Editing Monaco Grand Prix (section)

====Era of Prost & Senna dominance ====
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 80%;" align="right"
! Year
! Driver
! class="unsortable"|Constructor
! class="unsortable"|Report
|- style="background:#fcc;"
|-
! {{F1|1984}}
| '''{{flagicon|FRA|variant=1974}}''' [[Alain Prost]]
| [[McLaren]]-[[Techniques d'Avant Garde|TAG]]
| [[1984 Monaco Grand Prix|Report]]
|-
! {{F1|1985}}
| '''{{flagicon|FRA|variant=1974}}''' [[Alain Prost]]
| [[McLaren]]-[[Techniques d'Avant Garde|TAG]]
| [[1985 Monaco Grand Prix|Report]]
|-
! {{F1|1986}}
| '''{{flagicon|FRA|variant=1974}}''' [[Alain Prost]]
| [[McLaren]]-[[Techniques d'Avant Garde|TAG]]
| [[1986 Monaco Grand Prix|Report]]
|-
! {{F1|1987}}
| {{flagicon|BRA|1968}} [[Ayrton Senna]]
| [[Team Lotus|Lotus]]-[[Honda in Formula One|Honda]]
| [[1987 Monaco Grand Prix|Report]]
|-
! {{F1|1988}}
| '''{{flagicon|FRA|variant=1974}}''' [[Alain Prost]]
| [[McLaren]]-[[Honda in Formula One|Honda]]
| [[1988 Monaco Grand Prix|Report]]
|-
! {{F1|1989}}
| {{flagicon|BRA|1968}} [[Ayrton Senna]]
| [[McLaren]]-[[Honda in Formula One|Honda]]
| [[1989 Monaco Grand Prix|Report]]
|-
! {{F1|1990}}
| {{flagicon|BRA|1968}} [[Ayrton Senna]]
| [[McLaren]]-[[Honda in Formula One|Honda]]
| [[1990 Monaco Grand Prix|Report]]
|-
! {{F1|1991}}
| {{flagicon|BRA|1968}} [[Ayrton Senna]]
| [[McLaren]]-[[Honda in Formula One|Honda]]
| [[1991 Monaco Grand Prix|Report]]
|-
! {{F1|1992}}
| {{flagicon|BRA}} [[Ayrton Senna]]
| [[McLaren]]-[[Honda in Formula One|Honda]]
| [[1992 Monaco Grand Prix|Report]]
|-
! {{F1|1993}}
| {{flagicon|BRA}} [[Ayrton Senna]]
| [[McLaren]]-[[Ford Motor Company|Ford]]
| [[1993 Monaco Grand Prix|Report]]
|-
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|}
[[File:Ayrton Senna 1991 Monaco.jpg|thumb|Senna in 1991 at Monaco]]
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For the decade from 1984 to 1993, the race was won by only two drivers, arguably the two best drivers in Formula One at the time<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.sportskeeda.com/f1/top-5-rivalries-in-the-history-of-formula-1/5| title=Top 5 rivalries in the history of Formula 1| date=21 March 2018| access-date=5 November 2018| archive-date=6 November 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106053403/https://www.sportskeeda.com/f1/top-5-rivalries-in-the-history-of-formula-1/5| url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12433/11281043/f1s-greatest-rivalries-prost-senna-hamilton-rosberg-have-your-say |title=F1's greatest rivalries: Prost-Senna? Hamilton-Rosberg? Have your say |website=www.skysports.com |access-date=5 November 2018 |archive-date=10 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180310231159/https://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12433/11281043/f1s-greatest-rivalries-prost-senna-hamilton-rosberg-have-your-say |url-status=live }}</ref> – Frenchman [[Alain Prost]] and Brazilian [[Ayrton Senna]]. Prost, already a winner of the [[List of Monaco Grand Prix Formula Three support race winners|support race for Formula Three cars]] in 1979, took his first Monaco win at the [[1984 Monaco Grand Prix|1984 race]]. The race started 45&nbsp;minutes late after heavy rain. Prost led briefly before [[Nigel Mansell]] overtook him on lap 11. Mansell crashed out five laps later, letting Prost back into the lead. On lap&nbsp;27, Prost led from Ayrton Senna's [[Toleman]] and [[Stefan Bellof]]'s [[Tyrrell Racing|Tyrrell]]. Senna was catching Prost, and Bellof was catching both of them in the only naturally aspirated car in the race. However, on lap 31, the race was controversially stopped due to conditions deemed to be undriveable. Later, FISA fined the clerk of the course, [[Jacky Ickx]], $6,000 and suspended his licence for not consulting the stewards before stopping the race.<ref>The Chequered Flag p. 320, Lines 55–56 Weidenfeld & Nicolson {{ISBN|0-297-83550-5}}</ref> The drivers received only half of the points that would usually be awarded, as the race had been stopped before two-thirds of the intended race distance had been completed.<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Spurgeon|first1=Brad|title=When Ayrton Senna Became a Star|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/22/sports/autoracing/when-ayrton-senna-became-a-star.html?_r=0|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=4 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160804133825/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/22/sports/autoracing/when-ayrton-senna-became-a-star.html?_r=0 |archive-date=4 August 2016|date=21 May 2015}}</ref>

Prost won 1985 after polesitter Senna retired with a blown Renault engine in his Lotus after over-revving it at the start, and Michele Alboreto in the Ferrari retook the lead twice, but he went off the track at Sainte-Devote, where Brazilian Nelson Piquet and Italian Riccardo Patrese had a huge accident only a few laps previously and oil and debris littered the track. Prost passed Alboreto, who retook the Frenchman, and then he punctured a tyre after running over bodywork debris from the Piquet/Patrese accident, which dropped him to 4th. He was able to pass his Roman countrymen Andrea De Cesaris and [[Elio de Angelis]], but finished 2nd behind Prost. The French Prost dominated 1986 after starting from pole position, a race where the Nouvelle Chicane had been changed on the grounds of safety.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2010/05/14/changing-tracks-monte-carlo/|title=Changing tracks: Monte-Carlo|date=14 May 2010|website=F1 Fanatic|access-date=24 February 2017|archive-date=16 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170516233856/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2010/05/14/changing-tracks-monte-carlo/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Senna holds the record for the most victories in Monaco, with six, including five consecutive wins between [[1989 Monaco Grand Prix|1989]] and [[1993 Monaco Grand Prix|1993]], as well as eight podium finishes in ten starts. His [[1987 Monaco Grand Prix|1987]] win was the first time a car with an active suspension had won a Grand Prix. He won this race after Briton Nigel Mansell in a Williams-Honda went out with a broken exhaust. His win was very popular with the people of Monaco, and when he was arrested on the Monday following the race for riding a motorcycle without wearing a helmet, he was released by the officers after they realised who he was.<ref>Grand Prix 1987, p. 60. {{ISBN|0-908081-27-8}}</ref> Senna dominated [[1988 Monaco Grand Prix|1988]] and was able to get ahead of his teammate Prost while the Frenchman was held up for most of the race by Austrian [[Gerhard Berger]] in a Ferrari. By the time Prost got past Berger, he pushed as hard as he could and set a lap some 6 seconds faster than Senna's; Senna then set 2 fastest laps, and while pushing as hard as possible, he touched the barrier at the Portier corner and crashed into the Armco separating the road from the Mediterranean. Senna was so upset that he went back to his Monaco flat and was not heard from until the evening.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.formula1.com/news/features/2014/4/15769.html |title=Ron Dennis on Senna - Part one: the early years |publisher=formula1.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140623141122/http://www.formula1.com/news/features/2014/4/15769.html |archive-date=23 June 2014 |access-date=24 January 2016}}</ref> Prost went on to win for the fourth time.

Senna dominated 1989 while Prost was stuck behind backmarker René Arnoux and others; the Brazilian also dominated 1990 and 1991. At the [[1992 Monaco Grand Prix|1992 event]] Nigel Mansell, who had won all five races held to that point in the season, took pole and dominated the race in his [[Williams FW14]]B-[[Renault in Formula One|Renault]]. However, with seven laps remaining, Mansell suffered a loose wheel nut and was forced into the pits, emerging behind Senna's [[McLaren]]-Honda, who was on worn tyres. Mansell, on fresh tyres, set a lap record almost two seconds quicker than Senna's and closed from 5.2 to 1.9 seconds in only two laps. The pair duelled around Monaco for the final four laps but Mansell could find no way past, finishing just two-tenths of a second behind the Brazilian.<ref>{{cite web
 | title =Grand Prix results: Monaco GP, 1992
 | work =GrandPrix.com
 | url =http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/rr522.html
 | access-date =23 February 2007
 | archive-date =23 June 2011
 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20110623172313/http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/rr522.html
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 }}</ref><ref>Autocourse 1992 pp.150, 153</ref> It was Senna's fifth win at Monaco, equalling Graham Hill's record. Senna had a poor start to the [[1993 Monaco Grand Prix|1993 event]], crashing in practice and qualifying 3rd behind pole-sitter Prost and the rising German star [[Michael Schumacher]]. Both of them beat Senna to the first corner, but Prost had to serve a time penalty for jumping the start and Schumacher retired after suspension problems, so Senna took his sixth win to break Graham Hill's record for most wins at the Monaco Grand Prix. Runner-up [[Damon Hill]] commented, "If my father was around now, he would be the first to congratulate Ayrton."<ref>Allsop, Derek. ''Designs on Victory: On The Grand Prix Trail With Benetton''. Hutchinson, p. 109, Line 34–35 . {{ISBN|0-09-178311-9}}</ref>