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Championship leader Ayrton Senna spun on Olivier Grouillard's oil on his final qualifying attempt and had to settle for third alongside Nigel Mansell in the second Williams, with the rest of the top ten starting spots occupied by Gerhard Berger, Jean Alesi, Nelson Piquet, Roberto Moreno, Maurício Gugelmin, and the impressive Gianni Morbidelli in a Minardi.
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Two wins in Mexico and Portugal gave Patrese his most competitive F1 season thus far and a respectable third place behind Championship contenders Mansell and Ayrton Senna.
* Formula One Championship – Ayrton Senna of Brazil
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Coming into the Japanese round Alain Prost was leading the World Championship by twelve points, with a total of 72 to Ayrton Senna's 60.
The race is best remembered for the first corner collision between World Championship rivals Brazilian driver Ayrton Senna and French driver Alain Prost, the second consecutive year the two had collided at this race with heavy championship repercussions.
Nigel Mansell clinched the Drivers ' Championship by finishing the race in second position, behind McLaren's Ayrton Senna.
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Ayrton Senna won his third Drivers ' World Championship and McLaren-Honda won the Constructors ' Championship.
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Championship and Senna
Senna joined Prost at McLaren in 1988 and the two had a series of controversial clashes, including a collision at the 1989 Japanese Grand Prix that gave Prost his third Drivers ' Championship.
Between them, they won all but one of the 16 Grands Prix that year and Senna claimed his first World Championship.
Both the 1989 Championship won by Prost and the 1990 Championship won by Senna were decided by collisions between them at those years ' Japanese Grands Prix.
Senna entered karting competition at the age of 13 and, in 1977, won the South American Kart Championship.
During the 1989 Grand Prix, Senna tried to overtake Prost to keep his Championship hopes alive, only for Prost to shut the door as he had stated before the race, saying he would not be giving up the position simply for McLaren not to be embarrassed by a double retirement.
In 1992, Berger finished a single point behind Senna in the Drivers ' Championship using the McLaren MP4 / 7A.
Berger later acted as an advisor to Bruno Senna, Ayrton's nephew, who made his Formula One debut with the HRT F1 Team in the 2010 World Championship, and subsequently switched to Williams.
There were five cars between Senna and World Championship leader, team mate Alain Prost and all were ' atmos ' headed by Nigel Mansell in his Williams-Judd.
With victory in the race, Senna clinched the World Championship.
However, Senna won the World Championship scoring only 94 points, including a fourth and a sixth but had won 8 races to Prost's 7.
This was because of the " discard rule ", which counted only the best eleven results of the year toward the Championship total ; this meant that Prost ended the season with 87 and Senna with 90, the system would not change until.
Senna become only the second champion after John Surtees to win the Championship without having scored the largest number of points.
He also took the lead, by two points over Senna, in the Driver's Championship which he eventually won.
Prost's second win for the season gave him an 11 point lead over Senna in the Drivers ' Championship.
The Japanese Grand Prix decided the 1989 Drivers ' Championship in Prost's favour, after a collision at the final chicane between him and Senna put them both off the track.
It immediately put both cars out of the race and secured for Senna his second World Championship.
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