1987 Lotus 99T

This was one of the cars on display at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998.

It's a 1987 Lotus 99T, the car with which Ayrton Senna finished third in the World Drivers Championship. Renault had provided engines for Lotus since 1983, but after they pulled out of F1 at the end of the 1986 season the Lotus 99T was powered by a turbocharged 1,494cc V6 Honda engine. Ayrton Senna won three of the races that season, with four second and two third places. Senna's win in the Detroit Grand Prix was the last for the Lotus team, ending a run of victories that was started by Stirling Moss winning the 1960 Monaco Grand Prix in Rob Walker's Lotus 18.

Lotus 99T

This was one of the cars on display at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in August 1996.

It's a 1987 Lotus 99T, the car with which Ayrton Senna finished third in the World Drivers Championship. Renault had provided engines for Lotus since 1983, but after they pulled out of F1 at the end of the 1986 season the Lotus 99T was powered by a turbocharged 1,494cc V6 Honda engine. Ayrton Senna won three of the races that season, with four second and two third places. Senna's win in the Detroit Grand Prix was the last for the Lotus team, ending a run of victories that was started by Stirling Moss winning the 1960 Monaco Grand Prix in Rob Walker's Lotus 18.

The following season Ayrton Senna moved to the McLaren team, winning the World Championship in 1988, 1990 and 1991, and finishing in second place in 1989.

On 4 November 2013 I showed a photograph of this car at Donington Park in 2003.

Ayrton Senna

This is the front cover of the programme for the Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Donington Park in June 2003 which included a tribute to the late Ayrton Senna, and in particular commemorating his win in the European Grand Prix at Donington Park ten years earlier in 1993.

There was a display of some of the cars which he drove including the ones pictured below.

This is the Toleman TG184 raced by Senna in 1984

The Lotus 99T which he drove in 1987

The McLaren MP4/8 with which he won the 1993 European Grand Prix