Ayrton Senna won his first GP on this day in 1985 in Portugal, his glorious racing career hitting one of its most significant landmarks. In today's Great Read, Nigel Roebuck recalls a talent feted for F1 greatness - but also a driver with a dark side
For a few days after seeing Senna, I couldn't get the man out of my mind, and perhaps not surprisingly so. I had, after all, been present at all but a handful of his 161 Grands Prix, and inevitably the movie brought that time alive again, releasing a deluge of memories.
I thought back, for example, to a morning in the spring of 1983, when a phone rang in the Autosport office and I picked up. The voice at the other end asked for Jeremy Shaw, then the magazine's Formula 3 correspondent. "He's not here — I'll give him a message," I said. "Who's calling?"
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