High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1989 Japanese Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Suzuka Circuit, Japan, on October 22, 1989. It formed the 15th and penultimate round of the 1989 Formula One World Championship. This race would become one of the most notorious in F1 history, as the culmination of Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna`s tumultuous two year rivalry as team mates at McLaren. The Japanese Grand Prix decided the 1989 Drivers` Championship in Prost`s favour, after a collision at the final chicane between him and Senna put them both off the track. While Prost abandoned his stalled car, Senna restarted his, made a pit stop to change his front wing, and overhauled Alessandro Nannini to take victory. Following...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1989 Stanley Cup playoffs, the championship of the National Hockey League (NHL) began on April 5, after the conclusion of the 1988–89 NHL season. The playoffs concluded on May 25 with the champion Calgary Flames defeating the Montreal Canadiens 4–2 to win the Stanley Cup Final series four games to two.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 6th IBF World Championships were held in Jakarta, Indonesia in 1989. Following the results of the mixed doubles.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 6th IBF World Championships were held in Jakarta, Indonesia in 1989. Following the results of the men`s doubles.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1989 Pittsburgh Steelers were considered a rebuilding team filled with many young players, especially after the release of longtime center Mike Webster in the offseason. The young team showed its inexperience in the first game of the season, when they lost at home to the archrival Cleveland Browns 51–0. The loss marked the Steelers worst defeat in franchise history. The following week wasn`t much better, losing 41–10 to another division rival, the defending AFC Champion Cincinnati Bengals.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1989 Japanese Formula 3000 season was contested over 8 rounds. 17 different teams, 29 different drivers, 5 different chassis and 2 different engines competed.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Steffi Graf and Gabriela Sabatini were the defending champions but only Sabatini competed that year with Betsy Nagelsen.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver were the defending champions and won in the final 3–6, 6–3, 6–2 against Patty Fendick and Jill Hetherington.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1989 San Francisco Giants season saw the Giants finish in first place in the National League West with a record of 92 wins and 70 losses. It was their second division title in three years. The Giants defeated the Chicago Cubs in five games in the National League Championship Series. However, they were swept by their cross-Bay rivals, the Oakland Athletics, in an earthquake-marred World Series.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1989 NASCAR Winston Cup Season began February 12 and ended November 19. Rusty Wallace of the #27 Kodiak Pontiac for Blue Max Racing won the championship. This was the first year that every Winston Cup race was televised, with almost all of them being televised live.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1989 World Series was played between the Oakland Athletics and the San Francisco Giants. The Series ran from October 14 through October 28, with the A`s sweeping the Giants in four games. It was the first World Series sweep since 1976, and is best remembered for the Loma Prieta earthquake, which occurred on October 17 before Game 3 began, and caused a 10-day disruption in play. Fay Vincent presided over the Series, his first as Commissioner of Baseball after the sudden death of his predecessor Bart Giamatti over a month earlier. This Series is also known as the "Earthquake Series", "Bay Bridge Series", "BART Series", and "Battle of the Bay," as the two participant cities lie on opposite...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 6th IBF World Championships were held in Jakarta, Indonesia in 1989. Following the results of the women`s singles.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1989 HFC American Racing Series Championship consisted of 12 races. Mike Groff and Tommy Byrne each won 4 races and Groff edged out Byrne by 10 points for the championship.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1989 World Sportscar Championship season was the 37th season of FIA World Sportscar Championship motor racing. It featured the 1989 FIA World Sports Prototype Championship, which was open to Group C1 Sports Prototypes, Group C2 Sports Prototypes and IMSA GTP cars. The championship was contested over an eight round series which ran from 9 April to 29 October 1989.
