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Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes drove Ayrton Senna’s legendary McLaren MP4/5B on Sunday ahead of the Formula One Brazilian Grand Prix. Hamilton was supposed to drive the car of his motorsport hero on Saturday, but the entire schedule was disrupted by heavy rainfall. Ahead of the race, however, he completed a number of laps on the wet track, pulling over at one point to take a Brazilian flag from a marshal – just like Senna did after his emotional breakthrough victory at home in 1991. Hamilton later admitted that he ran more laps than he’d been instructed to. “It’s very, ve…