{"id":21011,"date":"2019-10-31T17:48:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T20:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/?p=21011"},"modified":"2019-10-31T17:48:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T20:48:13","slug":"ha-32-anos-senna-estreava-no-japao-com-lotus-e-com-podio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/ha-32-anos-senna-estreava-no-japao-com-lotus-e-com-podio\/","title":{"rendered":"32 years ago, Senna made his debut in Japan, with Lotus \u2013 and a podium finish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">On November 1, 1987, Ayrton Senna had his first Formula One race in Japan. The Suzuka raceway, where the Brazilian driver won his three world titles (1988, 1990 and 1991), was hosting the category for the first time, and Senna stood out in the race due to his amazing recovery: he started in seventh place and finished in second with his yellow Lotus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">All signs pointed to a historic duel in Japan, between Nigel Mansell and Nelson Piquet, both of them Williams drivers, who were fighting for the season\u2019s title. When the Briton crashed during the practice sessions, however, Piquet became champion even before the start of the race, since the \u201cLion\u201d wasn\u2019t able to take part in event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8Ai9qolP7ao?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Since the fight for the title was settled, the spotlight fell on Senna and Ferrari\u2019s Gerhard Berger, who had the pole position and won the race. Ayrton had one of his best starts ever in F1, jumping from seventh place to fourth even before the first corner. Senna overtook Piquet, Teo Fabi (Benetton) and Michele Alboerto (Ferrari). Halfway through the first lap, Alain Prost had a puncture in one of his McLaren\u2019s tires and Senna became third.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">On the 12th lap, Ayrton passed Thierry Boutsen (Benetton) to take the second place. From then on, the Brazilian had to worry about Piquet, and was able to defend himself from his fellow countryman for 40 laps, until Nelson\u2019s car started leaking oil, forcing him to retire. With a better pit-stop strategy, Swede Stefan Johansson (McLaren) overtook both Brazilians after a tire change, but Senna was able to catch up to him, since his tires were less worn-out by the final stretch of the race.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">With less than five laps to go, Senna was still ten seconds behind Johansson.\u00a0<span class=\"contextualExtensionHighlight ms-font-color-themePrimary ms-border-color-themePrimary ident_1794_2014\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">The Lotus driver picked up the pace and shaved around two seconds per lap, until overtaking the Swede at the start of the final lap \u2013 to the delight of the Japanese crowd, who was rooting for the car with a Honda engine.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">With a good performance from his Ferrari throughout the entire race, Berger won with a 17-second advantage over Senna, who finished in second place, just 0s310 ahead of Johansson. The Japanese were just getting to know the man who would become the country\u2019s most beloved driver, and who would make history at Suzuka in the very next year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Senna TV with Lotus 99T:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rel\u00edquias de Ayrton Senna: Lotus da 1\u00aa vit\u00f3ria em M\u00f4naco | #SennaTV - 004\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ua7lwK0hxho?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<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 1, 1987, Ayrton Senna had his first Formula One race in Japan. The Suzuka raceway, where the Brazilian driver won his three world titles (1988, 1990 and 1991), was hosting the category for the first time, and Senna stood out in the race due to his amazing recovery: he started in seventh place [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,17,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21011","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\/21011","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=21011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}