Ayrton Senna’s most famous Formula One exploits took place in a McLaren car powered by a 3.5 liter V10 Honda engine. While sadly Ayrton is no longer with us, the team at Honda recently paid tribute to him by using recorded audio samples and telemetry data from his 1989 pole position qualifying lap of Suzuka in his McLaren MP4/5. At the time it was a new lap record.
Honda engineers outfitted the Suzuka track with speakers and lights to recreate his 1989 qualifying lap in real time. A group of spectators gathered to watch as a series of lights traced his path around the track while a long network of speakers played a coordinated soundtrack to mimic what it would sound like to hear Senna driving. The result is a lap that sounds, and certainly feels like Senna is there some 24 years later.
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