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Phillip van Osten 26/08/2025 at 12:3026/08/2025 at 11:09 Had Niki Lauda been given the good fortune to read the next day's newspaper on this day in 1984, he would have learned that McLaren had scored a 1-2 at the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort. After a poor start from sixth on the grid, the great Austrian charged through the top-10 to settle in second place, but teammate and poleman Alain Prost proved an unsurmountable hurdle in the Dutch dunes. But Lauda's runner-up spot contributed nicely to his points tally in the championship, the McLaren driver conquering at the end of the year his third and final world title, with a minute advantage of just half a point over Prost.
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