Senna's McLaren Honda MP-4/4 1988 F1 World Champion Japanese Grand Prix          

This limit edition art print represents the McLaren Honda MP4/4 as it appeared on 30 October, 1988; driven by Aryton Senna.

The MP 4/4 was the culmination of all Team McLaren’s hopes, dreams and efforts.  In the 1988 Formula 1 season, it made all the other cars look positively ordinary.  In the hands of Senna, and teammate Alain Prost, the 4/4 won all but one of the season’s 16 races, and went on to become perhaps the most dominate F1 car in history.

It was in this car that Senna clinched the 1988 Formula 1 World Championship at Suzuka Circuit, Japan – the 15th, and penultimate, race of the season.

Designed by Gordon Murray and Steve Nichols, the McLaren Honda MP 4/4 was a carbon-fibre honeycomb monocoque holding a Honda RA168-E 1,492cc, 80 degree V-6, engine mounted longitudinally, and mated to a McLaren 6 speed manual transmission.  Aspiration was by 2 IHI Turbochargers.  Power was 900 bhp / 671 KW.  With the car weighing just 1190.5 pounds, that meant that there was roughly the power of one horse for every 2.2 pounds!

Ayrton Senna's Formula 1 World Championship in 1998 at Suzuka 

This is the 8th in a Series of Historic Vehicles                                           edition size - 500          print size  22" x 10 1/2"        $ 55.00

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