Victory Theme ( pt, Tema da Vitória) is a Brazilian instrumental song composed specially for the broadcast of Formula One by Rede Globo. The music was composed by Eduardo Souto Neto.

History

The song was suggested by Aloysio Legey,Tele História - O dia em que o tema da vitória tocou para Prost
the director of Formula One transmissions for Rede Globo. The song was recorded in 1981 by the Brazilian band Roupa Nova, to be used as the soundtrack of victories in the

Brazilian Grand Prix The Brazilian Grand Prix ( pt, Grande Prêmio do Brasil), currently held under the name São Paulo Grand Prix ( pt, Grande Prêmio de São Paulo), is a Formula One championship race which is currently held at the Autódromo José Carlos Pace ...

, regardless of the winner's nationality, transmitted by Rede Globo. The song was first performed with the victory of Nelson Piquet in the

1983 Brazilian Grand Prix The 1983 Brazilian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Jacarepaguá on 13 March 1983. It was the first round of the 1983 Formula One season. Qualifying Andrea de Cesaris was excluded after failing to stop for a weight check during ...

. The next year, the song was performed for Alain Prost's victory in the

1984 Brazilian Grand Prix The 1984 Brazilian Grand Prix, officially known as the XIII Grande Prêmio Brasil de Fórmula 1 was a Formula One motor race held on 25 March 1984 in Rio de Janeiro. The race was contested over 61 laps of Jacarepaguá Circuit and was the first ...

. It was only in 1986 that the song started to be used for every victory by a Brazilian driver. The song marked Nelson Piquet's achievement of third championship in 1987 and Ayrton Senna's championships in 1988, 1990 and 1991. For seven years the song wasn't played on Rede Globo due to the lack of victories by Brazilian drivers, between the

1993 Australian Grand Prix The 1993 Australian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Adelaide on 7 November 1993. It was the sixteenth and final race of the 1993 Formula One World Championship. The 79-lap race was won by Ayrton Senna, driving a McLaren-Ford. In ...

won by Ayrton Senna and the

2000 German Grand Prix The 2000 German Grand Prix (formally the Grosser Mobil 1 Preis von Deutschland 2000) was a Formula One motor race held on 30 July 2000, at the Hockenheimring near Hockenheim in Baden-Württemberg, Germany before a crowd of 102,000 spectators. ...

won by Rubens Barrichello. In 2006, the song was played the first time for

Felipe Massa Felipe Massa (, born 25 April 1981) is a Brazilian racing driver. He competed in 15 seasons of Formula One between 2002 and 2017, where he scored 11 Grand Prix victories, 41 podiums and finished as championship runner-up in 2008 by one poin ...

for his victory in the

2006 Turkish Grand Prix The 2006 Turkish Grand Prix (officially the 2006 Formula 1 Petrol Ofisi Turkish Grand Prix) was a Formula One auto racing, motor race, held on 27 August 2006. The 58-lap race, which was the fourteenth round of the 2006 Formula One season, and the ...

. The Victory Theme was also played on Rede Globo after the Brazilian national team won the

1994 FIFA World Cup The 1994 FIFA World Cup was the 15th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national soccer teams. It was hosted by the United States and took place from June 17 to July 17, 1994, at nine venues across the country. The United States ...

, as an homage to Ayrton Senna, Death of Ayrton Senna, who died earlier that year. and again in the 2002 FIFA World Cup, where Brazil won the World Cup trophy for the 5th time in Japan. In 2009, the victory theme was played but with a different arrangement for Rubens Barrichello's victory in the 2009 European Grand Prix, which marked Brazil's 100th victory in the history of Formula One; no Brazilian driver has won a race since Barrichello claimed victory at that year's 2009 Italian Grand Prix, Italian Grand Prix two races later. At UFC 198, UFC Heavyweight Champion Fabricio Werdum used the song as his entrance music. On March 29, 2014, the guitarist of the American band Guns N' Roses performed the song "Tema da Vitória" at a concert in São Paulo. In that week, if he were alive, Senna would have been 54 years old.

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* * Brazilian music 1981 songs Motorsport in Brazil Formula One mass media Sporting songs {{Brazil-music-stub