When Senna was actively racing, he drove againts many great drivers, and other middle field drivers who can compete with the front runners as well. Almost any car you put in the grid can win,this was due to the turbo era. It really does not matter who has the fastest car, what matters is that the drivers are the ones who are fast. This is good because the viewers can see the real talent and bravery of the drivers. Senna was the king of qualifying. Most of Senna's team mate were out paced in qualifying consistently.
When Senna was given the opportunity to drive for a competitive team, he can get the results others could not. When Senna was driving for Lotus, he proved that in a decent car with plenty of reliability he can win races, and also take pole position more often. This was a great way to proved also to the critics that he had what it takes to win in a car that was not a world beater. This shows that he can trancend the normal limitations of the car. Senna always did what others couldn't do, which was the 1 lap qualifying mastery. It was almost as if Senna was a robot when he's on a qualifying lap. He hardly made mistakes on qualifying and he always take the pole. He was almost too fast for himself sometimes. Like the time in 1988 Monaco GP, he out qualified his team mate by almost 2 seconds. That's very impressive and to top it all off, he was racing against none other than the great racing driver, Alain Prost.
Before Senna's untimely death, he had a massed a 65 pole position. That record stood there in the record book for more than a decade. Only Schumacher beaten his record by 1 more pole but Senna never had made it 15 years of racing in formula 1.
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