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Drivers vote Senna the greatest ever

By Edd Straw Thursday, December 10th 2009, 15:25 GMT

Three-time world champion Ayrton Senna

has been voted the greatest Formula 1
driver of all time by a unique poll of 217 of
his fellow world championship drivers
conducted by AUTOSPORT magazine.

Senna beat Michael Schumacher and Juan

Manuel Fangio to top spot in the unique
poll, which is the most comprehensive
survey of F1 drivers ever conducted.

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The voters had a combined total of 9194 starts and 270 wins, and included starters from
all but 10 world championship grands prix (the 11 world championship Indianapolis 500s Enter Fantasy League Formula 1 2009
were excluded from the poll). F1 2009 season guide
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Among the voters were Michael Schumacher, statistically the most successful F1 driver
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in history, Jose Froilan Gonzalez, the earliest surviving grand prix winner, Paul Pietsch,
at 98 the oldest living driver, reigning world champion Jenson Button and much of the
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current F1 grid.

AUTOSPORT asked each voter to submit their top 10 'greatest' F1 drivers, and left the
definition of 'greatest' open to interpretation.

"This is an amazing poll that has never been tried before," said AUTOSPORT editor   FOLLOW AUTOSPORT ON

Andrew van de Burgt. "Obviously, it has thrown up some interesting and unexpected Paddock insight from group F1 editor Jonathan Noble
results, but you can't argue with how the top 10 has worked out, or the integrity of the Breaking news feed
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For the full list, pick up a copy of AUTOSPORT magazine, out today.

Click here to visit the Greatest Drivers mini-site.

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