Ayrton Senna receives the Golden Helmet of the magazine Autosprint - 1991

December 1991. ... Absolutely everybody in the large audience are waiting for him, Ayrton Senna, the magic, the great, the three-time Formula 1 World Champion.

BBC Formula 1 commentator, Murray Walker, interviews Ayrton Senna on the stage of the award ceremony of the magazine Autosprint

The lights go out, a beam of white light accompanies the Brazilian star to the stage and the music that became the soundtrack of the winners punctuates his steps, but it's covered by the applause, the strength of nearly ten thousand hands is even stronger because of the super power amplifiers.

And then the apotheosis, the moment of Golden Helmet 1991, a tribute to a great champion. Senna was visibly moved: not only because he was receiving the statuette from Luciano Conti, the passionate editor of Autosprint, but also because that was the symbol of a season incredibly painful. And the synthesis of a championship in which he, the Magic Ayrton as it was claimed on the banners in the stands of the indoor stadium, once again imposed his extraordinary class ...


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