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Ayrton Senna da Silva was a Brazilian racing driver and philanthropist who competed in Formula One from 1984 to 1994. Senna won three Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles with McLaren, and—at the time of his death—held the record for most pole positions (65), among others; he won 41 Grands Prix across 11 seasons.
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Born 21 March 1960 · Died 1 May 1994 · Q10490
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The Guardian: ‘He was totally in tune’: how Ayrton Senna’s rain masterclass delivered his debut F1 win
The Guardian: Senna review – turns everyone in the Formula One driver’s life into a flat cartoon
The Guardian: Ayrton Senna: 30 years since F1 lost its uncompromising, complex genius | Giles Richards
The Imola statue site was vandalized on two occasions during the month of December, but the statue itself was not damaged
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The Guardian: When Ayrton Senna proved he was only too human at 1988 Monaco Grand Prix | Giles Richards
The Guardian: Ayrton Senna: 25 years since F1 lost its flawed, fascinating hero | Richard Williams
F1 2019 released a DLC focusing on the Senna-Prost rivalry
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McLaren Automotive produced the McLaren Senna, a 789-horsepower hypercar
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American firm Rosland Capital produced a series of commemorative coins featuring Senna
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The Senna family presented Hamilton with a race-worn Senna helmet
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The Guardian: Ayrton Senna mural created by Brazilian street artist – video
The Guardian: Lewis Hamilton happy to match the late Ayrton Senna in F1 wins – video
The Guardian: Lewis Hamilton: matching Ayrton Senna’s 41 F1 wins would be emotional
The Guardian: F1: Lewis Hamilton nears ‘crazy dream’ of matching his hero Ayrton Senna
Viviane Senna presented Hamilton with an Ian Berry artwork
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The IAS commissioned a commemorative Vespa that was auctioned off for charity
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Gran Turismo 6 released a Senna-centered expansion pack, with some of the proceeds going to help the IAS
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Raced for the Williams team, which was a decision that, reportedly, had a significant emotional impact on the Senna family
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In 2012, he raced for the Williams team, which was a decision that, reportedly, had a significant emotional impact on the Senna family.
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2015, and 2016, with the Senna family's support
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The Japanese public ranked Senna 22nd in Nippon TV's survey of Japan's top 100 favourite persons in history
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A court found that the steering column was poorly modified and that its breakage on track caused Senna's accident
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Autocourse noted that "Senna was the one driver who genuinely cared where he was ranked in [Autocourse's ranking of the year's] Top 10 drivers," and took being placed below his rivals as a personal slight
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Six years after Senna's death, in 2000, model Edilaine de Barros filed a paternity suit against the Senna estate, but DNA testing later proved that Senna was not the father.
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And into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 2025
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Model Edilaine de Barros filed a paternity suit against the Senna estate, but DNA testing later proved that Senna was not the father
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Audi Senna was created as a joint venture of Audi with Senna Import
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Followed by two sequels in 1997 and 1999
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While the chicane at the end of the pit straight on the Adelaide Street Circuit has since been renamed the Senna Chicane
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The Tamburello corner and other parts of the Imola circuit were altered
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Died 1994-05-01.
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“Prima di tutto... Un buongiorno speciale al mio caro amico Alain. Ci manchi Alain! [29 aprile 1994, prove libere del GP di San Marino]”
“Os ricos não podem mais viver numa ilha rodeada por um mar de pobreza. Nós respiramos, todos, o mesmo ar. Devemos dar a cada um, uma chance, ao menos uma chance fundamental.”
“O brasileiro só aceita título se for de campeão. E eu sou brasileiro”
“There are no small accidents here.”
“Basically our championship starts here. Fourteen races, not sixteen. It's not a comfortable position to be in, but that's the reality. The team is conscious about the challenge we have to make to recover the ground over Benetton.”
“If I ever happen to have an accident that eventually costs me my life, I hope it is in one go. I would not like to be in a wheelchair. I would not like to be in a hospital suffering from whatever injury it was. If I’m going to live, I want to live fully, very intensely, because I am an intense person. It would ruin my life if I had to live partially.”
“Deus é o dono de tudo. Devo a Ele a oportunidade que tive de chegar aonde cheguei. Muitas pessoas têm essa capacidade, mas não têm essa oportunidade. Ele a deu para mim, não sei por quê. Sei que não posso desperdiçá-la.”
“If you take away Eau Rouge, you take away the reason why I do this.”
“We are made of emotions, we are all looking for emotions, it's only a question of finding the way to experience them. There are many different ways of experience them all. Perhaps one different thing, only that, one particular thing that Formula One can provide you, is that you know we are always expose to danger, danger of getting hurt, danger of dying.”
Played for Williams Racing (1994–1994).
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“On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit. And you then go for this limit and you touch this limit, and you think, 'Okay, this is the limit.' As soon as you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.”
“El mateix moment en què se't considera com el millor, el més ràpid i algú inaccessible, ets enormement fràgil.”
“I believe in the ability of focusing strongly in something, then you are able to extract even more out of it. It's been like this all my life, and it's been only a question of improving it, and learning more and more and there is almost no end. As you go through you just keep finding more and more. It's very interesting, it's fascinating.”
“I started racing go-karts. And I love karts. It's the most breathtaking sport in the world. More than F1, indeed, I used to like it most.”
“Jonathan Palmer, May 1 1994”
“Em entrevista ao jornalista João Dória Júnior, em 1994, na casa recém-comprada de Angra dos Reis.”
“Ayrton aveva grande talento e determinazione. Portava la macchina ai limiti, cercando di farle fare anche quello che non era in grado di fare. Una delle cose che più mi ossessiona è che venne da noi convinto che fossimo i migliori perché da tre anni lo eravamo. Ma la vettura del 1994, sfortunatamente, non fu una buona macchina. (Adrian Newey)”
“Cuma elemelerinden sonraki röportaj, 29 Nisan 1994”
“Racing, competing, is in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I've been doing it all my life. And it stands up before anything else.”
“It's important that the drivers stay together, because in difficult moments we have each other. If we are not together the financial and political interests of the organisers and constructors come to the fore.”
With the deaths of Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna can be understood as a turning point for Formula One driver safety, the changes in attitude and in the procedures and standards that resulted from this were profoun
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“Io non ho paura di nessuno [...] ma tutte le volte che vedo Nigel nello specchietto retrovisore mi preoccupo, non so mai cosa potrà inventarsi...”
“Si tens a Déu al teu costat, tot es torna més clar.”
“La vita è troppo corta per avere dei nemici.”
“Belirli bir günde, belirli bir durumda bir sınırınız olduğunu düşünürsünüz. Daha sonra bu limite gidersiniz ve bu limite ulaşırsınız ve 'Tamam, limit bu' diye düşünürsünüz. Bu sınıra ulaştığınız anda bir şeyler oluyor ve bir anda biraz daha ileri gidebiliyorsunuz. Akıl gücünüzle, azminizle, içgüdünüzle, tecrübenizle çok yükseğe uçabilirsiniz.”
“Vull viure completament, molt intensament. No m'agradaria viure parcialment, patint d'una malaltia o d'una lesió. Si en cap ocasió tingués un accident que em costi la vida, desitjo que succeeixi en un instant.”
“Kim olursanız olun, sosyal konumunuz ne olursa olsun, zengin ya da fakir, her zaman büyük bir güç ve kararlılık gösterin ve her şeyi daima büyük bir sevgi ve Tanrı'ya derin bir inançla yapın. Bir gün hedefinize ulaşacaksınız.”
“Fate tutto sempre con molto Amore e molta Fede in Dio.”
“I ricchi non possono vivere su un'isola circondata da un oceano di povertà. Noi respiriamo tutti la stessa aria. Bisogna dare a tutti una possibilità.”
“Whoever you are, no matter what social position you have, rich or poor, always show great strength and determination, and always do everything with much love and deep faith in God. One day you will reach your goal.”
“Bir şeye güçlü bir şekilde odaklanma yeteneğine inanıyorum, o zaman ondan daha fazlasını elde edebilirsiniz. Bütün hayatım boyunca bu böyleydi ve mesele sadece onu geliştirmek, daha fazlasını öğrenmekti ve neredeyse sonu yok. İlerledikçe daha fazlasını bulmaya devam edersiniz. Çok ilginç, büyüleyici.”
“Guanyar és el més important. Tot és conseqüència d'això.”
That "If you think I'm fast, just wait until you see my nephew Bruno
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“Em 1993, conforme citado em Revista Veja, edição especial 1338-A, 3 de maio de 1994, p. 22”
A poll of Formula One drivers gave Senna a near-unanimous vote as the best driver in Formula One
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An indoor all-star kart racing competition held on a temporary circuit at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy
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Senna signed a lucrative agreement to import, market, and sell Audi cars in Brazil
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On his way to again finishing runner-up to Prost in the championship
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Autocourse ranked Senna No
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Senna praised Bruno's talent, telling people in 1993 that "If you think I'm fast, just wait until you see my nephew Bruno." Bruno temporarily quit racing to please his family after Senna's death.
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Williams's all-conquering FW14B car dominated the season
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Awarded Formula One World Champion (1991).
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Senna refused to write the usually customary foreword by the year's World Champion; Honda's Head of Racing wrote the foreword instead
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Senna became the youngest ever three-time world champion, taking seven wins and increasing his pole position record to 60 from 127 events
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“Röportaj Racing is in My Blood, 1991”
“Ayrton Senna (junho de 1991), como citado em Revista Veja”
“Em agosto de 1991, como citado em Especial Terra: 20 anos sem Senna”
Awarded Formula One World Champion (1990).
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Awarded L'Équipe Champion of Champions (1990).
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Autocourse dropped Senna from No
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Senna shot back in a 1990 interview with the Brazilian edition of Playboy, declaring that he lost his virginity at 13 years of age to a prostitute arranged by his cousin, and insinuating that Piquet loathed him because he had previously slept with Piquet's future wife.
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Prost left McLaren for Ferrari, burning bridges on his way out
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Was named L'Équipe International Athlete of the Year
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“Em janeiro de 1989, conforme citado em Revista Veja, edição especial 1338-A, 3 de maio de 1994, p. 56”
The rivalry between Senna and Prost intensified into numerous battles on the track and a psychological war off it
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Telling him that "God won't allow me to live this lie
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And 1990, despite Prost's move to Ferrari in the latter, with Prost winning the former title and Senna taking the following
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The Brazilian Air Force gave Senna a flight on one of their jet fighters (a Dassault Mirage III), which bears commemorative livery and is now exhibited at the Aerospace Museum of Rio de Janeiro
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Awarded Formula One World Champion (1988).
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Played for McLaren (1988–1993).
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With Senna coming out on top, winning his first Formula One world championship title by taking eight wins to Prost's seven
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Due to the relationship he had built up with Honda throughout the 1987 season with Lotus, and with the approval of McLaren's number-one driver and then-double world champion, Alain Prost, Senna joined the McLaren team
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Nelson Piquet accused Senna of being homosexual in an incendiary interview, in which Piquet also called Enzo Ferrari "senile", former teammate Nigel Mansell an "uneducated blockhead", and Mansell's wife "ugly"
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“O acidente em Mônaco me levou para perto de Deus. Mudou muito minha mentalidade." (sobre o acidente de 1988 em Mônaco)”
“Em novembro de 1988, conforme citado em Revista Veja, edição especial 1338-A, 3 de maio de 1994, p. 58”
To partner Alain Prost; together, they won 15 of 16 Grands Prix held that season—driving the Honda-powered MP4/4—with Senna taking his maiden championship by three points after winning a then-record eight Grands Prix
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Running the same turbocharged Honda V6 engines as Williams had used to win the previous year's Constructors' Championship, and with them came a new teammate, 34-year-old Japanese driver Satoru Nakajima, who was a test dr
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“Em novembro de 1987, conforme citado em Revista Veja, edição especial 1338-A, 3 de maio de 1994, p. 58”
“TV Interview Roda Viva, TV Cultura 1986”
Senna had done the same thing to Derek Warwick
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Played for Team Lotus (1985–1987).
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To replace Nigel Mansell, taking his maiden pole position and victory at the rain-affected Portuguese Grand Prix, a feat he repeated in Belgium
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Making his Formula One debut at the Brazilian Grand Prix
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Played for Toleman (1984–1984).
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Senna tested for McLaren, Brabham, Williams, and Toleman, although Williams also lacked a vacancy
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Senna drove in the British Formula Three Championship for West Surrey Racing
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Won Formula Ford (1982).
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Won Formula Ford (1981).
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“Em outubro de 1981, conforme citado em Revista Veja, edição especial 1338-A, 3 de maio de 1994, p. 58”
But she had difficulty adapting to her husband's racing life in England and they divorced in 1982
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Senna moved to Eaton, a suburb of Norwich in England, to pursue an open-wheel racing career; he began his career in Formula Ford 1600, winning the British and Townsend Thoresen Championships that year with Van Diemen, am
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Dominating the British and European championships in his debut seasons
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With a grade 5 in physics, alongside other grades in mathematics, chemistry, and English
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Born 1960-03-21.
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