Ayrton Senna nació el 21 de marzo de 1960 en São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil. Estuvo casado con Lilian de Vasconcellos Sousa. Murió el 1 de mayo de 1994 en Bolonia, Emilia-Romagna, Italia.
He always had a Brazilian flag hidden in his car in the case he won the
race. At the time of his death he had an Austrian flag in his car to
commemorate a fellow race car driver Roland Ratzenberger of Austria,
who was killed on the same track the day before in a car crash as well.