If you have any affinity for motorsports and Formula 1 at all, then this stunning video is a must watch. Here’s Honda paying tribute to the sport’s best known and undisputedly most talented driver of all time, the great Aryton Senna, in a way that is unheard of before.
Sound of Honda – Ayrton Senna 1989 is a visual and aural recreation of the late three-time world champion’s spectacular qualifying lap for the unforgettable 1989 Japanese Grand Prix in Suzuka, where he set a time that was one and a half second clear of his teammate and championship rival, Alain Prost.
Honda used thousands of speakers and light fixtures calibrated with Senna’s telemetry data to duplicate the iconic lap in dramatic fashion. There was no car on the track, but the enormity of the achievement was duly felt. Honda and McLaren will be teaming up in F1 again in 2015, so this tribute also serves as a timely reminder to fans of the great partnership they once had.
What a lap. What a driver. There’s truly no other.
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Awesome…..cheers
Looking back, I was lucky enough to be one of the F1 fan during those years. The maverick Senna versus the strategist ‘Professor’ Prost. The legendary yellow helmet. And the fatal Tamburello corner. I still remember ‘driving’ around that corner in an F1 simulation game. Now the corner have been modified for safety, so to the simulation, the adrenalin is not the same.
Honda make awesome video as always.
Most awesome engineering and reverse engineering
Japanese….they’ll always be ahead of other people on this planet.
awesomeness clip video….terbaik….
missing u..Senna..
So it is true, it was said that Senna drove a Honda with MacLaren chassis, Prost drove a MacLaren with Honda engine. Senna has always been a Honda man, I don’t think Prost is any less talented. In other measures, I think Prost was superior. but when it comes to finding the fastest qualifying lap, Senna had no peers in his era.
The first three years of the 3.5L F1 era of which the Mclaren-Honda partnership was at its peak were certainly among the best era – variety of engine sounds/configuration(V8,V10,V12 – not to mention the adventurous F12 & W12 efforts), clean and uncluttered looking cars (unlike today’s ungainly looking) and also huge grids.
I think i just saw senna doing his lap…..in his car..not s
Not speaker….not light….just senna…..RIP SENNA…..
Senna, you are always remembered
Senna was spectacular in the wet those days without electronic aids. God-like almost. Suzuka always brings out the best of him.
terrific!
spirit of senna lives on.
I was in primary school in those days but remember some stuff from that era. Ferrari had this ugly dark red car with Gerhard Berger as the main driver. Honda cars (Williams / McLaren) was like Barcelona of F1. Camel ads with Nelson Piquet in the Lotus.
MotoGP was also awesome in those days with greats like Kevin Schwantz, Wayne Rainey, Wayne Gardner, Eddie Lawson, Randy Mamola and young Mick Doohan.
I saw Senna as a kid and all the memories came back when last year they played the Docu-drama ‘Senna’ on TV. AWE-Some!
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