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Saturday's Monaco Grand Prix qualifying is likely to see the fastest lap yet around Formula One's most glamorous circuit but a far slower one from 30 years ago will always be revered as one of the greatest ever. On May 14, 1988, Brazilian Ayrton Senna steereWatch: Senna's magical Monaco lap relived 30 years on
Saturday's Monaco Grand Prix qualifying is likely to see the fastest lap yet around Formula One's most glamorous circuit but a far slower one from 30 years ago will always be revered as one of the greatest ever. On May 14, 1988, Brazilian Ayrton Senna steered his Honda-powered McLaren MP4/4 car onto a dry track and put on a masterclass that is still discussed in astonished tones. It was, as the late triple world champion eloquently explained, almost unreal. «I was already on pole and I was going faster and faster. One lap after the other, quicker and quicker and quicker,» he told Canadian reporter Gerald Donaldson some time later. «I was at one stage just on pole, then by half a second, and then one second... and I kept going. Suddenly, I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car. »And I suddenly realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously." Midway through the session, Senna recorded a lap of one minute 25.6 seconds. Then he clocked a 1:24.4. And finally a 1:23.998. His French team mate Alain Prost, who had won two of his four world championships by then, joined Senna on the front row but was an astonishing 1.427... Read more