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Clark and Jackie Stewart. And, of course, a young Brazilian named Emerson Fittipaldi who became the country's first Formula One World Champion in 1972. At age 12, Ayrton said he would do the same.
It would come sooner than anyone could imagine.
Senna would win the first kart race he entered at just 13 years of age. Four years later he would take the South American Kart Championship and then win again a year later. Europe, and the World Karting Championship, called. Senna followed.
But after a few years in the karting circuit, Senna’s life would reach a crossroad.
After moving to England to race Formula Fords, smaller F-l-style cars, he came close to giving it all up. With several other Brazilian drivers ahead of him in higher series, his sponsorship money had dried up. Frustrated, Senna announced his retirement saying that “a bad driver with money could always get the best car, but a good driver without the same was left out”
He returned to Brazil and worked at his father’s building-supply company.
His father, the man who saw the fire at such an early age, convinced him to go back.
With the help of a Brazilian bank and partial sponsorship from his father’s company, Senna returned to racing in 1982 and quickly moved from the Formula Three championship to a Formula One team in 1984.
In F-l, determination and attention to detail would be his hallmark.
He would turn Toleman, a secondtier F-l team, into a contender and then, after moving to Lotas and then McLaren, he would set the F-l world on fire.
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