There are many murals in downtown Phoenix — and one in particular honors a speedy event that happened 35 years ago.
On March 10, 1991, the best Formula 1 motor racers in the world lined their cars up at a starting line on East Jefferson Street between Third and Fourth streets in downtown Phoenix.
They came to Phoenix for the U.S. Grand Prix, an 81-lap race on a less than 2.5-mile course that stretched from Sixth Avenue to Sixth Street and from Jackson Street north through Adams Street.
Of the 26 cars at the starting line, only six completed the race. The winner was a 31-year-old Brazilian driver named Ayrton Senna in a McLaren-Honda. It was a thrilling grand finale of the racing series held in Phoenix for three years.
And if you head to Buchanan Street and Central Avenue, you can still find a trace of it in Antoinette Cauley’s massive mural tribute to Senna.
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