1991 Formula One World Championship
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The 1991 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 45th season of FIA Formula One motor racing and the 42nd season of the Formula One World Championship. It featured the 1991 Formula One World Championship for Drivers and the 1991 Formula One World Championship for Constructors, which were contested concurrently over a sixteen-race series that commenced on 10 March and ended on 3 November.
Defending champion Ayrton Senna won his third and final title with McLaren.
Nigel Mansell finished as runner-up with Williams.
Mansell's teammate Riccardo Patrese ended the season ranked third.
Bertrand Gachot in the Jordan during the US GP
Ayrton Senna
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Ayrton Senna da Silva was a Brazilian racing driver who won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1988, 1990, and 1991. One of three Formula One drivers from Brazil to become World Champion, Senna won 41 Grands Prix and set 65 pole positions, with the latter being the record until 2006. He died as a result of an accident while leading the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix, driving for the Williams team.
Ayrton Senna
Senna at the age of 3
Senna began racing go-karts in Brazil at the age of 13.
21-year-old Senna in his British Formula Ford 1600 single seater