High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1988 Brazilian Grand Prix was a Formula One race held on April 3, 1988 at the Autodromo Internacional Nelson Piquet, Rio de Janeiro. It was the first race of the 1988 Formula One season. Winter testing had indicated Ferrari would be maintaining the edge that they had gained at the end of the 1987 season, with McLaren and Williams also producing cars that looked like potential race winners. During the qualifying session there was controversy when Nelson Piquet made comments in the local media publicly insulting Ayrton Senna, Nigel Mansell, their wives and families. Mansell produced a sensational performance to qualify 2nd, just five months after his crash at the 1987 Japanese Grand Prix. The pole was Senna in his first drive for the McLaren team; the second row was occupied by Gerhard Berger's Ferrari and Piquet's Lotus. On the parade lap, Senna's gear selector mechanism broke and he had to complete the lap jammed in first gear. The first start was aborted and Senna started from the spare car in the pits. At the second start, Alain Prost led from the first lap, with Mansell in 2nd place.

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