The following speech was given by former Grand Prix driver and Indianapolis 500 winner Eddie Cheever from the United States of America for inducting Ayrton Senna into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame.
” It is a previledge to be...
November 1990 and Ayrton Senna has won his second world championship in controversial fashion having punted Alain Prost off the road at high speed in Suzuka at the penultimate race. Payback for 1989 some may say but the world...
Maurice Hamilton, 68, is a British sportswriter and commentator who has covered Formula One since 1977. He was The Observer’s racing correspondent from 1990 to 2010 and worked as a BBC Radio commentator from 1989 to 2010. He contributes...
Viviane Senna has ensured that her brother´s name lives on, not just as a sporting champion but also as someone who cared about ending the social inequality which blights Brazil. In November 1994 the Ayrton Senna Foundation was founded...
One of the first stories written on Calibre 11 back in 2009 was an overview of the Senna TAG Heuer Limited Editions, a post that is still popular, no doubt thanks to the renewed interest in Senna’s life and...
The day a young Brazilian grabbed Formula 1′s attention
The 1984 Monaco Grand Prix, held in pouring rain, was when even the sleepiest followers of the sport woke up to just what a talent they had in their midst. Senna, starting...
For highly respected Formula One photographer Keith Sutton there have been many memorable moments in a career spanning over thirty years. In fact their have been very few momentous motorsport moments that Keith hasn’t seen in that time but...
Join us at a soaking wet Estoril, Portugal, where a young Brazilian named Ayrton Senna takes the pole and leads from start to finish in his John Player Team Lotus 97T-Renault. Peter Windsor describes the build-up to the race...
In March 1994, the Interlagos circuit in Sao Paulo, Brazil witnessed the hotly-anticipated first race of 1994.
It promised to be the beginning of a new era following the banning of active suspension, traction control and other driver aids.
But despite...