On paper, the 1987 Australian GP was a dominant lights-to-flag win for Gerhard Berger, but for the Ferrari driver the race was anything but a cool Sunday drive in Adelaïde. The season closing event down under marked Berger's third career win in F1 and his second in succession for the Scuderia which the Austrian had joined at the start of the year from Benetton. Berger and McLaren's Ayrton Senna had yet to become close friends, but in Adelaïde that year, the pair were inseparable in the closing stages of a race that Berger regards as his best ever in F1 and as his toughest battle with the great Brazilian. “My feeling is my best race I ever did was in the late 1987, fighting with...
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