Ayrton Senna

Ayrton Senna da Silva, (São Paulo, March 21, 1960) was a Brazilian racing driver and FF1M world champion. His nephew, Bruno Senna, has also raced in FF1M.

Masters Era[]

Senna began his motorsport career in karting and moved up the ranks to win the British FF3M championship in 1983. Making his Formula One debut with Toleman in 1984, he moved to Lotus-Renault the following year, and won six Formula One Grands Prix over the next three seasons. He moved to the new FF1M series for the first Masters Season where he joined fellow Brazilian Felipe Massa at Exolite-Ford. He won his first Grand Prix in the second round of the season at Kyalami in South Africa and finished the season in 3rd place in the championship, winning three races. He would go on to win eleven more races in his career but rarely found himself in the right team at the right time until the last two seasons of his career.

After a fierce battle with Fernando Alonso for the championship in Season 6, Senna finished as runner up and announced that he would be retiring after the following season. In Season 7 following another season long battle with Alonso, who was now his team mate at his new team AquinoPlus, Senna found himself six points behind the Spaniard with one race to go and it looked as though his great talent was going to go unfulfilled. However a brilliant win at Adelaide saw him crowned champion by six points after Alonso retired from the race.

Canon Era[]

Ayrton Senna took part in the 1986 season where he drove for Dark Wolf with a Lotus-Renault chassis-engine combination. He was part of a three-way championship showdown at the final race of the season alongside Alain Prost and Gerhard Berger, but ultimately, Senna had to settle for 2nd behind Prost.

Legacy[]

Despite only winning the Drivers Championship a single time in the masters era, Senna is regarded as one of the greatest drivers in the history of FF1M. In 2009, a poll of 217 current and former Formula One and FF1M drivers chose Senna as their greatest ever driver, in a survey conducted by British magazine Autosport. He was recognised for his qualifying speed over one lap and but for unreliability would have won the Championship more times. He is the fourth most successful driver of all time in terms of race wins.

Racing Record[]

Summary[]

**Masters Era (S1-S8)**
Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	Ch. Pos.
S1	FF1M	Exolite	16	3	2		7	52	3rd
S2	FF1M	Maestro Motorsport	16	1	0		4	37	4th
S3	FF1M	Gui Racing	17	0	1		2	27	7th
S4	FF1M	M-Sport	17	2	3		5	51	5th
S5	FF1M	Gui Racing	16	1	4		5	69	4th
S6	FF1M	Gui Racing	16	3	0		7	67	2nd
S7	FF1M	AquinoPlus	16	4	5	2	8	87	1st

**Canon (1950, 1986-Present)**
Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	Ch. Pos.
1986	FF1M	Dark Wolf	10	2	4	0	6	42	2nd
1987	FF1M	Gui Racing	10	5	3		5	45	1st
1988	FF1M	Andy Racing	16	5	2	1	7	62	2nd
1989	FF1M	Darkfire	10	4	4	7	4	40	1st
1990	FF1M	Darkfire	10	1	0	1	1	13	8th
1991	FF1M	Gojira AutoSport	10	4	7	3	5	44	1st
1992	FF1M	Darkfire	12	0	0	0	0	4	16th
1993	FF1M	Gojira AutoSport	14	2	5	2	4	40	5th
1994	FF1M	Gojira AutoSport	14	7	12	2	11	92	1st

Race by Race[]

Masters (S1-S8)[]

Season	Team-Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Pos.	Pts.
S1	Exolite-Ford	USA Ret	ZAF 1	BRA Ret	SMR 6	ESP 6	MCO 1	CAN 2	FRA Ret	GBR Ret	PRT 3	DEU Fin	HUN 2	BEL 1	ITA Ret	JPN 3	AUS Ret		3rd	52
S2	Maestro Motorsport-Honda	AUS Fin	BRA Ret	SMR 5	GBR Ret	ESP Ret	EUR 4	MCO 2	CAN Ret	FRA Fin	AUT Fin	DEU 5	HUN 2	BEL 2	ITA 5	USA 1	JPN Ret		4th	37
S3	Gui Racing-Ford	USA 3	BRA 4	SMR Ret	AUT Fin	ESP 5	EUR 4	MCO Ret	CAN 5	FRA 4	GBR Fin	DEU Ret	HUN 2	BEL Fin	ITA Fin	PRT Ret	JPN 5	AUS 5	7th	27
S4	M-Sport-Ferrari	AUS Ret	BRA Ret	SMR Ret	NED Ret	ESP 1	EUR 2	MEX Ret	CAN 1	FRA Ret	GBR 2	DEU 3	HUN Ret	BEL 4	ITA Ret	PRT 7	JPN Ret	OCE Fin	5th	51
S5	Gui Racing-Ferrari	ZAF 7	MEX Ret	BRA 4	ESP 4	SMR 4	MCO 3	CAN 8	FRA 8	GBR 4	DEU 4	HUN 7	BEL Ret	ITA 3	PRT 1	JPN 3	AUS 2		4th	69
S6	Gui Racing-Renault	ZAF Ret	BRA Ret	EUR 3	SMR Ret	ESP Ret	MCO 3	CAN Ret	FRA 2	GBR 1	DEU Ret	HUN 1	BEL Ret	ITA 2	PRT 6	JPN Ret	AUS 1		2nd	67
S7	AquinoPlus-Ferrari	BRA 3	EUR 1	SMR 5	MCO 3	ESP Ret	LUX 4	CAN 1	FRA Ret	GBR 9	DEU Ret	HUN Ret	BEL 3	ITA 1	PRT 5	JPN 2	AUS 1		1st	87

Canon (1950, 1986-Present)[]

Season	Team-Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Pos.	Pts.
1986	Dark Wolf-Renault	BRA 1	ESP 1	SMR Ret	MCO 2	BEL 6	GBR 3	DEU Ret	AUT 2	ITA 3	AUS 4							2nd	42
1987	Gui Racing-Honda	BRA Ret	SMR 1	BEL 1	MCO Ret	GBR 1	DEU Ret	AUT 1	ITA Ret	JPN Ret	AUS 1							1st	45
1988	Andy Racing-Ford	BRA 1	SMR 4	MCO Ret	CAN 1	MEX 4	USA Fin	FRA Ret	GBR 11	DEU Ret	HUN 3	BEL 3	ITA 4	PRT 1	ESP 1	JPN 1	AUS Ret	2nd	62
1989	Darkfire-Ferrari	BRA 1	SMR 7	MCO 11	USA Ret	FRA 5	GBR 1	DEU 1	ITA Ret	JPN 5	AUS 1							1st	40
1990	Darkfire-Ferrari	USA Ret	SMR Ret	MCO 1	FRA Ret	GBR 4	DEU 6	ITA Ret	ESP Ret	JPN 19	AUS Ret							8th	13
1991	Gojira Autosport-Ferrari	USA Ret	SMR 1	MCO 1	MEX 1	FRA 3	GBR Ret	ITA 11	PRT 1	ESP 14*	AUS Ret							1st	44
1992	Darkfire-Lamborghini	ZAF 6	MEX 10	ESP Ret	SMR 11	MCO 4	CAN 7	FRA Ret	BEL 17	ITA 11	PRT 7	JPN Ret	AUS 11					16th	4
1993	Gojira Autosport-Ferrari	ZAF 1	BRA 16*	GBR Ret	SMR 4	ESP Ret	MCO Ret	CAN Ret	FRA 6	DEU 4	BEL Ret	ITA 4	PRT 1	JPN 3	AUS 2			5th	40
1994	Gojira Autosport-Renault	BRA 1	PAC 3	MCO Ret	ESP 2	CAN 2	FRA 1	GBR 1	DEU 1	BEL 1	ITA 2	PRT Ret	EUR 11	JPN 1	AUS 1			1st	92

*Retired from the race but classified as more than 90% race distance had been covered.