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1991 German motorcycle Grand Prix

Field	Value
Grand Prix	German
flag	Germany
Official_Name	Großer Preis von Deutschland für Motorräder
Location	Hockenheimring
Course_mi	4.218
Course_km	6.788
Race_No	6
Season_No	15
Date	26 May
Year	1991
Image	Hockenheimring (pre-2002) moto.svg
Pole_Rider_500	Mick Doohan
Pole_Rider_500_Country	Australia
Pole_Rider_500_Bike	Honda
Pole_Time_500	2:00.362
Fast_Rider_500	Kevin Schwantz
Fast_Rider_500_Country	USA
Fast_Rider_500_Bike	Suzuki
Fast_Time_500	1:59.846
First_Rider_500	Kevin Schwantz
First_Rider_500_Country	USA
First_Rider_500_Bike	Suzuki
Second_Rider_500	Wayne Rainey
Second_Rider_500_Country	USA
Second_Rider_500_Bike	Yamaha
Third_Rider_500	Mick Doohan
Third_Rider_500_Country	Australia
Third_Rider_500_Bike	Honda
Pole_Rider_250	Helmut Bradl
Pole_Rider_250_Country	Germany
Pole_Rider_250_Bike	Honda
Pole_Time_250	2:06.934
Fast_Rider_250	Helmut Bradl
Fast_Rider_250_Country	Germany
Fast_Rider_250_Bike	Honda
Fast_Time_250	2:06.725
First_Rider_250	Helmut Bradl
First_Rider_250_Country	Germany
First_Rider_250_Bike	Honda
Second_Rider_250	Carlos Cardús
Second_Rider_250_Country	Spain
Second_Rider_250_Bike	Honda
Third_Rider_250	Wilco Zeelenberg
Third_Rider_250_Country	Netherlands
Third_Rider_250_Bike	Honda
Pole_Rider_125	Loris Capirossi
Pole_Rider_125_Country	Italy
Pole_Rider_125_Bike	Honda
Pole_Time_125	2:20.304
Fast_Rider_125	Loris Capirossi
Fast_Rider_125_Country	Italy
Fast_Rider_125_Bike	Honda
Fast_Time_125	2:20.257
First_Rider_125	Ralf Waldmann
First_Rider_125_Country	Germany
First_Rider_125_Bike	Honda
Second_Rider_125	Loris Capirossi
Second_Rider_125_Country	Italy
Second_Rider_125_Bike	Honda
Third_Rider_125	Heinz Lüthi
Third_Rider_125_Country	Switzerland
Third_Rider_125_Bike	Honda
Pole_Rider_Sidecar	Steve Webster
Pole_Rider_Sidecar_Country	UK
Pole_Rider_Sidecar_Bike	Krauser
Pole_Passenger_Sidecar	Gavin Simmons
Pole_Passenger_Sidecar_Country	UK
Pole_Time_Sidecar	2:10.006
Fast_Rider_Sidecar	Egbert Streuer
Fast_Rider_Sidecar_Country	Netherlands
Fast_Rider_Sidecar_Bike	LCR-Yamaha
Fast_Passenger_Sidecar	Peter Essaff
Fast_Passenger_Sidecar_Country	UK
Fast_Time_Sidecar	2:10.444
First_Rider_Sidecar	Ralph Bohnhorst
First_Rider_Sidecar_Country	Germany
First_Passenger_Sidecar	Bruno Hiller
First_Passenger_Sidecar_Country	Germany
First_Rider_Sidecar_Bike	Bohnhorst
Second_Rider_Sidecar	Alain Michel
Second_Rider_Sidecar_Country	France
Second_Passenger_Sidecar	Simon Birchall
Second_Passenger_Sidecar_Country	UK
Second_Rider_Sidecar_Bike	Krauser
Third_Rider_Sidecar	Rolf Biland
Third_Rider_Sidecar_Country	Switzerland
Third_Passenger_Sidecar	Kurt Waltisperg
Third_Passenger_Sidecar_Country	Switzerland
Third_Rider_Sidecar_Bike	LCR-ADM

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The 1991 German motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixth round of the 1991 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 24–26 May 1991 at the Hockenheim circuit. This was the first motorcycle racing in Germany after the German reunification

500 cc race report

Mick Doohan was on pole, Wayne Rainey was 1 second back in 4th, with Eddie Lawson on the front row again on the ever-improving Cagiva.

Doohan took the lead at the start ahead from Rainey, Eddie Lawson and John Kocinski. Doohan and Rainey developed a small gap to Kevin Schwantz, Lawson and Wayne Gardner. In the stadium section, Rainey tried to go through the inside of Doohan, but going off the racing line proved too slippery and he had to sit-up and got Schwantz on his back wheel.

Rainey recovered his rhythm and passed Doohan, but Schwantz was closing. Kocinski crashed out. Doohan re-took the lead of the trio with Rainey and Schwantz.

Another Rainey/Doohan battle ended inconclusively when Rainey came alongside Doohan and pointed to Doohan’s back tire which was shedding chunks. Going into the stadium section, Schwantz took the lead and Doohan started dropping back.

Last lap: Rainey was in front of Schwantz. Schwantz stayed behind Rainey through the first chicane, trying to build momentum for a draft pass. He managed it and took the lead from Rainey.

It looked like Schwantz has made a tactical error, letting Rainey draft him on the last straight that leads into the stadium section. Rainey draft passed and prepared for the right turn, but Schwantz swung out from behind and performs a spectacular late-braking pass—the RGV was squirming from side-to-side and the back tire was hopping up and down leaving a dashed black line of rubber. Schwantz got it under control and made the turn, but Rainey wasn't giving up and tried to stay on Schwantz’ left as they headed to a left turn, but Schwantz had better drive coming out of the previous turn and got in front of Rainey and stayed there to the line.

After the race Rainey commentated: “... I thought I was pretty lucky that we beat Doohan there when he had a problem. That’s who I was racing for the championship.”

500 cc classification

Pos.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid
USA Kevin Schwantz	Lucky Strike Suzuki	Suzuki	18	+36:20.491	2	20
USA Wayne Rainey	Marlboro Team Roberts	Yamaha	18	+0.016	4	17
AUS Mick Doohan	Rothmans Honda Team	Honda	18	+8.944	1	15
USA Eddie Lawson	Cagiva Corse	Cagiva	18	+11.568	3	13
AUS Wayne Gardner	Rothmans Honda Team	Honda	18	+25.500	6	11
BEL Didier de Radiguès	Lucky Strike Suzuki	Suzuki	18	+1:00.264	7	10
ESP Juan Garriga	Ducados Yamaha	Yamaha	18	+1:11.175	8	9
FRA Adrien Morillas	Sonauto Yamaha Mobil 1	Yamaha	18	+1:24.711	12	8
USA Doug Chandler	Roberts B Team	Yamaha	18	+1:41.466	10	7
IRL Eddie Laycock	Millar Racing	Yamaha	17	+1 lap	13	6
NLD Cees Doorakkers	HEK-Baumachines	Honda	17	+1 lap	14	5
DEU Michael Rudroff	Rallye Sport	Honda	17	+1 lap	15	4
DEU Hans Becker	Team Romero Racing	Yamaha	17	+1 lap		3
GBR Simon Buckmaster	Padgett's Racing Team	Suzuki	17	+1 lap		2
USA John Kocinski	Marlboro Team Roberts	Yamaha	8	Retired	5
FRA Jean-Philippe Ruggia	Sonauto Yamaha Mobil 1	Yamaha		Did not start	9
BRA Alex Barros	Cagiva Corse	Cagiva		Did not start	11
AUT Josef Doppler	Doppler Racing	Honda		Did not qualify
DEU Helmut Schutz	Rallye Sport	Honda		Did not qualify
CHE Niggi Schmassman	Schmassman Technotron	Honda		Did not qualify
DEU Martin Trösch	MT Racing	Honda		Did not qualify

250 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid
DEU Helmut Bradl	Honda	15	31:59.456	1	20
ESP Carlos Cardús	Honda	15	+13.517	5	17
NLD Wilco Zeelenberg	Honda	15	+14.034	3	15
ITA Luca Cadalora	Honda	15	+23.707	9	13
JPN Masahiro Shimizu	Honda	15	+43.569	7	11
AUT Andreas Preining	Aprilia	15	+43.756	6	10
ESP Àlex Crivillé	JJ Cobas	15	+43.825	12	9
DEU Jochen Schmid	Honda	15	+43.960	8	8
DEU Martin Wimmer	Suzuki	15	+44.219	10	7
DEU Stefan Prein	Honda	15	+44.585	11	6
ITA Paolo Casoli	Yamaha	15	+45.081	13	5
DEU Harald Eckl	Aprilia	15	+47.530	14	4
ITA Doriano Romboni	Honda	15	+50.256	15	3
FRA Jean-Pierre Jeandat	Honda	15	+59.494		2
VEN Carlos Lavado	Yamaha	15	+1:04.087		1
FRA Dominique Sarron	Yamaha	15	+1:21.210
DEU Bernd Kassner	Yamaha	15	+1:21.432
ITA Fausto Ricci	Yamaha	15	+1:46.045
NLD Patrick van der Goorbergh	Yamaha	15	+1:50.704
GBR Kevin Mitchell	Yamaha	15	+1:50.882
FRA Jean Foray	Yamaha	15	+1:50.946
ITA Marcellino Lucchi	Aprilia	15	+1:53.122
ZAF Wayne Doran	Aprilia	15	+1:58.967
GBR Ian Newton	Yamaha	15	+2:09.344
SWE Peter Linden	Honda	14	+1 lap
ITA Corrado Catalano	Honda	8	Retired
CHE Bernard Hänggeli	Aprilia	7	Retired
ITA Pierfrancesco Chili	Aprilia	6	Retired	2
ITA Loris Reggiani	Aprilia	4	Retired	4
ITA Renzo Colleoni	Aprilia	3	Retired
CHE Urs Jucker	Yamaha	3	Retired
ESP Jaime Mariano	Aprilia	1	Retired
ESP Alberto Puig	Yamaha
FRA Frédéric Protat	Aprilia
NLD Leon van der Heyden	Honda
FIN Erkka Korpiaho	Aprilia
ITA Stefano Pennese	Aprilia

125 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid
DEU Ralf Waldmann	Honda	14	33:12.041	6	20
ITA Loris Capirossi	Honda	14	+0.288	1	17
CHE Heinz Lüthi	Honda	14	+1.343	5	15
ITA Gabriele Debbia	Aprilia	14	+1.549	8	13
ITA Alessandro Gramigni	Aprilia	14	+1.558	10	11
ESP Jorge Martínez	JJ Cobas	14	+3.893		10
DEU Alfred Waibel	Honda	14	+4.395	12	9
DEU Dirk Raudies	Honda	14	+4.503	3	8
JPN Nobuyuki Wakai	Honda	14	+22.679	14	7
JPN Kazuto Sakata	Honda	14	+22.682	4	6
ESP Luis Alvaro	Derbi	14	+22.958	13	5
NLD Hans Spaan	Honda	14	+34.926	9	4
ITA Maurizio Vitali	Gazzaniga	14	+38.459		3
JPN Kinya Wada	Honda	14	+38.754		2
FIN Johnny Wickström	Honda	14	+38.857		1
DEU Stefan Kurfiss	Honda	14	+39.281
JPN Hisashi Unemoto	Honda	14	+39.536
ESP Herri Torrontegui	JJ Cobas	14	+39.544
CHE Thierry Feuz	Honda	14	+40.116
NLD Jos van Dongen	Honda	14	+40.286
CHE Stefan Brägger	Honda	14	+40.344
NLD Arie Molenaar	Honda	14	+41.113
ITA Gimmi Bosio	Honda	14	+41.381
DEU Wolfgang Fritz	Honda	14	+58.364
NLD Hans Koopman	Honda	14	+58.653
CHE René Dünki	Honda	14	+58.659
GBR Ian McConnachie	Honda	14	+1:35.943
DEU Adolf Stadler	JJ Cobas	12	Retired	7
ITA Fausto Gresini	Honda	12	Retired	2
ESP Manuel Herreros	JJ Cobas	10	Retired
GBR Robin Appleyard	Honda	10	Retired
ITA Emilio Cuppini	Gazzaniga	8	Retired
ESP Francisco Debon	JJ Cobas	7	Retired
ITA Bruno Casanova	Honda	4	Retired
ESP Julián Miralles	JJ Cobas	1	Retired
DEU Peter Öttl	Rotax	0	Retired	11
ITA Ezio Gianola	Derbi			15
JPN Koji Takada	Honda
GBR Steve Patrickson	Honda
FRA Alain Bronec	Honda
AUS Peter Galvin	Honda
ESP Manuel Hernández	Honda
CHE Olivier Petrucciani	Aprilia
ITA Serafino Foti	Honda
GBR Alan Patterson	Honda
DEU Hubert Abold	Honda
FRA Jean-Claude Selini	Honda
DEU Thomas Engl	Honda
CAN Phillip Unhola	Honda
FIN Taru Rinne	Honda

Sidecar classification

Pos	Rider	Passenger	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid
DEU Ralph Bohnhorst	DEU Bruno Hiller	Bohnhorst	14	30:56.749	2	20
FRA Alain Michel	GBR Simon Birchall	Krauser	14	+0.241	4	17
CHE Rolf Biland	CHE Kurt Waltisperg	LCR-ADM	14	+2.427	5	15
NLD Egbert Streuer	GBR Peter Essaff	LCR-Yamaha	14	+10.363	3	13
GBR Barry Brindley	GBR Trevor Hopkinson	LCR-Yamaha	14	+10.989	11	11
GBR Steve Abbott	GBR Shaun Smith	LCR-Krauser	14	+11.214		10
CHE Markus Egloff	CHE Urs Egloff	Yamaha	14	+11.629	9	9
GBR Darren Dixon	GBR Sean Dixon	LCR-Krauser	14	+11.722	7	8
JPN Yoshisada Kumagaya	GBR Bryan Houghton	Krauser	14	+19.850	14	7
JPN Masato Kumano	DEU Eckhart Rösinger	LCR-Yamaha	14	+28.059	10	6
AUT Klaus Klaffenböck	AUT Christian Parzer	LCR	14	+28.533	12	5
NLD Theo van Kempen	NLD Jan Kuyt	LCR-Krauser	14	+55.021		4
DEU Werner Kraus	DEU Thomas Schröder	ADM	14	+1:11.940	15	3
GBR Barry Smith	GBR David Smith	Windle-ADM	14	+1:12.437		2
FRA Ivan Nigrowsky	FRA Nicolas Barillon	LCR	14	+1:13.169		1
GBR Gary Thomas	NLD Michel van Puyvelde	Krauser	14	+1:35.782
GBR Tony Baker	GBR Simon Prior	LCR-Krauser	13	+1 lap
CHE Alfred Zurbrügg	CHE Martin Zurbrügg	LCR-Yamaha	1	+3 laps	13
CHE Paul Güdel	CHE Charly Güdel	LCR-Krauser	13	Retired	6
GBR Steve Webster	GBR Gavin Simmons	Krauser	9	Retired	1
CHE Tony Wyssen	CHE Killian Wyssen	LCR-Krauser	3	Retired	8
CHE René Progin	GBR Gary Irlam	LCR	1	Retired
CHE Markus Bösiger	CHE Peter Markwalder	ADM
GBR Mark Reddington	GBR Robert Parker	Krauser
NLD Jos van Stekelenburg	NLD Rinie Bettgens	LCR
CHE Hans Hügli	CHE Adolf Hänni	LCR
DEU Frank Voigt	DEU Holger Voigt	Schuh-Spezial
ITA Reiner Kosta	CHE Jurg Egli	Yamaha
DEU Bernd Scherer	DEU Peter Höss	LCR

References

| Previous_year's_race = 1990 German Grand Prix | Next_year's_race = 1992 German Grand Prix

References

(25 July 2015). "Grand Prix uitslagen en bijzonderheden 1991".
Mitchell, Malcolm. "1991 500cc Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project".
Mitchell, Malcolm. "Hockenheimring - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project".
Scott, Michael: "Wayne Rainey", page 154. Haynes Publishing, 1997.
(13 June 2017). "1991 German MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database".
"motogp.com · GERMAN GRAND PRIX · 500cc Race Classification 1991".
"Motocourse 1991-1992". Hazleton Publishing.

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