At the age of seven, Senna first learned to drive a Jeep around his family's farm and gained the advantage of changing gears without the use of a clutch.

Senna was trying very hard to make up for the lost positions, and had gained six places by the start of lap two.

With Alain Prost retiring just before half-distance, these were six points gained in the championship for Senna.

Senna gained fifth place, passing both Patrese and Berger on the following lap, with Patrese also able to slipstream past the Ferrari, which was suffering increasingly on its aging tyres.

Senna spun, dropping to the back but gained one place immediately when Brundle spun as well at the chicane, dropping to the back, behind Senna.

At the end of the first lap, these three were followed by Alboreto, Cheever ( having already gained three places ), Derek Warwick, Elio de Angelis, Lauda, Tambay and Senna.

Senna joined Prost at McLaren in 1988 and the two had a series of controversial clashes, including a collision at the 1989 Japanese Grand Prix that gave Prost his third Drivers ' Championship.

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.

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.

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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 ).

Towards the end of 1991, Berger found his form in the McLaren MP4 / 6, out-qualifying teammate Senna at the Portuguese, Spanish and the title deciding Japanese Grands Prix ( claiming pole position in the latter two events ).

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.

The track, the Circuito Permanente de Jerez, was finished in time for the 1986 championship, which saw a furious battle between Ayrton Senna and Nigel Mansell, with the two cars finishing side by side.

Against Barcelona at El Madrigal, Pirès technique earned the Yellow Submarine two penalties which were duly converted by captain Marcos Senna.

A few hours before his death, in the events of Babylon 5: In the Beginning, Mollari had a random encounter with two Centauri children ( who turned out to be the nephew and niece of Urza Jaddo, while their governess, Senna, proved to be the daughter of Lord Refa ).

The race was etched in infamy after two fatal accidents occurred at the 1994 Grand Prix, when the late great Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger were killed.

Senna was given two cars by Honda.

Senna however knows of his condition and was able to temporarily cure it while the two were in the Old World, on the condition he would swear to serve her.

The race was memorable for McLaren driver Ayrton Senna, with just two laps remaining and thus far leading the race, colliding with Schlesser at the Rettifilo left-right chicane.

According to media reports and the driver's own recollection, as the two cars approached the chicane's braking zone, Schlesser saw Senna coming and expected the McLaren to pass on the inside, so he went wide right on the first left bend.

Speculation that Senna would have won his first race was proved wrong when his team later revealed that his TG184 had suffered suspension damage which would have forced him to retire within one or two laps of when the red flag was shown.

Through it all Senna emerged unscathed in 2nd place followed by Mansell and the two Ferraris of Stefan Johansson and Michele Alboreto.

Senna, the cause of the first corner crash finished 20 seconds behind in second with Stefan Johansson finishing third after passing team leader Alboreto only two laps from home.

Prost then went ahead again and led for the rest of the race, never looking threatened as he preserved his tyres to only require two stops, while his rivals Senna and Piquet had three.

On the second start, Senna led off the line but Mansell overtook him on lap two, at the Tosa corner, and went on to dominate the race.

Prost got the second place overtaking Senna on lap 6 ; the Brazilian was then engaged in a battle with the two Ferraris, and got back second when Prost retired with an alternator failure on lap 15.

Ayrton Senna took the third place in his Lotus 99T ahead of the two Ferrari F1 / 87s of Gerhard Berger and Michele Alboreto.

On lap 30, Piquet pitted for new tyres, followed two laps later by Senna.

The race then became a close fight between the two Williams drivers, as Senna and Prost were no match for them.

On the pole was Senna in his first drive for McLaren with a time almost two seconds slower than Mansell's 1987 pole time.

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

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.

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.

* On May 1, 2004, a special re-broadcast of the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix was aired to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the tragic deaths of Roland Ratzenberger and more notably, Ayrton Senna.

He was eventually remarried to Princess Medferiashwork Abebe, and would father three more daughters, Princesses Mariam Senna, Sefrash, Sehin, and a son Prince Zera Yacob.

All the more interesting was that Piquet's Lotus was powered by the same specification turbocharged Honda engine that powered the McLarens, yet he was over 3 seconds slower than Senna.

If Senna then failed to score they would be equal on points, but Senna would still win the title, having taken more wins ( 8 to 7 ).

While Senna pulled away at impressive speed, the race became more of a guessing game as to who would go off.

At the front Senna led comfortably, even more so after the lap 30 retirement of Prost with battery problems.

On pole by more than a second over rival Alain Prost, Senna stamped his authority on the race from the green light, leaping into an immediate lead and leading every lap.

With only two more races to go, Prost was the World Champion with 87 points but there was battle for second between Hill, Senna and Schumacher.

Of the teams that did appear, all had completely new chassis to cope with the revised Technical Regulations, which stipulated a variety of changes including the reduction of engine capacity and the size of aerodynamic wings, the introduction of more stringent crash testing, the raising of the cars ' ride height, and more rigorous testing of fuel specifications all with the aim of reducing speeds and increasing driver safety, a process which had begun in the aftermath of the deaths of Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna during the weekend of the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix.

Senna won by more than a minute from Hill followed by Prost ( one lap down ), Herbert, Patrese and Barbazza.

With only two more races to go, Prost was the World Champion with 87 points but there was battle for second between Hill, Senna and Schumacher.

Mansell made it five wins out of five with Patrese making it one more Williams 1 – 2 ahead of Senna, Brundle, Alboreto and Martini.

With two more races to go, Senna could see the championship in his grasp with 85 points.

With five more races to go, Senna now had 63 points, 13 points ahead of Prost with 50.

At the end of the season, Senna was world champion with 78 points with Prost second with 71 ( he got 73 but had to drop 2 points ), Piquet third with 43 ( he got 44 but had to drop 1 point ), Berger fourth with 43 ( he was behind Piquet because Piquet had more wins ), Mansell fifth with 37, Boutsen sixth with 34, Patrese seventh with 23 and Nannini eighth with 21.

Prost drove a cautious race and finished third, dropping more points, but it meant that Senna had to win both remaining races to have any chance of beating the Frenchman to the title.

This meant Prost could only let Senna win one more time.

He would go on to win in Adelaide, and score eleven more points in total than Senna, but only the eleven highest scores counted, with Senna's eight wins and three seconds giving him a total of 90 points to Prost's 87.