The 1991 Spanish Grand Prix featured an epic battle between Aryton Senna, in an underpowered McLaren-Honda, and Nigel Mansell in the amazing but as yet somewhat unreliable “active” Williams FW14. This time, Mansell emerged on the top step of the podium,
On lap four Mansell took a brief look down the inside of Senna into Elf, but didn’t quite have the momentum. A lap later he ducked out of the MP4/6’s slipstream earlier, and the Williams and the McLaren ran side by side. Normally such incidents last but moments, but this one was prolonged deliciously. With sparks scraping from their undercar skidplates the two fastest drivers in the business sat it out alongside one another at 195mph, neither prepared to give an inch. It was Grand Prix racing just as it should be, and to their lasting credit neither of them let their morning altercation affect their conduct on the track.
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