Ayrton Senna Top Gear

[Mark]

Great Aryton Senna tribute on Top Gear now. Watch it on iPlayer if you have missed it!

[GOODSPEED]

Just seen the same thing, no idea that was coming. Brilliant.

[Sarah]

It was excellent - catch it if you missed it.

[shurik]

Great tribute, also it proves that back then f1 was for men rather than boy-band members

[JRodrigues]

Great tribute, also it proves that back then f1 was for men rather than boy-band members

After today's race, this is what I needed to see.

[UltimateDanGTR]

best bit of top top gear for years, excellent tribute to an incredibl racing driver.

[ArrowsFA1]

Top marks to Top Gear :up: An excellent feature on Senna which captured the man very well. Hamilton's drive in Senna's McLaren was class as well.

[Andy Harrison]

Here is the link for the film
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8853276.stm

It's a great film and Ayrton Senna was a great man.

[MrJan]

Shouldn't this be in History & Nostalgia ;) :p :

[DazzlaF1]

Fabulous piece of film that. And Lewis really looked starstruck when he saw the car he was about to drive, and I dont blame him.

I still dont consider Senna to be as good as Fangio or Clark were, but that doesnt mean I dont think he was a phenominal talent.

[gloomyDAY]

Anyone else get misty-eyed?

[inimitablestoo]

Glad it was on this week. Wouldn't have sat very comfortably in the same show as last week's motorhome mayhem :s As much as I enjoyed that edition too, it's nice to see they can do a proper serious feature on TG as well.

And if you didn't see it and can't be bothered with a mePlayer, it's on BBC2 right now. Well, the Senna feature's from about quarter to eight anyway.

[Retro Formula 1]

Could you imagine Senna lifting to assist Prost :laugh:

[DazzlaF1]

Glad it was on this week. Wouldn't have sat very comfortably in the same show as last week's motorhome mayhem :s As much as I enjoyed that edition too, it's nice to see they can do a proper serious feature on TG as well.

And if you didn't see it and can't be bothered with a mePlayer, it's on BBC2 right now. Well, the Senna feature's from about quarter to eight anyway.

I knew beforehand that Top Gear were doing a piece on Senna was sort of wondering what the occasion was to show it now, that was before Clarkson said that Senna would have been celebrating his 50th birthday this year.

[Retro Formula 1]

I knew beforehand that Top Gear were doing a piece on Senna was sort of wondering what the occasion was to show it now, that was before Clarkson said that Senna would have been celebrating his 50th birthday this year.

I know they were having the Bugatti and Cruise / Diaz on but that's because I'm always there :D

[wedge]

Fabulous piece of film that. And Lewis really looked starstruck when he saw the car he was about to drive, and I dont blame him.

Where's Daniel? :D

[Daniel]

Funnily enough that's the Lewis I would expect, he was spontaneous and natural and it was enjoyable to watch. Far better than the scripted vodafone bs adverts.

[wedge]

Funnily enough that's the Lewis I would expect, he was spontaneous and natural and it was enjoyable to watch. Far better than the scripted vodafone bs adverts.

It was the same in the BS advert. Button posed a question on Senna and you see Lewis light up talking about 1988 Monaco qualy.

[Daniel]

Only someone who is completely unable to read body language would think they were the same. The ad was badly staged, the feature was fantastic.

[Rollo]

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- BBC

Complete waste of time really. Thank you BBC.

[ShiftingGears]

- BBC

Complete waste of time really. Thank you BBC.

Youtube it.

[wedge]

Only someone who is completely unable to read body language would think they were the same. The ad was badly staged, the feature was fantastic.

Wonder how many takes they had to do in the Silverstone garage

[MrJan]

Youtube it.

eztv.it ;)

[Josti]

It was a nice feature indeed, but I think the Monaco onboard they refer to several times is from 1990, rather than from the MP4/4 car in 1988.

[philipbain]

One thing I found a tad inaccurate was that both Clarkson and Hamilton were referring to "1000 horsepower" when talking about Senna at McLaren in 1988. 1988 was the year of the FIA's "equivalency formula" that saw turbos restricted to 2.5 bar boost a 540kg minimum weight limit and 150 litres of fuel whereas the 3.5 litre atmospheric engines had no fuel limit and a minimum weight of 500kg. This resulted in the Honda RA168E 1.5 litre turbo having a maximum power (for qualifying / less fuel critical races) of 685BHP but in race conditions where the fuel ration was critical it often ran as little as 620BHP, still a good 15-20 more than the best 3.5 V8 available in '88.

For the record, engines with over 1000BHP were used from '85 - '87 and even then only in qualifying, though by '87 Honda had around 1000BHP available in the races when conditions permitted, despite the 4 bar restriction, this was achieved by over-boosting the engine with BIG turbos meaning the engine was being supplied with more excess boost pressure than the mandatory pop-off valve could vent from the system!

[Bezza]

- BBC

Complete waste of time really. Thank you BBC.

We don't pay the license fee so that people who don't get to watch stuff for free, you know.