The Man Senna Could Never Beat
It was August 1980, in Jesolo, Italy. Ayrton Senna, aged 20, lay in a deck chair by the hotel pool—steely-eyed, angry. He had been...
Memories of a close friend : Alfredo Popesco
In 1974 he won the São Paulo junior championship and in 1975 was runner-up in the nationals. He'd met Alfredo Popesco through Popesco's younger...
Suzuka Circuit 1990
Before the pair started talking a video clip was played. The film showed Senna’s white-and-red McLaren ploughing into the rear of Alain Prost’s scarlet Ferrari at the...
22 years on: Remembering Ayrton Senna
Turn the key to suite 200 at Hotel Castello, Ayrton Senna’s bolthole amid the pastoral peace of Emilia-Romagna, and one finds the décor has...
Ayrton and Michael, a rivalry
Mika Häkkinen had raced Ayrton Senna; had hoped for the best while fearing the worst next to Michael on the Imola 1994 podium. And,...
F1 Engineering: Steve Nichols
Born and raised in Utah, USA, Nichols was 13 years old when he made his racing debut, behind the wheel of a kart his...
Keith Sutton recalls a friendship with Ayrton Senna
Keith Sutton remembers the beginning of his career simply. "I was a young lad from Cheadle with a passion for motor sport and photography,"...
Emerson Fittipaldi on Ayrton Senna
It feels like it was only yesterday that I heard the news, at Michigan International Speedway, where I had just begun a flat-out full-tanks...
Opening lap of the Grand Prix of Europe
There have been some opportunist moves in Formula One over the years – Jacky Ickx passing Niki Lauda round the outside at Paddock Bend...
Review: Hockenheimring 1992
Mansell equals Senna's eight-in-a-season victory record
Ayrton Senna didn't win in Germany. Not on the track, anyway. But as far as underlining his brilliance when he...
