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[Jabberwocky]

I just read this and wondered what you would rather be known as

“I hope, in a short time, that everybody remembers me for being Bruno and not for my uncle’s surname,” Senna said. “I’ve learned to live with it and although it helped me at the beginning to find sponsors and find contacts, to be a driver you need to have a natural talent.”

[McLaren]

I went for Bruno on the grounds that he will never be able to fill the shoes of the Senna name aswell as his uncle did.Driving wise I mean,nothing against him as a person.

[Jabberwocky]

if he is not using his name (Senna) to forward his career then why does he not use Lalli? unless it is a brazilian naming convention.

[Massachello]

In that case Ayrton should of been called Ayrton Da Silva. I have nothing against Bruno using the senna surname since Ayrton himself used his middle name as his surname. In Brazil the mothers maiden name is your middle name.

Ayrton Senna Da Silva
Bruno Senna Lalli

[Amanda]

if he is not using his name (Senna) to forward his career then why does he not use Lalli? unless it is a brazilian naming convention.

I was just going to post this.

Aryton used Senna, instead of da Silva, because it was far less common in Brazil (according to the biography 'The Life of Senna'). Therefore, I can't see why Lalli wouldn't be the correct convention for Bruno.

[racechick]

We dont know how good he's going to be in F1 yet but he is a little late starting for this day and age if he wishes to repricate his uncles achievments.

Why shouldnt he use the Senna name? Its his name and its a heritage to be mighty proud of.

[Amanda]

We dont know how good he's going to be in F1 yet but he is a little late starting for this day and age if he wishes to repricate his uncles achievments.

Why shouldn't he use the Senna name? Its his name and its a heritage to be mighty proud of.

I'm not saying that he shouldn't, but he's going to get even more comparisons to his uncle because of it. It's probably helped him in his career thus far but it must have it's drawbacks too.

Out of curiosity I had a look around on the net:

His name is actually Bruno Senna Lalli - his father was killed in a motorbike accident not long after Ayrton's fatal crash - and you would think it might have been tempting to hide Bruno's identity.

After all, being the nephew of one of the greatest racing drivers of all time was always going to bring pressures - to deliver, to live up to Ayrton's legacy.

But there was apparently never any doubt about what he would call himself.

"That was the first thing we thought about," he says, "and we realised there was no point whatsoever in not using the Senna name because the first person who realised I was related to Ayrton would blow it up, and everybody would go 'Bruno Lalli is Bruno Senna', and that would disappear very quickly.

"They would say you are being a hypocrite, not using your name, trying to hide from something. And there was no point being Bruno Senna Lalli, because people would just call me Bruno Senna. So we just made things simple."

There is no doubt that being called Senna has helped Bruno's career. Former Grand Prix driver Gerhard Berger, a close friend of Ayrton's, has advised him throughout, and it has made raising sponsorship much easier.

But there have also been hurdles to overcome. "In the beginning," he admits, "it was hard to cope with the pressure of everything.

"There was never an obligation or a need to live up to the name," he says. "It is natural for people to fail and if I had I just go down and that's it.

"But there was a responsibility not to make a mess or do something my family would not be proud of, of making sure the image of the name was not going to be changed."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/mobile/mot ... 509591.stm

[Jabberwocky]

I have been looking into his results and even though they have not been fantastic, when you consider that he has not had 10 years of karting behind him, his results become more impressive.

[racechick]

I have been looking into his results and even though they have not been fantastic, when you consider that he has not had 10 years of karting behind him, his results become more impressive.