First presentation in a car of races in front of its compatriots was his. The season of Formula One 1984 began in Rio de Janeiro and seventy thousand souls jammed the circuit of Jacarepaguá where the young person Ayrton the Seine gives Whistles became the fourteenth Brazilian in competing in the maximum category, which presented/displayed to the local idol Nelson Piquet like effective champion to the steering wheel of a Brabham BMW.

A young person and smiling Ayrton the Seine shining its attire of 1984, ready one to make debut with Toleman

Ayrton the Seine could not receive better gift by his twenty fourth birthday, celebrated the 21 of March, because it materialized his aspiration to make debut in the maximum category after a meteoric trajectory in the European motoring saw that it devote himself of uninterrupted way in all the categories in which it participated between 1981 and 1983.
The English equipment Toleman began its fourth year in the F1 and renewed completely to its pilot training, when reuniting to the promising Ayrton the Seine next to the Venezuelan Johnny Cecotto, of 28 years, that eleven months before a point in his had obtained second race in Formula One in a modest Theodore Ensing, square that punished season 1983 by the deficiency of budget and results most of, which did not prevent to Cecotto to especially receive praises of the critic and of the Brazilian Emerson Fittipaldi, considered that it like best the newcomer one.
Number 19 identifies the machine of the Seine and the 20 the one of Cecotto. The paulista arrives at Rio de Janeiro with a corporal weight of 67 kilograms, by 72,8 of the native of Caracas.

The cockpits of the Toleman put under from Rio de Janeiro sun. The car had been designed by Rory Byrne

The Toleman equipment presented/displayed model TG183 evolution B with radiators located in the front ailerons, chassis designed by the South African Rory Byrne (today engineer of Ferrari), driven by the motor 4 Hart cylinders with turbocompressor. The proprietor of the formation was the Briton Ted Toleman, loving multimillionaire of the speed that even participated in competitions of boats of high power. In 1980 they obtained the European title of Formula Two thanks to the veteran Brian Henton, in pair with another Briton, Derek Warwick, dupla that its opening in the F1 in the successive season did in which as soon as they managed to classify in an opportunity due to the poor yield of the vehicle.

ABANDONMENT UNDER THE INTENSE FROM RIO DE JANEIRO SUN

The one of Ayrton the Seine in the maximum category was not indeed a beginning favorable, far from it for Johnny Cecotto with the Toleman square.
The classifications are disputed to double turn timed as much Friday as Saturday. In first, the alarm in the equipment spreads because as soon as they advance curves and the Pirelli rubbers begin to degrade themselves. One is a defective rubber game. Johnny complaint besides the little stability of the car and takes place the breakage of a turbine. Saturday, resolved the problems of the tires, the Seine improves three seconds, while Cecotto again undergoes the breakage of a turbine. Just arrived it in time obtains sixteenth better crono of 1 ' 33 " 525 becoming best the newcomer one, while Cecotto marks the seventeen, although to almost two seconds of the Brazilian. In fact the disqualification of the German Manfred Winkelhock in its ATS-BMW that had obtained the fifteenth registry, allowed the South American pair to gain a position, reason for which did not share the ninth taken row of.

The quickest one Of Angelis obtained pole in that then beating to the Ferrari de Alboreto

Pole position is in the power of the Italian Elio De Angelis in a Lotus Renault with registry of the 1 ' 28 " 392, six tenth quickest one than the Italian Michele Alboreto in a Ferrari C4 model. More than five seconds of difference that separated of the end the Toleman it demonstrated the enormous disadvantage which they had the Hart motors of 1,5 liters with I disturb in front of the Renault, Ferrari, Honda, Tag or BMW, propulsive that then they developed more than 700 horsepowers, while the Hart did not surpass the 640, with venerable the 8 inhaled Cosworth cylinders of 3000cc which they delivered its last attacks and they managed to reach the 580 HP.
The day of the race, with cloudless skies and temperatures near the 40 degrees in the shade, the torcedores undergo the first deception when seeing the Brabham-BMW of Nelson Piquet to remain nailed when the released signal occurs of, identical problem that undergoes the Toleman-Hart de Johnny Cecotto, although both quickly are pushed by the sport commissioners who allow them to reincorporate themselves thus is in bottom the squad. The exit procedure had been aborted 15 minutes before when pausing the machine the Ligier Renault of the Italian Andrea De Cesaris.

The Seine complies the visor of its helmet and it is prepared for the beginning of his first GP of F1 in Brazil

Ayrton the Seine manages to advance three positions, but it immediately begins to suffer by the fragile Holset turbines, and in the eighth return it must leave. His companion does not last much more, and in turn eighteen also he retires by the same disadvantage. The Seine secures its better return in 1 ' 42 " 286, while Cecotto does in 1 ' 42 " 880. The record of the day corresponds to the French Alain Prost in a McLaren-Tag Porsche with witness of 1 ' 36 " 499.
For chronicles, the first leader of the GP of Brazil 1984 was Michele Alboreto, but the brakes of betrayed it to the Ferrari in return fourteen, put of head that assumed the Austrian Niki Lauda until turn thirty and eight, when its motor left it in the middle of the track which took advantage of the English Derek Warwick to direct towards his first victory to the steering wheel of a Renault, but a broken suspension to ten returns of the end left served the triumph for Alain Prost, one of new the survivors of that one competition. Gaul was first of seven successes of in season, although of little they would be worth to him to surpass to his companion Niki Lauda, who would obtain his third world-wide title by means advantage point, the most meager margin in the history of the category.

THE MAGICAL WAY TOWARDS IMMORTALITY

In the second test disputed in South Africa, Ayrton the Seine manages to cross the goal in the sixth place to two returns of the winner Alain Prost, consequently secures to its first point in the F1 in his second presentation, as it before did Cecotto a year in Long Beach. The rest, is the beginning of a history filled with successes for the amazonian steering wheel which would steeply culminate a 1 of May of 1994 in the outer wall of the curve Tamburello de Imola, in Italy, exactly one decade after to have suffered in that same one drawing up the first and unique nonclassification in its sport race, day in which its coequipero Johnny Cecotto was up to six second quicker than Ayrton the Seine in the unique session of training that managed to realize. In the disputed previous round in Zolder, Belgium, Cecotto also had been faster than its companion in the timed ones but the breakage of the clutch in forced it to the exit to leave.

In South Africa Ayrton it secures his first point of F1. In that occasion Alain Prost it was winning

By all means that unlike cronistas like the conoticed Christopher Hilton, author of biographies of the main figures of the F1 - last of them the one of the Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya - we are not going to incur the lightness to avoid the mechanical problems that in that one opportunity affected the Brazilian, as if the Briton in the book does that compiles all the results obtained by the Seine, as it reads itself in one of his paragraphs: “he manages to surpass by four clear seconds Johnny Cecotto in the classifications for the GP of Canada”, omitting the numerous misfortunes that had to face the one of Caracas.
Toleman arrives at the GP of San Marino in abierta financial dispute with the Pirelli mark. Friday does not go to the track and the Italian house just gives to its products Saturday in the morning, first session in which rain delays to all the participants. The Seine does not know the drawn up one nailed in the heart the Emilia Romagna and in the second and definitive turn, it confronts problems in the turbine of his motor, something that by once did not affect the machine of its coequipero that enters without problems grilla of released. As of the following date, Toleman would wear made the Michelin.

The Seine had to leave by an accident in the Great Prize of EE.UU., disputed in Detroit

It was one of the few deceptions of the Seine in that one season, misfortune that erased in the streets of Montecar it when it secondly reached memorable the place under a torrential heavy shower, escort position even could be a triumph if they do not decide to stop the race in return 31. Nevertheless, those first months next to the ex- champion of motociclismo were sufficient so that Ayrton affirmed at the beginning of the ninety that Johnny Cecotto was the teammate more competitive than never it had. A praise that did not come indeed by the friendship that never got to exist among them.
So that many young people understand what meant to run then and of the dangers that locked up the races (diminished in the present thanks to the fabulous safety measures as much in cars as in the circuits), of that one formation of 27 participants in the inauguration of campaign 1984, 5 of them would find the death in the tracks: Germanic the Manfred Winkelhock and Stefan Bellof in the prototypes Porsche 962 of Group C in season 1985, the Italian Of Angelis in a Brabham-BMW in 1986, the own Ayrton the Seine in 1994 with the Williams-Renault and the Italian Michele Alboreto in a Audi prototype in season 2002. Also they would be seriously injured the Venezuelan Johnny Cecotto in the same season 1984, the French Jacques Laffite, twelve months later in the same track of Brands Hatch and Swiss Marc Surer in 1986, when it competed in a rally in Germany. Although they managed to recover, no of them would return to the maximum category.

METEORIC ASCENT TOWARDS the F1

The Brazilian tried for Williams and McLaren before clocking on and off for Toleman like pilot number 1

The months that preceded to the arrival of Ayrton the Seine to the F1 were marked by numerous tests with different equipment, the first of them champion Williams, who offered the opportunity to handle one of his FW08 Cosworth in the track of Donington Park to him. The Seine made immediately a time inferior to the one of Jonathan Palmer, third pilot of those of Didcot, and equaled the registries of the monarch Keke Rosberg. Soon it would try with McLaren-Cosworth in Silverstone next to promising the Stefan Bellof and Martin Brundle, while end of season in the French track of Paul Ricard property of Ecclestone would rise in the Brabham BMW (yes, the old Bernie was great team to manager, although soon it understood that the great business was in handling the money of the commercialization of the F1). In Him Castellet also turned the flaming monarch Nelson Piquet next to the Colombian Robert Jose Italian Guerrero and the Mauro Baldi and Pierluigi Martini.
Besides its unquestionable talent and preceded by an amazing record of triumphs, Ayrton the Seine counts on a generous financial endorsement, and after to analyze the options it is decided by the irregular Toleman, where it agrees to receive attention as aircraft commander, although in the agreement signed by Johnny Cecotto it was spoken of equality in the treatment for both.

The McLaren equipment less dominated the actions by that then with its pilots Prost and Lauda anything

A month before beginning the season, all the equipment completed four days of tests in Jacarepaguá trying to adapt to the new norms that prohibited the refuelings, limiting itself the amount of gasoline, situation that brought about not few problems to the different manufacturers from motors, fights in that the Tag Porsche used by McLaren knew to remove the greater advantage. In those training of preseason that also were fulfilled in Kyalami, South Africa, the Seine manage to cross the equivalent to 8 great prizes, that is to say, about 2500 kilometers. It receives all the attentions of the square that justifies its greater interest in the fact that Pirelli Brazil has paid the tests so that Ayrton is accustomed to the car, reason why beyond to have never participated in one released official in a Great Prize did not arrive with very good preparation and knew the yield very well the vehicle and in particular of the motor I disturb, not thus its companion, who due to a series of mechanical circumstances, as soon as it could complete about 200 kilometers.

The Seine gets ready for the beginning of the GP of Canada of 1984. There 7º would finalize closely together to score

Fulvio Maria Ballabio, Italian pilot who recently visited Caracas, also was present in the tests conducted in Jacarepaguá to the steering wheel of a Spirt with Hart motor, equipment that it looked for to count on the services of the double world-wide champion Brazilian Emerson Fittipaldi. “Then Brian Hart gave to the Seine and to Fittipaldi the best motors to him, with the last evolutions, while to Cecotto and they gave us that were broken immediately or as much presented/displayed all class of faults in the turbines as in the feeding system”.
The organizational chart of Toleman presents/displays to Alex Hawdridge like chief of a main directorate, while the sport director is Peter Gethin, the same that prevailed in the GP of Italy of 1971. Brian Hart is the father of the propellent 4 cylinders I disturb, machines that wore the Italian tires Pirelli, very at a disadvantage against the French competition Michelin.

OPENING IN MOTORING IN ENGLAND

One of the keys in the sport race of Ayrton the Seine gives Whistles was the known salary to select the best material, a vision that also was one of the virtues of his admired Juan Manuel Fangio. In addition, always he was conscious of the important thing that it was the deal with mass media, indelible inheritance that his compatriot Emerson Fittipaldi patented when at she arrived at Europe by the end of the sixty.
In 1981 the young person of 21 years decides to move to England, the cradle of world-wide motoring and she decides immediately with the proprietor of the mark Go Diemen, Ralph Firman (the father of the ex- pilot of Jordan F1) to lead one of his official cars in the category Ford Formula 1600cc. In his debut realized in Brands Hatch it is fifth, race in which the Argentinean prevails Enrique “Quique” Mansilla, with record of return for the Mexican Alfonso Toledano.

The Seine made an impression in the Formula Ford 2000 winning in 22 of the 28 appearances that the Brazilian did

In the second test in Thruxton it is third and it stops in the following one celebrated under the rain of Brands Hatch, the Seine secures his first success in single-seaters, race in which surpasses Alfonso Toledano, Aztec flying Bravo that never would manage to defeat the South American, while it could hardly do it to Mansilla in the debut of the Brazilian. Ayrton is champion in the series of the Royal Automobile Club and the Towsend-Thoresen in which it accumulates 12 victories in 20 presentations.
In 1982 2000cc jumps to the Ford Formula that uses ailerons and tires slicks, new features that the paulista one as soon as it takes into account because the amazing number of 22 triumphs in 28 appearances scores, consequently annihilates to its rivals appropriating itself the British and European crowns of the specialty, always to the commando of a chassis Go Diemen property of Dennis Rushen's, that offers a payment to him of 10,000 pounds sterling.
it locates it to 1983 in the third and definitive passage in route towards the F1: the Formula Three of England and in his first nine presentations raised the highest step of podio in a Ralt Toyota of the powerful square West Surrey, nevertheless, the English Martin Brundle did not leave cavalcade it of Ayrton was so simple and the crown was decided, of course, in the last round to favor of the Brazilian. One adjudged 12 of the 20 sleeves and in November it traveled to Macao to take to the classic Asian in his first version with machines of F3, meeting in which surpassed to the Colombian Robert Jose Guerrero, who in last the two seasons had competed in F1 with the Ensing equipment.
In the balance of his first three seasons in motoring before making debut in the F1, Ayrton the Seine left a personnel record amazing: 70 races, 48 victories, 34 pole position and 50 records of return as well as five titles like champion.

THE KARTING, THE FIRST PASSION

The style of the Seine leading a Kart was inimitable. The Seine always counted on the best elements

Milton Guirando Theodoro Da Whistles, father of Ayrton, constructed kart to him when it was hardly 4 years old, but would not be but until the 13 when it could compete officially prevailing in kartódromo of Interlagos. At the 18 the Seine arrives at Europe, where it participates in the world-wide ones of karting of 1978. It agrees in Le Mans, France, with the Venezuelan Olivieri Maximum, the best pilot of this specialty that had our country. The Brazilian was located sixth in the appointment of the Sarthe, guaranteed by the triumph in edition 1977 of the South American championship realized in Uruguay (soon he would repeat in 1980), although in fact were matches which they only reunited to the pilots of Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil, being the one of his rivals Argentinean Henry Martin, today figure in the tourism of his country and if the memories do not betray to us, also River plate Claudius Manozzo.
Olivieri comments: “With the Seine we ran together the World-wide one of Le Mans, the 78 France and soon the one of the 79 in Estoril, Portugal. He was very fast, very certain to obtain what one seted out, had a fort economic support and it always counted on the best material, although for my taste the best one of all the kartistas was the English Mike Wilson, who had a unique style. Terry Fullerton also was a magnificent pilot and Ayrton never could defeat them, nevertheless, its goal was the motoring and when Johnny Cecotto said to me that it was going to run next to him in Toleman, the unique thing that I said to him was that while the Seine had rubbers on asphalt it was going to be extremely fast”.

The Seine recognized that the Go-Kart was its better school. There it learned the art to lead under rain

In spite of trying it until in five opportunities, Ayrton the Seine does not manage its dream to devote world-wide champion of karting, in which always it defended Italian mark DAP that made the Parilla brothers. In 1979 he is runner-up in Estoril, Portugal in the class superior 100cc: the paulista one gains the end and when it believed to have conquered the title informs to him that Dutch Peter Koene is the champion to have obtained better results in the semifinals. Arranged to take the revenge, a year in Nivelles, Belgium repeats later where it returns to be second; in 1981, in spite of initiating its campaign in the automobiles, quarter in Parma, Italy in the new class 135cc Formula K and in 1982 above in position fourteen in Kalmar culminates, Sweden.
“Go-kart has been my better school - the own Seine would comment later years - There I learned all the tricks of this profession, from simplest to most complex. The essential difference is the speed of end, because with go-kart it is arrived at 120-130, while with a Formula 1 the 300 are obtained kms/h. The greater difference is this one, because of the rest, the reactions in curve, the acceleration, the brakings, the advancements and, in particular, the handling under rain are very similar. Both are sensational, but only in a Formula 1 you can feel the speed. Nevertheless, karting is an extremely spectacular sport that can give great satisfactions to you”.