Claim: Driving a McLaren-Honda, first placer Ayrton Senna, a Brazilian racing driver who won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1988, 1990 and 1991, was the fastest driver in the two quarters of the qualifying round of the 1990 Spanish Grand Prix.
Evidence: Brazil Ayrton Senna McLaren-Honda 1:18.900 1:18.387 France Alain Prost 1:20.026 1:18.824 United_Kingdom Nigel Mansell 1:21.005 1:19.106 France Jean Alesi 1:19.923 1:19.604 Austria Gerhard Berger 1:19.643 1:19.618 Italy Riccardo Patrese 1:20.562 1:19.647 Belgium Thierry Boutsen 1:20.721 1:19.689 Brazil Nelson Piquet 1:21.111 1:19.700 Italy Alessandro Nannini 1:21.383 1:20.367 United_Kingdom Derek Warwick 1:22.111 1:20.610 Italy Pierluigi Martini 1:22.255 1:21.060 Brazil Maurício Gugelmin 1:23.019 1:21.167 France Philippe Alliot 1:23.783 1:21.170 Japan Satoru Nakajima 1:22.690 1:21.215 Japan Aguri Suzuki 1:21.740 1:21.244 Italy Emanuele Pirro 1:23.485 1:21.277 Italy Andrea de Cesaris 1:22.953 1:21.467 France Éric Bernard 1:22.403 1:21.551 Italy Ivan Capelli 1:23.866 1:21.916 Italy Nicola Larini 1:23.290 1:21.996 France Olivier Grouillard 1:24.784 1:22.288 Italy Gabriele Tarquini 1:23.260 1:22.466 United_Kingdom Martin Donnelly 1:22.659 no time France Yannick Dalmas 1:23.249 1:22.716 Italy Stefano Modena 1:23.641 1:23.133 Italy Michele Alboreto 1:24.043 1:23.161 Australia David Brabham 1:25.899 1:23.163 Italy Paolo Barilla 1:25.093 1:23.274 Germany Bernd Schneider 1:24.675 1:23.924 Belgium Bertrand Gachot 1:26.593 1:25.114 Ayrton Senna da Silva (Brazilian Portuguese: [aˈiʁtõ ˈsẽnɐ dɐ ˈsiwvɐ (listen); 21 March 1960 – 1 May 1994) was a Brazilian racing driver who won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1988, 1990 and 1991, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest Formula One drivers of all time, and by some as the greatest ever.