On 17th April 1994, Formula One travelled to TI Circuit Aida — a hundred-million-dollar racing circuit carved from a mountainside in rural Okayama, accessible almost entirely by coach, built by a golf-course billionaire with a vision and a very large cheque book.

The race that followed has been buried under the weight of what came next. But it deserves its own moment. A world champion knocked out before the first corner. A young Brazilian dancing on a podium for the first time. A journeyman Austrian finishing his first and only Grand Prix start, thirteen days before he died. And Ayrton Senna, sitting on a wall, listening to a car he knew wasn’t legal.

This is the 1994 Pacific Grand Prix. This is the race that history forgot.

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