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March 21: Ayrton Senna was born on this date in 1960

Fifty-three years ago today — March 21, 1960 — Ayrton Senna was born in São Paulo. He took to karting at the tender age of four, and later, as a professional race car driver, would become the pride of Brazil. In 2009, an unprecedented magazine poll of 217 Formula One drivers voted Senna the greatest of all time, topping both Michael Schumacher and Juan Manuel Fangio.