Gerhard Berger is an Austrian former Formula One racing driver. He competed in Formula One for 14 seasons, twice finishing 3rd overall in the championship, both times driving for Ferrari. He won ten Grands Prix, achieved 48 podiums, 12 poles and 21 fastest laps.
Berger at the 1991 United States Grand Prix
Berger during practice for the 1985 European Grand Prix
Berger driving for Benetton at the 1986 Detroit Grand Prix
Berger driving for Ferrari at the 1988 Canadian Grand Prix
1988 Formula One World Championship
The 1988 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 42nd season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It featured the 1988 Formula One World Championship for Drivers and the 1988 Formula One World Championship for Constructors, which were contested concurrently over a sixteen-race series that commenced on 3 April and ended on 13 November. The World Championship for Drivers was won by Ayrton Senna, and the World Championship for Constructors by McLaren-Honda. Senna and McLaren teammate Alain Prost won fifteen of the sixteen races between them; the only race neither driver won was the Italian Grand Prix, where Ferrari's Gerhard Berger took an emotional victory four weeks after the death of team founder Enzo Ferrari. McLaren's win tally has only been bettered or equalled in seasons with more than sixteen races; their Constructors' Championship tally of 199 points, more than three times that of any other constructor, was also a record until 2002.
Ayrton Senna won the first of his three Drivers' Championships in 1988, in his first year with McLaren
One of three new teams on the grid, EuroBrun entered F1 with driver Oscar Larrauri.
1987 World Champion Nelson Piquet moved to Lotus (pictured here with his championship rival Nigel Mansell).
Ayrton Senna won eight races in his McLaren-Honda en route to first Drivers' Championship.