Career - 1989

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23rd (scored 2 points) in the FIA Formula 1 World Championship with the Benetton-

Ford Team (cars: Benetton-Ford B188 and B189). Alain Prost became world champion

in the McLaren MP4/5, scoring 76 points.

In mid-1989, Benetton's team-manager Peter Collins asked Emanuele to replace the

injured Johnny Herbert, starting from the season's seventh event, the Grand Prix of

France. After Collins had been sacked and replaced by Flavio Briatore, the latter

decided to replace Herbert in the next year by the three-time world champion Nelson

Piquet. Since one decided to let Herbert's teammate Alessandro Nannini stay with the

team, there was left no room for Emanuele in the anglo-italian Team of Luciano

Benetton, and so Pirro was "traded" to the Scuderia Italia for the 1990 season.

July 9	Grand Prix of France, Paul Ricard	9th	24th
July 16	Grand Prix of Great Britain	11th	26th
July 30	Grand Prix of Germany, Hockenheim	dnf accident	9th
August 13	Grand Prix of Hungary, Hungaroring	8th	25th
August 27	Grand Prix of Belgium, Spa Francorchamps	10th	13th
September 11	Grand Prix of Italy, Monza	dnf clutch	9th
September 24	Grand Prix of Portugal,Estoril	dnf shocks	16th
Oktober 1	Grand Prix of Spain, Jerez	dnf cramps	10th
Oktober 22	Grand Prix of Japan, Suzuka	dnf accident	22nd
November 5	Grand Prix of Australia, Adelaide	5th	13th

The Benetton B189 was used for the first time in the German Grand Prix.

1st 24 Hours of the Nürburgring for Touring Cars in a BMW M3 Pirro teamed up with

Roberto Ravaglia and Fabien Giroix

1st Wellington 500 in New Zealand in a BMW M3 together with Roberto Ravaglia

Formel 1 test-driver for McLaren-Honda

2nd in the Grand Champion Championship in Japan (Japanese pendant to CanAm or

Japanese Formula 3000

When Emanuele Pirro made his GP debut in the Benetton-Ford B188, he was in company of 3 other newcomers, but for shure the most experienced one. As a McLaren testdriver he had already more then 20.000 Formula 1 kilometer under the belt.

Emanuele Pirro watches the competition on the monitor during the time work is performed on his Benetton-Ford B189. He qualified 13th and finished the wet race in 10th position.

When Ayrton Senna, the winner of the french GP, was shown the chequered flag after 80 laps, Emanuele had driven 78 laps, finishing 9th in his debut race.

After he had started very successfully in the Japanese so-called "Grand Champion Championship", which is similar to the European Interserie, Emanuele should have become the champion. But his engagement for Benetton's Formula 1 team forced him to leave out some of the races in Japan, and so Pirro finally became vice-champion in his Reynard.