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🇧🇷 Ayrton Senna

Racing driver from Brazil. Formula 1, Williams. Two-time champion.
Driver facts
Full name
Ayrton Senna
Born
21 March 1960(b. 1960)
Nationality
Brazil
Current team
Williams
Series
Formula 1
Status
Deceased
Championships
21990, 1991
Career wins
44
Career podiums
83
Career starts
164
Career DNFs
53
Racer Rating
6,332
Ayrton Senna
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Racer Rating
6,332
Rank 83 of 38,983 indexed, -432 this season
FIA Categorisation
Not on file
Not yet indexed
Source: fia.com
Synthesized from 1 source, updated 0h ago

Ayrton Senna is a racing driver from Brazil who last raced in Formula 1 for Williams. Senna is a two-time champion (1990, 1991), with 44 wins and 83 podiums from 164 starts.[1]

A Racer Rating of 6,332 ranks Senna 83th of 38,983 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the high 8,000s. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file.

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications
1994 form
Last 20 races, finish position (higher is better)
P1P5P10P20DNFAUSSOUBRAGBRITAESPMONCANFRAGBRGERHUNBELITAPORJPNAUSBRAJPNITA
Recent results
Tap a row for the full race
1994-05-01Autodromo Enzo e Dino FerrariFormula 1DNF−143
1994-04-17Okayama International CircuitFormula 1DNF−188
1994-03-27Autódromo José Carlos PaceFormula 1DNF−57
Career-best drives
Ranked by rating won, which prices the opposition
Rating wonRaceSeriesFinish
+160Macau 1983Formula 3 MacauP1
+157Autódromo do Estoril 1985Formula 1P1
+156Macau 1983Formula 3 MacauP1
+146Circuit de Monaco 1984Formula 1P2
+143Autódromo do Estoril 1984Formula 1P3
Circuits
Rating per start against their own form that season
Raises their game
Circuit de Monaco10 starts+36
Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps9 starts+34
Hockenheimring9 starts+23
Kyalami4 starts+22
Struggles
Autódromo Internacional Nelson Piquet6 starts-37
Circuit Paul Ricard6 starts-36
Adelaide Street Circuit9 starts-26
Suzuka Circuit7 starts-20
Season by season
SeasonSeriesTeamRacesWinsPodiumsDNFsPolesPointsPosGain/LossRating
1994▸Formula 1Williams300330P20−3886,764
1993▸Formula 1McLaren16574173P2+497,153
1992▸Formula 1McLaren16377150P4−8307,104
1991▸Formula 1McLaren167121896P1+5947,934
1990▸Formula 1McLaren1661141078P1+57,339
1989▸Formula 1McLaren166771360P2−5607,334
1988▸Formula 1McLaren1681121394P2+5377,894
1987▸Formula 1Team Lotus16284157P3+6067,358
1986▸Formula 1Team Lotus16286855P4+896,751
1985▸Formula 1Team Lotus16267738P4+6666,662
1984▸Formula 1Toleman14038013P9↑946+965,996
1983▸Formula 3 MacauWest Surrey Racing333030—+3,6044,954
Recent coverage
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Head-to-head
Most-raced and strongest-beaten: times Senna finished ahead vs behind
RivalRatingRacedAheadBehindRecord
🇮🇹 Riccardo PatreseFIA Bronze6,4171581075168%
🇦🇹 Gerhard Berger6,4911521044868%
🇩🇪 Thierry Boutsen6,049151965564%
🇮🇹 Andrea de Cesaris5,5241501143676%
🇫🇷 Alain Prost6,802141707150%
🇬🇧 Nigel Mansell6,389138776156%
🇮🇹 Michele Alboreto5,938138974170%
🇧🇷 Nelson PiquetFIA Platinum6,711125814465%
🇬🇧 Martin Brundle6,056120853571%
🇬🇧 Derek Warwick6,033119883174%
🇫🇮 Mika HäkkinenHigher-rated, 2× champion6,5293627975%
Raced wheel-to-wheel, not as team-mates
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84🇩🇪 Michael SchumacherFormula 16,331
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87🇺🇸 Jak CrawfordFormula 26,323
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Senna was an elite professional who raced in Formula 1 from 1984 to 1994 and won 41 Grands Prix. His career rating of 6,325 places him among the world's strongest drivers of his era. He finished an average of third place across his 161 Formula 1 starts and held a winning head-to-head record against Alain Prost, a five-time world champion, over their 77 shared races; Senna finished ahead in 41 of them. He also beat Nelson Piquet, a three-time champion, in 42 of their 60 meetings. His record against Gerhard Berger was similarly dominant, with 48 finishes ahead in 62 races. Senna won the Formula 1 world championship in 1990 and 1991 with McLaren, the team for which he started 96 of his 161 Grands Prix.[1]

His career ended in the 1994 season, when he started three rounds and finished 26th in classification, posting no wins or podiums. In his final Formula 1 campaign he was no longer competitive at the level he had maintained through the 1980s and early 1990s. Before his full-time entry to Formula 1, Senna drove in Formula 3 at Macau in 1983, winning all three races he entered.[2]

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications[2] Wikipedia
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