1988 Australian Grand Prix

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1988 Australian Grand Prix
Race 16 of 16 in the 1988 Formula One World Championship ← Previous race Next race →
Race details
Date	13 November 1988
Official name	LIII Foster's Australian Grand Prix
Location	Adelaide Street Circuit Adelaide, South Australia
Course	Temporary street circuit
Course length	3.780 km (2.362 miles)
Distance	82 laps, 309.960 km (193.684 miles)
Weather	Cloudy and hot
Pole position
Driver	Ayrton Senna	McLaren-Honda
Time	1:17.748
Fastest lap
Driver	Alain Prost	McLaren-Honda
Time	1:21.216 on lap 59
Podium
First	Alain Prost	McLaren-Honda
Second	Ayrton Senna	McLaren-Honda
Third	Nelson Piquet	Lotus-Honda
Lap leaders

The 1988 Australian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at the Adelaide Street Circuit on 13 November 1988. It was the sixteenth and final race of the 1988 Formula One World Championship, and the last race for which turbocharged engines would be eligible until the 2014 Australian Grand Prix.

The 82-lap race was won by Frenchman Alain Prost, driving a McLaren-Honda. It was Prost's seventh victory of the season, and the McLaren team's fifteenth, a record for a constructor in a single season that would stand until 2014. Prost's Brazilian teammate and new World Champion Ayrton Senna finished second, having started from pole position, while Senna's compatriot and outgoing champion Nelson Piquet came third in a Lotus-Honda, achieving what would turn out to be the final podium finish for the original Team Lotus.