Formula 1

About the season

Alain Prost clinched his fourth and final title at the Portuguese Grand Prix, then immediately announced his retirement from F1 the same weekend. Senna, racing without Honda power for the first time in six years, delivered one of the drives of his career in the rain at Donington Park: passing four rivals on the opening lap and winning with just five pit stops to Prost's seven. It was the last season of F1's "active era" before the FIA banned electronic driver aids for 1994 - Williams's active suspension and traction control reached their technical peak here. Senna signed with Williams for the following year, finally joining the team that had so often beaten him. Alain Prost won the 1993 Drivers' Championship with 99 points (Williams), 26 points ahead of the runner-up. Williams won the Constructors' Championship with 168 points, 84 points ahead of the runner-up. Across 16 completed races this season, there were 211 retirements. 4 different drivers won a race this season. Alain Prost took the most race wins, 7 in total. Prost won the season-opening race, the South African Grand Prix. The South African Grand Prix saw the most retirements of the season, with 21 drivers failing to finish. The most dominant win of the season came at the European Grand Prix, with a margin of 83.2 seconds. Barbazza made the biggest gain of the season at the San Marino Grand Prix, from grid position 25 to finishing 6 (up 19 places). The closest finish of the season came at the French Grand Prix, with a gap of just 0.342 seconds. The season's biggest upset win came from Schumacher at the Portuguese Grand Prix, starting from grid position 6. Senna won the Australian Grand Prix, the final race of the season.