Gerhard Berger says that "Ayrton's big love of his life was Xuxa"

Ayrton Senna & Xuxa, in 1989

One of the people who best known Ayrton Senna, both in his private and professional life, his teammate at McLaren, Gerhard Berger, said that "Ayrton's big love of his life was Xuxa", according to the book "The life of Senna" by Tom Rubython.

Berger was more than a team mate for Senna: they became close friends

Xuxa was a Brazilian TV presenter, very famous during the 80 and the 90's decades, once ranked 39th among the richest show business personalities by the magazine Forbes. 

Ayrton Senna and Xuxa were going to get married after he would retire from the Formula 1, since their very busy agendas impeded them from having a regular couple life during their relationship in 1989 and 1990. 


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