Perhaps Berger's best drive of 1990 was at the wet and damp 1990 Canadian Grand Prix where he finished first, around 45 seconds ahead of the eventual winner Senna, but was penalized by one minute for creeping at the start before the green lights.

" This incident prompted retaliation by Senna, who then proceeded to put a strong smelling French cheese in the air conditioning unit of Berger's room.

On another occasion, Senna and Brazilian compatriot Maurício Gugelmin decided to fill Berger's shoes with shaving foam on a fast train ride to a dinner in Japan.

As a response to this gag, Senna superglued all of Berger's credit cards together.

Senna had made a good start from the 2nd row and when Berger's car twitched under brakes Senna went to the outside and then turned hard into the right hand corner.

Berger's lead was to last about a quarter of a lap, as the power of both McLaren's Honda engines showed as Senna passed Berger into the first chicane, and Prost did the same to him at Ostkurve.

Berger's Brazilian team mate Ayrton Senna was third.

Prost's win and Berger's third coupled points leader Ayrton Senna stopping with a puncture late in the race allowed both drivers to close to be eight points behind Senna.

The whole accident left Patrese comfortably in the lead from Berger and Senna, and Senna went second when Berger's engine blew on lap 37, he was followed out of the race by Prost's Ferrari, which also decided it had enough.

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.

Senna had worked his way up to seventh but was unable to pass Berger's Ferrari, eventually choosing to pit for tyres, as did first Patrese and Blundell, leaving the order midway through the race: Hill, Prost, Schumacher, Berger, Blundell, Patrese and Senna, neither Williams choosing to come in for tyres in this race.

Berger's engine failed on lap 6 and soon afterward Patrese passed Senna and set off after Mansell.

Ayrton Senna finished 2nd on the road in his Lotus-Honda but was later disqualified for oversized brake ducts giving Berger's team mate Michele Alboreto 2nd place and Ferrari's first 1-2 since the 1985 Canadian Grand Prix.

The result of qualifying was somewhat surprising as Senna managed to put his McLaren-Honda on pole position.

The result was a huge success and Theodore Racing has won the event many times, notably with Ayrton Senna in the first year of F3.

Senna quickly made an impression in Formula One and achieved Toleman's greatest result.

Hart persisted though, with the best result from the five-year relationship with Toleman coming when Ayrton Senna took second place at the 1984 Monaco Grand Prix and Toleman claiming 7th in the Constructors Championship.

Drivers who have died as a result of basilar skull fracture include Formula One drivers Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna, Indianapolis 500 drivers Bill Vukovich, Tony Bettenhausen, Floyd Roberts, and Scott Brayton, NASCAR drivers Dale Earnhardt Sr., Adam Petty, Tony Roper, Kenny Irwin, Jr., Neil Bonnett, John Nemechek, J. D. McDuffie, and Richie Evans, CART drivers Jovy Marcelo, Greg Moore and Gonzalo Rodriguez, and ARCA driver Blaise Alexander.

The combination of Prost and Senna was particularly dominant — together they won all but one race in 1988 — but later their rivalry soured and Prost left for Ferrari.

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

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.

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.

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.

In San Marino, Hill again impressed by taking the lead at the start, though he was passed by Prost and Senna and ultimately retired with brake failure.

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.

The pre-season betting was that Senna would coast to the title, but with the banning of electronic driver aids, the Benetton team and Michael Schumacher initially proved more competitive and won the first three races.

It was widely reported at the time that the Williams car's steering column had failed, though Hill told BBC Sport in 2004 that he believed Senna simply took the corner too fast for the conditions, referring to the fact that the car had just restarted the race with cold tyres after being slowed down by a safety car.

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.

According to the findings of British researcher Tudor Parfitt, the location of Senna was more than likely in Yemen, specifically, in the village of Sanāw within the easternmost portion of the Wadi Hadhramaut.

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

Senna was recognised for his qualifying speed over one lap and from 1989 until 2006 held the record for most pole positions.

Senna was born in the Pro-Matre Maternity Hospital of Santana, a neighbourhood of São Paulo city.

The house where Senna spent the first four years of his life belonged to João Senna, Neide's father, and was located on the corner of Av Aviator Gilherme with Gil Santos Dumont Avenue, less than 100 meters from Field Mars, a large area where they operated the Aeronautics Material park and an airport.

Senna also suffered from poor motor coordination that was cured when his parents noticed.

He was the team-mate of Terry Fullerton in 1978, whom Senna later felt was the rival he got the most satisfaction from racing against.

Before leaving England, however, Senna was offered a drive with a Formula Ford 2000 team for £ 10, 000.

A brilliant autochthonous civilization developed around the town of Dinawar ( today ruined ), located 75 km North-East of Kermanshah, whose radiance was later on partially replaced by that of Senna, 90 km further North

Literature in Macau was written about love affairs and marriage between the Tanka women and Portuguese men, like " A-Chan, A Tancareira ", by Henrique de Senna Fernandes.

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.

Senna made a late charge in an attempt to catch Berger but the Austrian had enough in hand to respond despite having what appeared to be a dragging under-tray.

Prost tried to pass him on lap 38 but Senna did not give him enough room and Prost spun off and retired.

He was close enough on lap 5 and was side by side with Senna on the next lap but saw yellow flags because of Nicola Larini's crash.