The Lola LC89 is a

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car designed by

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founder

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and used in the

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team. It was powered by the 3.5-litre

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designer

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. Drivers of the car included

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and

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. The car made its debut in round two of the season, at the

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. While the aerodynamics were good and the chassis was on the pace, the Lamborghini V12 engine proved to be generally unreliable, despite its reported . The car and engine combination would only score one point in its racing life with Alliot finishing in sixth place at the 1989 Spanish Grand Prix. Five time Grand Prix winner Alboreto failed to pre-qualify the car twice (

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) and failed to qualify once (

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), in his eight drives for the team in 1989. Alboreto also suffered a broken rib driving the car when he ran over a high curb during the

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. The chassis was updated into the LC89B for the first two races of . It was replaced by the

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from the

1990 San Marino Grand Prix The 1990 San Marino Grand Prix (formally the 10o Gran Premio di San Marino) was a Formula One motor race held on 13 May 1990 at Imola. It was the third race of the 1990 Formula One World Championship and the first race in the European continent. T ...

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as used by the

team in 1989.

Complete Formula One results

( key) * All points scored using

; results published in 1991 FIA Yearbook of Automobile Sport credited the constructor results to "Larrousse" rather than "Lola".

References

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