Just a reminder, the fantastic documentary Senna will be airing on NBC Sports Network tonight at 8PM EST.
Just a reminder, the fantastic documentary Senna will be airing on NBC Sports Network tonight at 8PM EST.
It might be hard to follow the dialogue on this 1993 episode of some Japanese TV show with Ayrton Senna, but you immediately get how humble Senna is, how cool he stays, and how goofy he's willing to get.
The Toleman TG184-2 that Ayrton Senna piloted in his debut season of Formula One racing will cross the block at a British Auction in May.
Asif Kapadia's phenomenal Senna was overlooked
Former HRT driver Bruno Senna is going to race for Williams F1 in 2012. I kept "Bruno" off the headline for this F1 update because it's a little jarring if you have the proper context and know the history. Senna's uncle, the great Ayrton Senna, died 18 years ago in his third race for Williams.
I have this ritual where I yell "I'm done with the fucking Oscars" followed by "and this time I mean it!" This year's epithet-generating travesty is the exclusion of Asif Kipadia's excellent Senna from the Academy's documentary short-list. Jerks.
Left: the poster advertising the 1994 Monaco Grand Prix. It shows Ayrton Senna’s #8 McLaren MP4/8, which he drove to victory at the 1993 event
Most Formula One cars end up on display or in the private collections of the über wealthy. A car like the McLaren MP4/6 Ayrton Senna drove to the F1 World Championship in 1991 should be in a museum. That's why I thought it was so strange when I thought we found it collecting dust in the space above the…