S7 E3: Donington 1993 - Senna and beyond

Bring Back V10s - Classic F1 stories

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4.9 • 734 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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The 1993 European Grand Prix at Donington is one of Ayrton Senna's most iconic victories, and of course one of the most famous opening laps by any driver in F1 history. Mark Hughes and Gary Anderson - who were both at Donington that weekend - join host Glenn Freeman to revisit Senna's majestical performance, as well as everything else that happened in that race and what else was going on in F1 at the time - including Peugeot abandoning plans to enter a team in F1, the FIA's first steps towards banning electronic driver aids, the end of Ivan Capelli's F1 career, and tension between Riccardo Patrese and his new Benetton team, which also found itself in a battle with McLaren over its works Ford engines... GET IN TOUCH: Use the hashtag #BringBackV10s on Twitter or email [email protected] Did you know The Race has an app? Download it today on iOS or Android

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0:32.7	The Athletic. If you're not list Ayrton Senna's greatest drives, the 1993 European Grand Prix at Donington
0:46.7	would surely be right up there.
0:48.7	And if you were to list his greatest opening laps, there's every chance this would be right
0:53.2	at the very top. Senna left everybody else trailing in his wake on that soggy Easter afternoon,
0:59.0	including his nemesis Alain Prost, whose Williams team made tough going of the changeable conditions.
1:04.0	But as Senna basked in his own glory and Prost's misery in equal measure,
1:08.0	as ever, there were plenty of other storylines from this weekend
1:11.1	that rarely get a mention given how iconic this race has become in the Senna legend. So to help
1:17.2	me, Glenn Freeman, work through Senna's brilliance and much, much more from Donington, 1993. We
1:23.2	have two men who were there that day. Gary Anderson, who was on the pit wall for Jordan, and
1:27.4	Mark Hughes, who was covering the race.
1:30.0	Gary, I'll come to you first. Thanks for joining us again. When you think back to Donington, 1993, what's the first thing that comes to mind?
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