Formula 1 liveries are boring as all hell these days, but one team isn’t afraid to bring a little color to the grid. For this weekend’s 81st running of the Monaco Grand Prix, McLaren will swap out its traditional Papaya for a striking yellow, blue, and green Senna tribute livery. It has been thirty years … Read more
McLaren has previously called its 1993 MP4/8 “one of the best cars we ever made.” And while Ayrton Senna didn’t win the championship that season, losing to Alain Prost five wins to seven, it was seriously fast. It was also the last chassis to carry Senna to a race victory, winning the season-closing Australian Grand … Read more
Showboating in a car when you don’t know what you’re doing is dumb. Trying to show off in a six-figure hypercar and wrecking because of it is even worse. That’s what happened when one YouTuber tried to be cool and ended up wrecking his recently acquired, one-of-one McLaren Senna. Now that wrecked Senna is sitting … Read more
This week marks 30 years since the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix, the most tragic race weekend in modern Formula 1 history. The deaths of rookie Roland Ratzenburger and three-time champion Ayrton Senna shook the sport to its core and fundamentally shifted the championship’s efforts to improve driver safety. It’s easy to overlook that Ratzenburger’s … Read more
Photo: Auto Trader There are Formula 1 champions, and then there are Formula 1 legends. Ayrton Senna was the latter. Ask any of the current drivers about their personal heroes, and dollars to donuts, they’ll drop Senna’s name. He had an unconventional approach to racing that was both high risk and high reward. Senna also … Read more
