30 Days of BTG: Day 23 – Inside Senna and Prost’s McLaren rivalry, with Neil Oatley

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🗓️ 20 February 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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On Day 23 of our pre-season countdown, World Champion designer Neil Oatley shares what it was like to have a front row seat for the fierce rivalry between Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost at McLaren in the late 1980’s.

For Neil’s full chat with Tom in 2023, listen here.

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0:24.7	until 29th of February. Hello everyone it's Tom here. For day 23 of our preseason countdown I've picked
0:41.6	one of the most influential engineers to Grace Formula One,
0:45.8	Neil Oatley. A race engineer at Williams in the late 1970s,
0:50.8	Neil played a huge role in the team's first Grand Prix victory and subsequent
0:55.8	World Championships. Legendary status was then confirmed during his spellers
1:00.8	MacLaren's chief designer Ayrton Senna, Al-Amrost and Mickahackenon all won
1:06.2	titles in Cars Design by Oatley from 1989 to 1999.
1:11.9	When we caught up in 2023, Neil told me what it was like to have a front row seat for
1:17.3	Proston's fierce rivalry as teammates.
1:28.9	I'd work with Allen the previous year on the MP43 and literally the first time I ever met Alan was actually for the Brazilian Grand Prix that year.
1:31.3	The flight was delayed going out there,
1:33.2	so we didn't arrive until Thursday night.
1:35.4	So the first time I met him was actually.
1:38.6	Almost before P1.
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