{"id":20987,"date":"2020-12-16T11:13:19","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T14:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/?p=20987"},"modified":"2020-12-16T11:13:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T14:13:19","slug":"teste-ayrton-senna-penske","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/teste-ayrton-senna-penske\/","title":{"rendered":"Senna at Indycar? Check out the backstage of the historic test with Penske"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unable to get the conditions he wanted to renew his contract for the 1993 F-1 season, Ayrton Senna used his down time at the end of 1992 to test an Indy Racing car, along with his friend Emerson Fittipaldi.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Ayrton was worried with team McLaren\u2019s coming engine-switch, leaving Honda motors behind to race with Ford ones, not to mention the way Williams was dominating the category, specially due to their cars\u2019 highly advanced electronic controls.<\/p>\n<p>Actually thinking about taking a sabbatical year away from F-1, in 1993, Senna went to the USA, more specifically to a tiny track in the Arizona desert, close to Phoenix, for his first test in the category: the Firebird Raceway.<\/p>\n<p>On the difficult, narrow circuit, that \u201cfelt like a go-kart track\u201d, as Fittipaldi himself described it, Senna took his first and only laps in an Indy car. It was a Penske PC21, with a turbo Chevrolet engine, with which the team raced the 1992 season.<\/p>\n<p>Senna TV went to Detroit to see the only Indy Car ever driven by Ayrton Senna. To boot, we\u00b4ve also talked to owner of the machine: Roger Penske.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Entrevista com Roger Penske - teste de Ayrton Senna na F-Indy | No Paddock #2\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z-nNupWxTDM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In an interview with reporter Silvia Vinhas, from Bandeirantes TV, who covered the test at Firebird, the already three-time F-1 champion said he was very happy for the opportunity to test an Indy Racing car.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe track was really slow and the car behaves in a very particular way, but the sensation, the feeling, is great. I\u2019m very happy for finally being able to actually experience an Indy Racing car\u201d, said Senna. \u201cOne day I\u2019ll drive this car, it\u2019s just a matter of time. I have to wait for the right moment to compete in the US\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Emerson mentioned that \u201cit was very special day\u201d for him, sharing a car with Ayrton in a day of testing. According to the unofficial timing, Fittipaldi finished his best lap in 49\u201970\u201d, while Senna was faster: 49\u201909\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>As we all know, Senna ended up racing the 1993 season for McLaren. Many consider that year a master-class in auto-racing, that included several historic victories, like the ones at the Brazilian Grand Prix and the European Grand Prix, at Donnington Park, when he beat Alain Prost and Damon Hill, even driving a worse car than the Williams.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unable to get the conditions he wanted to renew his contract for the 1993 F-1 season, Ayrton Senna used his down time at the end of 1992 to test an Indy Racing car, along with his friend Emerson Fittipaldi. At the time, Ayrton was worried with team McLaren\u2019s coming engine-switch, leaving Honda motors behind to [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,17,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias","category-novidades","category-senna-na-midia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20987","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=20987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}