Ayrton Senna – My Hero
It’s pouring rain outside, really terrible weather. I did go out, I needed a walk just to clear my mind. In my head I could see a replay of Ayrton Senna’s famous lap in...
Ron Dennis on Ayrton Senna
As McLaren team principal, Ron Dennis worked with Ayrton Senna for six of the most fruitful seasons in the Brazilian's illustrious F1 racing career. Under Dennis' watchful eye, Senna won 35 races, claimed 46...
Emerson Fittipaldi: Ayrton Senna, from the heart
As you read these words, in the lead-up to the 2013 Brazilian Grand Prix, which will be run at my beloved Interlagos, the circuit on which I learned to race as a boy, I...
Ayrton Senna as a really good Rally driver
Ayrton Senna has just jumped out of Phil Collins’ Brooklyn Motorsport Ford Sierra RS Cosworth.Collins has jaggedly ripped through a forest stage, jabbed at the handbrake, hauled the white-and blue wedge around and yumped...
A Pioneering Doctor’s Crusade to Make Racing Safer
Formula One was recently reminded of one of its most tragic images: the wreck of a blue and white racing car at the edge of the track in Imola, Italy, on May 1, 1994,...
Story: Ayrton Senna’s finest hour
Nineteen eighty-four saw the changing of the guard in Formula 1. Turbocharged cars had come to dominate the sport by the end of 1983, a sudden rise to prominence since their faltering arrival at...
Ayrton Senna Interview , June 1991
This interview was conducted in the Human Performance International (HPI) Laboratory on Isle Notre Dame (Montreal, Canada) following the 1991 Canadian Grand Prix of Formula One.
My late colleague, Dr. Dan Marisi and I had...
Ayrton Senna: Monaco Days
Six wins in ten years at Formula One’s most glamorous race rewarded Ayrton Senna with the title, “The Master of Monaco.”
Senna won his six races at Monaco between 1987 and 1993. Five of these...
Ayrton Senna 1960 – 1994
Ayrton Senna was born in São Paulo. As the son of a wealthy Brazilian landowner, he quickly developed an interest in motor racing. Encouraged by his father, a racing enthusiast, Senna got behind the...