FROM THE ARCHIVE

Ayrton Senna sits in the cockpit of his Tolemanhart TG183B, mechanics busy fettling, during the weekend of the 1984 Belgian Grand Prix at Zolder. The team’s spare car is alongside, while Johnny Cecotto’s #20 machine waits by the opposite wall of the garage. The Venezuelan unexpectedly won the intra-team competition in qualifying, lining up 16th on the grid, half a second and three places ahead of the Brazilian rising star. Come race day, though, he was the first to retire when his clutch failed on the second lap. Senna had an uneventful afternoon, coming home seventh, but was elevated a place – and gained a point – later in the year when the Tyrrell team’s disqualification from the entire season deprived Stefan Bellof of his sixth-place result in Belgium.