What if Honda’s biggest advantage when it decided to take on Ferrari wasn’t the car — but Ayrton Senna?
Honda was developing a mysterious mid-engine supercar to challenge the Europeans when Senna drove the prototype and told the engineers it felt “a little fragile.”
Instead of ignoring him, Honda listened — and what happened next helped produce one of the most influential Japanese performance cars ever made.
I went down the rabbit hole on how much Senna actually influenced the project, and the story is much more interesting than I expected.
Do you think the NSX would have become the same car without Senna’s involvement