Ayrton Senna's niece hails Lewis Hamilton gesture at Brazil GP and opens up on F1 legend

Exclusive: Bianca Senna, main enforcement of the Senna Brand, speaks to Mirror Sport astir her uncle's bequest and Lewis Hamilton's tribute to the Formula 1 fable astatine Interlagos this weekend

Ayrton Senna's niece says she volition beryllium "proud" to ticker Lewis Hamilton thrust 1 of the Brazilian legend's Formula 1 cars astatine Interlagos this weekend.

The Brit volition get down the instrumentality of the title-winning MP4/5B, successful which Senna won the 1990 title, aft qualifying today. It is to people the 30th day twelvemonth of Senna's decease successful a 1994 clang astatine Imola. Sebastian Vettel besides drove 1 of the Brazilian's aged racing machines astatine the Italian way earlier this year.

And Bianca Senna, CEO of the Senna brand, volition beryllium "super emotional" arsenic she watches Hamilton delight the Brazilian fans successful her uncle's aged car. She told Mirror Sport: "Looking astatine that car backmost connected the track, which is wholly antithetic from the F1 cars today, it is going to beryllium highly special.

"We are highly arrogant to person today's champions cheering for Ayrton, passing the message, telling the caller generations however important helium was for their vocation and for their lives."

Senna is simply a nationalist leader successful Brazil and was loved not lone for his endowment connected way but besides for his committedness to utilizing his level to assistance radical successful his homeland disconnected it. "Ayrton ever had this narration with Brazil and with radical that was ever beyond his racing," Bianca said.

"He was capable to link with radical done his connection of ne'er giving up, of pursuing your dreams nary substance what. I deliberation that is wherefore radical are inactive connected to him. Everybody needs to person a imagination and to ne'er springiness up, I deliberation that is wherefore [his legacy] is truthful everlasting."

Bianca was conscionable 14 erstwhile Senna suffered his fatal crash, though, and portion helium was live she simply saw him arsenic the uncle she adored. She explained: "I understood who Ayrton Senna was aft helium died. For me, helium was my uncle. It is simply a wholly antithetic presumption to what astir of the radical person of him.

"On the way helium was overmuch much focused and successful 'race mode', whereas erstwhile you were astatine the workplace oregon astatine the formation house, helium was precise kind, precise funny. He loved to bash pranks connected his nephews and nieces. He was specified a bully idiosyncratic to beryllium around."

To people the 30th twelvemonth since Senna's death, a caller medium has been released featuring audio clips of the racing fable speaking acceptable against creation music. Chart-topping physics artists including Nicky Romero, Meduza and Armin van Buuren are among those who person contributed to the 'Senna Driven' project.

"I emotion each the euphony and the thought of bringing his dependable to each of the songs was really based connected the thought of passing this message," said Bianca. "Music is simply a mode to motivate people. Sometimes erstwhile you are sad, you enactment connected euphony and it makes you consciousness better. At slightest for me, that is however I feel.

"Through music, you tin larn values, you tin beryllium inspired to spell beyond. And I deliberation that was the main extremity of this project. That is wherefore it is called Senna Driven and Seek Your Beat, due to the fact that it is astir seeking inwards and uncovering what makes you beat. Through the euphony and done Ayrton's voice, you tin bash that."

Senna won doubly astatine Interlagos successful his vocation and his niece is delighted that F1 continues to sojourn the Sao Paulo circuit each year. And this play Bianca volition ticker with intrigue arsenic rubric rivals Max Verstappen and Lando Norris spell caput to caput again.

She said: "It is our location contention and 1 of the places that Ayrton loved most. This contention tin alteration the championship, truthful a batch of radical volition beryllium watching this contention during the weekend. I americium definite it is going to beryllium a large race."

Senna Driven is retired present and disposable to watercourse connected Spotify.