Alain Prost
Ayrton was always very very fast in the wet
Derek Warwick
Ayrton set standards the rest of us can only dream about. His death doesn’t seem real. He was invincible and was going to keep on winning
Damon Hill
Ayrton Senna will take a corner faster than he had ever done before and trust that something in Ayrton Senna would bring him and the car around the corner – referring to the European Grand Prix in 1993
Emerson Fittipaldi
The life of Ayrton Senna was an example in dedication and the love of the sports few athletes have had at international level. The world has lost the greatest athlete in the history of motor racing and I have lost a great friend. Grand Prix racing will never be the same without Ayrton.
Erik Comas
Ayrton Senna saved my life
Frank Williams, 1994
His loss is impossible to quantify. Everyone who has ever met him in whatever capacity feels they have lost someone very special
He was ahead of the game, clearly belonged in a Grand Prix car. He was born for it if you like
Gerhard Berger, 1993
I tried to find weaknesses in Senna, but I couldn’t. He is 100 per cent in everything. I learned a lot from him, so for me it was a good three years. And I still like Senna. We had good fun, a good relationship.
Ayrton was the best friend I ever had in F1, closer to me than anybody else in the business. During my three years driving with him at McLaren, I came to realize that he was the best, one level higher than the rest of us.
At the end of the day, when you see the yellow helmet, you know you are in trouble
Jackie Stewart
Senna really is the best racing driver in the world, not only the fastest
He was probably the fastest champion I ever saw. He was always stretching the elastic. My goodness was he quick
James Hunt
The best driver in Grand Prix racing, the best driver in the world by a long way
Probably the greatest racing driver of all time
John Watson
He is the greatest Grand Prix driver at the minute
John Bisignano
There’s only one word that describes Ayrton’s style, and that is: fast. He would take the car beyond it’s design capabilities. He would brake later, fly into these corners where the car was just over the edge, and somehow, he could dance and dance with that car, to where it stayed on track.
Ron Dennis
Ayrton Senna was an extraordinary racing driver. His skills, craft, subtlety and courage were of such magnitude that he dwarfed his generation of drivers.
He was able to drive the car to the absolute limit of its mechanical ability, yet he still had the mental ability to take in what the car was doing and recorded it in microscopic detail. Together with a talented engineer, he could get the optimum performance out of the car
Rubens Barrichello
As I already said on TV, I want to dedicate this success to Ayrton. This is the place, I believe, where my life changed. After everything I have been through, from the problems on the car to the problems with myself, I think that Imola this year has seen another changing point… – in post-race press conference at Imola GP 1999. He finished 3rd.
When I first came round in the medical center after my accident, the first face I saw was Ayrton’s, with tears in his eyes. I had never seen that with Ayrton before. I just had the impression that he felt as if my accident was like one of his own. He helped me a lot with my career and I can’t find the words to describe his loss
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