page_title: McLaren MP4/4
section_title: Chassis log history
hierarchical_section_title: McLaren MP4/4 / Chassis log history
caption_attribution_description: English: Bruno Senna demonstrates a 1988 McLaren-Honda MP4/4 at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.
context_page_description: The McLaren MP4/4, also known as the McLaren-Honda MP4/4, is one of the most successful Formula One car designs of all time. Driven by teammates Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna, the car competed during the 1988 Formula One season. It was designed by American engineer Steve Nichols, the full responsibility for the design of the car having been conferred on him by Ron Dennis. Gordon Murray, as Technical Director, subsequently confirmed this in an internal memo allocating responsibilities for the design department, nominating Nichols as chief designer for the car, and giving himself the role of liaising between the drawing office and production.
  The car was powered by Honda's RA168E 1.5 litre V6 turbo engine. With Murray deciding that the base design of the MP4/4 would be inspired by his 1986 low-line Brabham BT55, Nichols, designing around the parameters Murray had set for the car then took elements of the MP4/3 from 1987 using the same design principles, but with more time, different components, and different rules the car was a significant development.
context_section_description: For the 1988 season, six MP4/4 cars were moulded from carbon fibre with assistance from Hercules Aerospace. The chassis numbers, 1 through 6, were used throughout the year.
  All six MP4/4 chassis still exist: Chassis #1, 3, 4, & 6 are owned by the McLaren Group, with #1 on display at the McLaren Technology Centre and was driven at Goodwood in 2013 by Sergio Perez. Chassis #3 was previously on loan and displayed at the Donington Grand Prix Exhibition, but was relocated and displayed at McLaren Osaka Hakko. It was relocated again to Museo y Circuito Fernando Alonso in Asturias, Spain by 2016. McLaren Auckland previously had chassis #4 on display for a number of years, but returned to the factory in Woking. Another, chassis #6, was on display at the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu (UK) under Prost livery. Chassis #6 was driven by Bruno Senna at Goodwood in 2009 under the Senna livery. Chassis #2 is owned by a private collector in Chicago, Illinois and has been on display at McLaren of Chicago after being driven by Bruno Senna at Interlagos in 2019. Chassis #5 is owned by Honda and sometimes on display at the Honda Collection Hall at Motegi and ran at Goodwood in 2014 under Marlboro livery by Takuya Izawa. Additionally, Honda own a showcar, chassis MP4/4/SSC/10 (SSC for static show car), that is occasionally put on display including the 2015 Tokyo Auto Salon and Honda Collection Hall.
  Wins/1st Place (by chassis & driver):
  
  1: San Marino and Canada by Senna.
  
  2: Brazil by Prost. USA and Japan by Senna.
  
  3: Only MP4/4 not to win a GP (used in Italian GP).
  
  4: Monaco, Mexico, & France by Prost.
  
  5: Great Britain, Germany, Hungary, Belgium by Senna.
  
  6: Portugal, Spain, & Australia by Prost.
caption: Bruno Senna demonstrating an MP4/4 at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, 2009.
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