Vettel to show Senna's final McLaren throughout Imola race weekend · RaceFans

Sebastian Vettel will carry out an illustration run in a automotive beforehand raced by Ayrton Senna at Imola to mark the thirtieth anniversary of his loss of life.

The four-times world champion owns a McLaren-Ford MP4/8 of the sort Senna raced within the 1993 season. He’ll drive it in the course of the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix weekend at Imola in two weeks’ time.

Vettel introduced his plans in a social media put up. “Ayrton Senna was not solely a driver who I valued extremely for being top-of-the-line racing has ever seen, but in addition a person of nice compassion,” he mentioned.

“It’s been 30 years since his accident and I wish to pay tribute to Ayrton. I shall be in Imola for the grand prix to drive his automotive, the McLaren MP4/8. I hope to see you on Sunday on the nineteenth of Could.”

Senna scored his last grand prix victory in an MP4/8 within the season finale at Adelaide that yr. It marked the top of his six-year spell at McLaren earlier than he joined Williams the next season.

Nonetheless Senna was killed in a crash in the course of the third race of the 1994 championship at Imola, 30 years in the past at the moment.

He was certainly one of two drivers who died in the course of the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix weekend. The Imola race promoters have beforehand introduced they are going to pay tribute to him and Roland Ratzenberger, who was killed when he crashed throughout qualifying on the day earlier than the race.

Vettel drove his McLaren on the Goodwood Pageant of Velocity final yr as a part of his ‘Race With out Hint’ initiative to show previous F1 vehicles operating on artificial fuels which have the potential to cut back carbon emissions. He beforehand demonstrated a Williams-Renault FW14B of the sort Nigel Mansell used to win the world championship, in the course of the British Grand Prix weekend at Silverstone.

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