McLaren MP4/4

The McLaren MP4/4 was the Formula One car with which the McLaren team dominated the 1988 season. Powered by Honda's RA168E 1.5-litre turbocharged V6 engine and driven by Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna, it won all but one race and took all but one pole position, and the team won the constructors title with roughly three times the points of runners-up Ferrari. The design was led by the American engineer Steve Nichols and was distinctly lower than the previous year's MP4/3, which forced the drivers into a reclined, almost lying down driving position. Six chassis were moulded from carbon fibre and all six still exist. The MP4/4 holds the record for the highest percentage of laps led in a season, 97.3 percent, and it was succeeded in 1989 by the V10 powered MP4/5.