Ayrton Senna took his final Monaco GP win 30 years ago today. He did it in the McLaren MP4/8, an underrated F1 car that the Brazilian still loved, as the team's chassis designer Matthew Jeffreys remembers in today's Great Read
The dark, grey March sky looming on Silverstone reflected the mood of Ayrton Senna, casting a cumulative pall over the circuit. Would this new '93 car be any good? Could it even win races? It was, and it could.
Labelled by Ron Dennis as "one of the best cars we ever made", the McLaren MP4/8 is one of the great cult F1 machines. Not only was it Senna's last McLaren – the Brazilian taking iconic red and white Marlboro colours for one last rodeo – it was also the car in which he delivered what so many believe is his greatest win: Donington '93...
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