Race Start

Pole sitter Ayrton Senna converts his first front row start and leads Lotus team-mate Elio de Angelis and Alain Prost’s McLaren through Turn 1. Further back Keke Rosberg stalls his Williams Honda and gets a push start. He then compounds matters by spinning.

Lap 5

Riccardo Patrese and Stefan Johansson, in his first race for Ferrari, tangle and spin off the circuit.

Lap 18

Keke Rosberg crashes out after a torrid race.

Lap 28

Mauro Baldi spins his Spirit Hart out of the race and marshalls have to remove his stricken car from the middle of the track.

Lap 31

Chasing down Elio de Angelis, Alain Prost spins out of 3rd place on the start/finish straight and into retirement.

Lap 43

Suffering with a slow puncture, Elio de Angelis is overtaken by Michele Alboreto’s Ferrari into turn 1 and, a few corners later, runs off the circuit but rejoins.

Lap 67

Murray Walker: "And you can see that this usually totally unflappable, imperturbable Brazilian is, for once, absolutely beside himself... with joy!"

After 2 hours, Ayrton Senna claims his maiden Grand Prix victory and Lotus’ first win since the 1982 Austrian Grand Prix. Nigel Mansell goes off the track to avoid hitting race winner Senna, who undoes his seatbelts and celebrates his victory with both hands off the wheel.