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Widely regarded as one of the greatest racing drivers of all time, late icon Ayrton Senna holds three world titles and 41 race wins to his name. But unfortunately, it only took a blip second for Senna’s life and records to come crashing during the events at the San Marino Grand Prix in 1994.

Ayrton Senna | Image: Instituto Ayrton Senna, licensed under Cc By 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

After one of the darkest weekends in Formula One racing history, which saw Austrian racer Roland Ratzenberger’s tragic demise on April 30, the San Marino Grand Prix witnessed Ayrton Senna’s fatal accident on May 1, when he hit the concrete wall at 190 mph. Although Senna passed away later that day, after slipping into a coma, questions and controversies surrounding his death remain today.

How did Formula One Legend Ayrton Senna Die?

Brazilian icon Ayrton Senna, popularly known for his aggressive driving style and intense passion for motorsport,...

“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?” This quote by Dr. Seuss feels tailor-made for Daniel Ricciardo, the Australian-Italian racing driver who has been turning heads on the Formula One circuit under the Australian flag from 2011 to 2024. Indeed, he has certainly revved up the world of Formula One, leaving spectators and competitors alike in the dust.

Daniel Ricciardo | Credit: Formula 1/YouTube

With a career spanning over a decade, he’s not just known for his driving skills but also for his charm that could make a traffic cone blush.

Now, you might wonder—who’s the lucky lady standing by this speedster’s side? Enter Heidi Berger, the mysterious woman who’s captured the heart of one of racing’s most beloved figures. So, curious to know more about her, who has captured the heart of our favorite F1 driver?

Who is Heidi Berger? Daniel Ricciardo...

To celebrate the release of Michael Shevloff’s documentary, Mosley: It’s Complicated, Miracle Comms are delighted to offer three copies of the DVD to giveaway.

Mosley: It’s Complicated is a no-holds-barred study of one of the most successful yet controversial figures in motorsport, Max Mosley. Born under the dark shadow of his infamous fascist father Oswald Mosley, Max has fought his entire life to make his own mark. First in the 1970s as the owner of March, the upstart underdog Formula One race-winning team, then with friend and fellow team owner Bernie Ecclestone, Mosley wrestled control of Formula One from the Fia leading to F1’s most lucrative and popular heyday. Mosley himself went on to preside over the Fia striving to improve driver safety following the deaths of Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna in one weekend in 1994.

Denied his political ambition due to the stigma of his father’s legacy,...

Exclusive: Former Formula One champ Damon Hill is the subject of a new documentary from Alex Holmes, director of BAFTA-nominated doc biopic Maiden.

The feature will explore the story of how Damon Hill overcame the tragic death of his father, Formula One icon Graham Hill, and set himself the challenge of becoming world champion in one of the world’s fastest and most dangerous sports. It will chart a son’s life-long search to understand his father set against the backdrop of two contrasting eras of the sport, and how Damon wrestled with his father’s legacy.

With the support of Damon Hill, and the Hill Estate, the filmmakers will use Hill’s intimate family archive as well as archives featuring the glamorous but highly dangerous era of 1960s motorsport and the intense on track rivalries of 1990s Formula One icons Schumacher, Senna and Prost.

Production is due to start later this year.

"Life is a battle... and I generally only pick the fights I can win." Flat-Out Films has released the official trailer for a biopic documentary titled Mosley: It's Complicated, chronicling the life and times of former Fia president Max Mosley, who was the head of F1's governing body from 1993 to 2005. Over fifty years, Mosley achieved great things, making the family name well respected, until a hidden camera from a Bdsm "party" exposed his colorful sex life in the British tabloids. Some colleagues and friends turned against him. Most public figures would have hidden away, but not Max, who argued his personal affairs are nobody else's business. He sued the News of the World, and won, and was a driving force in the Leveson phone-hacking inquiry. He then went after the lawmakers to implement greater press regulation and data protection laws. Featuring appearances by Max Mosley, Bernie Ecclestone, Hugh Grant,...

Berlin, March 24 (Ians) Sebastian Vettel knows he will have to be patient when he starts his latest Formula One adventure with the Aston Martin team.

"You have to give the whole thing time," the four-time world champion has said, Dpa news reports.

But the 33-year-old German eventually wants to return to the top after six mainly difficult years at Ferrari where he didn't win another title and where his contract was eventually not extended beyond 2020.

With no vacancy at world champions Mercedes or at his former team Red Bull, Aston Martin was all but the only option for Vettel to keep racing, and to do so at a team which has shown some competitiveness.

Known as Racing Point until last year, the team finished fourth in the 2020 constructors' standings. Canadian billionaire Lawrence Stroll funded the team and has also acquired a large stake at Aston Martin as the famed British...

Geez, these F1 2013 videos are coming on fast and furious (haha, cars!). In the most recent trailer for the upcoming racing sim from Codemasters, the focus is placed on the seemingly very important Ferrari 312 T2. I’m not intimately familiar with it or anything, but that doesn’t change the fact that it looks incredibly sexy coming around the bend at the beginning of this video.

Aside from slow motion car porn, the trailer is essentially a promo for the game’s new Classic Edition. In that version, you’ll be able to race famous cars, drivers, and circuits from various eras of F1 history. My knowledge on that is a bit stiff, but I imagine F1 junkies will really get a kick out of it. Other sports games have been doing this kind of thing for years, so it’s definitely a good move on Codemasters’ end.

For all...

I’m not enough of a Formula One junkie to instantly start drooling/sweating/other bodily function at the mention of a 1988 Ferrari F1-87/88C, but that doesn’t mean I’m not enough of a general geek for those things to start happening once I actually see a picture.

The car, which is shown above, is quite beautiful and so, I suppose it should be considered good news then that this very vehicle will be included in this year’s edition of Codemasters’ yearly F1 simulator, F1 2013.

The rest of the jargon is kind of lost on me, but I’m sure anyone more familiar with the series or the sport will eat this up. So for those folks, be sure to check out the press release below. The trailer below is both awesomely and comically dramatic, so that’s something as well.

As a casual fan I...

Chicago – In our latest documentary edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 3 prize packs up for grabs for “Senna” about Brazilian Formula One race car champion Ayrton Senna! The film won the 2011 Sundance Film Festival award for best documentary. Each “Senna” prize pack from HollywoodChicago.com includes a windbreaker and poster from the film.

“Senna” prizes offered in this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup.

“Senna” features appearances by Ayrton Senna (archival footage), Alain Prost, Frank Williams, Ron Dennis, Viviane Senna, Milton da Silva, Neide Senna, Jackie Stewart, Sid Watkins, Galvão Bueno, Reginaldo Leme, Gerhard Berger, Nelson Piquet, Nigel Mansell and Jean-Marie Balestre from director Asif Kapadia and writer Manish Pandey.

Theatrical Release Dates

Aug. 12, 2011: New York and Los Angeles Aug. 19, 2011: Austin, Berkley, Cambridge, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Miami, Nashville, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. Aug. 26, 2011: Atlanta, Denver, Minneapolis, Palm Springs, Palo Alto, Portland, San Diego and Seattle Sept.

Chicago – In our latest documentary edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 admit-two passes up for grabs to the advance Chicago screening of “Senna” about Brazilian Formula One race car champion Ayrton Senna! The film won the 2011 Sundance Film Festival award for best documentary.

“Senna” features appearances by Ayrton Senna (archival footage), Alain Prost, Frank Williams, Ron Dennis, Viviane Senna, Milton da Silva, Neide Senna, Jackie Stewart, Sid Watkins, Galvão Bueno, Reginaldo Leme, Gerhard Berger, Nelson Piquet, Nigel Mansell and Jean-Marie Balestre from director Asif Kapadia and writer Manish Pandey.

The film opens on Aug. 19, 2011. To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “Senna” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This advance screening is on Monday, Aug. 15, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. in Chicago. Directions to enter this Hookup and win can be found beneath the graphic below.

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With the superb documentary Senna out in cinemas now, we met director Asif Kapadia to talk about the feature and its depiction of a F1 legend…

British filmmaker, Asif Kapadia, has already won several awards over his career, with the short film, The Sheep Thief, having won best short film at Cannes, and his 2001 feature, The Warrior, earning a BAFTA for best British film.

His new feature, Senna, has won itself considerable acclaim, and secured Best Documentary at both the Adelaide and Sundance film festivals. A profile of the late Brazilian driving legend, Ayrton Senna, it's not hard to see why the film's garnered such an enthusiastic response. Using interviews and archive footage, it paints a dramatic portrait of one of the most famous drivers in F1 history.

With the film out now in UK cinemas, we caught up with Kapadia to talk about the making of the film, and the driver who inspired it.