Bruno Senna

Bruno Senna Lalli (, born 15 October 1983) is a Brazilian professional racing driver.

He is the nephew of the late Ayrton Senna, three-time Formula One world champion.

Ayrton's death while driving a Williams at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix, however, brought Bruno's own racing career to an abrupt halt.

His father, Flávio Lalli, died in a motorcycle crash in 1996.

The colour scheme of Bruno's helmet is a slightly modified version of that used by his uncle Ayrton.

Born in São Paulo, he was first taught the skills of motor racing by his grandfather Milton da Silva at the age of five.

Bruno raced go-karts against his uncle on the family farm, and Ayrton regarded his nephew's potential very highly.

When leaving McLaren at the end of, Ayrton said: "If you think I'm fast, just wait until you see my nephew Bruno".

Despite these setbacks including the death of his father in a motorbike accident in 1996, Bruno's mother and his uncle Ayrton's sister Viviane had reluctantly backed her son's interest in motor racing.

At Imola in 2004, on the 10th anniversary of his uncle's death, Senna was given an example of his uncle's 1986 Lotus 98T as a gift from an Italian friend.

Senna drove the car at the 2004 Brazilian Grand Prix meeting in São Paulo, at Interlagos, where Ayrton had won in 1991 and 1993.

Ayrton's McLaren teammate from to, Gerhard Berger is a close friend of the Senna family and has advised Senna on his career.

Senna's sister, Bianca, meanwhile, has managed his affairs and sponsorship acquisition.

In 2004, Bruno competed in six races of the Formula BMW UK series for Carlin Motorsport, scoring six points.

In 2005, he moved on to the British Formula Three Championship, driving for the Räikkönen Robertson Racing team owned by then-McLaren Formula One driver Kimi Räikkönen and his business managers David and Steve Robertson.

His results included three podium finishes in the last seven races of the season, as he finished tenth in the final standings.

In 2006 he stayed with the team and finished third in the series standings behind champion and teammate Mike Conway and Oliver Jarvis, taking five victories.

He won the opening two races of the series at Oulton Park in the wet.

He again won the first race at Donington Park and then won the second race at Mugello in Italy, again in the wet.

Senna had a massive crash during the first race of round five of the series at Snetterton.

On lap 2, he and Hitech Racing's Salvador Durán clashed wheels on the Revett Straight at nearly 150 mi/h.

Senna's car took off just before the bridge, and may have even clipped it, while cartwheeling through the air.

His car landed violently and careered along and down the safety barrier for some distance, but Senna walked away.

His car however was damaged beyond immediate repair and Senna missed out on the second race of the day.

On the rear wing of the car he had advertised his uncle's foundation.

In 2006, Senna competed in the Formula Three support races at the 2006 Australian Grand Prix, winning three of the four races.

Driving a Spiess Opel powered Dallara F304, Senna set the Formula Three lap record of 1:50.8640 in the first race of the meeting which as of 2016 remains the fastest ever non-F1 lap of the Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit.

Senna finished 3rd in the race, the only one of the 4 races he did not win over the weekend.

On 28 May Senna made his first appearance on Monaco circuit, as a guest in the Porsche Supercup event.

Unfortunately, he was forced to retire at the first corner because of a clutch failure.

In October 2006 he appeared in an eight-part weekly series called Vroom Vroom on British TV station Sky One.

Each week he would drive a different car being tested on the show, as quickly as possible, to the top of a multi-storey car park.

In October 2006 Senna was said to be targeting a seat on the Formula One grid by.

He signed to drive for the Red Bull-sponsored Arden International team for the 2007 GP2 Series.

He finished fourth on his debut at Bahrain and soon after scored his first win in the feature race in Spain.

Bruno Senna raced in Formula One from 2010 to 2012.

He made his debut driving for Hispania Racing in 2010, raced for Renault from August 2011 as a replacement for Nick Heidfeld, and drove for the Williams team in 2012.

Between 2014 and 2016, he drove for Mahindra Racing in Formula E.

His mother is Ayrton's older sister, Viviane.

He is also the first driver to win a race in every class in the FIA World Endurance Championship, and was the 2017 WEC world champion in the LMP2 class.