{"id":21494,"date":"2022-07-15T11:16:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T14:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/?p=21494"},"modified":"2022-07-15T11:16:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T14:16:42","slug":"conquista-historica-de-senna-no-kart-completa-43-anos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/conquista-historica-de-senna-no-kart-completa-43-anos\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting facts about Ayrton Senna\u2019s first national go-kart title, won 44 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Ayrton Senna won the Brazilian Go-Kart Championship for the first time on July 16, 1978, at the Tarum\u00e3 Go-Kart Raceway, in Viam\u00e3o, near Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul). Senna raced with a #16 go-kart, wearing an orange suit and a plain white helmet with a blue stripe. He would debut the iconic -green-blue helmet design during his next competition, the World Go-Kart Championship, at Le Mans.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-3' class='gallery galleryid-21494 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/?attachment_id=134'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ezgif-frame-014-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The Brazilian championship started on a Friday (the 14th), with the first qualifying sessions. After three heats, the champion of the 1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0100cc category \u2013 the one Senna was in \u2013 was crowned. All 21-lap races took place on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Senna, who was 18 at the time and raced for team Sulam, won all the races, making things even with his rival, Ralter Travaglini. His adversary had won the title in the previous year, when Senna was the runner-up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">In an interview to newspaper Zero Hora in 1994, journalist Lemyr Martins said that Senna drove from S\u00e3o Paulo to Viam\u00e3o in his father\u2019s pickup truck. Ayrton had just gotten his driver\u2019s license and immediately hit the road on the way to Rio Grande do Sul. Not minding the tiredness, Senna loaded his two go-karts on the truck\u2019s bed and drove more than 1.100 km (680 miles), crossing three states.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The 1978 go-kart championship had more than 150 drivers in its roster, in five different categories. In the 2019 edition, the tournament featured 19 different categories in Cascavel (PR). In 2020, competitions will be held from December 7th at SpeedPark, a go-kart track located in Birigui, S\u00e3o Paulo. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Take a look at how some newspapers reported (in portuguese) on Senna\u2019s achievement at the time .<\/span><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-4' class='gallery galleryid-21494 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/?attachment_id=134'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ezgif-frame-014-300x169.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ezgif-frame-014-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.senna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ezgif-frame-014-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.senna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ezgif-frame-014-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.senna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ezgif-frame-014-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.senna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ezgif-frame-014-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ayrton Senna won the Brazilian Go-Kart Championship for the first time on July 16, 1978, at the Tarum\u00e3 Go-Kart Raceway, in Viam\u00e3o, near Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul). Senna raced with a #16 go-kart, wearing an orange suit and a plain white helmet with a blue stripe. He would debut the iconic -green-blue helmet [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novidades","category-senna-na-midia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}