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| 1988 Monaco Grand Prix | |||
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| Race 3 of 16 in the1988 Formula One World Championship | |||
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| Race details | |||
| Date | 15 May 1988 | ||
| Official name | 46eGrand Prix de Monaco | ||
| Location | Circuit de Monaco Monte Carlo,Monaco | ||
| Course | Street circuit | ||
| Course length | 3.328 km (2.068 miles) | ||
| Distance | 78 laps, 259.584 km (161.298 miles) | ||
| Weather | Warm and dry | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | McLaren-Honda | ||
| Time | 1:23.998 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |  Ayrton Senna | McLaren-Honda | |
| Time | 1:26.321 on lap 59 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | McLaren-Honda | ||
| Second | Ferrari | ||
| Third | Ferrari | ||
Lap leaders | |||
The1988 Monaco Grand Prix (formally the46e Grand Prix de Monaco[1]) was aFormula One motor race held on 15 May 1988 at theCircuit de Monaco,Monte Carlo. It was the third race of the1988 Formula One World Championship.
The 78-lap race was won by FrenchmanAlain Prost, driving aMcLaren-Honda. Prost took his 30th win – including 4th and final in Monaco – after Brazilian teammateAyrton Senna crashed out late on while leading comfortably. Austrian driverGerhard Berger finished second in aFerrari, with Italian teammateMichele Alboreto third, scoring his 20th podium. It was McLaren's 58th win, 150th podium and 40th fastest lap. Honda engine scored its 30th win.
TheMcLaren-Hondas continued their dominant form from the previous race atImola, asAyrton Senna took pole position by an almost unbelievable 1.5 seconds ahead of teammateAlain Prost, with a further 1.2 seconds back to theFerrari ofGerhard Berger in third. Berger's teammateMichele Alboreto was fourth, whileNigel Mansell was fifth in theWilliams, the quickest of thenaturally-aspirated cars, albeit some 3.6 seconds behind Senna. Completing the top ten wereAlessandro Nannini in theBenetton,Derek Warwick in theArrows,Riccardo Patrese in the second Williams,Eddie Cheever in the second Arrows andJonathan Palmer in theTyrrell, while among the non-qualifiers wasSatoru Nakajima, whoseLotus was powered by the same Hondaturbo engine as the McLaren.
| Pos | No | Driver | Constructor | Q1 | Q2 | Gap |
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| 1 | 12 | Ayrton Senna | McLaren-Honda | 1:26.464 | 1:23.998 | |
| 2 | 11 |  Alain Prost | McLaren-Honda | 1:28.375 | 1:25.425 | +1.427 |
| 3 | 28 |  Gerhard Berger | Ferrari | 1:29.001 | 1:26.685 | +2.687 |
| 4 | 27 |  Michele Alboreto | Ferrari | 1:29.931 | 1:27.297 | +3.299 |
| 5 | 5 |  Nigel Mansell | Williams-Judd | 1:28.475 | 1:27.665 | +3.667 |
| 6 | 19 | Alessandro Nannini | Benetton-Ford | 1:29.093 | 1:27.869 | +3.871 |
| 7 | 17 | Derek Warwick | Arrows-Megatron | 1:29.928 | 1:27.872 | +3.874 |
| 8 | 6 | Riccardo Patrese | Williams-Judd | 1:29.130 | 1:28.016 | +4.018 |
| 9 | 18 |  Eddie Cheever | Arrows-Megatron | 1:32.889 | 1:28.227 | +4.229 |
| 10 | 3 | Jonathan Palmer | Tyrrell-Ford | 1:30.679 | 1:28.358 | +4.360 |
| 11 | 1 | Nelson Piquet | Lotus-Honda | 1:30.924 | 1:28.403 | +4.405 |
| 12 | 14 | Philippe Streiff | AGS-Ford | 1:29.597 | 1:28.527 | +4.529 |
| 13 | 30 | Philippe Alliot | Lola-Ford | 1:31.375 | 1:28.536 | +4.538 |
| 14 | 15 | Maurício Gugelmin | March-Judd | 1:32.148 | 1:28.610 | +4.612 |
| 15 | 24 |  Luis Pérez-Sala | Minardi-Ford | 1:31.662 | 1:28.625 | +4.627 |
| 16 | 20 |  Thierry Boutsen | Benetton-Ford | 1:29.539 | 1:28.640 | +4.642 |
| 17 | 36 | Alex Caffi | Dallara-Ford | 1:33.691 | 1:29.075 | +5.077 |
| 18 | 32 |  Oscar Larrauri | EuroBrun-Ford | 1:31.861 | 1:29.093 | +5.095 |
| 19 | 22 | Andrea de Cesaris | Rial-Ford | 1:33.183 | 1:29.298 | +5.300 |
| 20 | 25 | René Arnoux | Ligier-Judd | 1:31.964 | 1:29.480 | +5.482 |
| 21 | 29 | Yannick Dalmas | Lola-Ford | 1:33.158 | 1:29.601 | +5.603 |
| 22 | 16 | Ivan Capelli | March-Judd | 1:35.216 | 1:29.603 | +5.605 |
| 23 | 9 | Piercarlo Ghinzani | Zakspeed | 1:33.005 | 1:30.121 | +6.213 |
| 24 | 31 | Gabriele Tarquini | Coloni-Ford | 1:32.792 | 1:30.252 | +6.254 |
| 25 | 21 | Nicola Larini | Osella | 1:36.705 | 1:30.335 | +6.337 |
| 26 | 26 |  Stefan Johansson | Ligier-Judd | 1:36.036 | 1:30.505 | +6.507 |
| DNQ | 2 |  Satoru Nakajima | Lotus-Honda | 1:30.611 | 1:31.573 | +6.613 |
| DNQ | 10 |  Bernd Schneider | Zakspeed | 1:33.585 | 1:30.613 | +6.615 |
| DNQ | 23 | Adrián Campos | Minardi-Ford | 1:32.627 | 1:30.793 | +6.795 |
| DNQ | 4 | Julian Bailey | Tyrrell-Ford | 1:34.192 | 1:30.816 | +6.818 |
At the start, Senna led away, while Berger overtook Prost when the Frenchman momentarily could not engage second gear. Behind them, a variety of accidents occurred at Sainte-Dévote:Alex Caffi hit the wall in hisDallara;Philippe Streiff, who had started 12th in hisAGS, retired when an accelerator cable broke; and World ChampionNelson Piquet collided with Cheever, which forced the Brazilian to retire at the end of the first lap and thus end a disastrous weekend for the Lotus team.
The running order of Senna, Berger, Prost, Mansell, Alboreto and Nannini was maintained until lap 33 when Alboreto took Mansell off at the Swimming Pool, ending the Englishman's race. Nannini then suffered a gearbox failure on lap 39. On lap 51, Patrese collided withPhilippe Alliot'sLola while trying to lap him; Alliot retired immediately.
On lap 54, Prost passed Berger for second on the run to Sainte-Dévote, though he was some 50 seconds behind Senna. In an effort to put some pressure on his team-mate, he started trading fastest laps with him. With 11 laps remaining, McLaren team bossRon Dennis radioed Senna to slow down to ensure a safe 1-2 finish, allowing Prost to gain six seconds.[2]
On lap 67, Senna lost concentration at Portier, causing him to crash his McLaren into the barrier and damage the car's front suspension. Immediately afterwards, he went to his home in Monaco to contemplate losing a race that he had dominated from the first time he took to the track for free practice on Thursday morning; the McLaren team did not even hear from him until that evening, when he walked into the pits as they were packing up.[3]
Prost thus took his fourth Monaco win in five years, with Berger some 20 seconds behind and Alboreto a further 21 seconds back. Warwick finished fourth after a race-long battle with Palmer, while Patrese recovered from his collision with Alliot to take the final point, passing the other Lola ofYannick Dalmas on the last lap. Patrese's point was also the first-ever World Championship point scored by a Judd-powered car and his first point for Williams.
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