The statue of Ayrton Senna is a life-size bronze statue of

Ayrton Senna Ayrton Senna da Silva (; 21 March 1960 – 1 May 1994) was a Brazilian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from to . Senna won three Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles with McLaren, and—at the time of his death—held ...

Wałbrzych Wałbrzych (; ; or ''Walmbrich''; or ) is a city located in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in southwestern Poland, seat of Wałbrzych County. Wałbrzych lies approximately southwest of the voivodeship capital Wrocław and about from the Czec ...

, recalling him from the

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circuit. Senna is shown sitting, depicted on the tyre of a

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racing car.

Location

The monument is located in

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) on the street that bears his name, next to the Mining and Motorsports Museum.

The opening of the statue

The grand opening of the statue took place on September 18, 2021, in Mining and Motorsports Museum in Wałbrzych . The monument commemorating the Brazilian racing driver, three-time Formula 1 world champion, was erected on Ayrton Senna Street, which was officially named by the Walbrzych City Council in 2015. The initiative was supported from the beginning by Mayor Roman Szełemej, who was present at the unveiling ceremony of the monument. It was attended by Hadil Fontes da Rocha Vianna, Ambassador of

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, and the prominent Polish racers including Sobiesław Zasada, Krzysztof Holowczyc, Maciej Wisławski, Maciej Szczepaniak, Rafał Sonik, Grzegorz Grzyb, Andrzej Kalitowicz.

The design of the statue

Financed by Jerzy Mazur and the founders who support him, the monument refers to a memory from 1986 at the

circuit. The initial concept of the statue that was born Jerzy Mazur's imagination - that is Senna depicted in a seated position - was drawn by Stefan Romecki, the Polish racer and graphic designer. The final design of the monument is credited to Dmitrij Buławka-Fankidejski - a sculptor with the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk - who undertook to create the sculpture.

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Location

The opening of the statue

The design of the statue

See also

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