Toleman TG183B-05 from 1984: Ayrton Senna’s first car up for auction

History at auction The famous auction house RM Sotheby’s will sell on April 25th in Monte Carlo the 1984 Toleman TG183B-05, car #19 with which the late Ayrton Senna made his debut in Formula 1 on the occasion of his Brazilian Grand Prix. On the Jacarepaguà track, the debut was not particularly exciting for the future three-time world champion, forced to retire due to a turbo failure, but in the subsequent events of that championship he had the opportunity to impress with a single-seater not up to par with the top teams. A memorable debut After 6th place in South Africa which earned him the first point of his career, immediately replicated in Belgium, the Brazilian achieved an incredible second position under the violent downpour in Monte Carlo, where he had the real possibility of winning the race if it hadn’t been for the red flag displayed just as he was close to Alain Prost. An episode that gave birth to one of the greatest rivalries (if not the greatest) in the history of F1. The other two podiums of that season were in England and Portugal (in both cases 3rd place), enough for Lotus to decide to bet on him in 1985. The evaluation The price of Senna’s famous single-seater is estimated between 2,800,000 and 3,800,000 euros, but during the auction it will not only be the Toleman at the center of collectors’ attention: among the Ferraris, for example, there will be the 642 from 1991 by Jean Alesi and Alain Prost, or a 312 T3 from 1978, driven that year by the duo Carlos Reutemann and Gilles Villeneuve.