For the following race, the Spanish Grand Prix, Williams ' test driver David Coulthard was promoted to the race team alongside Hill, who won the race just four weeks after Senna's death.

Rounding out the points were Ferrari's Michele Alboreto, whose three points were not enough to keep his championship lead, Senna's Lotus team mate Elio de Angelis was fifth with Nigel Mansell sixth in his Williams FW10.

Following Mansell's Friday crash, the three remaining Honda powered cars of Piquet, Senna, and Senna's team mate, local favourite Satoru Nakajima, could only qualify in 5th, 7th and 11th places respectively.

This race would become one of the most notorious in F1 history, as the culmination of Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna's tumultuous two year rivalry as team mates at McLaren.

The only other driver to complete full race distance was Senna's Austrian team mate Gerhard Berger.

He took a six second victory over Italian driver Alessandro Nannini driving a Benetton B190 who was just two second in front of Senna's Austrian team mate Gerhard Berger.

Senna's Austrian team mate Gerhard Berger finished third, while further back Maurício Gugelmin scored a rare point for the Leyton House team in his Leyton House CG901.

With Senna's Austrian team mate Gerhard Berger third, the podium was identical to that at the previous round.

The race was won by Ayrton Senna, with Nigel Mansell in second position, and Gerhard Berger's third place finish plus Senna's victory meant that the McLaren team clinched the Constructor's championship.

After Prost was disqualified for an underweight McLaren, victory fell to Senna's Lotus team mate Elio de Angelis in what would prove to be his second and last Grand Prix win.

Renault's withdrawal, and Ayrton Senna's refusal to let Warwick join him as team mate at Lotus, left Warwick without a team for the 1986 season.

It was also reported by Toleman that Senna's suspension was on the point of collapse after an earlier incident, with the team believing that the damage was sufficient to cause his retirement within 2-3 laps of when the shag was shown.

However, Williams were unable to take a third consecutive drivers ' title, and with possible manslaughter charges for Senna's accident in prospect, cracks began to show in Newey's relationship with Williams team management.

Also, on several occasions third drivers have acted as reserves, racing if one of the team's two race drivers is injured or otherwise unable to race, as in Bruno Senna's case in the Renault F1 team in the 2011 season.

At Suzuka the situation was reversed, Senna's pole time was 1. 8 seconds slower than Gerhard Berger's 1987 time.

Gerhard Berger, Senna's McLaren teammate, finished in third position.

Three times world champion Ayrton Senna's first F1 win in 1985, Nigel Mansell's notorious black flag incident and subsequent collision with Senna in 1989, Jacques Villeneuve's overtaking Michael Schumacher around the outside of the final turn in 1996, and Riccardo Patrese's being launched airborne in a near-backward flip after colliding with Gerhard Berger on the main straight in 1992.

At the Brazilian Grand Prix, Berger tangled with Senna at the very first corner as the Brazilian found himself in a Williams and Ferrari sandwich with Patrese to Senna's left with the three drivers dicing for the lead.

Berger opened the door of the helicopter and threw the briefcase out, to Senna's disbelief.

In an Australian hotel room Berger filled Senna's bed with animals.

A further incident followed in which Berger replaced Senna's passport photo with what Ron Dennis described as " an equivalent-sized piece of male genitalia ".

On 25 April 2004 ; 10 years after Senna's death, Berger drove the JPS Lotus Renault 97T which Ayrton used in the 1985 championship for 3 laps, at Imola before the start of the 2004 San Marino Grand Prix.

By lap 30 he had reduced Senna's lead to only 2 seconds but as he went by the pits at the end of lap 30 the misfire got worse and by lap 35 had been passed by Berger and Alboreto and was heading for the pits and his first mechanical retirement of the season.

In the late stages Senna started to slow, which allowed the Alesi / Berger battle to close up on him, but Senna's McLaren would survive to the finish for his third career win at Monaco.

Berger put in a series of fastest laps to cut Senna's lead to just 1. 7s at the line.

Senna's stop was quick and he took the lead ahead of Berger, Mansell, Prost, Schumacher and Patrese.

The race started with a bang, as Senna's hopes at a home grand prix victory were dashed as he squeezed Berger a little too much.

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.

Piquet, racing an active ride suspension system in his FW11B for the first time, won the race by 1. 8 seconds, having taken the lead from Ayrton Senna's Lotus 99T with eight laps remaining as the younger Brazilian attempted to run the race without stopping for tyres.

It was Senna's third win for the season having won the season-opening United States Grand Prix and the Monaco Grand Prix just two weeks earlier.

After Senna's retirement Schumacher won comfortably.

After the race, a poignant detail was revealed when an Austrian flag was found in Senna's car ; he had planned to dedicate the win to Ratzenberger had he won the race.

He led his second race with Ferrari at their ' home ' race, the San Marino Grand Prix, and two laps from home passed Senna's out of fuel Lotus to the delight of the Tifosi and would probably have won if his Ferrari 156 / 85 had not run out of fuel just half a lap after taking the lead.

It also hosted a Formula One Grand Prix-The European Grand Prix-in April 1993 which was won by Ayrton Senna and which is widely recognised as one of Senna's greatest wins.

Mansell started from pole position but yielded the lead to Ayrton Senna's Lotus at the second corner on lap 1 and fell behind both Piquet and Keke Rosberg on the same lap.

The win improved Senna's championship position to second, three points behind McLaren driver Alain Prost.

The pole position was taken once again by Nigel Mansell in his Williams FW11B, while the second row was occupied by Ayrton Senna's Lotus 99T and Nelson Piquet's Williams FW11B.

Senna's time from Friday – 1: 30. 710 – stood up through the second session and gave him his 34th career pole position, breaking Jim Clark's record of 33.

Alex Caffi, who had started in sixth, was up to second with Senna's retirement.

This damaged Senna's title chances, especially since rival Alain Prost came in second place.

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.

Nigel Mansell was Senna's closest challenger, eventually finishing second in the championship.

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

During his tenure as technical director Tyrrell's results improved noticeably, culminating in the season opener in Phoenix, where Jean Alesi was able to challenge Ayrton Senna's McLaren for victory and finished second in a Tyrrell 018.