Formula One Features — April 1993

Ford's F1 programme has never looked better but the company's F1 boss Steve Parker has a problem. McLaren is too successful. Benetton is supposed to the Ford factory team.

At 07:00 on Friday morning, as Rome was waking up to the news that Ayrton Senna might not race for McLaren at Imola, Ayrton was on his final approach to the city's Leonardo da Vinci airport at Fiumicino on board an Alitalia flight from Sao Paulo.