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Neil Oatley: designing World Championships with McLaren

F1: Beyond The Grid

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How I Met Allan Prost in the Garage

In the design office you were focused on MP4-5 for 1989 but then practically at the track you were race engineering at Lamb Prost. And so which was the first car that you started working on? It would have been MP4-3. Well come on to the 89 car but can we talk about that 88 season, that incredible year where McLaren won all but one race and Senna and Prost were hammer and tongs every weekend. There wasn't really a lot of attention particularly in ATI that was fairly friendly atmosphere obviously it changed a little bit after Emmiller in 89.

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