"This is the guy," said F1 designer Rory Byrne way back in 1984. "We've just got to have him." That guy? Ayrton Senna, who was duly snapped up by Toleman to champion the team's new TG183B for the 1984 F1 season. It's the car you see here.
"We had to have someone good enough to progress the car, and we knew that Ayrton was capable of doing that," Toleman MD Alex Hawkridge once remarked after signing Senna.
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