Ayrton Senna nasceu o 21 de março de 1960 em São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil. Foi casado com Lilian de Vasconcellos Sousa. Morreu o 1 de maio de 1994 em Bolonha, Emilia-Romagna, Itália.
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.
