Williams sub wrecked hopes of a perfect season at Italian GP with Ayrton Senna crash
dailystar.co.ukF1 team. Not even during Mercedes' run of seven straight drivers' titles did they go close to winning every single race in a season.
It was a feat McLaren Honda really should have achieved in 1988 as bitter rivals Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost battled for the crown.The Woking team arrived at the Italian Grand Prix of that year having won every race up to that point, and another looked to be a foregone conclusion as Senna led the way going into the closing stages at Monza.
Prost had retired with an engine problem. READ MORE: Alex Albon jokes about ‘cool scars’ after being replaced by Nyck de Vries at Italian GP Step forward little-known racer Jean-Louis Schlesser.
He had replaced British hero Nigel Mansell, who was suffering from chicken pox. Martin Brundle had actually replaced Mansell at the previous race at Spa but had been advised against doing so at Monza by his boss in sportscar racing at the time, Tom Walkinshaw.So Williams turned to Schlesser, who was almost 40 and better known for his exploits in endurance racing than F1.
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