The only occasion on which Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna, and Michael Schumacher shared a Formula One podium together.
Key Facts
- Race distance
- 65 laps
- Winner
- Alain Prost (Williams-Renault)
- Second place
- Ayrton Senna (McLaren-Ford)
- Third place
- Michael Schumacher (Benetton-Ford)
- Championship round
- 5th race of 1993 season
- Circuit
- Circuit de Catalunya
Location
Cause → Event → Consequence
The 1993 Formula One World Championship brought together three of the sport's greatest drivers — Prost in a dominant Williams-Renault, Senna in a McLaren-Ford, and a rising Schumacher in a Benetton-Ford — setting the stage for a rare convergence at the fifth round in Spain.
Prost started from pole and led after lap 11, surviving a handling issue and the retirement of early leader Damon Hill on lap 41. Senna and Schumacher both pitted late; Schumacher's charge was ended when he went off-track avoiding the smoking Lotus of Alessandro Zanardi, allowing Prost to win ahead of Senna and Schumacher.
Prost's victory reinforced his 1993 championship lead, while the result produced the only podium in which Prost, Senna, and Schumacher appeared together — a moment that has since been widely noted as a unique alignment of three world champions across different generations of Formula One.