A flag-to-flag victory for Ayrton Senna in a McLaren at the Spanish Grand Prix only came after he held of a determined challenge from the Ferrari of Gerhard Berger


Sunday 1st October 1989

A flag-to-flag victory for Ayrton Senna in a McLaren at the Spanish Grand Prix only came after he held of a determined challenge from the Ferrari of Gerhard Berger. Alain Prost, who took third, still held a commanding lead in the drivers’ championship, but team-mate Senna’s victory kept him in the hunt. “It was Mission Impossible,” Prost said. “I just sat back and drove my taxi home for third place.”


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