The professor. Prost was smoother, more analytical, and a master of race management. He understood that you win championships by finishing second when first is impossible. Prost famously preferred to save the car and tires, contrasting with Senna’s all-out attack. Their relationship, initially cordial, deteriorated into bitter acrimony as the season progressed.
It was a year when the cars were purple thunderbolts, when the fuel smelled like perfume, and when two men stood so far above the rest of the field that they were racing in a different atmosphere. f1 1988 season