McLaren marks Senna's success at Donington Park
30 May 2024|73 views
With the tenacity of a clingy girlfriend, McLaren has once again taken a new opportunity to remind all about its historic motorsport victories.
The firm has released a new video, after having just revealed this Senna Sempre livery to mark Ayrton Senna's legacy, and having revealed this livery to celebrate its 'Triple Crown' of victories a few months before.
This latest video (watch it embedded below) now marks the return of the Senna name to Donington Park, again to remind us all that it has been 30 years since the legendary Formula One driver took his final race in May 1994.
This time, it is Ayrton's nephew, Bruno Senna, who took to the track in a McLaren Senna in tribute to his uncle's epic drive. Bruno is said to have echoed his uncle's exploits, taking the McLaren Senna around the circuit in a time of one minute and 30.5 seconds, a time described by McLaren as a new unofficial lap record for the road-going production car on the same Donington Park Grand Prix configuration at which Ayrton was famously victorious. Sure.
Ayrton Senna himself took to the Donington Park race on 11 April 1993, and drove a McLaren MP4/8 from fifth to first position on the opening lap, after having suffered a poor getaway an having to face increasingly wet track conditions. Senna would eventually win the race by more than one minute and 23 seconds, lapping all but the second-placed driver to record the largest margin of victory he achieved in his Formula One career.
If only we were just as quick. At least then we might actually be able to evade the next tribute/livery/celebration McLaren decides to throw for some new historic achievement it decides to mark.
With the tenacity of a clingy girlfriend, McLaren has once again taken a new opportunity to remind all about its historic motorsport victories.
The firm has released a new video, after having just revealed this Senna Sempre livery to mark Ayrton Senna's legacy, and having revealed this livery to celebrate its 'Triple Crown' of victories a few months before.
This latest video (watch it embedded below) now marks the return of the Senna name to Donington Park, again to remind us all that it has been 30 years since the legendary Formula One driver took his final race in May 1994.
This time, it is Ayrton's nephew, Bruno Senna, who took to the track in a McLaren Senna in tribute to his uncle's epic drive. Bruno is said to have echoed his uncle's exploits, taking the McLaren Senna around the circuit in a time of one minute and 30.5 seconds, a time described by McLaren as a new unofficial lap record for the road-going production car on the same Donington Park Grand Prix configuration at which Ayrton was famously victorious. Sure.
Ayrton Senna himself took to the Donington Park race on 11 April 1993, and drove a McLaren MP4/8 from fifth to first position on the opening lap, after having suffered a poor getaway an having to face increasingly wet track conditions. Senna would eventually win the race by more than one minute and 23 seconds, lapping all but the second-placed driver to record the largest margin of victory he achieved in his Formula One career.
If only we were just as quick. At least then we might actually be able to evade the next tribute/livery/celebration McLaren decides to throw for some new historic achievement it decides to mark.
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