Biography
Friends and Family
Galvão Bueno
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Gerhard Berger
[Friend]
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Antonio Carlos de Almeida Braga
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Leonardo
[Brother]
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Viviane
[Sister]
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Neyde Joanna Senna
[Mother]
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Milton da Silva
[Father]
Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 Emotion, pleasure and challenge. - when asked about what he felt at 300 km/h On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.
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It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more.
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The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.
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I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It`s a way of life for me.
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You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.
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Racing, competing, it`s in my blood. It`s part of me, it`s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.
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If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.
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My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.
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There are no small accidents on this circuit.
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It`s going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I`ll risk saying that we`ll be lucky if something really serious doesn`t happen.
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And so 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.
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Money is a strange business. People who haven`t got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.
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I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.
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Then suddenly something just kicked me. I kind of woke up and realised that I was in a different atmosphere than you normally are. My immediate reaction was to back off, slow down.
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I don`t know driving in another way which isn`t risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other`s.
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Women - always in trouble with them, but can`t live without them.
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When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.
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I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.
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Because in a split second, it`s gone.
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Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.
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You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.
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Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.
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Fear is exciting for me.
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Wealthy men can`t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.
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And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.
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It is important, when your techical equipment is not the best, to believe there will always be a better race; that is a part of my motivation.
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These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.
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Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.
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Trivia
Teammates in Formula One were: Johnny Cecotto, Stefan Johansson, Elio De Angelis, Johnny Dumfries, Satoru Nakajima, Alain Prost, Gerhard Berger, Michael Andretti, Mika Häkkinen and Damon Hill.
F1 Racing Magazine voted him the greatest Formula 1 driver of all time in 2004.
Son of Neyde Senna and Milton Theodoro Silva.
Younger brother of Viviane Senna and older brother of Leonardo Senna.
Held the record of most pole positions in Formula One with 65 of them. Since his first in pole position in June 1985 until his tragic death on the 1st of May in 1994, he had earned altogether 65 pole positions. Eventually he was overtaken - more than a decade later - by Michael Schumacher in April 2006, but his record for pole positions remained to be the hardest one to overtake during the time of modern tracks.
Had his look-alike puppet in the French show "Les guignols de l`info" (1988).
He always had a Brazilian flag hidden in his car in the case he won the race. At the time of his death he had an Austrian flag in his car to commemorate a fellow race car driver Roland Ratzenberger of Austria, who was killed on the same track the day before in a car crash as well.
First win race in Formula One: Portugal (1985)
Many experts were convinced that the cause must have been mechanical failure: Senna could not have lost control of his vehicle for any other reason. An inquiry concluded that the accident was caused by a snapped steering column. As a result, manslaughter charges were brought against six members of Senna`s Williams racing team. However, all of them were eventually acquitted, and in 1997 the prosecutor`s appeal was rejected.
Died in a Bologna hospital from severe head injuries resulting from a crash on Imola`s famous Tamburello bend.
Although in Formula One Grand Prix wins he was behind his chief rival Alain Prost, at the time of his death he had achieved 65 Pole Positions, one short of twice as many as Prost and the other second place holder, Jim Clark, who had 33 each. Michael Schumacher took 12 years to beat Senna`s record, recording his 66th pole position, ironically, at the San Marino Grand Prix in 2006.
Raced for Toleman (1984), Lotus (1985-1987), McLaren (1988-1993) and Williams (1994).
Formula 1 Champion in 1988, 1990 and 1991.
He was one of the most important pilots of Fórmula 1 of all the times.
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