The majority of you presumably will have seen the movie Senna, a documentary both sublime in execution and gripplingly emotive within which was laid bare the psychological enmity between Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna. It remains most heated – and consequently greatest – rivalry the sport has ever known. But then Senna was not a man who made friends on-track, his raw, on-track confrontations with Nigel Mansell proof of this.

Their near-dead heat in Jerez ‘86. Wheel-to-wheel in Barcelona ’91. Three wide with a backmarker in Hungary ’89. Neither giving way. Neither backing down. And neither ready to quit before the chequered flag. And then, of course, there’s Monaco ’92. Twenty years on, Arguably they still remain most memorable three laps in F1 history.


Senna vs. Mansell at '92 Monaco Gp

James Gent

James Gent first started as a freelance motorsport writer in the UK, before an urge to be paid a monthly wage saw him move to Dubai in late 2011. A keen motoring enthusiast, he hopes that one day his garage will hold a Lamborghini Countach, as well as a WRC Lancia Delta Integrale.

James Gent

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