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During 1989 Spanish GP qualifying, the rear wing of this car suddenly came off, Gregor Foitek lost control and crashed heavily against the barrier.
This crash itself was not famous enough to be remembered in F1 history. However, it was remembered as a controversy of the famous 1989 title fight. In the previous race at Estoril, Nigel Mansell was disqualified because of reversing in pitlane (a crew pushed him back). But he ignored the disqualification, continued the race, and collided with Ayrton Senna while battling with him. This DNF cost Senna dearly as he only had mathematical possibility to win the title against his teammate Alain Prost. Mansell was fined $50,000 and banned from the next race.
Mansell claimed that he did not see the black flag, while McLaren claimed that he crashed into Senna on purpose. However, McLaren shamed themself quick after. The qualifying session at Jerez was interrupted by red flag due to Foitek's crash. Senna ignored yellow flags, black flags and red flags as he still went flat out in a out lap, even more flags than Mansell did. But Senna got away with this with only $20,000 fine and no grid penalty or even a ban. Assumably this was to keep Senna's chance alive, but triggered Ferrari and Mansell even further.

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1989
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Black Alcantara
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Christian Danner at 1989 Monaco GP
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