Thirteen years after his late and great uncle won his last Grand Prix, Bruno Senna found the chequered flag first in Australia. Triple champion Ayrton Senna, who crashed fatally not long after at Imola, last won a GP in a McLaren in 1993 in Adelaide, Australia's former formula one host. Now, further north in the city of Melbourne, Bruno Senna - the 22-year-old Brazilian son of Ayrton's sister Viviane - won the F3 support event in front of current F1 drivers and team bosses on Friday. I've always wondered what it would be like to win a race, said Senna, and now I know - it is indescribable.
Pretty impressive, seeing as he didn't get into pro racing into recently, if I remember correctly. Also, he was only doing a oneoff for this race team. Perhaps he will be getting a call back from them for upcoming races.
Hopefully he'll make it to F1 one day (he is a bit of a late starter). Just happy to have names like Rosberg, Villeneuve and Winkelhock back in the series. Senna would be another one from the golden era.
As much as I would like to see it as well, he has a long way to go. He just started in the last couple of years, and his F3 season last year was not very impressive.
Kimi didnt win much and look at him now. I see big future with B.Senna, Senna always said he was a rising star.
Yeah, based on racing him around the farm when B. was 9 years old. In all seriousness, I really want this guy to do well and make it in F1. It would be such a great story and I, for one, would be a huge fan.
I was just quoting Senna: "If you think I'm good, just wait until you see my nephew Bruno." Im guessing you dont really follow the sport as all the great drivers started at very early ages in F1, Alonso(at 3), Schumie(at 4) Ralf(at 3), plus alot of the other drivers all started at a very young age. Maybe it was the uncle talking him up but a quote is a quote. Also when I said Kimi above not winning much I meant another driver, I dunno why I mentioned him(maybe the hate of Mclaren hahaha).
Uuummmm, that's actually east of Adelaide. But seriously, Bruno put in a big effort that included getting changed into his race suit in the taxi on the way to the track straight from the airport on Thursday morning.
Tony, i totally agree. It would be special. I hope now that he has won a few races that it fuels the hunger to win more.
Kimi "didn't win much" only if you're working on the basis that he didn't enter much - he won a very high percentage of the car races he entered before starting in F1 with Sauber.
