Of their many head-to-heads during their battle for F1 supremacy in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost's confrontation at the 1988 French Grand Prix was arguably one of their most intense ever. A new book due to be published in February, 'The Power and The Glory: Senna, Prost and F1's Golden Era,' relates the story of this and many other clashes between F1's all-time heavyweight super-team during that unforgettable era of Grand Prix racing. When the teams arrived at an impossibly hot Circuit Paul Ricard for the seventh round of the 1988 world championship, Prost was certainly feeling the heat in more ways than one. Early July and the south of France was sizzling...
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