Legendary cars: The McLaren Honda MP4/4
This is Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost’s car, the one that dominated all but one race of the 1988 F1 season. The one with the 900hp (in qualifying trim) turbocharged 1.5L Honda V6. It...
Infamous cars – where are they now ? Ayrton Senna’s Williams
As far as public memory goes, Ayrton Senna's Williams-Renault F1 car is perhaps the most infamous car of all time.
At the third race of the 1994 F1 season, at the San Marino Grand Prix...
Memories: Senna’s first win for McLaren
Ayrton Senna scored his first win for McLaren in the 1988 San Marino Grand Prix.
He led a crushing one-two for the team. He and team mate Alain Prost were the only drivers to complete...
1985 San Marino Grand Prix
As soon as the Portuguese Grand Prix was over, all the cars and material were loaded into the familiar articulated transporters and, ten days later, everything was unloaded in the paddock at the Autodromo...
Puncture a likely cause for Senna’s accident – Adrian Newey
A puncture was the most likely cause for Ayrton Senna's fatal accident at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix, according to Williams chief designer at the time Adrian Newey.
The reason behind the accident has...
Greatest rivals: Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna
Among the legendary rivalries in auto racing, they don't get much bigger or more venomous than what Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost generated in the Eighties and early Nineties.
Four races into Ayrton Senna's F1...
The passion of Imola
Kate Walker reflects on an emotional weekend at Imola for the Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger tribute
It has long been said that Formula One is all about the passion. And over the past four...
What was it like to watch Senna drive in a F1 race?
Well, that is a great question. I was fortunate enough to watch Ayrton as far back as 1983 during his Formula Three days and even then his talent was obvious. He had blinding speed,...
Ayrton Senna helmet relief
An extraordinary piece of art relief portraying Ayrton Senna´s 94 helmet. Hand made by molding a single sheet of carbon-fibre around half a full-scale helmet, then painted to match Ayrton´s 94 helmet identically, creates...
Interview with CEO of Senna brand-Bianca Senna
From the moment I met Bianca, I was starstruck, and we naturally started speaking in our native language, Portuguese. She is extremely polite and...
