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.

* Ayrton Senna

* 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.

Ayrton Senna da Silva ( pronounced ; 21 March 1960 – 1 May 1994 ) was a Brazilian racing driver who won three Formula One world championships.

1993 saw the customer deal extended to McLaren, who won five Grands Prix with Ayrton Senna that year.

During this time, he won ten Grands Prix, achieved 48 podiums, 12 poles and 21 fastest laps ( two more than his former team-mate, rival and friend Ayrton Senna ).

Michael Schumacher has won the Belgian Grand Prix 6 times and Ayrton Senna won 5 times ; including 4 times in a row from 1988-1991, and Kimi Räikkönen and Jim Clark both won 4 times ( Clark also won 4 times in row, from 1962-1965 ).

Ayrton Senna won his second Formula One World Championship using the mystic number 27 in 1990 in a McLaren Honda, as mentioned, the only time Ferrari didn't use the number during that period.

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.

Michael Schumacher won the race 7 times and Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost both won it 3 times.

Over the past two decades, only three drivers have won the Italian Grand Prix and gone on to win the world championship in the same year: Ayrton Senna in 1992, Michael Schumacher in 2000 and 2003 and Sebastian Vettel in 2011.

In 1997, he won the Ayrton Senna Memorial Cup, and also became the youngest driver ever to win the European Super A Championship.

The first Formula Three Grand Prix of Macau was held in 1983 and won by Ayrton Senna.

On 22 October, Massa won his home race at the, making it the first time a Brazilian driver had won at Interlagos since Ayrton Senna in 1993.

Five Brazilian drivers have won the Brazilian Grand Prix, with Emerson Fittipaldi, Nelson Piquet, Ayrton Senna and Felipe Massa each winning twice, and Jose Carlos Pace winning once.

Constructors ' and drivers ' world championships were won with Niki Lauda, Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna, Mika Häkkinen and Lewis Hamilton.

In 1989 and he won the rain-soaked Canadian and Australian Grands Prix and in 1990 he scored a victory in the Hungarian Grand Prix over his friend Ayrton Senna's McLaren-Honda.

The point-scoring drivers won a total of 13 world championships between them, and the three drivers on the podium were all ( at least ) triple World Champions from different eras-Niki Lauda, approaching the end of his long and distinguished F1 career, Alain Prost, enjoying the best years of his career, and Ayrton Senna, still at the dawn of his.

It was the second round of the 1985 Formula One season and was won by Ayrton Senna from pole position, taking both his first pole position and win in the process.

Prost won by 30 seconds over Brazilian driver Ayrton Senna driving a Lotus 97T.

Prost won by almost 52 seconds over the Brazilian duo Nelson Piquet ( Brabham BT54 ) and Ayrton Senna ( Lotus 97T ).

Mansell won by 19 seconds over Brazilian driver Ayrton Senna driving a Lotus 98T.