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BATE-PAPO COM LUCAS DI GRASSI | Criação de uma Equipe Brasileira de Fórmula 1
493 statements · 1 politicians · August 3, 2026 · 57 min
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Hey, big Lucas, how's it going?
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How are you doing?
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Renan, nice to meet you.
Desconhecido
Man, I really wanted to know about this passion of yours for motorsport and that comment you made, which caused a stir on the internet, about that Brazilian Formula 1 team.
Desconhecido
I, obviously, right, since we're about the same age, I imagine that this passion came from Ayrton Senna; at least mine came from Ayrton Senna, and I was lucky enough to be able to follow that path to Formula 1 in 2010, and afterwards... I did Endurance, Formula E, anyway, I built my career in motorsport.
Desconhecido
But I wanted to know a bit about you there, Kiki.
Desconhecido
Where does that passion come from and where did the idea come from?
Look, so, before I joined the team, right?
I'll talk about the passion and I'll even... I'll philosophize a bit here, I think it's worth it.
I think you and I belong to a generation that I call the Ayrton Senna generation in Brazil.
We experienced, during our childhood, the presence of Senna.
And he died — I was 10 years old, you probably were... So, when Senna died, we were in that formative period when myths and heroes arise for us as we watched cartoons on TV.
So, Ayrton Senna was a heroic reference and a mirror of personality for our generation.
A very powerful thing for us.
So Senna's death was something that marked us a lot; it was like, wow, heroes die too.
We're not used to that.
Now, like, we come from a time, I don't know if you agree, which is the late 1980s to the early 1990s, when football definitely wasn't going through a great phase in Brazil — the national team was losing everything; it lost the World Cup in '86, in '90 it did poorly in the World Cup — and at the same time Senna was one of, maybe along with Michael Jordan, one of the three greatest athletes in the world at the time.
It must have been Maradona, Senna and Michael Jordan.
And he was a guy who had a style, a somewhat mystical way of being; he was very different in... in his manner.
At the same time Formula 1 seemed to be inhabited by, I don't know, medieval knights.
The personalities were very different.
So Prost had a very specific personality, a professor, right, full of a kind of technical coldness.
Mansell, who was lion-hearted.
Piquet, full of tricks and scheming.
The cars back then were also very colorful; there was that Camel Lotus, yellow, yellow, yellow.
The cars had that... saturated, flat color; the shapes were different.
Desconhecido
And different cars too, right?
Very much!
Man, back then, let's talk late '80s, you had V8, V10, V12 engines all competing in races.
The other day I was doing some statistics for the 1990 season.
In '90 a V8 engine won two races, a V12 won about five, a V10 won around seven, it was things like that, you know, you look and there were completely different techniques, different ways of designing the car, then came the high nose, the low nose, and all of that coexisting — it was a very attractive era and... For me, I became so passionate, I loved the look, my father would make me watch, I remember at three years old knowing about the Yellow Lotus, which was kind of magical to me.
And then Senna was a huge figure, and I used to buy those Pole Position magazines — well, I didn't buy them, I got them, the magazine they handed out in front of the Brazilian GP — and I would memorize everything about the cars, so I knew, like, Jordan's '91 lubricant, which tire Brabham used.
It was at that level.
So I've always loved Formula 1, loved it.
And I loved Formula 1 largely for the technical moments, for the details, for the behind-the-scenes disputes, for the fights, you know, Ron Dennis versus Frank Williams, for Adrian Newey.
I've always been obsessed with the nerdy stuff.
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For sure, look, let me tell you, you definitely knew a lot more about race cars than I did back then, because I didn't get into that level of detail, right?
Desconhecido
I was just starting in karting at that time, in Itu — I started my career in Itu.
Desconhecido
Just to add one more thing to what you said about that magical late '80s and '90s period, we had a hero, Ayrton Senna, but society, football was muted, and Brazilian society was in an uproar, it was total chaos politically, a strong transition period, inflation through the roof — it was really chaos.
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And I kind of think Brazilians used Ayrton Senna as a... a way to escape that reality and every Sunday root for something bigger that represented Brazil to the whole world in a way no one ever had.
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