1990

Pos	Driver	Nat	Car	Pts	Wins	Share of the leader
1	Ayrton Senna	Brazilian	McLaren	78	6
2	Alain Prost	French	Ferrari	71	5
3	Nelson Piquet	Brazilian	Benetton	43	2
4	Gerhard Berger	Austrian	McLaren	43	0
5	Nigel Mansell	British	Ferrari	37	1
6	Thierry Boutsen	Belgian	Williams	34	1
7	Riccardo Patrese	Italian	Williams	23	1
8	ANAlessandro Nannini	Italian	Benetton	21	0
9	Jean Alesi	French	Tyrrell	13	0
10	Ivan Capelli	Italian	Leyton House	6	0
11	RMRoberto Moreno	Brazilian	Benetton / Euro Brun	6	0
12	Aguri Suzuki	Japanese	Larrousse	6	0
13	ÉBÉric Bernard	French	Larrousse	5	0
14	Derek Warwick	British	Team Lotus	3	0
15	Satoru Nakajima	Japanese	Tyrrell	3	0
16	ACAlex Caffi	Italian	Arrows	2	0
17	SMStefano Modena	Italian	Brabham	2	0
18	Maurício Gugelmin	Brazilian	Leyton House	1	0
—	Michele Alboreto	Italian	Arrows	0	0
—	Philippe Alliot	French	Ligier	0	0
—	PBPaolo Barilla	Italian	Minardi	0	0
—	David Brabham	Australian	Brabham	0	0
—	Yannick Dalmas	French	AGS	0	0
—	Martin Donnelly	British	Team Lotus	0	0
—	GFGregor Foitek	Swiss	Brabham / Onyx	0	0
—	Olivier Grouillard	French	Osella	0	0
—	Johnny Herbert	British	Team Lotus	0	0
—	JJJyrki Järvilehto	Finnish	Onyx	0	0
—	Nicola Larini	Italian	Ligier	0	0
—	PMPierluigi Martini	Italian	Minardi	0	0
—	Gianni Morbidelli	Italian	Dallara / Minardi	0	0
—	Emanuele Pirro	Italian	Dallara	0	0
—	BSBernd Schneider	German	Arrows	0	0
—	Gabriele Tarquini	Italian	AGS	0	0
—	Andrea de Cesaris	Italian	Dallara	0	0

Read from the season’s final standings row, never summed from the race results. 17 of 35 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 1990, 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 1990, not those that entered. The constructors’ championship has been awarded since 1958, so both tables exist for this season. 1990 is complete: all 16 rounds are loaded and both tables are final.