Watch: Ferrari’s Gerhard Berger defending P1 from Alain Prost at the start | 1987 Japanese GP. Gerhard Berger won driving a Ferrari F1/87.

Watch the start of the 1987 Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix, with Scuderia Ferrari driver Gerhard Berger imposing his authority by building a cushion from the McLaren-TAG of Alain Prost.

The race was won by Austrian driver Gerhard Berger driving a Ferrari F1/87. It was the end of a 38-race losing streak for Formula One’s most famous team and Berger’s second Grand Prix victory having won the Mexican Grand Prix the previous year. Berger won by 17 seconds over Brazilian driver Ayrton Senna driving a Lotus 99T. Third was the McLaren MP4/3 of Swedish driver Stefan Johansson.

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