F1
What went wrong at Williams? And can it salvage its 2026 F1 season?
Barcelona exposed Williams again, but team boss James Vowles insists the car, and this year's Formula 1 season, can still be saved
Alonso drives the ex-Senna McLaren MP4/4
F1
- Last updated: September 19th 2019
More videos
Moss revisits the Mille Miglia
Battersea Park Formula E track walk
The Roebuck/Hughes show
As part of a TAG Heuer advertisement the watch company managed to persuade McLaren to put Alonso in Ayrton Senna’s championship-winning MP4/4 from 1988.
With Honda power the Brazilian won eight of that season’s 16 races (team-mate Alain Prost won seven) and, famously, he qualified at Monaco 1.427 seconds ahead of anyone else. In short, it’s a pretty awesome machine…
TAG Heuer video
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfCeAjAR-_s[/youtube]
Tracking shots lap
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E1K6STJwus[/youtube]
Alonso tells Button what it was like on track
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt-QOtOeQk0[/youtube]
You may also like
F1
Fifty-eight years on: the previous time Britain swept an F1 podium
The Barcelona all-British podium had a precedent: Watkins Glen in 1968, where three drivers' careers - one rising, one reigning, one fading - converged for an afternoon
F1
How Aston Martin ended up with the 'worst' F1 car in 2026
Fernando Alonso called the Aston Martin the worst car with the worst engine in Formula 1 at his home race - and the evidence suggests he's right
F1
MPH: The real Lewis Hamilton is back. This is why
Mark Hughes examines the factors that have contributed to Lewis Hamilton finding his old self after a 2025 Formula 1 season filled with self-doubt
×