Brazil's Ayrton Senna won the race more times than any other driver, with six victories, winning five races consecutively between 1989 and 1993.

* 1960 – Ayrton Senna, Brazilian race car driver ( d. 1994 )

In 2009, a poll of 217 Formula One drivers conducted by the British magazine Autosport named Schumacher as " the second-greatest Formula One driver who ever lived ", just behind Ayrton Senna, and the most complete driver, just ahead of Senna.

As of the 2012 Formula One season Schumacher is the only driver left competing in Formula 1 to have raced against Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost, whose record of total career wins he beat with his 52nd win at the 2001 Belgian Grand Prix.

This began the team's most successful era: with Porsche and Honda engines, Niki Lauda, Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna took between them seven drivers ' championships and McLaren six constructors ' championships.

The pseudonym Ayrton was used in honor of the Harrisons ' late family friend Ayrton Senna.

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* March 21 – Ayrton Senna, Brazilian race car driver ( d. 1994 )

During the 1980s and early 1990s, Prost formed a fierce rivalry with mainly Ayrton Senna, but also Nelson Piquet and Nigel Mansell.

During 1989 Prost began to contemplate starting his own team, as his relationship with his McLaren teammate, Ayrton Senna, had turned sour.

Two wins in Mexico and Portugal gave Patrese his most competitive F1 season thus far and a respectable third place behind Championship contenders Mansell and Ayrton Senna.

With Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna and Nigel Mansell all desperately trying to sign for Williams, Patrese's position looked to be under threat and he signed for Benetton before the end of the year.

Patrese was invited to rejoin Williams in 1994 to fill the seat of Ayrton Senna after his fatal accident at Imola, but ultimately decided against returning to Formula 1.

All current ( with the exception of Russian driver Vitaly Petrov ) and many former Formula One drivers grew up racing karts, most prominent among them, World Champions Michael Schumacher, Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Fernando Alonso, Kimi Räikkönen, Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel.

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Häkkinen joined McLaren as a test driver in 1993 initally as a backup for Ayrton Senna and took on the responsibility of race driver after Michael Andretti was dismissed by the team after that year's Italian Grand prix.

Häkkinen scored his first Grand Prix points two rounds later in Imola, where he finished fifth from 25th on the grid, three laps behind the race winner, Ayrton Senna.

In his first outing for the team, he outqualified their star driver Ayrton Senna.

During 1993, Häkkinen, along with Ayrton Senna, tested the Lamborghini V12 engine in a modified version of the McLaren MP4 / 8 race car dubbed the " MP4 / 8B " at both Estoril and Silverstone.

* Cemitério do Morumbi, São Paulo-burial site of singer Elis Regina, F1 racer Ayrton Senna, actor and comedian Ronald Golias

At the Brazilian Grand Prix, Hill qualified and spent the early stages of the race running second behind Prost, and then took the lead when Prost crashed out, but was relegated back to second by another triple world champion, Ayrton Senna.

He finished off the season with a fourth and a third but it was not enough to hold 2nd place in the championship as Ayrton Senna passed him by winning the last two races.

In 2006 he said that at the time of the incident " Williams were already 100 % certain that Michael was guilty of foul play " but did not protest Schumacher's title because the team was still dealing with the death of Ayrton Senna.

Paletti would be the last driver to die at a Grand Prix meeting for the next 12 years until the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix, which took the lives of Roland Ratzenberger during qualifying and triple world champion Ayrton Senna during the Grand Prix itself.

Keke Rosberg took 3rd despite losing a full lap after a collision with Nelson Piquet caused by Ayrton Senna, who finished 2nd.

Mansell took pole position for the race, but this advantage was cancelled out following a poor start off the grid, with teammate Piquet, Ayrton Senna and Keke Rosberg all overtaking him and demoting the Brit down to fourth by the end of the first lap.

Ayrton Senna took pole from Alain Prost with a lap time that was almost a second faster than Nigel Mansell's 1987 time despite the restriction in turbo boost from 4. 0 Bar to 2. 5 bar for 1988 ( a drop of approximately ).

Ayrton Senna took pole position and the race win for McLaren ( racing ) | McLaren.

Ayrton Senna took pole position in qualifying ahead of Riccardo Patrese, making a record-breaking 177th appearance at a Grand Prix, and Gerhard Berger in the new Ferrari 640, which featured the first semi-automatic gearbox in Formula One.

Riccardo Patrese took pole position in his Williams, his first of the season, with usual pole-sitter Ayrton Senna alongside him on the front row.

Ayrton Senna took his tenth pole position of the season by six tenths of a second from the Ferrari of Gerhard Berger.

Local hero Ayrton Senna took his 43rd career pole position and led from the start.

Nigel Mansell took pole position from Gerhard Berger and Ayrton Senna being followed by Alain Prost, Alessandro Nannini fifth, Riccardo Patrese sixth, Ivan Capelli seventh followed by Thierry Boutsen in eighth, Nelson Piquet in ninth and Mauricio Gugelmin tenth.

At the start with both Ferraris on the front row ( Nigel Mansell on pole, Alain Prost second ), Mansell's start was so poor that he almost took his own teammate Prost out of the race, and it also allowed the McLarens of Ayrton Senna and Gerhard Berger to slip past Mansell and Prost to make it a McLaren 1 – 2 with Senna leading into the first corner.

Ayrton Senna took a comfortable win in his McLaren ( racing ) | McLaren McLaren MP4 / 6 | MP4 / 6.

Riccardo Patrese took his second consecutive pole position from team-mate Nigel Mansell, Ayrton Senna, Jean Alesi, Gerhard Berger, Nelson Piquet, Alain Prost, Stefano Modena, Roberto Moreno, and a surprising Olivier Grouillard in his Fondmetal, the first time the team had qualified for a race this season.

In qualifying Nigel Mansell took pole in front of his home fans, with title-rival Ayrton Senna second.

Ayrton Senna was fastest most of the weekend and duly took pole position, but Ferrari were right on his heels.

In qualifying, Ayrton Senna took pole again, with title rival Nigel Mansell second, the Englishman complaining of traffic on his final two hot laps.

Ayrton Senna finished the race in second place for the McLaren team whilst Michael Schumacher took the final poduim spot in his Benetton.

Michael Schumacher took his only win of the season, while second place was enough for Alain Prost to clinch the championship, after Ayrton Senna's engine failed.

Ayrton Senna took pole ahead of Michael Schumacher, with Jean Alesi over a second further behind.

At the start Ayrton Senna took advantage of his pole position and kept the lead.

Ayrton Senna's Toleman TG184 car, with which he took second place at the 1984 Monaco Grand Prix.