{"id":18150,"date":"2016-04-17T01:44:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T04:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.senna.com:8888\/manual-do-carro\/ayrton-senna-e-riccardo-patrese-na-pista-uma-certeza-de-bons-duelos\/"},"modified":"2016-04-17T01:44:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T04:44:10","slug":"ayrton-senna-e-riccardo-patrese-na-pista-uma-certeza-de-bons-duelos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/ayrton-senna-e-riccardo-patrese-na-pista-uma-certeza-de-bons-duelos\/","title":{"rendered":"On Ricardo Patrese\u2019s birthday, take a look back at some of the duels between the Italian and Ayrton Senna in F1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ricardo Patrese, the Italian driver who achieved a lot of success as a Williams\u2019 driver in the late \u201880s and early \u201890s, turns 62 on Sunday. Patrese is among the athletes who raced the most in Formula One. With 256 starts, only three other drivers competed more often than him: Rubens Barrichello, Michael Schumacher and Jenson Button.<\/p>\n<p>Ayrton Senna, behind the wheel of a McLaren, fought great duels against Patrese, especially during the Italian\u2019s time as a Williams driver, during the 1991 and 1992 seasons. Let\u2019s take a look at some of the most memorable battles.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>1992 German Grand Prix\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0<br \/>\nWith less than five laps to go in the race, \u00a0Patrese was tailing Ayrton Senna. The three-time world champion was doing the best he could, since Williams had the best car, that season. The Brazilian was able to withstand the pressure and hold on to second place, leading Patrese to make a mistake in Hockenheim.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=frcB5kstWrM\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/frcB5kstWrM?rel=0&#038;showinfo=0\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>1991 Brazilian GP\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n To get his first win in Brazil, Senna had to fight a psychological battle against Patrese. Less than 10 laps away from the end, the Brazilian started losing gears and Patrese, oblivious to his rival\u2019s problems, started gaining ground. When Senna had only his sixth gear left, the Italian got even closer to the McLaren. In the last lap, Senna took advantage of the rain that had started to fall to put an end to the Italian\u2019s plans. The Brazilian driver got the checkered flag 2s991 ahead of the Williams.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jFP7aOYi344\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jFP7aOYi344?rel=0&#038;showinfo=0\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>1989<\/b><b>\u00a0Brazilian Grand Prix\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nSenna didn\u2019t come out on top every time he faced Patrese. In the 1989 season\u2019s opening race, at Jacarepagu\u00e1, Riccardo Patrese and Gerhard Berger \u201csandwiched\u201d Ayrton Senna. The Brazilian was in the pole position, but there wasn\u2019t much he could do without his McLaren\u2019s nose, a fact that ended up compromising his whole race.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pn6fxRga23U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pn6fxRga23U?rel=0&#038;showinfo=0\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>1991<\/b><b>\u00a0Italian Grand Prix<\/b>\u00a0<br \/>\n Holding back a single Williams was no easy task for Ayrton Senna, but he often had to deal with two of them. At Monza, the Brazilian driver was able to hold Patrese back for as long as he could \u2013 and right after he took the lead from Ayrton, the Italian ended up spinning out on his own. Then, it was Nigel Mansell\u2019s turn to go after the Brazilian. Senna held on for seven more laps, but Williams simply had the better car at the time. The \u201cLion\u201d finished the race in first place, and Ayrton was second.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-YKCrvB3Qas\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-YKCrvB3Qas?rel=0&#038;showinfo=0\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>1992 South African Grand Prix\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n As we can see in the onboard camera footage, Senna tries to recover from Patrese\u2019s good start at Kyalami. Mansell, who started in the pole position, won the race. Senna finished in third, right behind the Italian. The most interesting part of the video is Senna\u2019s right hand, switching gears with the sequential shifter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HKRNoxqwJhc\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HKRNoxqwJhc?rel=0&#038;showinfo=0\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ricardo Patrese, the Italian driver who achieved a lot of success as a Williams\u2019 driver in the late \u201880s and early \u201890s, turns 62 on Sunday. Patrese is among the athletes who raced the most in Formula One. With 256 starts, only three other drivers competed more often than him: Rubens Barrichello, Michael Schumacher and [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novidades","category-senna-na-midia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}