The Toleman team return after missing the first 3 races of the season due to a contract problem over tyres! Senna’s on pole with Mansell in 2nd on the grid.

You’ll notice that the chicance after the tunnel is very different to what it is today featuring just a “kink” to slow the cars down, but judging by the speed of them it didn’t have much effect!

Some great racing to look out for; Elio de Angelis overtaking Eddie Cheever’s Alfa Romeo at Virage Antony Noghes (not somewhere you usually get overtaken!), Boutsen, de Cesaris and Warwick battling for position while Lauda catches them, and Piquet coming together with Patrese on the main straight before they both go off at St. Devote.

Senna has a blown turbo while leading and later on Alboreto drives round the outside of Prost going into St. Devote to retake the lead.

At the end look out for Murray Walker interviewing Johnathon Palmer (Zakspeed) and a fresh faced Martin Brundle (Tyrell).

Full Grand Prix results are available on Wikipedia. Race video is 39 minutes.

This was F1′s last visit to Holland and Niki Lauda’s final GP victory. Piquet starts on pole but fails to get away and somehow the rest of the grid manage to avoid him. Lookout for some great out breaking manouvers going down into Tarzan corner. Tambay in the Renault and Alboreto in the Ferrari are particularly amusing.

Fantastic fightback from Prost to catch back up with Lauda his McLaren team mate and the last couple of laps see some frantic action.

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Particularly interesting is the Minardi/Coloni Subaru, McLaren Lamborghini (Senna and Hakkinen tested it!), and a Williams Renault with CVT.

The McLaren story makes me wonder what would have happened had Ron Dennis continued and actually raced with the Lambo engine. Would Senna have left for Williams…

Not only is the music perfectly matched to the content the title sequence is great as well. Much better than the half-a-dozen or so theme tunes ITV have managed to serve up over the past 10 years.

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Watch out for the braking over the bumps coming up to the chicane after 130R…superb.

Nigel Mansell in the Williams Honda takes his first Grand Prix victory in front of the home crowd with Alain Prost finishing fourth to take the World Championship. John Watson returns for a one-off drive with McLaren after a 2 year absense in what will be his last GP.

Have a look at Keke Rosberg blocking Senna for nearly 2 laps after a coming together then goes on from a lap down to take 3rd place! Alboreto has a great turbo fire (those were the days when you could count on a Ferrari engine blowing up!). Jaques Laffite makes a brief appearance in the top 6 and takes fastest lap before his Ligier expires, and Marc Surer in the BMW Brabham has a spectacular turbo blow up.

The sleek, streamlined Brabham looks amazing compared with other cars and the simple blue/white colour scheme shows it off to best effect. This is in contrast to the McLaren which seems especially “fat”!

For those with a keen eye you should spot Ron Dennis (with some hair) of McLaren right at the end holding up a pit board with “Prost P1″

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The previous week had seen the tragic and untimely death of Stefan Bellof at Spa in a 1000km sportscar race and there is a brief tribute at the start from Ken Tyrell who was running Stefan this year.

It’s interesting to see the cars sliding around so much during the first couple of laps, particularly through “curva grande” and the “lesmos” and notice how the circuit has changed during the last 20 years. I’d completely forgotten the first chicane was a left/right and the “lesmos” look great with the turbo cars going through.

Listen out for Mansell’s very sick Williams Honda early on and notice Stefan Johansson thumbing a lift back to the pits with Elio de Angelis just after the finish. Alan Jones also makes a brief appearance in the Beatrice Lola Hart after been tempted out of retirement.

The full video is 27 minutes with commentary from Murray Walker and James Hunt.

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The full video is 34 minutes long with commentary from Murray Walker and James Hunt.

For full race stats visit Wikipedia or Forix

Have a look out for a dreadful start by a certain Nigel Mansell and the infamous Peralta final corner.

The full video is 33 minutes long with commentary from Murray Walker and James Hunt and is available to view full screen at Google video

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