{"id":22918,"date":"2020-01-20T12:03:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T15:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/?p=22918"},"modified":"2020-01-20T12:03:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T15:03:27","slug":"o-primeiro-teste-de-ayrton-senna-com-williams-renault-em-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/o-primeiro-teste-de-ayrton-senna-com-williams-renault-em-portugal\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayrton Senna\u2019s first test with Williams-Renault in Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">On January 20, 1994, Ayrton Senna had his first test behind the wheel of a Williams-Renault, his new team for that season. The Brazilian had just ended his successful partnership with McLaren \u2013 together, they had won three world titles and 35 races in Formula One.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Senna\u2019s teammate in 1994 was Damon Hill, who had finished the previous season in third place and would be staying with Williams. The duo had driven their cars in the previous day (19), so TV stations could film them and promotional pictures could be taken. On the 20<sup>th<\/sup>, Ayrton started to test the car in earnest at the Portuguese circuit of Estoril.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The car was still the FW15 model that the team had used in 1993, but without the electronic components that had been banned by FIA in 1994. That meant the car didn\u2019t have active suspension, traction control, electronic throttle control or anti-lock brakes (ABS).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ayrton Senna and Damon Hill doing pre-season testing in Estoril, Portugal 1994\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DImf3UWbJwQ?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 class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Theoretically, it was very similar to the 1993 model, but, in practice, it was a different car from the one that had taken Alain Prost to his fourth world title, bringing the Frenchman\u2019s career as an F1 driver to a close.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Senna took 42 laps in his first test at Estoril, and even though the day\u2019s times weren\u2019t made official for comparison purposes, the Brazilian was the quickest among the drivers who made tests. Ayrton expressed concern with the car\u2019s instability, but complimented the power of the Renault V10 engine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Williams would only take the new FW16 model to the track one month later, with training sessions at Silverstone, Paul Ricard an Imola, during the pre-season. The championship would be starting on March 27, with the Brazilian GP, in Sao Paulo, at the Interlagos Raceway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 20, 1994, Ayrton Senna had his first test behind the wheel of a Williams-Renault, his new team for that season. The Brazilian had just ended his successful partnership with McLaren \u2013 together, they had won three world titles and 35 races in Formula One. Senna\u2019s teammate in 1994 was Damon Hill, who had [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,17,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22918","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\/22918","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=22918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}