1988 United States motorcycle Grand Prix
| Race details | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Race 2 of 15 races in the 1988 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | April 10, 1988 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Official name | United States International Grand Prix[1][2][3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Laguna Seca Raceway | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course |
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 500cc | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 250cc | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 1988 United States motorcycle Grand Prix was the second round of the 1988 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of April 8–10, 1988, at the Laguna Seca Raceway.
500 cc race report
[edit]The first U.S. GP in 23 years (the Daytona in 1965 was the previous).
Wayne Rainey was on pole. Through the first hairpin it was Wayne Gardner, Niall Mackenzie, Rainey, Kevin Schwantz, et al.
Eddie Lawson was down in 6th place, with Kevin Magee and Gardner up front. Lawson worked his way through the field, and passed both Gardner and Magee on the inside of Turn 2 (hairpin).
500 cc classification
[edit]| Pos. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Time/Retired | Points | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Eddie Lawson
|
Marlboro Yamaha Team Agostini | Yamaha | 1'00:48.075 | 20 | ||
| 2 |  Wayne Gardner
|
Rothmans Honda Team | Honda | +7.539 | 17 | ||
| 3 |  Niall Mackenzie
|
Team HRC | Honda | +8.048 | 15 | ||
| 4 | Wayne Rainey
|
Team Lucky Strike Roberts | Yamaha | +14.638 | 13 | ||
| 5 | Kevin Schwantz
|
Suzuki Pepsi Cola | Suzuki | +27.459 | 11 | ||
| 6 |  Christian Sarron
|
Sonauto Gauloises Blondes Yamaha Mobil 1 | Yamaha | +1:19.207 | 10 | ||
| 7 | Ron Haslam
|
Team ROC Elf Honda | Elf Honda | +1:30.230 | 9 | ||
| 8 |  Didier de Radiguès
|
Marlboro Yamaha Team Agostini | Yamaha | +1 Lap | 8 | ||
| 9 | Rob McElnea
|
Suzuki Pepsi Cola | Suzuki | +1 Lap | 7 | ||
| 10 | Mike Baldwin
|
Racing Team Katayama | Honda | +1 Lap | 6 | ||
| 11 |  Alessandro Valesi
|
Team Iberia | Honda | +1 Lap | 5 | ||
| Ret |  Shunji Yatsushiro
|
Rothmans Honda Team | Honda | Retirement | |||
| Ret | Raymond Roche
|
Cagiva Corse | Cagiva | Retirement | |||
| Ret | Kevin Magee
|
Team Lucky Strike Roberts | Yamaha | Retirement | |||
| Ret | John Long
|
Yamaha | Retirement | ||||
| Ret |  Marco Gentile
|
Fior Marlboro | Fior | Retirement | |||
| Ret | Pierfrancesco Chili
|
HB Honda Gallina Team | Honda | Retirement | |||
| Ret | Eugene Brown
|
Suzuki | Retirement | ||||
| DNS | Patrick Igoa
|
Sonauto Gauloises Blondes Yamaha Mobil 1 | Yamaha | Did not start | |||
| DNS | Randy Mamola
|
Cagiva Corse | Cagiva | Did not start | |||
| DNS | William Knott
|
Suzuki | Did not start | ||||
| DNS | Russell Bigley
|
Yamaha | Did not start | ||||
| DNQ |  Larry Moreno Vacondio
|
Suzuki | Did not qualify | ||||
| DNQ |  Tony Carey
|
Suzuki | Did not qualify | ||||
| DNQ | Jim Poet
|
Suzuki | Did not qualify | ||||
| DNQ | Fabio Barchitta
|
Racing Team Katayama | Honda | Did not qualify | |||
| DNQ | Vincenzo Cascino
|
Honda | Did not qualify | ||||
| DNQ | Scott Gray
|
Suzuki | Did not qualify | ||||
| DNQ | Freddie Spencer
|
Honda | Did not qualify | ||||
| DNQ | David Busby
|
Suzuki | Did not qualify | ||||
| Sources:[4][5] | |||||||
References
[edit]- ^ "Grand Prix uitslagen en bijzonderheden 1988". Archive.li. Archived from the original on July 25, 2015. Retrieved September 15, 2018.
- ^ Mitchell, Malcolm. "1988 500cc Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com.
- ^ "Data". Archived from the original on May 21, 2018. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
- ^ "1988 United States MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". Motorsportmagazine.com. June 13, 2017.
- ^ "UNITED STATES GRAND PRIX · 500cc Race Classification 1988". Motogp.com. Retrieved September 16, 2018.