1988 Hungarian Grand Prix

1988 Hungarian Grand Prix
Race 10 of 16 in the 1988 Formula One World Championship
Race details
Date 7 August 1988
Official name Pop 84 Magyar Nagydíj[1]
Location Hungaroring, Mogyoród, Pest, Hungary[2]
Course Permanent racing facility
Course length 4.014 km (2.494 miles)
Distance 76 laps, 305.064 km (189.558 miles)
Weather Sunny and hot
Pole position
Driver McLaren-Honda
Time 1:27.635
Fastest lap
Driver France Alain Prost McLaren-Honda
Time 1:30.639 on lap 51
Podium
First McLaren-Honda
Second McLaren-Honda
Third Benetton-Ford
Lap leaders

The 1988 Hungarian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 7 August 1988 at the Hungaroring, Mogyoród, Pest, Hungary. It was the tenth race of the 1988 Formula One World Championship.

The 76-lap race was won from pole position by Brazilian driver Ayrton Senna, driving a McLaren-Honda, with French teammate Alain Prost second and Belgian Thierry Boutsen third in a Benetton-Ford. The win, Senna's sixth of the season, moved him level on points with Prost at the top of the Drivers' Championship.

  1. ^ "Motor Racing Programme Covers: 1988". The Programme Covers Project. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
  2. ^ "1988 Hungarian Grand Prix". Motor Sport. Retrieved 8 June 2022.