Career
The Beginning: Karting
It all started on the 21st of March 1960, SãoPaulo (Santana).
Ayrton Senna Da Silva was born. And from a very early age he had a passion for cars. His father gave him a self-made Go-Kart when he was 4 years. When he was a bit older (8), almost everyone in his neighboorhood had a kart, so they decided to organize a race. At first Ayrton's father (Milton) didn't allow him to race because the others were much older then him (17-21 years), but eventually his father let him race.
The grid was decided with little peaces of paper inside a helmet. Because Ayrton was the youngest he got the first pic, and he took number 1. So that really was his first pole-position.
He didn't win though, he led 30-35 laps out of 40, because he was light he was very fast at the straight so they couldn't overtake him there. But 5-6 laps before the end, somebody pushed him off.
Officialy it started the 1st of July 1973, with a race at Interlagos, which he...won...ofcourse.
1974: Champion Paulista (junior)
1975: Vice-Champion Brasil (junior)
Champion 'torneio Nacional Italcomy' (junior)
Champion Paulista
1976: 3rd Championship Brasil
Champion 'tres horas de kart'
1977: Champion South-America
Vice-Champion Paulista
Vice-Champion Brasil
Champion 'tres horas de kart'
1978: World-Championship 6th (Le Mans, France)
Champion Brasil
Vice-Champion Paulista
1979: World-Championship 2nd (Estoril, Portugal)
Vice-Champion South-America
Champion 'Grand Prix Republique San Marino'
Champion Brasil
Vice-Champion: - Gp Switzerland
- Gp Italy
1980: Champion South-America
Champion Brasil
World-Championship 2nd (Nivelles, Belgium)
1981: World-Championship 4th (Parma, Italy)
1982: World-Championship 14th (Kalmar, Sweden)
1993: Masters at Bercy (Paris), a race organized by P. Strieff for a good cause, Senna was leading over Prost when his kart broke down.
