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the 1988 car library.

Every car from the 1988 Formula 1 World Championship — the last year of the first turbo era, when McLaren-Honda's MP4/4 won 15 of 16 races. Full spec sheets, the designers behind each chassis, key innovations and how their seasons unfolded.

P1

MP4/4

McLaren

Honda RA168E · Woking, Surrey, England, UK

P2

F1/87/88C

Ferrari

Ferrari Tipo 033A · Maranello, Italy — with John Barnard's GTO design office in Guildford, Surrey, England

P3

B188

Benetton

Ford-Cosworth DFR · Witney, Oxfordshire, England, UK

P4

A10B

Arrows

Megatron M12/13 · Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

P5

100T

Lotus

Honda RA168E · Ketteringham Hall / Hethel, Norfolk, England, UK

P6

881

March

Judd CV · Bicester, Oxfordshire, England, UK

P7

FW12

Williams

Judd CV · Didcot, Oxfordshire, England, UK

P8

017

Tyrrell

Ford-Cosworth DFZ · Ockham, Surrey, England, UK

P9

ARC1

Rial

Ford-Cosworth DFZ · Fußgönheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

P10

M188

Minardi

Ford-Cosworth DFZ · Faenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

P11

LC88

Lola

Ford-Cosworth DFZ · Antony, near Paris, France (team) / Lola Cars, Huntingdon, England (constructor)

P15

FC188

Coloni

Ford-Cosworth DFZ · Passignano sul Trasimeno, Umbria, Italy [4][6]

NC

JH23

AGS

Ford Cosworth DFZ · Gonfaron, Var, Provence, France

NC

F188

Dallara

Ford-Cosworth DFZ · Dallara, Varano de' Melegari (Parma), Italy; team operated by BMS Scuderia Italia from Brescia, Lombardy, Italy

NC

ER188

EuroBrun

Ford-Cosworth DFZ · Senago, near Milan, Italy

NC

JS31

Ligier

Judd CV · Magny-Cours, Nièvre, France

NC

FA1L

Osella

Osella 890T · Volpiano, Turin, Italy

NC

881

Zakspeed

Zakspeed 1500/4 · Niederzissen, Germany