The long-awaited documentary Senna is set to be released in the UK on June 3. Now the new Top Gear Magazine, on sale May 18, offers a free preview Senna DVD including film footage, DVD out-takes, exclusive interviews with Alain Prost, director Asif Kapadia and more. Take a quick look with the brief clip embedded below. (Tip: Watch all the way and then click through to the cinematic trailer as well.)

The year after his death, Spanish actor Antonio Banderas was set to play Ayrton Senna in a $100m Hollywood bio-pic. Of course, it never happened, and now it never will. With the release of Senna, a feature-length documentary about arguably the greatest and certainly the most charismatic racing driver of all time, the real story has been told. Definitively, thrillingly and with real emotion.

Big movies usually follow a three-act narrative arc and Senna’s life lends itself naturally to that. It opens with never-before-seen footage of him karting in Brazil, and reaches a mesmerising and moving climax with the dreadful events at Imola in May 1994. In between, Senna’s racing career unfolds in a way that even the most optimistic Hollywood screenwriter would scarcely have dared imagine. It’s all here: the first glimmers of genius, the ascent to greatness, the period of domination, the bitter rivalries and intense politicking, disillusion and dismay, flawed heroism, the final grim chapter.

Senna: The Top Gear Review | BBC Top Gear.