A look back in photographs to 10 different years of Motor-Racing history:
1981, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, and 1997.


Arrows (1989), Lotus (1990)

Born: March 26, 1964, Northern Ireland
Races contested: 13
Best result: 7th
Total points: -



Above: Martin Donnelly in the Lotus in 1990 at Spa-Francorchamps (left),
in his Eddie Jordan Racing Formula 3000 Reynard at Zolder in 1988 (middle),
and in the Lotus in 1990 at the Hungaroring (right).
At the Hungarian race that year he achieved his best Formula 1 result: 7th.

Martin Donnelly may well be the luckiest Formula 1 driver of all times,
surviving a 270 km/h head-on crash during practice for the Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez in 1990.
He was taken to hospital seriously injured (broken legs, burst arteries, damaged organs, six-week coma)
and his racing career, at least on the highest level, was over,
but he had survived a crash that normally nobody could have survived.
Click here for a detailed report about the events that awful day in September of 1990,
or here for a picture...
Martin Donnelly later tested a Jordan Formula 1 car (1993), but never returned to professional racing
as a driver. He became a team manager in the lower motor-sport categories.


Above: Martin in the Lotus (1990) at Spa-Francorchamps (left),
in the Eddie Jordan Racing Formula 3000 Reynard during the race at Zolder (middle),
a race he started from pole-position, but didn't finish,
and in the Lotus at the Hungaroring in 1990 (right).
In 1988 and 1989, Martin Donnelly drove 15 Formula 3000 races for Eddie Jordan Racing,
winning three of them, and finishing 3rd and 8th in the F3000 standings in 1988 and 1989 respectively.


Above: in the Lotus at Paul Ricard (left), Hockenheim (middle) and Spa-Francorchamps (left).


Above: Martin Donnelly in the Lotus in 1990 at Paul Ricard (left), Hockenheim (middle), and at the Hungaroring (right).


Above: Martin in the Lotus at Hockenheim, 1990.



All pictures copyright Patrick Beckers 1990

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