Fueled by his desire to stand out from the crowd of plain white helmets, Ayrton Senna experimented with a number of helmet designs before settling on the bright yellow one with the green and blue tripes that became his...
Products branded with Senna’s name and likeness can be found in a lot of places in Brazil, and as is fitting with his life of charitable giving, they still fund educational programs for Brazilian kids. Senna’s name is still...
Manish Pandey on the deep faith of Ayrton Senna, the daredevil racing driver who died 21 years ago.
I knew him, as most people who follow Formula One did, mainly from the television. Murray Walker and James Hunt were my...
The Brazilian legend, and arguably the greatest Formula One driver in history, lost his life at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix when, on lap seven, his Williams car smashed into a concrete wall on the Imola track.
His team...
While Brazil cheered Emerson Fittipaldi’s wins in F-1 (in 1972, he became the country’s first world champion), a kid from São Paulo walked anonymously around the go-kart track of Interlagos. Ayrton Senna started his career in go-karts with a...
Former Ferrari Formula 1 test driver Luciano Burti says he only survived his 111G accident in the 2001 Belgian Grand Prix thanks to safety improvements triggered by the death of Ayrton Senna.
Burti crashed his Prost head on into the...
All in all, it was an emotional finale to the 1993 Grand Prix season, as the teams settled down in Adelaide. Alain Prost was preparing for retirement after 199 GP outings, 51 victories, 33 pole positions (the same as...
It was atrocious weather in Monaco, enough to stun F1 viewers, racers, and Murray Walker and James Hunt who were commentating that Sunday. The clouds hung low, the yachts were silent, and the prestigious street circuit of Monaco was...
It was Monday 24th May 1993, the day after Ayrton’s record breaking 6th win at the most glamorous of all races!
And it had been a particularly difficult win in Monaco as, on Thursday free practice, he had crashed and...
This morning, Brazilian TV Globo will show the last episode of its excellent 4-part documentary to commemorate 20 years without Ayrton Senna. It is centred on that dreadful Imola weekend and the few days that followed. I went to...
