Formula One Features — December 1991

McLaren The team started the year with both Ayrton Senna and Gerhard Berger complaining that Honda's new V12 engine was not good enough. Senna promptly won the first four races of the year, but in the mid-season the team was unable to stem the tide of Williams-Renault.

Ron Dennis and McLaren International won both the drivers' and constructors' titles in 1991. It was the team's fourth consecutive double title. An impressive statistic. But Dennis is never satisfied.

Team Lotus has more relaunces in recent years than it has had Grand Prix victories, but the once-great team which looked like going to the wall a year ago is on the up again. In December 1990 Peter Collins and Peter Wright (both former Lotus men from the days of the late great Colin Chapman) announced to the world that they were going to run Team Lotus, with the help of German Horst Schubel. When Collins and Wright took over they found a demoralised team, with no engine, no sponsorship, no drivers and a design - the 103 - way behind schedule for the 1991 season.