For the 1993 season, Michael signed for Marlboro McLaren, to partner with the triple World Drivers' Champion Ayrton Senna in their "Ford HBD" V8-powered &lt;a href="McLaren%20MP4/8"&gt;MP4/8&lt;/a&gt;. He signed during the summer of 1992 and the deal was announced at Monza over the weekend of the 1992 Italian Grand Prix.