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"The Next Senna" (Gabriel Bortoleto X Brazilian! Reader)
Fandom: RPF/Formula 1
Requested: Yee on AO3
Warnings: hate comments, lowercase and incorrect they're/their/there intentional in the comments
Summary: "I'm not him, I don't want to be, and I never will be him." "Who said you had to?" "..literally everyone?"
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The Kid Who Looks —And Races— Like Senna
Opinion by Maria Silva for Motorsport Brasil | 3 August 2019
Some comparisons are unfair. Others are inevitable.
This one is the latter.
The first thing you notice isn't the lap times; it's their face. Almost a mirror image of the late 3-time Formula 1 World Champion, Ayrton Senna.
This fourteen-year-old from Guarulhos, Brasil has been climbing through the national karting ranks silently, but with the announcement of them competing in the 2019 CIK-FIA World Championship, their race footage has been circulating.
One glance alone tells you why.
The resemblance to a young Ayrton Senna is borderline unsettling. The eyes. The jawline. The hair. Even the determined expression after climbing from a kart seems like a flashback.
One might say it's a coincidence. And perchance it is.
But once they start driving, it's a different story.
Aggressive without being reckless. Fearless in the wet. Relentless against the competition.
It's difficult not to think of another young Brazilian who once seemed to treat the limits of a racing machine as more than a suggestion.
Next month, the teenager will make their debut on the international stage with a KR/ IAME/LeCont. Expectations are already building, and perhaps rightly so. Brasil has spent decades searching for the next driver capable of carrying Ayrton Senna's legacy to new heights.
Maybe the search is finally over. Maybe the resemblance is more than skin deep. Maybe greatness has simply found another face.
Of course, comparisons this early are dangerous. Few young drivers survive the weight of impossible expectations. But motorsport has always thrived on extraordinary stories, and this one practically writes itself.
The world will be watching.
Every overtake, every mistake, every podium, and every defeat will be measured against a legend.
Whether this young driver embraces that destiny or crumbles beneath it may define not only their career, but perhaps the future of Brazilian motorsport itself.
