In December of 1989, Human Entertainment released a game called "F1 Triple Battle" for the NEC PC Engine.
   At first, F1 Triple Battle looks like a Pole Position rip-off but it is more a racing simulator than an arcade game. The game includes all teams, cars and drivers of 1989 Formula One season but it uses fictional names to present them.

   The year of 1989 in F1 will always be remember for the beginning of an epic war between two of its greatest legends of all time: Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna.
Teammates at Mclaren F1, they started to exchange public accusations and complaints after Senna overtaking Prost at the restart of the San Marino Grand Prix, a move which Prost claimed violated a pre-race agreement.
   They would fight for the championship until the Japanese Grand Prix, in Suzuka's circuit, where Prost intentionally caused a crash with Senna's car when the Brazilian driver was going to overtake him in a chicane. The Frech driver was leading the championship and Senna's abandon would guarantee his third F1 World Driver Championship title.
   However, Senna managed to get a push-start from marshals and returned to race, pitted to replace the damaged nose of his car, and rejoined the race. After winning the race he was disqualified by the FIA at the insistence of Prost who ran into the race marshals' office.
    Senna was disqualified for cutting the chicane after the collision with Prost and for crossing into the pit lane entry which was not part of the track (Mclaren's team principal Ron Dennis would later publicly present video footage segments proofing that in similar situations during the season FIA's board had take no action).
    The controversial final decision was taken by, the French, FIA's president Jean-Marie Balestre. Senna's fury, short temper and bitter interviews would lead him to get a large fine and temporary suspension of his Super License followed in the winter of 1989. And it would also lead to his controversial revenge in 1990, but that's another story.

    F1 Triple Battle fails to recreate the atmosphere of such relevant background due to its very sparse presentation and, of course, for not being an official FIA licensed product.