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"Ayrton is an idol that even after so many years , remains in the minds of people in a very present way. His strength and charisma still wiggle including individuals who never saw his race. Example of this is part of new generation of F1 drivers has him as great idol and example."

The End of an Era: Australian Grand Prix 1988

Ayrton Senna at Japanese Grand Prix
On the face of it, it was all just another crushing McLaren-Honda demonstration run, as Ron Dennis' machines sped to their tenth 1-2 of...

Monaco Grand Prix 1989

Ayrton Senna in Monaco 1989
The bald facts say that Ayrton Senna pulverised his opposition to win his 16th Grand Prix in Monaco. That he won going away in...

Celebrating with Ayrton Senna

Keith Sutton recalls Aryton Senna winning the Formula Ford 2000 championship and the after party. I met Ayrton when he’d just arrived in England in...

Hungarian Grand Prix 1988

Ayrton Senna in his cocpit 1988
If Alain Prost's brilliant manoeuvre had worked at the start of the Hungarian Grand Prix's 49th lap, the Frenchman still would have been the...

The Lost Interview

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In March of 1981 Keith Sutton, then a young and enthusiastic motorsport photographer trying hard to make his name in the sport, crossed paths...

What was it like to be at Imola in 94?

The practice session had Rubens Barrichello crash out and then Roland Ratzenberger on the second day succumbed to injuries. The race started with Pedro...

Ayrton Senna Forever

Many years ago at an airport in Buenos Aires, Gustavo Soares found himself waiting in passport control; the warm, circulated air was humming with...

David Brabham: Imola 1994

Start in Imola 1994
We had just returned from the first GPs of the year, in Brazil and then Japan, where our small, underfunded Simtek Grand Prix team...

The man and the yellow helmet

Ayrton Senna in 1984
We speak of breathing, eating and sleeping a subject; well, Ayrton did just that. Nothing else mattered so much to him in the world....