News about Ayrton Senna

Wednesday marks three decades since the Senna's death and the occasion has been observed by fans paying their respect. In addition, F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali was joined by politicians from Brazil, Italy and Austria - in remembrance of Ratzenberger, who died during a qualifying session. Flags, jerseys and posters bearing the Sao Paulo-born driver's face adorned gates of Imola on Wednesday, while many surrounded the memorial in his honour and laid wreaths, lit candles and took a moment for reflection.

With her model good looks, A-list friends and flair for flirty fashion, at first glance Lady Lola Bute is your typical young aristocrat.  Described by Tatler as one of the nation's 'ultimate it-girls' Lola, 24, who is the daughter of the late John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute and fashion designer Serena Bute, spends her summers in Ibiza, and is often snapped at celebrity parties. She recently wowed in an Alessandro Fran gown on the Vanity Fair Oscar's red carpet. But beneath the glitz and glamour is tremendous pain. Lola, who recently celebrated her early 25th birthday in a huge bash at her family seat Mount Stuart House, is completely sober, having witnessed first hand what can happen with a life of excess. In 2019, she lost her boyfriend Kai Schachter to suicide. Just six months later her best friend IIa Scheckter died of a suspected accidental overdose. A year later she was caught in scandal when she broken lockdown rules, and months after her father passed away from cancer.After her boyfriend died she sought help for 'unhealthy coping mechanisms'. From here, Lola cleaned up her act and set up an charity to help those struggling with mental health and addiction.

Senna was F1's brightest star, a sporting giant and an icon in his native Brazil but on lap seven of the ill-fated San Marino Grand Prix - a weekend that had already claimed the life of Austrian Roland Ratzenberger - he ran off the road at 190mph and hit a concrete wall. He died instantly, aged 34. Wednesday will mark the 30th anniversary of Senna's death in Imola and Ecclestone (left), who ruled the sport for four decades, told the PA news agency: 'It was just a disastrous weekend.'

OLIVER HOLT IN IMOLA: There is nothing to suggest, from the outside, that there is anything different about Room 200 at Hotel Castello on the outskirts of the pretty little spa town of Castel San Pietro Terme, a few miles from Bologna. The bedroom door is as plain and unremarkable as every other door in the modest hotel. Its windows do not have a view to speak of, because there is nothing much to see out here on the edge of town. But inside, the suite of three rooms has been preserved - with the addition of a flat screen television - the way it was when Ayrton Senna, the man who many still believe to be the greatest racing driver ever, walked out of that door on the morning of May 1, 1994, and never returned.

A rare sports car once owned by F1 legend Ayrton Senna has gone up for sale for a whopping £500,000. Senna raced in Formula One between 1984 and and 1994, winning three world championships with McLaren in 1988, 1990 and 1991.  The Honda NSX, of which only a handful of models are currently in existence, goes up for sale nearly 30 years after Senna tragically lost his life at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix at the Imola Circuit. 

Sky Sports interviewed fans about their aspiration F1 track and brought it to life in images and an animation ahead of the new season. The 3.7-mile-long circuit includes elements from several Grand Prix series, including the Suzuka ferris wheel in Japan, Eau Rouge of Spa in Belgium, the Hairpin Hotel in Monaco, and the uphill climb at Circuit of the Americas. Silverstone is incorporated in the pouring rain, with the venerable RAF Red Arrows flying overhead to add some colour to a typical British summer day.

Hamilton's jacket had a photograph of Senna sporting a helmet with his name in italics underneath. Senna died in 1994 after suffering a car accident in Imola, Italy, during the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix. Hamilton has previously described him as "the guy who inspired me as a child."

ROB ROBERTSON: The greatest driver of all-time? Lewis Hamilton and Michael Schumacher's appeal, as well as Ayrton Senna and Manuel Fangio, will be reaffirmed on Sunday as his exploits were remembered during the British Grand Prix at Silverstone will be emphasized. It's been 60 years since Jim Clark first won the British Grand Prix, the culmination of a season that saw him win in Belgium, Holland, France, and the United Kingdom - all back-to-back, as well as Italy, Mexico, and South Africa. He came second in Germany and third in the United States, the only Grand Prix in which he did not take part was the opener in Monaco, where he had to abandon while leading on the 78th lap due to gear-box failure.

OLIVER HOLT: There are rare, valuable moments in sport in which one of the best ones is operating on a different plane. Sport can often be fleeting because it is a blur of movement and intensity. The brilliant burst of genius is often over before you know what you've seen. But those times are all intoxicating for that. The first time I saw it live? In 1993, Ayrton Senna tore through the field in an inferior McLaren, making it dance through the rain to bring one of the best laps in Formula One history. I've been lucky. Shane Warne ripping into the England batting line-up in the Second Test at Adelaide in December 2006, and Roger Federer winning his first Wimbledon title by dismantling Mark Philippoussis in 2003 and Lionel Messi destroying Manchester United in the 2011 Champions League final at Wembley, with Shane Warne ripping into the England batting line-up. Ben Stokes' innings (pictured) of 155 at Lord's on Sunday belongs to the company.

JONATHAN McEVOY: It's not a mistake or one-eyed view when Christian Horner, his Red Bull chairman, says Verstappen can be talked about in the same breath as a hero from Ayrton Senna, who equalled in Sunday's Canadian Grand Prix wins. He has reached the figure at a much younger age than the Brazilian maestro, 25 years old to 33, but it has taken him longer to do so, 171 versus 161.

MCEVOY: Not even a bird on track could halt Max Verstappen's name from entering Formula One lore with the lights-to-flag victory at the Canadian Grand Prix, which moved him ahead of Ayrton Senna on 41 career victories. Such was his ferociety when the sun finally broke out across a rainy weekend in Montreal that was mostly about losing control - the avian jaywalker apart - was purely fear of losing control. He was raving about his tyres that his race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase, nicknamed GP, followed the doctor's orders. We've got the message.' ' Get your head down.'

It's amazing to think that the man who is near nailed-on certainty to beat Ayrton Senna's total wins, 41, was not even alive when the great Brazilian died at Imola. Max Verstappen was born on the first day of May 1994, but his father, Jostappen, joined Benetton as a teammate to Michael Schumacher. However, there is a video of Senna driving, a film about him, and an enduring aura that keeps his fame kicking even among a younger group. Verstappen said, 'I never take a look at the numbers before the Canadian Grand Prix,' said Verstappen. However, I would not have guessed being in this industry as a child.'

Box to Box Films, the British-based production company behind the popular Netflix series Formula 1: Drive to Survive, has agreed to a joint venture with Major League Soccer in the United States. As the group announced by Academy Award and multi-BAFTA award-winning producer James Gay-Rees will produce material and possibly a documentary, MLS is expected to be the first league to get the pro'DTS treatment,' according to league deputy commissioner Gary Stevenson. MLS has a ten-year media rights contract with Apple. Any series or content that Box to Box creates is likely to be available on their Apple TV+ website. Box to Box has previously worked with Apple TV to produce sports material in the form of the docuseries 'Make or Break,' which serializes professional surfing.

For the first time next month, the remains of a lifesaving piece of equipment will be on display in Madrid. Fans of one of sports' most exciting times in history, when the protective device was launched three years ago. Visitors to the new official exhibit, which will open in the Spanish capital in March before heading around the world, will be able to view the remarkable piece of memorabilia, which is now almost unrecognizable after being called into action in Bahrain.

According to former Williams and Ferrari team manager Peter Windsor, Australian young gun Oscar Piastry (pictured left) must hit the ground running when he makes his McLaren debut in March. In the meantime, Australian colleague Daniel Ricciardo has urged Piastri to absorb as much data as he can and 'take it by race.'

OLIVER HOLT IN SANTOS: A few months ago, it seemed that most of Britain was gathered patiently on London's streets to pay their respects to the Queen. Brazil turned its attention to Vila Belmiro, a stadium in Santos' port city, where the man enshrined for many of us as the best footballer there has ever been, on Monday. This queue was a beautiful thing. It was a football queue. It was a token of Pele's legacy of joy in the game. People gathered to mourn him and attend what had been styled as a public wake for him ahead of his funeral on Tuesday, where a cortege would wind through the streets and past his mother's house before a private, family gathering, but it seemed as if they had come to celebrate everything that football means to them.

OLIVER HOLT: A brilliant and alluring light that makes everyone in the orbit feel empowered by its presence is thrown out by its presence. I spent a few years with Michael Jordan in the Chicago Bulls' locker room before a regular season game against the Bucks in Milwaukee, and I'm still remembering him as a power of nature even on a rehabilitation couch. It was amazing to be in the Lusail Stadium on the northern outskirts of Doha a fortnight ago to see Lionel Messi's genius leading Argentina to victory over France in the World Cup final. Messi's talent seemed to linger over the arena that night, so you could picture yourself as an unstoppable power. We want to acclaim greatness so that we can be, albeit tenuously, connected with it. So that we can bask in its glamor. Here is a snapshot of me with Pele. Here's a peek at my Michael Jordan tale. This was the first time I met Tiger Woods. Have I told you I bumped into Ayrton Senna once in the Duty Free shop at Heathrow? We are always on the lookout for greatness. We need new outbreaks of it.

JONATHAN McEVOY IN SAO PAULO: Lewis Hamilton's image stands out from a mural painted on a Sao Paulo school wall. It is newly constructed and, in a sense, stands for all this sprawling city has meant to him over the years. It's here that his hero Ayrton Senna was born and is buried. It was in a suite at the Hilton hotel in the same Morumbi district as Senna's graveyard, that he excused himself from the bath after losing out on a dream world title in the first race of his debut season.

Nelson Piquet, Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna, Damon Senna, Michael Schumacher, Mika Hakkinen, and Sebastian Vettel are among the many names on the roll call. At Suzuka, the three champions are unbeaten. With victory and the fastest lap on tomorrow, Max Verstappen (inset) knows he will ink his name on the page. Not that he wishes to believe it. Verstappen has been dour since switching Singapore for Japan. In the midst of rumors of a cost-cap violation, persistent questions about Red Bull's accounts have irked him. When being quizzed on them this week, the curt reply was, 'It's not my company.'

Max Verstappen's home win at Circuit Zandvoort on Sunday was another spectacular twist in the F1 season. After yet another strong showing, the Red Bull driver won his fourth victory in a row, but that wasn't the only big talking point from the weekend. Sportmail looks at all the best bits from a brave pigeon standing amidst the screaming cars to Sebastian Vettel's heart-warming meeting with Ukrainian refugees before the race.

Lady Caroline Crichton-Stuart, 38, of Instagram, reported that she is engaged to one-year Hetty Douglas, 30, and posted a number of snaps (left and bottom inset). The couple exchanged rings with one another on a beach in Ibiza (top inset) and appeared to also give a ring to Caroline's son Ben (right, the family celebrating the news with Cara Delevingne, Lady Lola Bute and Serena Solitaire Wendell)