Alain Prost knew he had something special under him, just a couple of laps into his first run. He knew he had a car in the form of the lowline MP4/4 that would once again win world championships for McLaren, and immediately told Ron Dennis so before adding, according to chief mechanic Neil Trundle, that he “already felt we could even win all the races”.
Prost, as usual, wasn’t far wrong. McLaren came only a backmarker botch away from an unblemished whitewash in 1988. As it was, Prost and new team-mate Ayrton Senna carved up 15 of that season’s 16 grands
