Senna knew it he would have a hard time defeating the Williams-Renaults, but the unbeatable cars were surpassed by the three-time champion in four GPs: Senna won in Monaco, Hungary and Italy, and took an unlikely pole position at the qualifying sessions for the Canadian GP \u2013 which, on June 13, celebrates its 25th<\/sup> anniversary.<\/span><\/p>\n But why, after all, were the Williams so much faster than the cars from team McLaren, which had won the four previous championships (three with Senna and one with Alain Prost)? There\u2019s not a simple answer, but two areas of those cars helped them become F1 legends: aerodynamics and electronics.<\/span><\/p>\n At the beginning of 1992, Williams presented the FW14B as a sort of update of the 1991 vehicle. No one \u2013 probably not even themselves \u2013 expected such a success that early in the year, even though the Williams were already the fastest cars on the grid by the end of 1991 (which allowed Mansell to fight for the title, even though Senna had won the first four races of the season).<\/span><\/p>\n Following the initial good results in 1992, Williams decided to scrap their plans of unveiling the FW15 model and save it for the 1993 season. With the arrival of Adrian Newey, considered the most successful designer in F1 history (and nicknamed \u201cthe clipboard magician\u201d), the British team developed a new type of active suspension, giving the FW14B the ability to \u201cpredict\u201d the best possible height to make corners and deal with the track\u2019s irregularities.<\/span><\/p>\n Besides that, Williams created a new semiautomatic gearbox and designed a more effective traction control system, which stopped one cylinder from working if the car started drifting. With the technologies developed by Newey, Patrick Head and other engineers, the team became unbeatable on most tracks in 1992.<\/span><\/p>\n Williams won tem times, that season \u2013 nine of them with Mansell and one with Patrese \u2013 wrapping up the year with 15 pole positions out of a possible 16. That explains why Senna\u2019s pole in Canada, with a time just 0s097 faster than Patrese\u2019s, who started in second, is considered such a feat in F1 history.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cThe Williams are out of this world\u201d. That was Senna\u2019s statement after stepping out of his McLaren at the 1992 Brazilian GP, with a broken car. It was just the third race in the year, and the British team had already scored one-twos in every race, always with Nigel Mansell and Riccardo Patrese. Senna knew […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20549","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\/20549","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=20549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/92HU_121.jpg\")
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