Bruno Senna were it to make the 2009 grid, until Rubens Barrichello was reported to have re-signed with the team. Senna decided not to sign with Mercedes for the 2009 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters season "to focus completely on his Formula One chances". Bruno Senna said to the BBC in an interview that he did not want to negotiate with Lotus because of sentimental reasons as his uncle Ayrton Senna took his first win with Team Lotus. He also told the BBC that "I felt important to enter F1 now otherwise I would never be in it". He also told the BBC he
Ayrton Senna favourite of Senna's, and he was reportedly unhappy about the upcoming shift of venue from Adelaide to Melbourne in 1996. Other motorsports circuits have similarly named sections of their track after Senna, such as the Circuito de Jerez in Spain, and the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Canada. He has been voted the best driver of all time in various motorsport polls, including "F1 Racing" magazine's 2004 poll, and German newspaper "Bild am Sonntag's" poll of current drivers in 2010. In 2009, a poll of 217 current and former Formula One drivers conducted by "Autosport" magazine named Senna as "the greatest