{"id":23369,"date":"2020-05-26T18:03:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T21:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/?p=23369"},"modified":"2020-05-26T18:03:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T21:03:08","slug":"30-years-ago-ayrton-senna-won-in-monaco-for-the-third-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/30-years-ago-ayrton-senna-won-in-monaco-for-the-third-time\/","title":{"rendered":"30 years ago, Ayrton Senna won in Monaco for the third time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before the Monaco Grand Prix, the 1990 season had been pretty even. A different driver had won each of the three races up to that point: McLaren\u2019s Ayrton Senna in Phoenix (USA); Ferrari\u2019s Alain Prost at Interlagos (Brazil); and Williams\u2019 Riccardo Patrese in San Marino.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With two wins in Monaco and the 1988 F1 world title under his belt, Senna was well on his way to becoming the King of Monaco when he arrived for the 1990 Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The race was marked by the Brazilian\u2019s utter dominance. The McLaren driver won the pole position on Saturday with 1min21s314, beating Alain Prost\u2019s Ferrari by 0s462. It was Senna\u2019s fourth pole position in the Principality and his third one in a row.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The race had two starts. At the first one, Senna did well, but the race was suspended after Prost and Berger crashed on the Mirabeau corner. Since the accident caused a traffic bottleneck, the race officials decided to start over.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the time, drivers were allowed to use their spare cars. So, Prost and Berger were back on the grid. At the second start, Senna was even faster, and paid no mind to his rivals.\u00a0 By the time the second lap was over, he was 3s7 ahead of Prost.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Senna peeled away and benefited from Alain Prost\u2019s retirement on the 31<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0lap, due to battery issues in his Ferrari. That meant the McLaren driver was now 19 seconds ahead of the car in second place, driven by Jean Alesi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Starting on lap 66, Senna slowed down his McLaren in order to preserve its Honda engine, and Alesi started gaining ground (after being 23 seconds behind Senna). The Frenchman had another motivation to start driving faster: Berger\u2019s McLaren was right behind his Tyrell, fighting for second place.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Grande Pr\u00eamio de M\u00f4naco 1990 - Ultima volta e vit\u00f3ria de Ayrton Senna\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ghlhlDh0Jrw?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 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the final lap, Senna kept his cool and crossed the finish line only 1s087 ahead of Alesi and 2s073 ahead of Berger. It was the Brazilian\u2019s 22nd win in Formula One. He led the race from start to finish and also had the race\u2019s quickest lap: 1min24s468, on the 59th lap.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u201cI tried to preserve my tires and my car at the beginning of the race, but trying to keep some distance from my chasers. However, one third of the race in, I started having engine problems \u2013 it was still working fine, but it was losing a little power and making a different sound. Naturally, I was worried, and brought my RPM down, trying to preserve it and driving in a way that taxed it as little as possible\u201d, said Senna.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was a perfect weekend, crowning the third victory \u2013 out of six \u2013 by the future King of Monaco on the streets of Monte Carlo.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the Monaco Grand Prix, the 1990 season had been pretty even. A different driver had won each of the three races up to that point: McLaren\u2019s Ayrton Senna in Phoenix (USA); Ferrari\u2019s Alain Prost at Interlagos (Brazil); and Williams\u2019 Riccardo Patrese in San Marino. With two wins in Monaco and the 1988 F1 world [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,17,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23369","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\/23369","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=23369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}