Hard To Believe But The True Story of Ayrton Senna Dating a 15-Year-Old Revealed..

Hard To Believe But The True Story of Ayrton Senna Dating a 15-Year-Old Revealed..

Ayrton Senna, the exceptional Brazilian Formula One Driver, was not only known for his illustrious career but also cited as a ladies’ man. Let’s have a look at his love and family life.

Ayrton Senna may not have gotten the time to enjoy his fame and success of being one of the craziest Formula One drivers who won 41 Grand Prix across the 11 seasons he raced. However, he succumbed to death in a tragic accident. At the same time, he definitely enjoyed his time as a lover boy. It’s no secret now that he had relations with not one, but many women during the peak years of his life. But one of his relationships that remained secret for a long time has now been revealed, by his ex-girlfriend Adriane Yamin.

From models to movie stars to grid girls, Senna used to be surrounded by gorgeous ladies all the time. However, he only married one, Lilian de Vasconcelos Souza, even though within three years of their marriage, they parted ways. That is when he met a 15-year-old Adriane and built a secret relationship with her.

Adriane Yamin & Ayrton Senna’s childhood connection and her memories

After separating from his ex-wife Lilian de Vasconcelos Souza in 1983, Ayrton Senna met with a teenage Adriane Yamin, the heiress of the company Duchas Corona. She used to live in the same Santana neighborhood as Senna and knew him when she was just a kid. The Brazilian Formula One driver was 9 years older than her and in an interview with Eliana’s TV Show, she spoke about their 4-years of relationship.

Adriane said, “My family was neighbors of Ayrton’s family.” But she left the place when she was 5 or 6 years old and moved to another neighborhood. And as they had quite an age difference, at that time, they were not compatible enough for ‘playing’. However, even though she left that neighborhood quite early, her desire to be in a gravity car was quite strong.

Yamin further declared that Ayrton was already trying his hands at driving the soapbox carts at that time, and eventually, he became who he was.

Adriane Yamin and Ayrton Senna’s dating phase

Adriane and Ayrton had started dating in 1984, and their relationship ended in 1988. Even though their courtship was four years long, it was kept under wraps and away from his Formula One pack because he didn’t want his relationship to distract him from his career.

Talking about their loving days and describing how it all started, Yamin shared in the interview that her father bought a boat when she was 15 years old. They used to visit Angra City on New Year’s Eve and coincidentally that year Senna also went to Angra City to celebrate New Year’s Eve.

Their second meet-up was designed by destiny. That year, Adriane Yamin and Ayrton Senna crossed paths when her family went to another beach in Angra. Her father recognized Senna as Mr. Milton’s son and when asked about it, he confirmed it but also felt a bit different as at that moment Senna already had a ‘certain fame’.

 

Soon, the two families meet again. It is a no-brainer that he and Yamin started flirting with each other. Yamin said,

“Just about three days before the turn of the year, in 1984 to 1985, he showed up. He accompanied us. Our boat plus his friends’ boat and we went to some beach. He went after us. We stopped there and he climbed aboard the boat and the presentations started. Everyone was very embarrassed and shy.”

Before their bond deepened, she only saw him on television, getting inside a car, and thought of him as a cute guy.

Adriane further admitted that she indeed slipped because of his charm. She said, “I was a girl.”

Ayrton Senna was Adriane Yamin’s first kiss?

Very proudly Adriane said that yes it was him who was her first kiss. Reminiscing that day, the Formula One Driver’s ex-girlfriend said, “Before he could kiss me, he had a conversation with me already warning me that his life wasn’t easy or being with him wasn’t easy. There were a lot of trips and he would go away for a long time. And that made it clear to me that he was two different people – he was Ayrton but he was also Beco.”

She further explained,

“And he said, ‘Look, I want to know if you can handle it. If you want, you can think about it.’ I said, ‘No, I don’t want to think.’ Because we already were flirting and I was happy… Then he asked, ‘Do you want me to ask your father to take permission to date you?’ And then our trip was also ending and he was also kind of figuring out how to manage a kiss. And then it happened.”

Adriane is still so much in love with Ayrton that whenever she talks about him or their four years of relationship, she gets emotional.

When did Adriane Yamin and Ayrton Senna break up?

Senna and Yamin’s love story ended in 1988 during Christmas. This happened after Senna was crowned in Paris as the world champion in the FIA party. They fell out and it ended once and for all.

However, after that, Yamin came out with their story and unfiltered love life, revealing every small detail of their relationship in her book named ‘My Girl’. According to her, it was “A painful journey… but very beautiful and rewarding…“

Ayrton Senna’s past relationships and married life

Ayrton has lived quite a colorful life and there’s no doubt. From declaring his relationship with Adriane Galisteu during a model shoot for Marlboro to having a gala affair with Brazilian TV presenter, actress, and singer, Xuxa Meneghal. Senna had been linked with many women over the years of his career. Even though he always tried to keep his personal and professional lives far away from each other, sometimes they bled into one another, creating quite a fuss all around.

Senna got attached to many women but never married except Lilian de Vasconcelos Souza. Lilian and Senna were childhood friends as they shared the same neighborhood. Their childhood connection changed into adulthood feelings. They lived together for eight months before Senna asked Lilian to marry him. According to Lilian, Ayrton Senna had told her,

“If I go to Europe to race, when I come back you will already be married. So you better marry me now!”

And voila! They had a civil marriage as Senna didn’t want to get married in a church. Their wedding night was quite iconic as he carried his wife in his arms to the Maksoud Plaza Hotel suite, and they spent their next 10 days honeymooning in Chicago.

Two months into the wedding, his Europe tour followed. Lilian was there by his side when he was becoming a star in the car racing industry.

Ayrton Senna’s second love: Lilian

After British Formula Ford Season 1 in 1981, Senna and Lilian came back to the UK to give their marriage a chance to survive as his wife had started to feel alone. The Brazilian car racing star used to dedicate his love and passion only to racing. He knew nothing apart from that.

Senna was skeptical about spending money and used to think twice before buying something in the early years of his career. He even never slept with Lilian in the same bed before his race to avoid libido. On paper, everything worked out. The Formula One Driver won 22 out of 28 races but all these things started to twist the relationship between the married couple. Lilian once in an interview said,

“I was his second passion. His first passion was racing. There was nothing more important in the world for him, not family, not his wife, nothing.”

Lilian saw his ups and downs and stayed with him in his tough times. She once said, “I think I was an important person. I think I encouraged him in his career.”

What ended Ayrton and Lilian’s marriage?

After they returned to the UK, they stayed married for a few more months but when Lilian found out about her pregnancy and told Senna, she got a cold behavior from him. He told her to go back to Brazil and raise their child. However, this was not what Lilian had dreamed of, she wanted a family. Eventually, the child was miscarried and the duo quietly parted ways through a mutual divorce.

Later, Senna’s ex-wife shared how his family never gave him any permission to make mistakes. He was raised like that. She said,

“he spent his life charging himself. We lost a lot and he lost even more, due to the excess of obligations. The success of his father Milton forced Ayrton to be an example too. A morally rigid family, with principles, respect for people, and commitments of all kinds marked him. But that took away a lot of naturalness …”

Even though they got separated, Lilian had a civil relationship with the Brazil racing star’s family. So when she was not mentioned in his documentary, SENNA, Lilian got hurt. In an interview with a Brazilian news agency, she declared, “I was there for his F3 victories, I remember, but I don’t appear in them here in the documentary.”

Ayrton’s life post-divorce

Senna clearly never paid much thought to what people might say. He won many car races on the track and off the track he was the king of hearts. He had countless numbers of girlfriends. Some stayed longer than expected while others spent a brief amount of time with the legendary Formula One driver.

Among the serious relationships, other than Adriane Yamin, Adriane Galisteu, Xuxa and Carol Alt’s names created lots of buzz all around. In the last few years of his life, Senna stayed with Carol, who was then married to an ice hockey player. On the other hand, Senna was also engaged to Galisteu. However, when quarrels and jealousies came in between Ayrton and Carol opened the door for each other and began their love story. In an interview with GQ Italia, she expressed her love for the Brazilian car racer,

“He was cute, full of attention. My husband had never even given me a birthday present, you know? And I was so young and I worked so hard that I hardly even noticed it. He would join me on an island, at a fashion show, I loved him deeply.”

Carol Alt and Ayrton Senna loved each other for four until that horrific accident happened on the track which took Senna’s life and ended everything – his fame, his success, his love for cars, and his relationship with Carol. After so many years, now Carol revealed, “The day he died, I decided to leave my husband. I know where I was at the time of the accident, and what I was doing. And that the world collapsed on me.”

She even shared how she got the prize instead of Senna taking it from the stage, and that it was the most painful moment for her.

Ayrton Senna passed away on May 1, 1994, due to a traumatic brain injury while his car crashed into a concrete barrier. This happened when he was on the track for the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix at the Imola Circuit in Italy. He died a tragic death but will be remembered forever through his achievements and the love that he spread.

Senna knows how to pick his woman and his love story with Adriane Yamin definitely was one of a kind. From being in the same neighborhood, meeting again coincidentally, dating for four years – they both acquired a lot of memories from the time they spent together. Yamin still reminscices those days. In her interview with Eliana’s TV Show, she even flaunted the neckpiece that Senna gifted her back in the day.