- McLaren’s latest tribute to Ayrton Senna takes place at the 2024 Goodwood Festival of Speed
- 2024 marks the 30th anniversary of the Formula 1 icon’s death
- Senna’s nephew Bruno Senna will drive his uncle’s car up the hill during the event
McLaren will pay homage to Ayrton Senna at the Goodwood Festival of Speed 2024part of a series of tributes to Senna this year marking the 30th anniversary of the death of the Brazilian F1 icon.
The automaker will display the Senna supercar and a MCL38 F1 car in combination Senna-inspired paintings which were unveiled earlier this year at the 2024 Monaco Grand Prix. Both feature the green and gold colours of the Brazilian flag, which also adorned patriot Senna’s helmets.
Special McLaren livery marking 30th anniversary of Ayrton Senna’s death
Senna’s nephew, former F1 driver and current McLaren brand ambassador Bruno SennaHe will also drive the 1991 McLaren MP4/6 that his uncle raced to seven F1 victories and his third and final Goodwood hill climb title. The Honda-powered MP4/6 is notable for being the only championship-winning F1 car to be equipped with a V-12 engine, and the last championship-winning car to use a conventional manual transmission.
Although he only lived to the age of 34, Senna is still regarded by F1 drivers past and present as one of the greatest in the history of the sport. In addition to his three championships, Senna achieved 41 wins and 80 podiums during his career. The majority of these came during his time at McLaren, which lasted from 1988 to 1993.
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Special McLaren livery marking 30th anniversary of Ayrton Senna’s death
Senna was killed in an accident at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix, a tragic weekend that also saw the death of Austrian driver Roland Ratzenberger, who had crashed his Simtek in qualifying the day before Senna’s fatal accident. The exact cause of that accident was never determined, but the deaths of Senna and Ratzenberger sparked a new round of safety improvements in F1.
This year also marks the 50th anniversary of McLaren’s first F1 championships. It won its first constructors’ and drivers’ titles in 1974 with the M23 and driver Emerson Fittipaldi. The Brazilian, who won a second F1 championship with Lotus, will once again drive his title-winning car at Goodwood this year. Fellow two-time F1 champion Mika Hakkinen will drive a McLaren Solus GT painted like his 1998 title-winning MP4/13.