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Ayrton Senna’s F1 career in numbers 

On what would have been his 60th birthday, we look back on the career of the legendary Ayrton Senna, one of the greatest of all time to grace the Formula 1 track.  Beginning with World Championships, his illustrious but tragically short career saw him win 3 World Championships in 1988, 1990, and 1991.  The most notable of the three was his first World Championship win in 1988, his first season at McLaren, where the famous rivalry between Senna and team-mate Alain Prost was rife.  The explosive intra-team battle between the two saw Senna set the record for the highest percentage of pole positions in both the 1988 and 1989 seasons at a total of 81.25%, a feat only overtaken by Nigel...
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