulsanne Straight in an attempt to slow the prototypes down after speeds of 250 mph (402 km/h) were reached in previous years.

Race

With Sauber not returning for 1990, Jaguar took on Nissan and Porsche. The #3 Jaguar (now running an XJR-12) walked away with the trophy, after the Nissans and the #1 Jaguar broke. After electrical problems with his own car, Martin Brundle replaced Eliseo Salazar in the Jaguar #3 car en route to victory.

Official results

Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of the winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).

Pos	Class	No	Team	Drivers	Chassis	Tyre	Laps
					Engine
1	C1	3	Silk Cut Jaguar Tom Walkinshaw Racing	John Nielsen Price Cobb Martin Brundle	Jaguar XJR-12	G	359
					Jaguar 7.0L V12
2	C1	2	Silk Cut Jaguar Tom Walkinshaw Racing	Jan Lammers Andy Wallace Franz Konrad	Jaguar XJR-12	G	355
					Jaguar 7.0L V12
3	C1	45	Alpha Racing Team	Tiff Needell David Sears Anthony Reid	Porsche 962C	Y	352
					Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6
4	C1	7	Joest Porsche Racing	Hans Joachim Stuck Derek Bell Frank Jelinski	Porsche 962C	M	350
					Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6
5	C1	23	Nissan Motorsports International	Masahiro Hasemi Kazuyoshi Hoshino Toshio Suzuki	Nissan R90CP	D	348
					Nissan VRH35Z 3.5L Turbo V8
6	C1	36	Toyota Team Tom's	Geoff Lees Masanori Sekiya Hitoshi Ogawa	Toyota 90C-V	B	347
					Toyota R32V 3.2L Turbo V8
7	C1	13	Courage Compétition	Pascal Fabre Michel Trollé Lionel Robert	Cougar C24S	G	347
					Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6
8	C1	9	Joest Porsche Racing	Louis Krages Stanley Dickens Bob Wollek	Porsche 962C	M	346
					Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6
9	C1	27	Obermaier Racing	Jürgen Lässig Pierre Yver Otto Altenbach	Porsche 962C	G	341
					Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6
10	C1	15	Brun Motorsport	Harald Huysman Massimo Sigala Bernard Santal	Porsche 962C	Y	335
					Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6
11	C1	44	Richard Lloyd Racing	John Watson Bruno Giacomelli Allen Berg	Porsche 962C	G	335
					Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6
12	C1	33	Team Schuppan Omron Racing	Hurley Haywood Wayne Taylor Rickard Rydell	Porsche 962C	D	332
					Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6
13	C1	63	Trust Racing Team	George Fouché Steven Andskär Shunji Kasuya	Porsche 962C	D	330
					Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6
14	C1	6	Joest Porsche Racing	Jean-Louis Ricci Henri Pescarolo Jacques Laffite	Porsche 962C	G	328
					Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6
15	C1	55	Team Schuppan Omron Racing	Eje Elgh Thomas Danielsson Thomas Mezera	Porsche TS962	D	326
					Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6
16	C1	11	Porsche Kremer Racing	Patrick Gonin Philippe Alliot Bernard de Dryver	Porsche 962CK6	Y	319
					Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6
17	C1	84	Nissan Performance Technology Inc.	Steve Millen Michael Roe Bob Earl	Nissan R90CK	G	311
					Nissan VRH35Z 3.5L Turbo V8
18	C1	21	Spice Engineering	Fermín Velez Tim Harvey Chris Hodgetts	Spice SE90C	G	308
					Ford Cosworth DFZ 3.5L V8
19	C1	20	Team Davey	Max Cohen-Olivar Giovanni Lavaggi Tim Lee-Davey	Porsche 962C	D	306
					Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6
20	GTP	203	Mazdaspeed Co. Ltd.	Takashi Yorino Yoshimi Katayama Yojiro Terada	Mazda 767B	D	304
					Mazda 13J 2.6L 4-Rotor
21	C2	116	PC Automotive	Richard Piper Olindo Iacobelli Mike Youles	Spice SE89C	G	304
					Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8
22	C1	82	Courage Compétition	Hervé Regout Alain Cudini Costas Los	Nissan R89C	G	300
					Nissan VRH35Z 3.5L Turbo V8
23	C2	102	Graff Racing	Xavier Lapeyre Jean-Philippe Grand Michel Maisonneuve	Spice SE89C	G	291
					Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8
24	C1	10	Porsche Kremer Racing	Kunimitsu Takahashi Sarel van der Merwe Hideki Okada	Porsche 962CK6	Y	279
					Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6
25	C2	103	Team Mako	Robbie Stirling James Shead Ross Hyett	Spice SE88C	G	274
					Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8
26	C1	19	Team Davey	Katsunori Iketani Patrick Trucco Pierre de Thoisy	Porsche 962C	D	261
					Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6
27	C2	131	GP Motorsport	Richard Jones Dudley Wood Stephen Hynes	Spice SE87C	G	260
					Ford Cosworth DFL 3.9L V8
28	C2	132	GP Motorsport	Craig Simmiss Alistair Fenwick Alex Postan	Tiga GC289	G	255
					Ford Cosworth DFL 3.9L V8
29 DNF	C1	16	Repsol Brun Motorsport	Oscar Larrauri Jésus Pareja Walter Brun	Porsche 962C	Y	353
					Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6
30 DNF	C1	4	Silk Cut Jaguar Tom Walkinshaw Racing	Davy Jones Michel Ferté Eliseo Salazar	Jaguar XJR-12	G	282
					Jaguar 7.0L V12
31 DNF	C2	128	Chamberlain Engineering	Philippe de Henning Charles Zwolsman Robin Donovan	Spice SE90C	G	255
					Ford Cosworth DFZ 3.5L V8
32 DNF	C1	83	Nissan Performance Technology Inc.	Geoff Brabham Chip Robinson Derek Daly	Nissan R90CK	G	251
					Nissan VRH35Z 3.5L Turbo V8
33 DNF	C1	38	Toyota Team SARD	Pierre Henri Raphanel Roland Ratzenberger Naoki Nagasaka	Toyota 90C-V	D	241
					Toyota R32V 3.2L Turbo V8
34 DNF	C1	1	Silk Cut Jaguar Tom Walkinshaw Racing	Martin Brundle Alain Ferté David Leslie	Jaguar XJR-12	G	220
					Jaguar 7.0L V12
35 DNF	C1	85	Team Le Mans	Takao Wada Anders Olofsson Maurizio Sandro Sala	Nissan R89C	Y	182
					Nissan VRH35Z 3.5L Turbo V8
36 DNF	C1	43	Richard Lloyd Racing Italya Sport	Manuel Reuter JJ Lehto James Weaver	Porsche 962C GTi	G	181
					Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6
37 DNF	C2	107	Pierre-Alain Lombardi	Pierre-Alain Lombardi Denis Morin Ferdinand de Lesseps	Spice SE87C	G	170
					Ford Cosworth DFY 3.0L V8
38 DNF	C2	105	ADA Engineering	Ian Harrower John Sheldon Jerry Mahony	ADA 02B	G	164
					Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8
39 DNF	GTP	201	Mazdaspeed Co. Ltd.	Volker Weidler Bertrand Gachot Johnny Herbert	Mazda 787	D	148
					Mazda R26B 2.6L 4-Rotor
40 DNF	GTP	202	Mazdaspeed Co. Ltd.	Stefan Johansson Dave Kennedy Pierre Dieudonné	Mazda 787	D	147
					Mazda R26B 2.6L 4-Rotor
41 DNF	C1	24	Nissan Motorsports International	Mark Blundell Julian Bailey Gianfranco Brancatelli	Nissan R90CK	D	142
					Nissan VRH35Z 3.5L Turbo V8
42 DNF	GTP	230	MOMO Gebhardt Racing	Gianpiero Moretti Nick Adams Günther Gebhardt	Porsche 962C	G	138
					Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6
43 DNF	C1	26	Obermaier Racing	Jürgen Oppermann Harald Grohs Marc Duez	Porsche 962C	G	140
					Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6
44 DNF	C1	54	Mussato Action Cars	Massimo Monti Fabio Magnani	Lancia LC2	D	86
					Ferrari 308C 3.0L Turbo V8
45 DNF	C1	37	Toyota Team Tom's	Aguri Suzuki Johnny Dumfries Roberto Ravaglia	Toyota 90C-V	B	64
					Toyota R32V 3.2L Turbo V8
46 DNF	C1	12	Courage Compétition	Bernard Thuner Alain Ianetta Pascal Pessiot	Cougar C24S	G	57
					Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6
47 DNF	C2	113	Etablissements Chereau	Philippe Farjon Jean Messaoudi	Cougar C20S	G	43
					Porsche Type-935 2.8L Turbo Flat-6
48 DNF	C2	106	Automobiles Louis Descartes	François Migault Gérard Tremblay Jacques Heuclin	ALD C289	D	36
					Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8
49 DNF	C1	25	Nissan Motorsports International	Kenny Acheson Martin Donnelly Olivier Grouillard	Nissan R90CK	D	0
					Nissan VRH35Z 3.5L Turbo V8
DNS	C1	8	Joest Porsche Racing	Bob Wollek Jonathan Palmer Philippe Alliot	Porsche 962C	M	-
					Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6

Statistcs

• Pole Position - #24 Nissan Motorsports International - 3:27.020
• Fastest Lap - #84 Nissan Performance Technology Inc. - 3:40.030
• Distance - 4882.4 km
• Average Speed - 204.036 km/h
• Highest Trap Speed - Jaguar XJR-12 - 353 km/h (219 mph) (race), Nissan R90CK - 366 km/h (227 mph) (qualifying)