Monaco is known as being a nigh-on impossible place for anyone to overtake. La McLaren maintient le cap et franchit la ligne d'arrivée en tête, pour une cinquième victoire consécutive.Malgré la défense rude de Senna, Mansell est beau joueur : Senna quant à lui était heureux d'être parvenu à maintenir "Il Leone" (surnom acquis lors de son passage chez Ferrari) derrière lui lors de ces trois tours intenses. The 1992 Monaco Grand Prix (formally the 50ème Grand Prix de Monaco ) was a Formula One motor race held on 31 May 1992 at the Circuit de Monaco. Soupçonnant une crevaison, il décide alors de passer par les stands : après une brève vérification, rien ne semble poser problème, même si un boulon mal serré sera envisagé par la suite. In the end, as the Williams duo played it cautiously, Senna braked so late he nearly ran into the back of Mansell.“I went for it at the last moment going into the first corner so as not to give Riccardo any clue, because otherwise he would have closed the door, of course,” he said later.“I got into second place that way. It was the sixth race of the 1992 Formula One World Championship.
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The tyres in those days would do their best laps around the fifth or sixth laps. Un balai de défense acharnée et de recherche du moindre interstice pour s'infiltrer se met en place. Ses pneus finalement changés, le revoilà en piste. Senna le sait, sa seule chance de victoire est de prendre l'avantage sur Patrese puis de rester suffisamment proche de Mansell pour profiter du moindre problème.
Le futur Champion du monde 1992 ressent soudainement une sensation étrange dans le tunnel puis commet une faute à la chicane. Seldom has any driver dominated to such an extent, to what Mansell did in 1992.
It was enough to get through stage one, and the first hurdle was overcome. Mais Senna, qui accusait alors un retard d'une trentaine de secondes, passe devant.Mansell est deux secondes au tour plus rapide que le nouveau leader – le premier pilote hors Williams à mener au moins un tour cette saison-là – et revient dans ses échappements à l'abord des trois dernières boucles. In the previous eight years, the race at Monaco had been won by either Ayrton Senna or Alain Prost.
À gauche, à droite, Mansell tente mais Senna répond. The conditions for the race were overcast, but warm and dry.The formation lap started at 15:30 local time.
Le 31 mai 1992, Ayrton Senna (McLaren) remporte un inattendu succès au GP de Monaco F1 en résistant à Nigel Mansell (Williams) dans les derniers tours. I knew the tunnel was taken flat out on my first lap but as I came back into daylight at 170mph, I was being bounced around so badly, I had double vision and I vividly remember speeding toward the tyre barrier wondering if I should turn left or right. Il décide alors de passer par les stands : après une brève vérification, rien ne semble poser problème. Coming into the pits, every team was out in the pits clapping at me, and that will stay in my memory forever. He was very fair and he is entitled to do what he did.”For Senna, there was some surprise too about having managed to pull off those nerve-wracking final three laps and overcome ‘Il Leone’, as Mansell had been nicknamed during his Ferrari years.“When I took the lead my tyres were very worn-out, and I expected Nigel, who had new tyres, to catch up to me very quickly,” he was quoted as saying by the official Senna website.“I didn’t know how I would keep the lead. Stress ? For us, after the fourth lap, the engine would overheat, because we didn't have cooling big enough! Martini also experienced his second crash of the weekend within the opening lap by running into the barrier on the exit of Moreno had moved up to nineteenth place thanks to the six earlier retirements but was forced to retire on lap 11 in the pits due to engine problems with the On lap 60 Alboreto made a mistake and spun in front of Senna's Mansell expressed his "disappointment" at not winning the race, but still described the result as the most important second place in his life and complimented Senna for his fair defensive driving: In the previous eight years, the race at Monaco had been won by either Ayrton Senna or Alain Prost. Things were not helped by the Englishman stopping slightly crooked in the box because he was stopping with only three wheels working, nor by a subsequent delay changing the right rear.Senna took the lead and Mansell’s charge began with seven laps to go. The car's brakes weren't working because I was only on three wheels. Andrea Chiesa sur Fondmetal lors des essais du GP de Monaco 1992. I'm surprised I wasn't hurt. Anyway I was called back to the pits and that was my run for the day.