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#3 - A Star is Born
A Monaco monsoon drowned the circuit back in 1984 in what has to be one of the wettest races in Grand Prix history. Alain Prost in his McLaren led away at the start with Nigel Mansell’s Lotus following closely behind. After seven laps, Mansell made a move for the lead and passed Prost. The Englishman held the first place until he lost the rear of his car just before the Casino.
Prost retook the lead with his teammate Niki Lauda in second but sensationally, a then-unknown Ayrton Senna was third in his Toleman. It took the Brazilian rookie only a few laps to pass double world champion, Lauda and he set about catching Prost for the lead.
Senna was catching Prost by over 3 seconds a lap at times and this rattled the Frenchman. He waved his hands in the air to stop the race and he got his wish, as the red flag was brought out a lap later. Prost pulled over by the start/finish line but did not cross it before Senna did.
Senna coasted around the circuit, waving his fist in the air in sheer ecstasy as if he had won but sadly when a race is red-flagged the positions from the previous lap are taken as the results. His time would come though.
