Lewis Hamilton will get to grips with Ayrton Senna's 1990
championship-winning McLaren MP4-5B at Interlagos.
Lewis Hamilton has revealed his demonstration run of Ayrton
Senna's 1990 championship-winning McLaren was
supposed to be a secret.
The seven-time world champion will drive Senna's MP4-5B on
Saturday of the Sao Paulo Grand Prix after the sprint race
and grand prix qualifying as part of tributes to Senna, who was killed 30 years
ago whilst leading the 1994 San Marino GP.
It will be the second time Hamilton has driven a Senna
McLaren F1 car after testing the iconic 1988 MP4-4 in 2010 as part of a TV
segment on Top Gear with Jeremy Clarkson - and be the first
time he has driven a McLaren since leaving the team at the end of 2012.
Looking ahead to the demonstration run, Hamilton described
how the test was supposed to remain secret.
"I never in a million of years thought I'd ever get the
opportunity to drive Senna's car here," he told media including RacingNews365.
"I had a helmet made, just his helmet made for me - but
I don't know if we are using that one.
"But the initial hope was for it to be a surprise - I
had a white suit and his helmet, and I would go out and drive the lap and it
would look like it was him out there.
"But somehow it got out there, it is impossible to keep things quiet."
