1989

Pos	Driver	Nat	Car	Pts	Wins	Share of the leader
1	Alain Prost	French	McLaren	76	4
2	Ayrton Senna	Brazilian	McLaren	60	6
3	Riccardo Patrese	Italian	Williams	40	0
4	Nigel Mansell	British	Ferrari	38	2
5	Thierry Boutsen	Belgian	Williams	37	2
6	ANAlessandro Nannini	Italian	Benetton	32	1
7	Gerhard Berger	Austrian	Ferrari	21	1
8	Nelson Piquet	Brazilian	Team Lotus	12	0
9	Jean Alesi	French	Tyrrell	8	0
10	Derek Warwick	British	Arrows	7	0
11	Eddie Cheever	American	Arrows	6	0
12	Stefan Johansson	Swedish	Onyx	6	0
13	Michele Alboreto	Italian	Larrousse / Tyrrell	6	0
14	Johnny Herbert	British	Benetton / Tyrrell	5	0
15	PMPierluigi Martini	Italian	Minardi	5	0
16	Maurício Gugelmin	Brazilian	March	4	0
17	Andrea de Cesaris	Italian	Dallara	4	0
18	SMStefano Modena	Italian	Brabham	4	0
19	ACAlex Caffi	Italian	Dallara	4	0
20	Martin Brundle	British	Brabham	4	0
21	Satoru Nakajima	Japanese	Team Lotus	3	0
22	Christian Danner	German	Rial	3	0
23	Emanuele Pirro	Italian	Benetton	2	0
24	René Arnoux	French	Ligier	2	0
25	Jonathan Palmer	British	Tyrrell	2	0
26	Olivier Grouillard	French	Ligier	1	0
27	Gabriele Tarquini	Italian	AGS	1	0
28	LPLuis Pérez-Sala	Spanish	Minardi	1	0
29	Philippe Alliot	French	Larrousse	1	0
—	PBPaolo Barilla	Italian	Minardi	0	0
—	ÉBÉric Bernard	French	Larrousse	0	0
—	Ivan Capelli	Italian	March	0	0
—	Yannick Dalmas	French	Larrousse	0	0
—	Martin Donnelly	British	Arrows	0	0
—	Bertrand Gachot	Belgian	Onyx	0	0
—	PGPiercarlo Ghinzani	Italian	Osella	0	0
—	JJJyrki Järvilehto	Finnish	Onyx	0	0
—	Nicola Larini	Italian	Osella	0	0
—	RMRoberto Moreno	Brazilian	Coloni	0	0
—	PRPierre-Henri Raphanel	French	Coloni	0	0
—	BSBernd Schneider	German	Zakspeed	0	0
—	VWVolker Weidler	German	Rial	0	0

Read from the season’s final standings row, never summed from the race results. 13 of 42 entries in this table carry no championship position and are ruled below the placed field, ordered by points.

Read from the season’s final constructor standings row. A constructor scores through both of its cars, so these totals are not the sum of any one driver’s line above.

Both championship tables on this page are read from the season’s standings rows at round 16, the last round loaded, and neither is derived by adding up the race results. That distinction is the whole point: for most of the sport’s history only a driver’s best few results counted toward the title, a race stopped short paid half points, and a driver could be excluded from a championship he had scored in, so a table built by summing the results column would disagree with the championship as it was actually awarded. Positions are the source’s own; where it recorded none, the row prints a dash and sits below the placed field rather than being given a place it never held or dropped from the page. A points total is printed as it is stored, to two decimals where it needs them, because the sport has awarded half points and split shared drives since the 1950s and those fractions are real. The calendar is every round in the archive for 1989, in round order, with the winner taken from the classification code the source prints rather than from its sort key; three of the 1,161 races loaded were won by a shared car, and for those the calendar names one driver while the race classification credits both. The Cars column counts the rows in each race’s classification, which includes cars that retired, so it is entries with a recorded result rather than a count of cars that took the start. The drivers and constructors counted in the masthead are those that appear in a race result for 1989, not those that entered. The constructors’ championship has been awarded since 1958, so both tables exist for this season. 1989 is complete: all 16 rounds are loaded and both tables are final.