Sebastian Vettel to drive Ayrton Senna’s McLaren MP4/8 in tribute to icon at the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix weekend

Sebastian Vettel will drive Ayrton Senna’s McLaren MP4/8 during the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix weekend, in a fitting tribute to the late F1 icon.

The three-time Brazilian world champion’s life was tragically cut short by a fatal crash at Imola 30 years ago today, aged just 34, but his legacy lives on, as does the way he dazzled F1 for his career in this sport.

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And Vettel – himself a four-time F1 world champion with Red Bull – will be at Imola for this year’s Grand Prix, which takes place from May 17-19, to pay tribute to a driver he also admired.

The German will take the wheel of the MP4/8, the car McLaren competed in in the 1993 championship, which was to be Senna’s last with the team before his move to Williams for the following season.