News Details

Slipping through the rain drops at Spa, à la Senna

On this day in 1985, Ayrton Senna won the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa, skillfully managing the wet-to-dry conditions to claim his second career win in F1. The Brazilian and Lotus driver - now perceived as a wet weather specialist after his outstanding win in the torrential rain at Estoril earlier in the year - headed home a distinguished quartet of past and future world champions, beating to the flag Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost, Keke Rosberg and Nelson Piquet. The race itself had been rescheduled to September following its postponement earlier in the season when Spa's freshly laid-down track surface had disintegrated the day before the race.
Full Story »
4y ago from F1i.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Ricciardo: When I think of McLaren I think of Senna

Daniel Ricciardo will get to drive the 1984 NASCAR Chevrolet Monte Carlo...
4y ago from GrandPrix247.com

Bottas Wins As Verstappen Inherits Pole And Hamilton...

Bottas wins as Verstappen inherits pole position and Hamilton drops to...

Claims of Senna-like foul ‘nonsense' –...

Sep.13 Dr Helmut Marko says claims Max Verstappen deliberately took out...
4y ago from OneStopStrategy.com

Title war not ‘dirty' like Senna-Prost –...

Sep.14 1997 world champion Jacques Villeneuve has moved to play down the...
4y ago from OneStopStrategy.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

MotoGP announces Qatar round postponed until November

MotoGP has confirmed that Qatar's 10-12 April slot will be moved to 6-8...
20h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

How the 2027 MotoGP grid is shaping up

No description available...
2d ago from Motorsport.com

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Rough and tumble weekend dampens Josef Newgarden’s...

Josef Newgarden came into IndyCar's Arlington GP weekend on a high,...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Taka-San: King of Kenya

At the 94th time of asking, Takamoto Katsuta and co-driver Aaron Johnston...
18h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Popular On GunnersToday.com

John Terry claims Arsenal have a player who reminds...

John Terry has claimed that Arsenal wonderkid Max Dowman reminds him of...
7h ago from CaughtOffside.com

10 youngest goal scorers in Premier League as Arsenal...

On March 14, 2026, Arsenal prodigy Max Dowman etched his name into the...
9h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Arsenal hero Thierry Henry sums up feeling of watching...

Arsenal legend Thierry Henry has revealed his reaction to teenage...
14h ago from SportsKeeda.com

“It’s not over. Who said that?” - Guardiola...

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has sent a strong message to Arsenal on...
19h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.