Ayrton Senna’s death changed me physically,says Adrian Newey

Adrian Newey, the man who designed the cars that have made Red Bull a dominant force in Formula One, has spoken for the first...

The day I met a rising Senna

Ayrton Senna in 1984
As Senna the movie opens on August 11, Adelaide author Ruth Starke remembers meeting the young Brazilian as he was starting his meteoric rise. HE...

Dangerous pleasure

THERE’s a whole range of ways to negotiate the complex relations of film and history. Costume dramas, picturing the past, threaten to be genteel,...

Senna’s driving close to God

Sport barely needs the attention of documentary filmmakers. Modern sport is so widely and eagerly broadcast, dissected and then replayed that viewer fatigue sets...

Ayrton Senna’s singular relentless magic

What made Ayrton Senna such an epochal sensation that 217 living F1 drivers voted him Formula One’s greatest driver ever was neither his deranged...

Ayrton Senna: The Faith of the man who could drive on...

"Just because I believe in God, just because I have faith in God, it doesn’t mean that I’m immune. It doesn’t mean that I’m...

Nostalgia: Senna’s last one

Ayrton Senna really wanted to win his last race with McLaren and have the team break Ferrari’s legendary record. He did it, indeed. But...

San Marino Grand Prix – Imola 1994

At Imola on 1st May 1994 the lights burned long into the night as journalists who had witnessed the death of Ayrton Senna filed...

Senna would have beaten Schumacher in equal cars

Ten years ago Ayrton Senna was killed at Imola. Bernie Ecclestone, the Formula One impresario, tells David Tremayne how the Brazilian’s skills compare to...