Ayrton Senna Mercedes 190

In 1984 to inaugurate the new nurburgring circuit, Mercedes brought along 20 of its new 190E 2.3-16s - each barely modified other than the addition of a roll cage, race seat and a few other safety bits - and handed them over to a bunch of incredibly talented racing drivers. The roster read like a who’s who of F1 past and present at the time: Jack Brabham, James Hunt, Alain Prost, John Surtees and Niki Lauda were all there, as well as an F1 newbie from Brazil called Ayrton Senna. The Brazilian took the chequered flag ahead of Lauda, with Carlos Reutemann in third and Keke Rosberg in fourth. It marked Senna as a forced to be reckoned with, and made the car he drove a significant piece of motorsport history.

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