Andre - Biography

Airton Senna

Airton Senna da Silva was born in March 1960. His father gave a go-kart to his sister as a gift, but because she refused it, he gave it to Airton instead, when he was just 4 years old. He made his debut in official competitions when he was 13 years old. He has won the South-American Go-Kart Championship twice and the Brazilian Go-Kart Championship three times, although he has never won the World Championship neither the Paulista Championship.
In 1981, he started racing in Europe, winning the Formula Ford 1600 championship and the Formula Ford 2000 in the next year. In 1983 he has won the English Formula 3 Championship and because of this, he was invited to race in Formula One, in 1984.
He drove for 10 years, won the championship title three times and had very good numbers to put him as one of the top drivers in the history. He was very skilled when driving in the rain and was considered the “king of Monaco”, where he won 6 times. Unfortunately, he was tragically killed in a car accident during Imola GP in 1994, when he was driving for Williams, one of the best teams that year.