Masters Historic Racing chose the fickle spring of 2019 for a British doubleheader that provided additional challenges as the track conditions kept on changing almost every day. At Brands Hatch, for Masters’ traditional self-organised festival at the end of May, the sky was bright most of the time but at Donington, for its more modest second meet in two weeks, the heavens opened on Saturday while Sunday was fresh and breezy. It didn’t spoil any of the racing, though – on the contrary.

On May 14, 2015, an intriguing book titled Senna versus Schumacher and Other Formula One Rivalries That Never Happened was released through several online outlets. In the book, motorsport editors Christiaan Lustig and Mattijs Diepraam tried to answer the question what might have happened if the rivalry between Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher had come to full bloom. In three more stories, they went on to ask the same question about Alberto Ascari, Stirling Moss and Gilles Villeneuve and the competition they would have had with Juan Manuel Fangio, Jim Clark and Alain Prost respectively. In 2019, on the 25th anniversary of Ayrton Senna's death, Lustig and Diepraam have decided to release excerpts from the book in order to revive interest in these events from Formula 1's often glorious but sometimes tragic past. Here is part 1, on the Senna versus Schumacher rivalry that never happened.

Most of the daffodils hit their peak too early but in every other respect postponing the Members’ Meeting by two weeks to early April proved to be a wise decision. The 77th of such meetings was held in near-perfect spring conditions, and the racing was excellent too – often on the verge of nailbiting, but clean and sportsmanship-like.