The 1984 Portuguese GP
Half a point
Out-qualified 15 times out of 16 races and beaten seven-five in race wins, it looked all over for Lauda against Prost.
“The real problem,” said Niki, “is without realising, the brake has come on in your head. You stay a metre away from the guardrail, not a millimetre. So when you have a young guy like Prost as a team-mate…” He trails off, but everyone remembers the Estoril showdown. Lauda used guile, desire and race craft to crawl himself back into contention. He beat his younger team-mate by half a point.
Iconic red and white livery
The liveries of McLaren
The MP4/4
The 1988 MP4/4 won 15 of 16 races and scored 199 points in the constructors’ championship, almost three times as much as runners-up Ferrari.
The 1988 Monaco Grand Prix
Ayrton Senna's iconic qualifying lap in the 1988 Monaco Grand Prix will be forever remembered as one of the greatest laps in Formula 1 history.
The pranks of Gerhard Berger
Frogs, passport photos and helicopter jokes
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