Thread: History Mystery 40

Here it is.

Driver?
Team?
Year?

Team: Penske?

The helmet is confusing me...

Yeah, the helmet looks different. I thought Emmo's helmet was green.

I do know that Emerson Fittipaldi drove the #4 car Team Penske back in 1993. He won the Indy 500 that year.

You guys are going well Just say what you guys have in mind and lets see if you are right or not.

Well it's Senna's helmet so it's either Ayrton or Bruno. Looking at the car I'd say Ayrton and the year is 1993.

Originally Posted by NetOz

You guys are going well Just say what you guys have in mind and lets see if you are right or not.

I know Im right with the car/team and year but if its not Emerson than I may have think harder on the driver..

Originally Posted by Harakimi

Well it's Senna's helmet so it's either Ayrton or Bruno. Looking at the car I'd say Ayrton and the year is 1993.

Originally Posted by DanicaRules

I know Im right with the car/team and year but if its not Emerson than I may have think harder on the driver..

Both of you are correct about the car and Harakimi about the driver its Senna.

I will tell the story about this photo:

After the 1992, the year that Mansell won his world title and Mclaren provided a not so good car for Ayrton (He finished the championship in 4th place he worst place since 1987, with only 3 wins), he was very unhappy and with Honda leaving F1 he was even more decepointed. For 1993 he wanted to drive the Williams the best car of the grid, but Williams signed with Alain Prost for the 93 season, and as you guys know Senna and Prost in the same team again would be great but Prost said that he didnt wanted Senna in the team with him, and Frank Williams respected Prost's decision, a few people say that Senna said he would drive for free to Frank, he would not have a salary, only his personal sponsors would pay him. But that didnt worked, he was not going to drive in 1993 for Williams.

So he decided to try a new perspective, he went to CART a great series in the USA back on the 90's, where Mansell was going to drive after winning the F1 title in 92. Senna drove the Penske of his friend Emerson, there was not so many problems for this test because Marlboro was sponsoring Penske just like Mclaren.

He drove the Penske car in the Firebird Raceway, Arizona, by the lap 20 with the car he was doing competitve times, and was very impressed with the car he loved to drive it, there was not the technological thing of F1, was a turbo car with clutch and gear shift pedals, just like the F1 he droved in the 80's.

But after all he stayed in F1 with Mclaren, but this test was good for him, he managed to sign a contract for the 1994 season and Ron Dennis payed him more money then what he actually was going to in the beginning.

Some people say that he did not wanted to drive the CART series that year, he did that exactly to put pressure under Fracnk to drive the Williams. But who really knows....