French Grand Prix

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Date & Time
Sun 3rd July 1988 12:00am Local
Sun 3rd July 1988 12:00am UTC

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League
Formula 1

Season
1988

Round
Round 7

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Location

Circuit Paul Ricard

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The 1988 French Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 3 July 1988 at the Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet. It was the seventh race of the 1988 Formula One World Championship.
The 80-lap race was won by local driver Alain Prost, driving a McLaren-Honda, after he started from pole position. Prost's Brazilian teammate Ayrton Senna finished second, with Italian Michele Alboreto third in a Ferrari.
The fastest lap of the race, a 1:11.737 set by Prost on lap 45, was over two seconds slower than the 1:09.548 set by Piquet in a Honda-powered Williams the previous year – a consequence of the restrictions imposed on turbocharged engines this season with the major difference being the speeds attained on the now 1 km long Mistral Straight. In 1987 the fastest turbo cars (Honda powered) were timed at 325 km/h (202 mph) on the straight. In 1988 the top speed was recorded at 311 km/h (193 mph).

For Prost it was his third win in his home Grand Prix after winning in both 1981 at Dijon (his first Grand Prix victory) and 1983 at the full length Paul Ricard. On both occasions he had been driving for the factory Renault team.

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Result List

01	Alain Prost	McLaren Formula 1 Team	1:37:37.328
02	Ayrton Senna	McLaren Formula 1 Team	+0:31.752
03	Michele Alboreto	Scuderia Ferrari HP	+1:06.505
04	Gerhard Berger	Scuderia Ferrari HP	+1 Lap
05	Nelson Piquet	Lotus F1	+1 Lap
06	Alessandro Nannini	Benetton Formula	+1 Lap
07	Satoru Nakajima	Lotus F1	+1 Lap
08	Maurício Gugelmin	March Engineering	+1 Lap
09	Ivan Capelli	March Engineering	+1 Lap
10	Andrea De Cesaris	Rial Racing	+2 Laps
11	Eddie Cheever	Arrows Grand Prix International	+2 Laps
12	Alex Caffi	Dallara	+2 Laps
15	Pierluigi Martini	Minardi	+3 Laps
16	Sergio Perez	Minardi	DNF
18	Nicola Larini	Osella	DNF
19	Bernd Schneider	Zakspeed	DNF
20	Nigel Mansell	Williams Racing	DNF
22	Jonathan Palmer	Tyrrell Racing	DNF
23	Riccardo Patrese	Williams Racing	DNF
24	Thierry Boutsen	Benetton Formula	DNF
25	Philippe Streiff	AGS	DNF
26	Derek Warwick	Arrows Grand Prix International	DNF
27	René Arnoux	Ligier	Did not qualify
28	Julian Bailey	Tyrrell Racing	Did not qualify
29	Stefan Johansson	Ligier	Did not qualify
31	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Zakspeed	DNF