PREVIOUS PAGE: Senna lined up on pole position for the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix ahead of Michael Schumacher – Rubens Barrichello was hospitalised in a crash on the Friday, Austrian driver Ratzenberger died during qualifying. F1 doctor Sid Watkins tried to persuade Senna not to race, but he wouldn’t have it
1 SENNA TESTED FOR Williams, McLaren, Brabham and Toleman during 1983. On one run in the McLaren-Ford MP4/1 he kept the throttle pinned even as the engine lunched itself behind him. Team principal Ron Dennis (below) was not very impressed but he let him have another go.