Name: What Was Senna’s Bizarre F1 Technique About?
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Ayrton Senna had a really unusual throttle technique that simply doesn't make much sense. What is the technique, why did you do it and would it work in today's modern F1?

You may have read online that Senna had this really unusual technique where he would stamp on and off the throttle as he was exiting a corner. 

In this video, we take a look at footage from Senna where you can clearly hear this blipping of the accelerator as is driving through the corner in his McLaren F1 car.


Ayrton Senna had a really unusual throttle technique that simply doesn't make much sense. What is the technique, why did you do it and would it work in today's modern F1?You may have read online that Senna had this really unusual technique where he would stamp on and off the throttle as he was exiting a corner. In this video, we take a look at footage from Senna where you can clearly hear this blipping of the accelerator as is driving through the corner in his McLaren F1 car.

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Senna had such an unusual technique with many people saying it was because of his days driving turbo cars. The idea being that you can spool up the turbo with a flip on the accelerator pedal to reduce the turbo lag - basically when you get on the accelerator it spins the turbo up, which in turn forces air into the engine. .

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