GP Boy

Author: Kunihiko Akai, Hirohisa Onikubo

Run: 1990

Chapters: 17

Genres: Sports

A motorsport manga born of a sponsorship tie-up between Weekly Shonen Jump and the McLaren Formula 1 team: it follows a young Japanese driver picked up by a McLaren-affiliated Formula 3 outfit as he fights his way up the ladder toward F1. Real racing figures of the era, including then-McLaren ace Ayrton Senna, appear in the story.