F1
How the Barcelona test went for every F1 team
The Barcelona Formula 1 'shakedown' came to an end on Friday with varying fortunes for the teams who were putting this year's all-new cars through their paces for the first time
Alonso drives the ex-Senna McLaren MP4/4
F1
- Last updated: September 19th 2019
More videos
Moss revisits the Mille Miglia
Battersea Park Formula E track walk
The Roebuck/Hughes show
As part of a TAG Heuer advertisement the watch company managed to persuade McLaren to put Alonso in Ayrton Senna’s championship-winning MP4/4 from 1988.
With Honda power the Brazilian won eight of that season’s 16 races (team-mate Alain Prost won seven) and, famously, he qualified at Monaco 1.427 seconds ahead of anyone else. In short, it’s a pretty awesome machine…
TAG Heuer video
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfCeAjAR-_s[/youtube]
Tracking shots lap
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E1K6STJwus[/youtube]
Alonso tells Button what it was like on track
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt-QOtOeQk0[/youtube]
You may also like
F1
When an accountant fired Adrian Newey and doomed an F1 team
An accountant sacked F1's future design legend in 1990 - then watched helplessly as Newey's final creation proved the accountant spectacularly wrong
F1
Eau Rouge: The corner that could not be built today
From 'the most challenging corner of the post-war period' to a sequence that's lost its soul – the evolution of Spa's defining corner has divided the racing world
F1
MPH: F1's big fears fade as a new era begins smoothly
Mark Hughes dissects F1’s first shakedown, revealing why the opening signs are far more positive than expected
×