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Chances are you haven’t heard of Rick Morris. A career Formula Ford racer, Morris might not be a household name. But back in the early 1980s, Morris was the thorn in Ayrton Senna's side. The year was 1981. Senna, having relocated to the UK from...

Suddenly, a radiant glow lights up Senna’s face. His words take on the same lucid calm that he has when he talks about his God or his almost mystic belief in “perfect equilibrium” as he says: “To drive at the top speed possible, to find...

Racing in the rain is scary beyond belief. To drivers at the top of motor sport, a wet track has always offered the supreme test. That is why there is a special category of men informally known as “rainmasters” – from Rudolf Caracciola in...

I don’t remember the day men landed on the moon, but I remember the day when I watched Ayrton Senna’s crash on television. I first met Ayrton in 1979, when I was working in Formula 3, and our Brazilian driver Chico Serra – who...

Ayrton Senna, perhaps the greatest Grand Prix driver of all time, died 22 years ago after crashing in the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix. For six of his glorious 10 years in Formula 1, the Brazilian was winning races and championships for the Woking-based McLaren...

So that’s lunch-time and most of the afternoon ruined then. Earlier, just as I started unwrapping my sandwiches, Autocar’s editor-in-chief Steve Cropley – knowing my fondness for motor racing – deposited a Formula 1 themed book onto my desk. The book is entitled ‘Ayrton Senna:...

Ayrton Senna’s win (his 41st) was the 104th for McLaren, a result that enabled McLaren to overtake Ferrari as the most successful team in 43 years of World Championship racing. Alain Prost was second in his 199th and final GP, then retired with a...

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 beaten the day before in one of the world’s most prestigious karting events, a race he had dominated until the...

Keith Sutton remembers the beginning of his career simply. "I was a young lad from Cheadle with a passion for motor sport and photography," he says. At the time, in 1981, he was only a year older than Ayrton Senna, who was just starting...

Ayrton Senna did things with a racing car that I've seen no other driver do, before or since, and there was an obscene level of horsepower in those days. There is one memory, one snapshot, that is seared on my memory for life, even though...