An official Formula One study that used "machine learning" and "cloud technology" has ranked Ayrton Senna as the fastest driver of all time ahead of Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton.
The study aims to compare drivers across four decades to name the fastest based on pure qualifying speed alone. F1 used technology from sponsor Amazon Web Services (AWS) to reach the conclusion and claims to rank all drivers since 1983 while removing the relative performance of the car from the equation.
AWS, which also provides the in-race tyre updates that are often mocked by fans on social media, claims to have used machine learning to create "a cross-era, objective, complex, data-driven ranking of driver speed".