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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Remember Senna’s most significant victories in the UK
Ayrton Senna has strong ties with England, where the next race of the 2015 F1 season is taking place.
Besides competing in the entry divisions...
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...
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...
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,...
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,"...
