After four games for the reserves, he replaced the injured Dave McLaren for his Leicester City debut in a 1 – 1 draw against Blackpool on 9 September 1959 and retained his place for the 2 – 0 defeat against Newcastle 3 days later.

Ferrari retained Michael Schumacher and Eddie Irvine, Benetton kept Jean Alesi and Gerhard Berger and McLaren signed on Mika Häkkinen and David Coulthard.

* Ferrari retained Jean Alesi, but Ivan Capelli and Nicola Larini had both disappointed in 1992 and so Gerhard Berger returned to the team after three years at McLaren.

* McLaren retained their successful 1990 lineup of Senna and Gerhard Berger

* Benetton retained Alessandro Nannini and replaced Thierry Boutsen with British rookie Johnny Herbert who was eventually replaced by McLaren test driver Emanuele Pirro.

Later in the season he won a South American F2 tournament with Ferrari but was not retained by the Italian giants and he returned to the Alfa Romeo fold as they entered F1 supplying engines to a third works McLaren.

Stottlemyre was named pitching coach of the Seattle Mariners under manager John McLaren at the beginning of the 2008 season and was retained by interim manager Jim Riggleman after McLaren's firing, but was dismissed after the season ended.

Despite his new responsibilities, he retained the position of consulting engineer to Golden Gate Park until he resigned in 1890, and was replaced by his assistant John McLaren.

This began the team's most successful era: with Porsche and Honda engines, Niki Lauda, Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna took between them seven drivers ' championships and McLaren six constructors ' championships.

During 1989 Prost began to contemplate starting his own team, as his relationship with his McLaren teammate, Ayrton Senna, had turned sour.

Häkkinen joined McLaren as a test driver in 1993 initally as a backup for Ayrton Senna and took on the responsibility of race driver after Michael Andretti was dismissed by the team after that year's Italian Grand prix.

During 1993, Häkkinen, along with Ayrton Senna, tested the Lamborghini V12 engine in a modified version of the McLaren MP4 / 8 race car dubbed the " MP4 / 8B " at both Estoril and Silverstone.

1993 saw the customer deal extended to McLaren, who won five Grands Prix with Ayrton Senna that year.

The McLaren team dominated all three years, with Alain Prost winning in 1989 and Ayrton Senna in 1990 and 1991.

At the first event, the United States Grand Prix at Phoenix, he was a sensation, leading for 25 laps in front of Ayrton Senna with a car powered by a customer Ford V8 considered as vastly inferior to the V10 Honda in Senna's McLaren, and also re-passing Senna after the Brazilian had first overtaken for the lead.

In, the McLaren team, with twice World Champion Alain Prost and the sensationally fast Ayrton Senna dominated the season, winning 15 of the 16 rounds.

From 1990 to 1992 Berger joined Ayrton Senna at McLaren.

Ayrton Senna won his second Formula One World Championship using the mystic number 27 in 1990 in a McLaren Honda, as mentioned, the only time Ferrari didn't use the number during that period.

After the departure of Ayrton Senna in, Marlboro McLaren did not win a race for three years.

* Alessandro Nannini-scored his only F1 race win at the 1989 Japanese Grand Prix after Ayrton Senna's McLaren was disqualified.

The race was memorable for McLaren driver Ayrton Senna, with just two laps remaining and thus far leading the race, colliding with Schlesser at the Rettifilo left-right chicane.

Ayrton Senna was second in his Lotus, followed by the Ferrari 156 / 85 of Michele Alboreto and the McLaren of Prost.

Lauda's team mate Alain Prost was second in his McLaren MP4 / 2B with Brazilian racer Ayrton Senna third in his Lotus 97T.

As usual, Honda powered cars dominated the qualifying sessions, with Nelson Piquet in his Williams FW11B beating his teammate Nigel Mansell by less than a tenth of second ; Ayrton Senna was third in his Lotus 99T and fourth was the McLaren MP4 / 3 of Alain Prost.

Brazilian driver Ayrton Senna finished in second position in his Lotus 99T ahead of reigning world champion Alain Prost in his McLaren MP4 / 3.

Ayrton Senna scored his first victory since joining McLaren at the start of the season.

The McLaren of Ayrton Senna led from the start, whilst his teammate Alain Prost had his engine stall coming to take his place on the grid ( Prost later reported that the engine had also stalled earlier on the parade lap ).

Ayrton Senna took pole position and the race win for McLaren ( racing ) | McLaren.

For the first time in the season there was a genuine battle for the lead-between Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna, with Prost managing to maintain a 2-second advantage despite worries in the McLaren pit about overly high fuel consumption.

McLaren notched up the last front row of the season, with Ayrton Senna taking his 13th pole of the season after a great qualifying duel.

At the start Ayrton Senna got away well but behind him Alain Prost found himself just ahead of Nigel Mansell's Ferrari but the Englishman could not find his way around Prost's McLaren.

The Alain Prost / Ayrton Senna war began to build up speed after the Frenchman said that McLaren had a pre race agreement that whoever led into the first turn should stay there, which was ironically suggested by 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.

With Senna departing to Williams for, Häkkinen became the leading driver for McLaren with Martin Brundle as his teammate.

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.

Berger was the only driver to break the McLaren stranglehold in 1988, winning the Italian Grand Prix after Senna tangled with Jean-Louis Schlesser, who had temporarily replaced a sick with chicken pox Nigel Mansell in the Williams-Judd.

During his three years at McLaren, Berger also obtained four pole positions and out-qualified Senna 8 times.

His debut at McLaren ruffled feathers, as he outqualified Senna for the 1990 United States Grand Prix obtaining pole position.

Towards the end of 1991, Berger found his form in the McLaren MP4 / 6, out-qualifying teammate Senna at the Portuguese, Spanish and the title deciding Japanese Grands Prix ( claiming pole position in the latter two events ).

In 1992, Berger finished a single point behind Senna in the Drivers ' Championship using the McLaren MP4 / 7A.

Senna also won the title for McLaren in 1990 and 1991.

According to media reports and the driver's own recollection, as the two cars approached the chicane's braking zone, Schlesser saw Senna coming and expected the McLaren to pass on the inside, so he went wide right on the first left bend.

Senna passed Prost's slowing McLaren before the finish line, but according to the rules, the positions counted are those from the last lap completed by every driver – lap 31, at which point Prost was still leading.