The Lola LC90 was a

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team. It was powered by the 3.5L

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. The car was driven by Japanese driver

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who had spent failing to pre-qualify all 16 races for

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Race history

The LC90 made its debut at the

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replacing the updated 1989 car, the LC89B used in the opening two rounds of the season. Aguri Suzuki scored the team's first podium (and the only one for Lamborghini's V12 which was rated at in 1990) in front of his home fans at Suzuka. After most of the major runners had dropped out of the race (both

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), Suzuki finished a brilliant and highly popular third at his home Grand Prix behind the Benetton-

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. Suzuki even finished in front of the

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powered Williams pair of

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. In fact, with two Brazilians and a Japanese driver finishing in the top 3, the Japanese Grand Prix was the last time (as of ) that no European driver has finished on the podium for a Formula One Grand Prix. With Suzuki also scoring points at the

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Grands Prix, and Éric Bernard scoring points at

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, the team ended the year with 11 points achieving sixth place in the Constructors' Championship. During the first half of the season, Larrousse was forced to pre-qualify due to only scoring one point in 1989. However, with an improving Lamborghini engine, a chassis considered among the best in the field and two talented young drivers, pre-qualifying was never really a problem and indeed qualifying positions within the top 10 became more and more frequent as the season progressed. File:Lambo V12 F1.JPG,

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as used by the

team in 1990.

Complete Formula One results

( key) - Results published in 1991 FIA Yearbook of Automobile Sport credited the constructor results to "Larrousse" rather than "Lola".

References

External links

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