Ayrton Senna won the 1993 Australian Grand Prix which was his 41st and last career victory in his last race for McLaren, where he won all of his three drivers' championship.

Mika Hakkinen won the Japanese GP in Suzuka on this day in 1999 and won his second consecutive world championship at the same track where he won his first title one year earlier.

Japanese GP was the decisive championship race between Senna and Prost, who were driving for McLaren Honda that year. Their car MP4-4 was a class of the field and the duo Senna Prost won 15 of 16 races in 1988.

Three Formula 1 drivers became champions od 21st October - Niki Lauda (1984), Ayrton Senna (1990) and Kimi Raikkonen (2007).

Kimi Raikkonen secured one of his best wins in Formula 1 on this day in 2005, after starting from the 17th on the grid in the Japanese GP and overtaking Giancarlo Fisichella in the last lap.

McLaren's F1 team boss Andreas Seidl is disappointed that his team did not score points with both cars after a disastrous first lap for Carlos Sainz, but is pleased that they increased points lead over Renault in the constructors' standings with seventh place for Lando Norris.

Kimi Raikkonen and Juan Pablo Montoya were on their way to the first 1-2 victory of the season for McLaren, but the incident between Montoya and Pizzonia allowed Fernando Alonas to finish the second and limit the damage in the title fight.

Kimi Raikkonen won first F1 race in Turkey on this day in 2005 where he celebrated in front of Fernando Alonso in Renault and team-mate Juan Pablo Montoya who lost the second place in the final laps.

On today's day in 1999, Eddie Irvine won his second race of the season after David Coulthard spun his teammate Mika Hakkinen in the second corner of the first lap.

On this day in 2008, Lewis Hamilton won his home race for the first time at rainy Silverstone after the first pole position of his team mate Heikki Kovalainen.