Marking the opening of the film Senna in the UK, here’s a special gallery looking back on the three-times champion’s F1 career in pictures.
From his first test to his last race – here is the career of Ayrton Senna in pictures.
F1 pictures
- 2024 Brazilian Grand Prix and Sunday qualifying in pictures
- 2024 Brazilian Grand Prix sprint race and postponed qualifying in pictures
- 2024 Brazilian Grand Prix sprint race qualifying day in pictures
- First pictures from the 2024 Brazilian Grand Prix weekend
- 2024 Mexican Grand Prix in pictures
- Dia de Muertos styles and Alonso’s 400th race: F1 drivers’ Mexican GP helmets
- 2024 Mexican Grand Prix qualifying day in pictures
- 2024 Mexican Grand Prix practice in pictures
- First pictures from the 2024 Mexican Grand Prix weekend
- 2024 United States Grand Prix in pictures
Images © Williams/LAT, Honda, Ford, “Senna”, Daimler
Hamish
4th June 2011, 8:24
Wow
Dan Newton
4th June 2011, 8:52
You beat me to it.
Wow indeed.
The Sri Lankan
6th June 2011, 0:31
Amazing! can we please get some post f1 pictures of senna? especially his RALT in macau?
The Sri Lankan
6th June 2011, 0:31
sorry i meant pre f1
Chops
4th June 2011, 8:47
Fantastic! Thank you so much Keith!
vickyy (@vickyy)
4th June 2011, 8:58
absolutely breathtaking
Mike
4th June 2011, 9:45
Brilliant
Stephen Jones (@aus_steve)
4th June 2011, 9:35
wow, awesome pictures!
james_mc
4th June 2011, 10:51
Amazing quality! I presume these were old 35mm (or similar) film originally?
Damon
4th June 2011, 11:35
Woah! What was that all about?
Dipak T
4th June 2011, 12:20
This sort of thing really has to be done more often
Atticus (@atticus-2)
4th June 2011, 13:22
It was a one-off race held for the opening of the new Nurburgring. Everybody competed with the same car and that was what has made it special for Senna because at that time he was relatively unknown in the higher classes of auto racing. The fact that he managed to beat every world class drivers of that era – including Lauda and Prost – given the same conditions confirmed him as one of the quickest driver of his generation. Besides Monaco 1984 this was the race based on which he has been considered one of the brightest new talents of Formula 1.
roberto
5th June 2011, 15:25
He didn’t really beat Prost. Prost took the pole for this race, and Senna pushed him out of the track on the first corner. Prost finished among the last
AndrewTanner (@andrewtanner)
4th June 2011, 11:37
I can’t begin to imagine how much of a telling off you would get today for catching a lift back with a fellow driver!
Maverick_232
4th June 2011, 12:20
Scrolling down to the San Marino shots gave me such a chill.
So amazing, tears in eyes. Thank you, thank you, thank you. So much!
Icthyes (@icthyes)
4th June 2011, 12:35
See, Renault could have kept the yellow livery from last year and still have “been Lotus”! Just change the black writing to blue and hey presto!
Wonderful pictures.
Douglas 62500
4th June 2011, 16:58
lol they couldn’t copy the Honda logos though !!
GeeMac (@geemac)
5th June 2011, 14:18
Because Tony Fernandes would have alrady bought the rights to use them… ;)
Aldo
4th June 2011, 13:32
Epic.
King Nigel Mansell
4th June 2011, 13:49
Great pics, thanks so much !
Douglas 62500
4th June 2011, 14:27
Can’t possibly get better than this collection. Thanks Keith !!
Scribe (@scribe)
4th June 2011, 14:43
Suberb, absolutley fantasic to see. Magnificent compilation.
Remco H.
4th June 2011, 15:23
Greatness @ his best.
Travis (@)
4th June 2011, 15:25
Thank you, thank you, thank you Keith…
LuvinF1
4th June 2011, 16:11
Thank you, Keith,
I was going to tell you at the end of the series how much I enjoyed your daily lead-in photos of Senna. The photos today are magnificent.
slowhand
4th June 2011, 16:30
Simply the best … better than all the rest.
Daniel
4th June 2011, 17:58
Like everybody else said, but still worth mentioning: fantastic selection!
Journeyer (@journeyer)
5th June 2011, 7:59
Keith, I don’t say this as much as I used to, but you are a LEGEND.
Hussein Alonso
7th June 2011, 22:38
Very good photo and Senna Best driver
arulworld
10th June 2011, 14:01
keith….i have no words to say….
thank u so much……