Reflecting on Senna
When Ayrton Senna died on May 1st, 1994, I was 1 year, 5 months and 19 days old. It’s fair to say I had no idea who he was. After all, I’m pretty sure...
Honda in Trouble
I don't know who is at the very top of the Honda F1 food chain but I suspect this person might have misleading memories of the late 80s when Honda wiped the floor. Even...
Ayrton SENNA: Life and Death
F1 was my first love. The love of my life when I was a kid. Broadly, racing was my life. My father planted the gearhead seed early and that grew to become a towering...
SENNA: Still tears after 10 years
10th anniversary of the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix
The statue is touching in its simplicity. The bronze figure of Ayrton Senna is sitting, as if on the pit wall, head down in contemplation. Around...
United States Grand Prix 1991
Senna and Honda Marlboro McLaren wrote themselves another slice of F1 history in Phoenix with a faultless performance which netted the Brazilian his 27th Grand Prix victory and, in the process, brought him level...
German Grand Prix 1990
You can get used to anything, given time, and the Grand Prix world seems to have become used to the German Grand Prix being held for Formula One at the fast but dull Hockenheimring....
Racing: Drivers fitness program
A race driver's fitness routine was once rather simple: running, cigarettes and alcohol (the running being optional). Call it the James Hunt exercise program, if you will, but it had been commonplace long before...
Imola Letters 94
Following the recent death of Ayrton Senna, at Imola, FIA President Max Mosley made the following comment during a radio interview: "During the last 12 accident free years (he meant deathfree years, God knows...
Monaco Grand Prix 1990
For Ayrton Senna fans, and there are a lot of them among the paying public, in spite of the anti-Senna lobby among the English press, the 48th Monaco Grand Prix was sheer delight. Fastest...