Niki Lauda McLaren MP4/2 Poster

One can only imagine – and grin – at thoughts of Niki Lauda, designer John Barnard and McLaren CEO Ron Dennis working together. But it was a hugely effective gathering of talent, made even stronger by the arrival, in 1984, of Alain Prost. The Frenchman, off the back of nine wins in three years at Renault, arrived with great experience of turbocharged Formula 1 cars; Lauda, whose 1982 return to F1 following a two-year sabbatical, had run four grands prix in 1983 with a McLaren MP4/1E fitted with the TAG Porsche turbocharged engine for ’84. Once the season began with the definitive MP4/2, it was clear that Lauda had lost some of the one-lap pace from his mid-’70s peak with Ferrari, and generally he started races behind Prost. Yet at year’s end, he had accumulated five victories – one of them shown here at Brands Hatch – and although Prost took seven, it was the Austrian who prevailed in the championship… by half a point!

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