# 1991 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix

The 1991 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix was the fourth round of the 1991 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 10–12 May 1991 at the Jerez circuit.

## 500 cc race report

Wayne Rainey’s 3rd pole in 4 races; takes turn 1 from Mick Doohan, John Kocinski, Eddie Lawson and Kevin Schwantz.
Rainey and Doohan get a little gap to Kocinski, then it's a large gap to 4th. Doohan starts to open a gap from Rainey, who starts to get pressure from his teammate Kocinski.
Kocinski passes Rainey without much finesse. Doohan wins with a large gap and Kocinski’s 2nd place takes 2 points from Rainey’s standing, so he's now 4 points behind Doohan.
Rainey says that his tire blistered and had to nurse it on the right-handers. Schwantz' Suzuki holed a piston while he was battling for 4th place.

## 500 cc classification

| Pos. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time | Grid | Points |
| 1 | Mick Doohan | Rothmans Honda Team | Honda | 29 | 52:42.650 | 3 | 20 |
| 2 | John Kocinski | Marlboro Team Roberts | Yamaha | 29 | +9.920 | 2 | 17 |
| 3 | Wayne Rainey | Marlboro Team Roberts | Yamaha | 29 | +13.463 | 1 | 15 |
| 4 | Juan Garriga | Ducados Yamaha | Yamaha | 29 | +34.955 | 6 | 13 |
| 5 | Jean-Philippe Ruggia | Sonauto Yamaha Mobil 1 | Yamaha | 29 | +39.276 | 9 | 11 |
| 6 | Eddie Lawson | Cagiva Corse | Cagiva | 29 | +46.684 | 5 | 10 |
| 7 | Wayne Gardner | Rothmans Honda Team | Honda | 29 | +53.944 | 7 | 9 |
| 8 | Didier de Radiguès | Lucky Strike Suzuki | Suzuki | 29 | +55.155 | 10 | 8 |
| 9 | Adrien Morillas | Sonauto Yamaha Mobil 1 | Yamaha | 29 | +1:11.117 | 11 | 7 |
| 10 | Doug Chandler | Roberts B Team | Yamaha | 29 | +1:31.628 | 8 | 6 |
| 11 | Eddie Laycock | Millar Racing | Yamaha | 28 | +1 lap | 12 | 5 |
| 12 | Marco Papa | Team Marco Papa | Honda | 28 | +1 lap | 13 | 4 |
| 13 | Cees Doorakkers | HEK-Baumachines | Honda | 28 | +1 lap | 14 | 3 |
| 14 | Hans Becker | Team Romero Racing | Yamaha | 27 | +2 laps | 15 | 2 |
| 15 | Michael Rudroff | Rallye Sport | Honda | 27 | +2 laps | | 1 |
| Ret | Kevin Schwantz | Lucky Strike Suzuki | Suzuki | 11 | Retired | 4 | |
| Ret | Niggi Schmassman | Schmassman Technotron | Honda | 6 | Retired | | |
| DNQ | Helmut Schutz | Rallye Sport | Honda | | Did not qualify | | |
| DNQ | Martin Trosch | MT Racing | Honda | | Did not qualify | | |
| DNQ | Andreas Leuthe | Librenti Corse | Suzuki | | Did not qualify | | |

## 250 cc classification

| Pos | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time | Grid | Points |
| 1 | Helmut Bradl | Honda | 24 | 44:22.222 | 1 | 20 |
| 2 | Luca Cadalora | Honda | 24 | +0.451 | 2 | 17 |
| 3 | Loris Reggiani | Aprilia | 24 | +4.156 | 7 | 15 |
| 4 | Masahiro Shimizu | Honda | 24 | +6.285 | 3 | 13 |
| 5 | Pierfrancesco Chili | Aprilia | 24 | +6.793 | 4 | 11 |
| 6 | Carlos Cardús | Honda | 24 | +8.186 | 5 | 10 |
| 7 | Jochen Schmid | Honda | 24 | +37.638 | 13 | 9 |
| 8 | Martin Wimmer | Suzuki | 24 | +41.905 | 11 | 8 |
| 9 | Doriano Romboni | Honda | 24 | +46.974 | | 7 |
| 10 | Alberto Puig | Yamaha | 24 | +49.647 | 12 | 6 |
| 11 | Carlos Lavado | Yamaha | 24 | +1:04.453 | 15 | 5 |
| 12 | Jean-Pierre Jeandat | Honda | 24 | +1:11.980 | | 4 |
| 13 | Leon van der Heyden | Honda | 24 | +1:14.709 | | 3 |
| 14 | Patrick van der Goorbergh | Yamaha | 24 | +1:17.124 | | 2 |
| 15 | Urs Jucker | Yamaha | 24 | +1:25.505 | | 1 |
| 16 | Jaime Mariano | Aprilia | 24 | +1:38.203 | | |
| 17 | Bernard Hänggeli | Aprilia | 24 | +1:39.797 | | |
| 18 | Ian Newton | Yamaha | 23 | +1 lap | | |
| 19 | Fausto Ricci | Yamaha | 23 | +1 lap | | |
| 20 | Jean Foray | Yamaha | 23 | +1 lap | | |
| Ret | Erkka Korpiaho | Aprilia | 21 | Retired | | |
| Ret | Renzo Colleoni | Aprilia | 16 | Retired | 14 | |
| Ret | Paolo Casoli | Yamaha | 15 | Retired | 9 | |
| Ret | Corrado Catalano | Honda | 9 | Retired | | |
| Ret | Àlex Crivillé | JJ Cobas | 7 | Retired | 8 | |
| Ret | Andreas Preining | Aprilia | 6 | Retired | 10 | |
| Ret | Frédéric Protat | Aprilia | 4 | Retired | | |
| Ret | Kevin Mitchell | Yamaha | 4 | Retired | | |
| Ret | Marcellino Lucchi | Aprilia | 2 | Retired | | |
| Ret | Wilco Zeelenberg | Honda | 1 | Retired | 6 | |
| Ret | Dominique Sarron | Yamaha | 1 | Retired | | |
| Ret | Harald Eckl | Aprilia | 1 | Retired | | |
| DNS | Stefan Prein | Honda | | | | |

## 125 cc classification

| Pos | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time | Grid | Points |
| 1 | Noboru Ueda | Honda | 22 | 42:23.780 | 1 | 20 |
| 2 | Fausto Gresini | Honda | 22 | +0.987 | 3 | 17 |
| 3 | Loris Capirossi | Honda | 22 | +15.199 | 11 | 15 |
| 4 | Gabriele Debbia | Aprilia | 22 | +15.440 | 10 | 13 |
| 5 | Jorge Martínez | JJ Cobas | 22 | +15.860 | 2 | 11 |
| 6 | Bruno Casanova | Honda | 22 | +23.815 | 9 | 10 |
| 7 | Ralf Waldmann | Honda | 22 | +27.403 | 5 | 9 |
| 8 | Hans Spaan | Honda | 22 | +36.338 | 13 | 8 |
| 9 | Dirk Raudies | Honda | 22 | +36.422 | | 7 |
| 10 | Manuel Herreros | JJ Cobas | 22 | +48.602 | | 6 |
| 11 | Hisashi Unemoto | Honda | 22 | +53.170 | 14 | 5 |
| 12 | Herri Torrontegui | JJ Cobas | 22 | +53.521 | | 4 |
| 13 | Adolf Stadler | JJ Cobas | 22 | +53.845 | 8 | 3 |
| 14 | Julián Miralles | JJ Cobas | 22 | +54.021 | | 2 |
| 15 | Luis Alvaro | Derbi | 22 | +54.883 | 15 | 1 |
| 16 | Alessandro Gramigni | Aprilia | 22 | +54.930 | 12 | |
| 17 | Peter Öttl | Rotax | 22 | +58.183 | | |
| 18 | Steve Patrickson | Honda | 22 | +59.052 | | |
| 19 | Arie Molenaar | Honda | 22 | +1:03.016 | | |
| 20 | Ian McConnachie | Honda | 22 | +1:04.666 | | |
| 21 | Nobuyuki Wakai | Honda | 22 | +1:05.208 | | |
| 22 | Robin Appleyard | Honda | 22 | +1:12.692 | | |
| 23 | Manuel Hernández | Honda | 22 | +1:18.821 | | |
| 24 | Alain Bronec | Honda | 22 | +1:21.511 | | |
| 25 | Javier Debon | JJ Cobas | 22 | +1:26.182 | | |
| 26 | Jos van Dongen | Honda | 22 | +1:29.294 | | |
| 27 | Peter Galvin | Honda | 21 | +1 lap | | |
| Ret | Ezio Gianola | Derbi | 20 | Retired | 4 | |
| Ret | Emilio Cuppini | Gazzaniga | 12 | Retired | | |
| Ret | Thierry Feuz | Honda | 10 | Retired | | |
| Ret | Heinz Lüthi | Honda | 6 | Retired | 7 | |
| Ret | Koji Takada | Honda | 6 | Retired | | |
| Ret | Alfred Waibel | Honda | 3 | Retired | | |
| Ret | Gimmi Bosio | Honda | 1 | Retired | 6 | |
| Ret | Kazuto Sakata | Honda | 0 | Retired | | |
| Ret | Maurizio Vitali | Gazzaniga | 0 | Retired | | |
| DNS | Serafino Foti | Honda | | | | |
| DNQ | Stefan Bragger | Honda | | | | |
| DNQ | Hans Koopman | Honda | | | | |
| DNQ | Kinya Wada | Honda | | | | |
| DNQ | Alan Patterson | Honda | | | | |
| DNQ | Stefan Kurfiss | Honda | | | | |
| DNQ | Hubert Abold | Honda | | | | |
| DNQ | Wolfgang Fritz | Honda | | | | |
| DNQ | René Dünki | Honda | | | | |
| DNQ | Taru Rinne | Honda | | | | |
| DNQ | Phillip Unhola | Honda | | | | |

## Sidecar classification

| Pos | Rider | Passenger | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | Steve Webster | Gavin Simmons | Krauser | 22 | 41:53.700 | 2 | 20 |
| 2 | Paul Güdel | Charly Güdel | LCR-Krauser | 22 | +4.062 | 4 | 17 |
| 3 | Steve Abbott | Shaun Smith | LCR-Krauser | 22 | +4.380 | 5 | 15 |
| 4 | Rolf Biland | Kurt Waltisperg | LCR-ADM | 22 | +4.594 | 3 | 13 |
| 5 | Yoshisada Kumagaya | Bryan Houghton | Krauser | 22 | +35.154 | 8 | 11 |
| 6 | Markus Egloff | Urs Egloff | Yamaha | 22 | +50.510 | 6 | 10 |
| 7 | Derek Brindley | Nick Roche | LCR | 22 | +53.098 | 12 | 9 |
| 8 | Ralph Bohnhorst | Geral de Haas | LCR | 22 | +1:18.654 | | 8 |
| 9 | Masato Kumano | Eckhart Rösinger | LCR-Yamaha | 22 | +1:19.320 | | 7 |
| 10 | Tony Wyssen | Killian Wyssen | LCR-Krauser | 22 | +1:26.836 | 13 | 6 |
| 11 | Theo van Kempen | Jan Kuyt | LCR-Krauser | 22 | +1:28.089 | 15 | 5 |
| 12 | Klaus Klaffenböck | Christian Parzer | LCR | 22 | +1:50.872 | 14 | 4 |
| 13 | Werner Kraus | Thomas Schröder | ADM | 22 | +1:58.758 | | 3 |
| 14 | Tony Baker | Simon Prior | LCR-Krauser | 22 | +1:58.834 | | 2 |
| 15 | René Progin | Gary Irlam | LCR | 21 | +1 lap | | 1 |
| 16 | Kenny Howles | Alan Langton | Krauser | 21 | +1 lap | | |
| 17 | Egbert Streuer | Peter Essaff | LCR-Yamaha | 21 | +1 lap | 10 | |
| 18 | Alain Michel | Simon Birchall | Krauser | 21 | +1 lap | 1 | |
| 19 | Billy Gällros | Peter Berglund | Krauser | 21 | +1 lap | | |
| 20 | Gary Thomas | Michel van Puyvelde | Krauser | 21 | +1 lap | | |
| 21 | Alfred Zurbrügg | Martin Zurbrügg | LCR-Yamaha | 20 | +2 laps | 7 | |
| Ret | Darren Dixon | Sean Dixon | LCR-Krauser | 3 | Retired | 11 | |
| Ret | Barry Brindley | Tony Atkinson | LCR-Yamaha | 2 | Retired | 9 | |
| Ret | Markus Bösiger | Bruno Hiler | ADM | 1 | Retired | | |
| Ret | Barry Smith | David Smith | Windle-ADM | 1 | Retired | | |
| DNQ | Frank Voigt | Holger Voigt | Schuh-Spezial | | | | |
| DNQ | Reiner Kosta | Jurg Egli | Yamaha | | | | |