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Originally Posted by Speedbird996
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There is a plaque which covers the chassis number on this one.
It is chassis number 4, which Senna didnt actually race. (Wouldnt know if he did testing in it though, but he never took part in an official race weekend session in it eg practice, qualifying or race)
It won Monaco, Mexico and France with Prost.
The only 2 examples that are in running order is Chassis 6, which is another ex Prost car, stickered in Senna livery, and ran at Goodwood with Bruno Senna before it broke. A friend too a photo of this at Goodwood in 2010, but it had the chassis number taped over. Maybe to throw off the train spotters??
The other, which is a legitimate Senna raced in and winning car is Chassis number 1. Which was restored to running condition just the last year or so! I think this is the one that used to be in the national motor museum in the UK in a Prost livery funnily enough. Now it wears Senna stickers.
Chassis 2 is in private collectors hands, and Chassis 5 is owned by Honda and is in their museum in Japan.
Chassis 3 is in the Donnington Collection, it is the only MP4-4 to have not won a race, but Senna did use it during the race at Rio in 1988.
Also there is a show car hanging from the wall of the Marconi museum somewhere, carrying the number 1 on the nose cone. Never raced, never tested, never run. Purely a show car.
No MP4-4 currently floating around carries a Prost sticker job anymore. - Great for the marketing department!
Happy to be corrected on any of the above from McLaren etc if in correct.