The major talking point, however, was the failure of both Nelson Piquet and Satoru Nakajima to qualify, the first time in the Lotus team's history that neither of its cars had qualified.
O principal punto de conversación, con todo, foi o fracaso tanto de Nelson Piquet como de Satoru Nakajima para cualificar, a primeira vez na historia do equipo Team Lotus, no que ningún dos seus autos cualificou.