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Ayrton Senna was in a class of his own being the only driver to get under 1: 24. 0 and finishing an astonishing 1. 4 seconds quicker than team mate and Monaco specialist Alain Prost and 2. 7 seconds faster than third placed Gerhard Berger in his Ferrari.
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Brazil's Ayrton Senna won the race more times than any other driver, with six victories, winning five races consecutively between 1989 and 1993.
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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.
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Some, like Michael Ayrton, called him " Gloomy George ," but others developed the idea that he was a " secular saint.
In 1994 Ayrton Senna's fatal crash was also shown on live television but he died later in a hospital.
One of his assistants in the 1890s was Maxwell Ayrton.
Ayrton Senna da Silva ( pronounced ; 21 March 1960 – 1 May 1994 ) was a Brazilian racing driver who won three Formula One world championships.
He was at the centre of a brilliant literary and intellectual circle including Michael Ayrton, Sacheverell Sitwell and Anthony Powell, and despite Powell's denial, he is often said to be the prototype of the character Hugh Moreland in Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time.
Barrichello was rather worried when rumours were going around saying that he would lose his seat to the young Bruno Senna, the nephew of Barrichello's friend, idol and mentor Ayrton Senna, but Brawn decided to choose Barrichello to partner Jenson Button in 2009.
It was discovered by Edward R. Ayrton in 1907 while he was working in the Valley for Theodore M. Davis.
The entrance to KV55 was uncovered by Ayrton on 6 January 1907.
The tomb was first entered on 9 January by Ayrton, Davis, Joseph Lindon Smith, and ( as the representative of the antiquities service ) Arthur Weigall.
However, the U. S. version ( known as World Circuit ) was not granted an official license by the FIA, so teams and drivers were renamed ( though all could be changed back to their real names using the Driver / Team selection menu ): Ayrton Senna became " Carlos Sanchez ", for example.
Passing is a rarity here, although the 1989 race saw a famously bullish performance from Nigel Mansell in the Ferrari, who started from 12th on the grid and passed car after car, finally taking the lead in splendid opportunist style when Ayrton Senna was baulked by a slower runner.
At the first event, the United States Grand Prix at Phoenix, he was a sensation, leading for 25 laps in front of Ayrton Senna with a car powered by a customer Ford V8 considered as vastly inferior to the V10 Honda in Senna's McLaren, and also re-passing Senna after the Brazilian had first overtaken for the lead.
The day after Ratzenberger's death, three-time world champion Ayrton Senna was killed in another accident that brought the sport of Formula One under international scrutiny.
The inaugural Championship race in 1994 saw Michael Schumacher take an easy victory after Ayrton Senna was involved in a first corner accident with Mika Häkkinen and Nicola Larini.
The race was notable for the dominance of Ayrton Senna where he won the race by over 1 minute from Damon Hill, having advanced from fifth to first in the opening lap.
In 1985, the Grand Prix was moved to April 21 and held under heavy rain, the ideal conditions for Ayrton Senna to win his first race.
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At the 2011 Brazilian Grand Prix, he wore a helmet painted to include elements of his own helmet design, and the classic design of Ayrton Senna's helmet.
* Hertha Ayrton becomes the first woman to read her own paper ( on the electric arc ) before the Institution of Electrical Engineers in London, of which soon afterwards she is elected the first female member.
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.
Alain Prost, still angry over the events at Suzuka, did not appear in either by his own choice as he didn't want to appear with Ayrton Senna.
Ayrton ’ s second wife, Hertha Marks Ayrton, whom he married in 1885, assisted him in his research, and became known for her own scientific work on the electric arc and other subjects.
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