He ran the year 1988, we were in the first Grand Prix of the season and Ayrton Senna was the new McLaren driver next to Alain Prost. He agreed also that this season the engines turbo would live moments of agony, living with the atmospheric engines that would become the future of the specialty. In fact, during 1988 and exception to McLaren-Honda (because he was in another Galaxy with respect to its competitors) saw an interesting fight between atmospheric engines and engines turbo.
In the Grand Prize of Brazil, first event of the season, Ayrton Senna got the pole ahead of Nigel Mansell, who was able to carry their Williams Judd in the first row of the grid with a tiempazo, and also ahead of Alain Prost and Gerhard Berger with Ferrari. Senna started the 1988 season strong, but everything you got in the qualifying session was esfumaria seconds before giving the output.
During the formation lap Senna was jammed in first, and arriving at their place on the grid made signs to indicate the problem. Output abortaba and Senna changed to reserve car, which was with settings for Alain Prost, and should start from the pitlane. After the start, Senna was the (last) 26 and was flying a car adapted for another pilot, so things painted bastos. But he began a brilliant comeback, turning 21 in the first round, 15 in the fourth, 8 in the tenth and second on lap 20.
It was a shot back to back, rather than its competitors as if they were unemployed (was huge the superiority of the Mclaren-Honda) and seeing as the problems they rested in the first classifieds (except for Prost), with Mansell retired due to enginePiquet delayed back to back, unable to follow in the footsteps of Berger in the Ferrari or Alain Prost. When it stopped in boxes, a lap later to Prost, calo engine and this relegated it back to the 6th, which obliged him to keep going. Probably would be second or third at the end of the 60 laps, but shortly after, on lap 31 Senna was disqualified.
Reason: changed his car at a time when regulation was prohibited. As so many times we have complained, the FIA had made the decision when the race was by half, 31 laps in effort to limit runs to the toilet because someone not gave him time to realize before the illegal maneuver. It was curious to hear statements by Ron Dennis in this regard.
As we see, if the FIA had not acted as always, at the wrong time, we could have attended a great comeback from the 26 post until probably second (Prost had already been too much advantage). It is curious that there is always an error of this style (change car at the wrong time, blame it on the team) and the FIA take a century to decide the punishment. And it is curious that he should make the sanction of disqualification, which is rare in itself.
