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[Senna]

Moose11

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[cristiano84]

Donington 1993 has been one of the first F.1 races I've seen...I remember I was shocked when I saw it..a masterpiece in F.1 history no doubts about it!!Although less significant,Michael Schumacher victory in Spa 1995 starting 16th is another pearl in F.1 and even Spa 1997 has been an unforgettable performance by Michael in the wet.

[Wez]

Moose11, on Feb 1 2006, 01:54 PM, said:

The wet weather is the great equaliser in F1 and Senna showed how great he was on that occasion.  It is an awsome display of driving ability.

Wet weather brings out the best in great drivers and clearly separates them from the rest.

[Senna]

Wez, on Feb 3 2006, 10:05 AM, said:

Wet weather brings out the best in great drivers and clearly separates them from the rest.

Indeed.  What makes Donington ’93 truly amazing is that Ayrton had a vastly inferior car to all those he passed on that opening lap (bar Karl Wendlinger who made a great start).

Edited by Senna, 03 February 2006 - 07:25 PM.

[cristiano84]

Wez, on Feb 3 2006, 11:05 AM, said:

Wet weather brings out the best in great drivers and clearly separates them from the rest.

Yes of course..in the wet all that counts is sensibility.But there havebeen also drivers which were very good at wet races (like Vittorio Brambilla or Jean Alesi) and were not as good in normal circumstances.They were very sensible drivers,they felt very much every single car feeling,but maybe they didn't have the same racecraft as other top drivers had.
Rubinho and Fisi are great drivers in wet conditions (see Rubens poles at Spa 1994 in a Jordan or at Magny Cours 1999 in a Stewart and Fisi's pole at Zeltweg 1998 in a Benetton),but they have not the same racecraft of a Schumacher or an Alonso..

[Dan]

If you watch the video of that race at Donington you can hear Senna's traction control working like crazy, while Prost and the others were tiptoing around he knew that he could floor it and the traction control would do the rest.
Another example of his great driving in the wet was his overtaking manouver on Mansell at Spa in 1985 on cold tyres when they'd just pitted for slick tyres.

[Senna]

Dan!

Donington 93 was [perhaps] Senna’s greatest wet weather performance but there are many other examples of his wet weather mastery e.g. Monaco 84, Portugal 85, Adelaide 91 etc

[jackgarrett]

senna is the greatest quilifer if the world, he is better at quali than the race, if he doesnt get pole he pretty much cant win and clealy does not have the fastest car.

If he qualfies 2 seconds slower than pole, his car is about 3 (or drives around 3) seconds slower (at least) than pole man. He finshed ahead at about 1 sec per lap ahead of hill so really he was averaging 3+1 second at lap faster the champoins (hill and prost ) in the wet alone.
becase it is wet he goes 4 seconds faster per lap than the best drivers in the world!

Edited by jackgarrett, 09 February 2006 - 02:20 AM.