Honda for Tyrrell
For the 1991 F1 season, Honda developed a brand new V12 engine, the RA121E, with which Ayrton Senna (McLaren) ultimately won his third world championship, after a season long battle with the fast (but not yet perfectly reliable) Williams-Renault’s of Mansell and Patrese.
The Braun Tyrrell Honda team and its drivers, Honda protégé Japanese Satoru Nakajima and Italian Stefano Modena (picture above) were supplied with the older, but still potent Honda RA101E V10 engine.
Satoru Nakajima started the season well, with a fifth place finish and two championship points in the season opener at Phoenix, but did not score any other point during the remaining races.
As expected, Stefano Modena was better, with a fourth place in the same US Grand Prix and then with a sensational second place at the Canadian Grand Prix in Montréal (picture below).
McLaren-Honda won the Constructors’ Championship ahead of Williams-Renault and Ferrari. While Tyrrell-Honda had to be satisfied with sixth place in the standings.