1982 season

After winning the Formula Ford 1600 title, in 1981, Ayrton Senna continued on to Formula Ford 2000 in 1982. He came onto the scene like a cyclone both in the British and the European championship.
The Brazilian driver won the season’s six first races, all of them part of the British tournament, getting the pole position and making the fastest lap in all of them. On the seventh race, in Zolder, Belgium – this time for the European championship – he got the pole position but didn’t win. It was the first time he didn’t score the so-called “hat trick” in FF2000.
Between the second and the third test, a fact even more surprising: Senna won races on consecutive days and on different tracks. Ayrton traveled from Oulton Park to Silverstone circuit, racetracks separated by more than 212 km. The trip took place on Saturday 27 March, after Ayrton have won the North of England track. After the triumph, Senna and Rushen Green Racing team hit the road and went down to the central region of the country, towards the Silverstone circuit, where “Da Silva” as it was popularly known racetracks in England, would win again. All this in a few hours.
The victory at Silverstone showed that Ayrton was not worried about fatigue. In just 15 laps, Senna beat Colin Jack’s Reynard for 17 seconds. Bearing in mind that the circuit used was only three chicanes, the achievement was really overpowering.