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Ayrton Senna da Silva (Brazilian Portuguese: [aˈiʁtõ ˈsẽnɐ dɐ ˈsiwvɐ] (listen); 21 March 1960 – 1 May 1994) was a Brazilian racing driver who won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1988, 1990, and 1991. Senna is one of three Formula One drivers from Brazil to win the World Championship and won 41 Grands Prix and 65 pole positions, with the latter being the record until 2006. 

He died in an accident while leading the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix, driving for the Williams team. Media and commentators consider Senna and his fans to be one of the greatest F1 drivers in the sport's history. Senna was born at 2:35 AM (05:35 GMT) on Monday, 21 March 1960, in the Pro-Matre Maternity Hospital of Santana, a neighborhood of São Paulo.

The middle child of a wealthy Brazilian family was born to landowner and factory owner Milton Guirado da Silva and his wife Neide Senna da Silva; he had an older sister, Viviane, and a younger brother, Leonardo. He was left-handed. Senna's mother was the granddaughter of Italian immigrants, while his father was born to a Spanish mother (from Tíjola, Province of Almería) and a Brazilian father from São Paulo.

He died in an accident while leading the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix, driving for the Williams team. Media and commentators consider Senna and his fans to be one of the greatest F1 drivers in the sport's history.

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Ayrton Senna's Principles of Race Driving

Peter Attia
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