The trick car that ended McLaren's 90s win drought
Back in the late 1990s, struggling McLaren was looking for new inspiration with this harbinger of new Formula 1 hope, says DAMIEN SMITH
The dry patch lasted three full seasons and 49 races. At the time, it seemed inconceivable that McLaren - the superpower with which first Niki Lauda, then emphatically Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna, bestrode Formula 1 - should have fallen so low.
Today, after a win drought that is now well over double the length and shows absolutely no sign of being quenched, the mid-1990s seem just a blip. Perspectives have changed.
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