Senna's Greatest Race: Brazil 1991, Winning at Home

Its has been 22 years today, that Ayrton Senna has past away from us (read previous post). So we've got to celebrate Senna life, never forget Ayrton's achievements in Formula 1.



Five years back, I did a post on one of Senna best race's at Monaco in 1984, were he finished second place in an under-powered Toleman. Four years back, I wrote about his race win at Phoenix in USA back in 1990 in his McLaren. Three years back, I wrote about Senna's famous win from the 1986 Spanish Grand Prix were he beat Nigel Mansell by 0.010 of a second. Last year, I wrote about Senna's first Grand Prix win at a very wet Portuguese Grand Prix.

This year another Great Ayrton Senna race win from the 1991 season, round two at Interlagos on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Senna pleased his home fans by taking pole ahead of the two Williams cars of Riccardo Patrese and Nigel Mansell. At the start, Senna took off ahead of Mansell and Patrese. With 20 laps to go, Senna who was experiencing gearbox troubles, and 10 laps to go Senna only had 6th gear in wet conditions with Patrese closing down after Mansell retired with gearbox troubles. But, Senna continue on and won his home race at Sao Paulo by a mere three seconds from Patrese. And if the race continue for another lap, be may not have won it.

Highlight video of the race below.