

A tracheotomy was performed on-track before he was airlifted to Maggiore Hospital, he was rushed to ICU upon arrival at 3:00 p.m his heart stopped beating at 3:15and doctors were able to revive him and placed him on life support. Senna was using a medium sized (58 cm) M3 helmet with a new “thin” Bell visor. In addition, it appeared that a jagged piece of the upright assembly had penetrated the helmet visor just above his right eye. The violence of the wheel’s impact pushed his head back against the headrest, causing a fatal skull fracture.Ī piece of suspension attached to the wheel had partially penetrated his Bell M3 helmet and caused trauma to his head. The right front wheel shot up upon impact and entered the cockpit, striking the right frontal area of his helmet. His crash came on lap 7, the second lap at racing speed, Senna’s car left the racing line at the 190 mph Tamburello corner, ran in a straight line off the track and struck an unprotected concrete barrier. In 1985 Senna signed with Lotus- Renault and with McLaren in 1988, his last team Williams came $20 million a year contract which he signed on October 11, 1994.Īyrton died on May 1, 1994, a day after Ronald Ratzenberger died after his car crash at the Villeneuve Curve at the qualification race of the San Mari9no Grand Prix ( Michael Schumacher won this race), hours before his death, he made a plea to improve Formula One Safety.

Ayrton´s first Formula One team was Toleman in 1984, the year where he won the South African Grand Prix, Belgian Grand Prix, British and Portuguese Grand Prix, second place at the Monaco Grand Prix, where he passed Niki Lauda for second on Lap 19. Senna won the 1981 Towmsend Thoreson Formula Ford 1600, 1982 British and European Formula Ford 1600 Championships, 1983 British Formula Three Championship and Macau Formula 3 Grand Prix.
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His next move was on the race track, like many racing driver Senna began kart racing. Ayrton who was also known by his nickname Beco graduated from Colegio Rio Blanco in 1977 and attended in college to pursue a degree in business administration, he quit college after three months. Airton became interested in car at the age of 4. He became the younger brother of his sister Viviane and then they became the older siblings of their little bro Leonardo.

On MaNeide Senna Da Silva and her husband Milton da Silva welcomed their second child who they named Ayrton Senna da Silva. Ayrton left behind his parents, siblings and his ex-wife Lilian Vasconcelos Souza, where is she today? Did she remarry? What about other women Ayrton Senna dated like Xuxa, Carol Alt, Adriana Praddo who said she had a child with Senna and his latest girlfriend Adriana Galisteu who many believe would become Senna´s second wife? Brazilian racing driver Ayrton Senna passed away at the age of 34 in May, 1994.
