Our idol - Ayrton Senna
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In Memory 1960 - 1994
















































Ayrton Senna da Silva was born on March 21, 1960 in Sao Paulo,&nbsp;Brazil.&nbsp;
He lived in Monte Carlo - Sao Paulo in his last years.&nbsp;

&nbsp;His
racing career started at the age of 4 in go-karts and he&nbsp;had his very first go-kart race at the age of 13 professionally.&nbsp; His&nbsp;first racing car ever was a Formula Ford 1600 van Diemen in 1981. In the year 1977 he was the panamerican Kart Champion and runner-up&nbsp;in 1980 as the Kart World Champion.&nbsp;
He once mentioned that his most&nbsp;cherished victory was - "Clinching the 1988 World Championship by&nbsp;winning the Japanese GP at Suzuka".






In 1981
he was the British Formula Ford 1600 Champion.&nbsp;
In&nbsp;1982 he became the British and European Champion in the Formula Ford&nbsp;2000 class.&nbsp; In 1983 he was the
British F3 Champion.&nbsp;

&nbsp;By the time the 1984 F1 season
started, Ayrton Senna now had&nbsp;a ride with Toleman-Hart and drove their turbo-charged car.&nbsp; He never&nbsp;won a race that year and did have an accident when he crashed his car&nbsp;during practice for the Detroit Grand Prix by hitting the wall near&nbsp;the pits.&nbsp; He finished the season
ranked 8th with 13 points.



The 1985 season started and
Ayrton Senna managed to lead in&nbsp;races at Imola, Monaco, Silverstone, Nurburgring, Detroit, Brands&nbsp;Hatch and Adelaide.&nbsp; He finished
the season with 38 points in 4th&nbsp;postion.



1986 Season saw Ayrton fetch 8
Poles and win 2 races.&nbsp; He&nbsp;ended up with 55 points in 4th position overall driving his Lotus-Renault.



In 1987, Arton drove his 99T
amazingly in Detroit.&nbsp; He&nbsp;finished the season with his Lotus-Honda at 57points and 3rd&nbsp;overall.



1988 had Senna winning his
first Formula One WorldChampionship in his McLaren-Honda.&nbsp;
He had 94 points in total.



1989 and Ayrton Senna finishes
2nd overall due to a few&nbsp;mechanical fairlures at Montreal, Paul Ricard, Monza and Phoenix&nbsp;and some driving errors of his own doing in a few other races.&nbsp;

This was also the year of the famous clash with Nigel Mansell in&nbsp;Estoril, Portugal which saw them both crash off the circuit and&nbsp;out of the race.&nbsp; He also drove a
wonderful race in the wet at&nbsp;Montreal, Spa and Adelaide although he was taken out due to&nbsp;mechanical failure in Montreal.&nbsp;
His Marlboro-McLaren-Honda gave

him 60 points for the season.&nbsp;1990 once again had Ayrton
becoming World Champion with&nbsp;78 points in his Marlboro-McLaren-Honda.










In 1991,
Ayrton became the World Driving Champion for the 



third and last time of his career.&nbsp;
Nelson Piquet won the first 4&nbsp;races of the season in his McLaren MP4/6 and Senna's Williams FW14&nbsp;Renault was to later catch up and win the championship.&nbsp; Ayrton won&nbsp;with a failed gear-box at Interlagos in the rain.&nbsp; He won again at&nbsp;the Hungaroring and came 3rd in Mexico.&nbsp;
He also later that year&nbsp;admitted openly that he had contributed to the 1st corner shunt&nbsp;at Suzuka in 1990 and it sort of made his World Championship for that&nbsp;year not so valued anymore.&nbsp; He
finished the season with 96 points&nbsp;in his Marlboro-McLaren-Honda.







1992 had Senna finishing 4th
overall and his McLaren MP/6 



crashed hard in practice at Mexico City only bruising his legs.



He stopped for tyres 4 times in the race at Estoril this year.&nbsp; He



drove the car to a total of 50 points.







1993 was Ayrton Senna's last
full season in Formula One and 



he ended runner-up in&nbsp; the World
Championship for the last time in&nbsp;his career.&nbsp; He won at Interlagos,
Suzuka and Donnington Park all in&nbsp;the wet and won in Adelaide.&nbsp; He
spun at Hockenheim on the first&nbsp;corner in the opening lap and also pushed his McLaren MP4/8 into the&nbsp;back of Martin Brundle's Ligier putting Martin off the road.&nbsp; Ayrton



Senna was now getting $1 million per race on a race by race agreement&nbsp;with McLaren but the outcome was #1. He also decked Eddie Irvine&nbsp;after the race in Suzuka for a confrontation on the race track during&nbsp;the Japanese Grand Prix.&nbsp; 73
Points were had by Senna this season. &nbsp; &nbsp;







In 1994 Ayrton Senna joined
team mate Mika Hakkinen at



Williams.&nbsp; He accomplished Pole
Position in Brazil, Pacific and the&nbsp;San Marino Grands Prix.&nbsp; Then came
that horrible day in San Marino&nbsp;during the Formula One race.



Michael Schumacher said of the crash and death of Ayrton 



Senna - "What has happened is so dramatic and so bad that I feel no&nbsp;satisfaction in winning."