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Full restoration of a 1988 McLaren driven by Ayrton Senna, a model used in Formula 1 races

Full restoration of a 1988 McLaren driven by Ayrton Senna, a model used in Formula 1 races The McLaren MP4/4, also known as the McLaren-Honda MP4/4, was one of the most successful and dominant Formula One car designs of all time. Powered by Honda's RA168E 1.5-litre V6-turbo engine and driven by teammates Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna, the car competed during the 1988 Formula One season. The design of the car was led by American engineer Steve Nichols. Honda had provided the Constructors' Championship-winning engines of 1986 and 1987, and for 1988 they switched partners from Williams to McLaren, who had struggled with their dated TAG-Porsche engines. The engine's design and development was led by Osamu Goto. The MP4/4 was a distinctly lower design than the previous year's MP4/3, forcing the drivers into a more reclined, almost lying down driving position. In the 1988 season the MP4/4 won all but one race and claimed all but one pole position.[5] The team won the year's constructors' title with about three times as many points as runners-up Ferrari. It holds the record for highest percentage of laps led in a season with 97.3% (1,003 out of 1,031).[6] The car held the record for the highest win rate in a season until 2023, when the record was broken by the Red Bull Racing RB19, which was also powered by a Honda V6 turbocharged engine (95.45% win rate). In 1987, it had become increasingly difficult for McLaren to compete with major manufacturer-backed teams using, effectively, a privateer engine financed in-house by TAG and built by Porsche. For the following year, 1988, McLaren secured the use of the 1.5L V6 Honda turbo engines which since the middle of the 1985 season had been the best engine in Formula One. Team boss Ron Dennis had previously tried to secure Honda engines for his Formula 2 team, and, after four successful years with the TAG engines, welcomed the Japanese company. Most teams were making a concerted effort to establish themselves with naturally aspirated cars in 1988 because it was due to be the last year for the turbo engines before they were banned. It was a transition year prior to a naturally aspirated-only formula in 1989, and the regulations were framed to reward those teams that had already made the switch. So the decision to contiue with a turbo engine put the McLaren team at a potential disadvantage. Over a race distance, the MP4/4 would suffer a significant power deficit compared to its naturally aspirated rivals. It was possible to modulate the turbo boost, but with a fuel tank allowance of only 150 litres (naturally aspirated cars were unlimited) it meant that the team would have to go into extreme fuel conservation to get to the end of a race. Although there was speculation that Honda would introduce their V10 engine during 1988, Ron Dennis confirmed during qualifying for the Italian Grand Prix at Monza that racing the V10 was never part of the plan for 1988. By keeping the V6 engine, Honda and McLaren also gave themselves more development time on the 1989 car, which was to be an evolution of the MP4/4. The sleek-looking, all-new MP4/4 was produced and first appeared early in 1988. It was one of the few competing cars that year that was an all-new car; Ferrari, Lotus, Arrows, Tyrrell, and others were using updated or developed versions of their previous year's cars in order to build new cars for the 1989 season.[7]