Ayrton Senna Road - A Quick Question

[rjbetty]

I've been meaning to ask this for years really!


I don't know if many of you know this, but there is a small road (just a close really) off City Road in Tilehurst, Reading, named after Ayrton Senna. It's about 4-5 roads from where I recently lived. Sadly the sign itself is often obscured by much overgrowth but it's there.

Legend has it that this was the place he lived when he was doing the junior formulae. Now I want to find out from some of you knowledgeable peeps if this road is the actual road where Senna and Mauricio Gugelmin lived? Always wanted to know. Answers below please.

(how the heck do you post icons on this old-fangled thing?)

(and why does my keyboard keep reverting to Spanish? I just can't get a break with a keyboard)

[steveaki13]

I've been meaning to ask this for years really!


I don't know if many of you know this, but there is a small road (just a close really) off City Road in Tilehurst, Reading, named after Ayrton Senna. It's about 4-5 roads from where I recently lived. Sadly the sign itself is often obscured by much overgrowth but it's there.

Legend has it that this was the place he lived when he was doing the junior formulae. Now I want to find out from some of you knowledgeable peeps if this road is the actual road where Senna and Mauricio Gugelmin lived? Always wanted to know. Answers below please.

(how the heck do you post icons on this old-fangled thing?)

(and why does my keyboard keep reverting to Spanish? I just can't get a break with a keyboard)

Wow. Rj the Keyboard Gods must hate you. :p

[steveaki13]

http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/local-news/ayrton-senna-legend-not-garden-4212885

I like the quote from the guy opposite.

" He used to race really well" and "He would pass people in corners no one else could" :D Quotes from the great racing Pundit Mr Hawkins of Chelsea Street. :pThanks I never knew he was so good.

[D-Type]

Was Mr Hawkins perhaps talking about Ayrton on the road?

[rjbetty]

http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/local-news/ayrton-senna-legend-not-garden-4212885

I like the quote from the guy opposite.

" He used to race really well" and "He would pass people in corners no one else could" :D Quotes from the great racing Pundit Mr Hawkins of Chelsea Street. :pThanks I never knew he was so good.


Thank you for that link steveaki, that was nice to read. But I didn't actually know where Chelsea Close was(!) so just had a look at googlemaps. I do know that little network of roads very well as I used to work on the main rd (Norcot Rd), and lived down the road (I'm now the other side of town kinda). :)

Is it the same place Mauricio Gugelmin shared too?

[steveaki13]

Quote from Wikipedia:

"In 1982 Gugelmin, like many Brazilian drivers of his generation, moved to the United Kingdom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom) to further his racing career. He was a longtime friend of future Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayrton_Senna), who was already racing in the UK, and the two shared a house from 1982 to 1987"

If true that would suggest so.

[rjbetty]

Quote from Wikipedia:

"In 1982 Gugelmin, like many Brazilian drivers of his generation, moved to the United Kingdom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom) to further his racing career. He was a longtime friend of future Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayrton_Senna), who was already racing in the UK, and the two shared a house from 1982 to 1987"

If true that would suggest so.


Funnily enough, on the subject, I just saw this on the bbc-f1 website

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-27241760

Looks like Ayrton (and Mauricio) moved around quite a bit.