1988 Mexican Grand Prix

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The 1988 Mexican Grand Prix was a Formula One race held on May 29, 1988 at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, Mexico City. It was the fourth race of the 1988 Formula One season. McLaren dominated the qualifying session once again. Ayrton Senna took pole from Alain Prost with a lap time that was over a second faster than Nigel Mansell's 1987 time. Gerhard Berger and Nelson Piquet made up the 2nd row. Satoru Nakajima and Eddie Cheever both had a good qualifying session making good use of the their turbocharged engines advantage in the high altitude, whilst Mansell could only make 14th because of suspension problems. The session was dominated by Philippe Alliot's terrifying crash after he lost control of his Larrousse, coming out of the Peraltada curve (which at the time was taken with a speed in excess of 240 km/h) that leads onto the pit straight.