| Who? |
What |
Points |
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| 1993 – South African Grand Prix |
| Misc |
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Patrese, Riccardo (Benetton)
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4 pts
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In his first race as Schumacher’s team mate at Benetton he spun off and out into the gravel on lap forty-seven. He was running in fifth place at the time and he was forced into his mistake by a hard charging Brundle who was recovering after a spin that had caused damage to his Ligier that was repaired in a pit-stop. The situation was made worse as be absolutely buried the throttle as he entered the gravel trap, spraying the track with gravel.
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| 1993 – San Marino Grand Prix |
| Misc |
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Patrese, Riccardo (Benetton)
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1 pts
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In Friday qualifying Patrese had an accident at Piratella. He rode the kerbs too high and the car was launched into the concrete reading wall on the outside of the bend.
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Patrese, Riccardo (Benetton)
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4 pts
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Patrese was running toward the rear of the pack on the first lap he spun his Benetton on the wet track and stalled the engine at Tosa. He was out of the race.
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| 1993 – Canadian Grand Prix |
| Misc |
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Patrese, Riccardo (Benetton)
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4 pts
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Patrese had to make an unscheduled pit stop after he damaged the nose cone on his B193B in a spin. He eventually retired on lap fifty-three with severe cramp in his legs. It is believed that cramps had caused the initial spin.
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| 1993 – French Grand Prix |
| Misc |
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Patrese, Riccardo (Benetton)
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4 pts
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Patrese battled chassis instability and handling problems all through the weekend. These problems would cause him to spin in Saturday qualifying on his way to twelfth on the grid.
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Patrese, Riccardo (Benetton)
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1 pts
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Patrese was on course for a top six finish but he ran into the back of Fittipaldi’s Minardi on lap sixty when the Minardi driver missed a gear. The impact totalled the nose box on the Benetton. He needed at trip to the pits, loosing him valuable time, dropping him out of serious contention.
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| 1993 – German Grand Prix |
| Misc |
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Patrese, Riccardo (Benetton)
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4 pts
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Patrese half spun on lap twenty-eight, due to problems with his rear brakes locking. Although he re-took the track he had lost his fifth place to the recovering Senna.
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| 1993 – Portuguese Grand Prix |
| Misc |
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Patrese, Riccardo (Benetton)
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4 pts
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Patrese span on a quick lap in Saturday qualifying. This was due to him not pushing on his out lap and his tyres were too cool to offer optimum grip as he commenced his fast lap.
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Patrese, Riccardo (Benetton)
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1 pts
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On the sixty-third lap Patrese lost control of his Benetton and he speared into Derek Warwick’s Footwork just when it looked like sixth place was an obtainable goal. Patrese was apologetic and accepted full responsibility for the accident that eliminated both the footwork and his Benetton.
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| 1993 – Japanese Grand Prix |
| Misc |
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Patrese, Riccardo (Benetton)
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1 pts
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Patrese had a massive accident on lap forty-six. Earlier contact with another car had ruptured an oil cooler. Oil form this found it’s way on to the B193A’s rear tyres and the lost all traction, pitching the car into a violent spin, slamming into the barriers. Patrese was very luck to escape injury.
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| 1993 – Australian Grand Prix |
| Misc |
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Patrese, Riccardo (Benetton)
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1 pts
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Patrese was classified eighth as his engine cut out due to fading fuel pressure on the final lap. This was a sad end to the Italians distinguished career.
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| 1992 – South African Grand Prix |
| Misc |
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Patrese, Riccardo (Williams)
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1 pts
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At the official pre-season weigh in Patrese raised a few eyebrows when he was found to be 2 kg heavier than his team-mate, Mansell. To compound his woes he spun his Williams in Friday qualifying, due to a glitch in the transmission.
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Patrese, Riccardo (Williams)
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1 pts
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Patrese was berated by BBC commentator by not running fast enough in his FW14B, the car that was the class of the field. The new Kyalami circuit was almost impossible to overtake on and he could easily keep Senna behind.
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| 1992 – Spanish Grand Prix |
| Misc |
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Patrese, Riccardo (Williams)
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1 pts
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On lap twenty Patrese was coming through the fast chicane on the back of the circuit when he applied a little too much throttle. He was following a back marker and the loss of down force combined with the rear wheel spin was enough to send the WW14B off the track and into the wall. This was the first time in the season where Williams did not post a one/two result.
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| 1992 – San Marino Grand Prix |
| Misc |
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Patrese, Riccardo (Williams)
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1 pts
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Katayama clashed with Patrese’s Williams in the Saturday morning practice session.
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| 1992 – German Grand Prix |
| Misc |
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Patrese, Riccardo (Williams)
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4 pts
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A misunderstanding with Martin Brundle coming into the stadium section resulted in Patrese spinning of on what would have been his fastest lap of the weekend in the Williams that had the best engine Patrese ever had installed.
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Patrese, Riccardo (Williams)
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4 pts
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On the very last lap of the race Patrese was still challenging Senna for second place. Patrese made on last attempt to get past Senna as they entered the stadium section for the last time. Senna saw Patrese and legitimately squeezed him off line and at the last moment Patrese tried to tuck in behind Senna. The loss of down force as Patrese pulled into the wash from Senna’s car sent the Williams into a 140mph spin into the infield section where Patrese stalled the car’s Renault engine. Instead of finishing third he was classified eight.
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| 1992 – Hungarian Grand Prix |
| Misc |
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Patrese, Riccardo (Williams)
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4 pts
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Patrese needed to win the race to keep his chances of the World Championship alive. On lap thirty-nine he put one of FW14’s wheels on the grass and was pitched into a spin. He did recover but he had dropped from first to seventh.
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| 1992 – Belgian Grand Prix |
| Misc |
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Patrese, Riccardo (Williams)
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4 pts
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Patrese spun in the bus stop chicane in Friday qualifying. Fittipaldi had spun his Minardi and although he was not in the way he proved a serous enough distraction to cause Patrese to loose concentration.
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| 1992 – Portuguese Grand Prix |
| Misc |
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Patrese, Riccardo (Williams)
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1 pts
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After a nightmare of a pit stop that dropped Patrese to fourth place set off in resolute style to catch Berger, Senna and Mansell. Patrese soon caught up to Berger but the Austrian was proving difficult to overtake, as he was legitimately defending his line. The main straight was the only place where Riccardo would have enough of a slipstream to get past Berger. On lap forty-two Patrese was tucked up behind Berger as the came on to the start/finish straight, little did Patrese know that Berger would be pulling into the pits. Berger moved to the right hand side of the track to take the line into the pit entrance and Patrese followed him over. Berger lifted off the throttle which, due to the amount of drag generated by Formula One cars amounted to braking. Patrese was caught out and he tried to slip past Berger but the Williams’s left front wheel caught the McLaren’s right rear. The front of the Williams was launched into the air; the tail of the car was now several feet into the air. The car continued to roll backwards until it reached the point of no return, flying under the bridge with a tiny amount of clearance. The Williams had completed a full turn when its right hand side came crashing down into the pit wall. Patrese walked away form the massive accident. He accepted that Berger had had no malicious intent and the race stewards put the cause of the accident down to a misunderstanding. The drive shaft form the Williams had hit Lehto’s Dallara entering the tub between the Finn’s legs
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| 1991 – United States Grand Prix |
| Misc |
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Patrese, Riccardo (Williams)
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1 pts
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After a sluggish start to the race Patrese was fired up as he closed up behind his team mate, Mansell. Patrese made an ambitious lung inside Mansell and got on to the dusty part of the track. He lost control under braking skidding across Mansell’s nose into the escape road. Mansell was furious: “I was being very patient in the race trying to save my tyres for a hard push in the closing stages.” He was not happy that Patrese had tried to race him. Riccardo was unrepentant and was adamant that he was employed by Williams to race everybody on the track. Patrese’s mistake dropped him back to sixth place.
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Patrese, Riccardo (Williams)
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1 pts
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A problem with Patrese’s Williams’s gear change system caused him to half-spin on lap fifty. He was wrestling with his FW14 in an attempt to rejoin the race when Roberto Moreno’s Benetton flew round the corner and ran straight into the Williams. Moreno’s’ B190B monocoque was totally destroyed in the accident but amazingly the FW14 survived intact bar a damaged nose box. Both drivers were out of the race on the spot.
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| 1991 – Monaco Grand Prix |
| Misc |
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Patrese, Riccardo (Williams)
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4 pts
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On lap forty-seven Patrese and Modena were running in tight formation in third and second places respectively. As they entered the tunnel Modena’s Honda v10 engine let go, spewing oil all over the track surface. “My world disappeared in a cloud of oil and smoke,” reported Patrese. Modena took his Tyrrell straight up the escape road and into retirement but Patrese’s Williams lost all traction on the oil slick and slammed hard into the guardrail. Patrese was out.
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| 1991 – Canadian Grand Prix |
| Misc |
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Patrese, Riccardo (Williams)
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4 pts
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Patrese had a sizable accident in Friday’s free practice that would leave him with a stiff neck and shoulders. Ayrton Senna’s Honda V12 had let go due to a casting flashing in the gearbox braking with an errant piece of metal blocking one of the oil pipes to the engine. Oil was all over the track and with no marshal on hand to warn of the danger, Patrese lost control of his FW14 on the oil and slammed into the barrier backward, braking the right-rear wheel and suspension. The session was red flagged and commenced some forty minutes later.
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| 1991 – British Grand Prix |
| Misc |
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Patrese, Riccardo (Williams)
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1 pts
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On the very first lap of the race going through Copse corner Patrese tangled with Berger’s McLaren. Patrese spun over the kerb and was only able to limp as far as the pit lane and retirement. Berger was able to continue, albeit with slight damage to the McLaren’s left front suspension. Patrese was furious and blamed Berger for the incident but the replays clearly showed that Berger legitimately had the inside line and he should be the one who to be aggrieved.
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| 1991 – Italian Grand Prix |
| Misc |
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Patrese, Riccardo (Williams)
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4 pts
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Patrese was driving a brilliant race and on lap twenty-eight an audacious manoeuvre saw his slip past Senna under braking for the first chicane to take the lead. Patrese was down to third only a few laps later after he spun when his Williams’s automatic gearbox missed a gear. “There was a momentary hesitation in the gearbox. I couldn’t find third when I was braking for the corner but then it went into third as I was turning in. That locked the rear wheels and I was gone I got going again but a lap later the clutch broke.” The speed trap at the corner showed that he had in fact arrived at the corner 5 kmph fast than at any other point in the race and the ensuing slide onto the kerb probably did little for the level of grip afforded to the FW14.
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| 1991 – Portuguese Grand Prix |
| Misc |
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Patrese, Riccardo (Williams)
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5 pts
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On the grid FISA president Jean Marie Balestre made it his personal business to remove as may spare bodies from the grid as possible. He threw pole position sitter, Riccardo Patrese’s wife, Suzy off the grid. Patrese was furious and threaten Balestre that he would not start. The tactless Balestre saw reason and backed down.
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| 1991 – Japanese Grand Prix |
| Misc |
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Patrese, Riccardo (Williams)
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4 pts
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For some reason Patrese was ill at ease on the Suzuka track just when Mansell needed his help for the Championship push. Patrese had a sizable spin on his second run in Friday’s Qualifying flat spotting a precious set of qualifying tyres. To compound matter further a sticking throttle would cause Patrese to abandon his race car in the gravel in Saturday morning practice.
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| 1991 – Australian Grand Prix |
| Misc |
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Patrese, Riccardo (Benetton)
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1 pts
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In Friday qualifying Patrese had a massive spin and hit Alboreto’s abandoned Footwork. The Footwork driver had been stopped by drive shaft problems.
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| 1990 – United States Grand Prix |
| Misc |
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Patrese, Riccardo (Williams)
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1 pts
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A first corner altercation with Grouillard’s Osella would see the nose box knocked of Patrese’s car. He was able to return to the pits to have a new one fitted but by the time he rejoined the race he was last.
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| 1990 – Brazilian Grand Prix |
| Misc |
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Patrese, Riccardo (Williams)
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1 pts
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In the second qualifying session the engine in Patrese’s Williams expired. He dawdled around the track spewing oil on to the surface to transform it in to a near ice skating ring. The other drivers were not amused!
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| 1990 – Mexican Grand Prix |
| Misc |
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Patrese, Riccardo (Williams)
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1 pts
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In Saturday’s qualifying session Patrese was too exuberant on his first run. He did not take his out lap as easily as he might and the result was that his Williams’s left rear tyre blistered hallway round his hot-lap.
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| 1990 – British Grand Prix |
| Misc |
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Patrese, Riccardo (Williams)
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1 pts
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Nannini punted Ricardo Patrese’s Williams from behind on lap sixteen. He spun his Benetton and stalled the Ford HB engine and was out of the race on the spot as push starts were now forbidden. Nannini concluded that Patrese had braked much earlier than normal on entry to Copse. Patrese had spun but rejoined, fighting back from twentieth to fifteen position. He continued for another nine laps but the damage that his William’s diffuser had sustained in the incident had left him very short on down force and he pulled into the pits to retire at the end of twenty-seven. This was not the way Patrese had envisioned ending his 199th Grand Prix.
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| 1990 – Italian Grand Prix |
| Misc |
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Patrese, Riccardo (Williams)
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1 pts
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At the first start Patrese had taken a trip through the gravel at the first chicane much to the detriment of his tyres. He was grateful the race was red flagged after Warwick’s accident as he could fit a fresh set of tyres for the re-start.
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| 1990 – Portuguese Grand Prix |
| Misc |
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Patrese, Riccardo (Williams)
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1 pts
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Patrese was distressed when in Saturday qualifying a backfire from his Williams seriously burnt Williams’s mechanic Les Jones. He was taken to hospital then flown home to rest. Frank Williams was knocked off his wheel chair in the incident.
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Patrese, Riccardo (Williams)
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5 pts
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On lap twenty-seven Piquet and Patrese, who were battling for position pitted simultaneously. Under the pressure of the situation Patrese overshot his pit box and there was a frantic scramble to pull him back to change his tyres. All in all, the error cost the Italian approximately twenty seconds.
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Italy
