Prost wins championship
NZPA-Reuter Suzuka Frenchman Alain Prost won the world drivers’ championship for the third time in sensational circumstances yesterday when his McLaren teammate and great rival, the defending champion, Ayrton Senna, was disqualified after finishing first in the Japanese Grand Prix. Prost, who crashed out of the race after a controversial collision with Senna on the fortyseventh lap of the 53-lap race, claimed the title through Senna’s disqualification. When the race ended it appeared Senna had been declared the winner as he celebrated after taking the chequered flag. But a stewards inquiry immediately after the race was followed by celebrations in the Benetton pits when Italian Alessandro Nannini, who followed Senna home, was declared the winner. The win was Nannini’s first in Formula One and the first for the Benetton team this season. The race was dominated by the duel between the McLaren pair, however, and at the end of the afternoon it was ironic that neither of the feuding team mates who have not spoken directly to each other for six months appeared on the rostrum on the day the championship was settled.
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