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List of Plates
1. Ayrton Senna da Silva, the second child but eldest son of Milton da Silva and Neyde Senna. He was never meant to race cars but to run the family car-components business and cattle ranches. Eventually his father reluctantly agreed to fund his early race-car career. His son paid him back many times over.
2. Waiting to race in 1979. By then he was winning everything in the Inter category.
3. The oldest photo of Senna, when he first developed an interest in cars. He even pedalled faster than other children.
4. A grainy old school photo from the Colegio Rio Branco archive.
5. 13-year-old Ayrton with his father Milton at a karting event.
6. Ayrton, aged three, makes his first foray into motor racing in a home-made go-kart fitted with a secondhand lawn-mower engine.
7. Senna drives the DAP kart with which he enjoyed great success in 1979, although the karting world championship forever eluded him.
8. Lucio Gascon, known as Tché, was Ayrton’s karting mentor, and guided his career.
9. The young 21-year-old Ayrton Senna da Silva arrived in Britain with his young wife. In his yellow-and-black Van Diemen RF81 he won most of the races and both the RAC and Townsend Thoresen championships. In a typical scrap he leads Mexican driver Alfonso Toledano in an early round at Mallory Park.
10. Ralph Firman, Van Diemen’s founder, provided cars for his first two seasons of car racing. Ralph Firman was Senna’s team boss and mentor throughout his first year of car racing.
11. Liliane Vasconcelos Souza became Mrs Liliane da Silva in 1981. The marriage lasted just a year.
12. Ayrton waits to race with his loyal mechanic Malcolm Pullen. Liliane watches. She was bored all year.
13. Ayrton with his mother Neyde and brother Leonardo Senna
14. He celebrates his first victory with Van Diemen team-mate Alfonso Toledano on 15th March 1981. It was the first of 13 wins in 1981.
15. He waits on the wet Brands Hatch grid before the start of the first race he won.
16. Ayrton Senna takes his Van Diemen round Devil’s Elbow at Mallory Park.
17. On this occasion, on 3rd May, he could only make second on the grid but still sprinted off to win the race. It was the story of the season and no one could get close to him as he dominated the series.
18. Ayrton Senna da Silva’s mentor in 1982 was Dennis Rushen, team principal of Rushen Green Racing. He charged the young Brazilian £30,000 for a season’s racing in what was effectively the works Van Diemen team. Rushen and Senna remained close friends until the end of the driver’s life. The season was a wrap-up for both the team and the young driver.
19. At the Jyllandsring in Denmark, Ayrton Senna wrapped up the 1982 Formula Ford 2000 Euroseries title driving the Van Diemen RF81 for Rushen Green. Team owner Robin Green (left) and Dennis Rushen celebrate with Senna.
20. Keith Sutton and Ayrton Senna afterwards.
21. Ayrton Senna took the race and the trophy on that memorable weekend. He had dominated almost every round featuring the best Europe had to offer.
22. Ayrton Senna had a memorable 19th June in 1983 at Cadwell Park when he totalled his Ralt Toyota against the banking and came to rest in the straw bales. Senna was going for pole position but ended up having to sit out the race.
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