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he would eventually walk,.

Some called him awkward. Others called him different.

Milton da Silva called it amazing.

How could his second son, the boy who had shown such an aptitude for Brazil's racing scene, the boy who had shared such an affection for his father’s love of engines, wheels and motors, truly have a motor coordination problem?

Impossible.

No doubt Da Silva saw something different in Ayrton, his young boy with the dark hair and the darting eyes. He saw something so wondrous, so spiritual, it would turn a four year old into a racing phenom, a teenager into a terror and a young man into one of the most revered Formula 1 drivers in the sport’s long, colorful history.

Ayrton Senna da Silva's driving skill would make them samba in the streets of his native Sao Paulo, Brazil.

His unimaginable death at age 34 in a racing accident would break their hearts forever.

“There is no one driver I wanted to be more than Ayrton Senna," Formula

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