Ayrton Senna's autograph for a construction worker at Interlagos, signed on a Schahin Cury overtime authorization form
March 1994, Interlagos, Brazil.
21 cm x 14.7 cm.
Paper a little wrinkled, with original folds and punch holes.
Signed crudely and largely on the front of the Schahin Cury sheet.
This autograph was obtained during the renovation works at the Interlagos racetrack ahead of the 1994 Brazilian Grand Prix. The fan, a construction worker employed on the Interlagos works, approached Senna as he inspected the track and asked for an autograph. With no paper or pen of his own, the worker took this blank Schahin Cury overtime authorization form from the firm's warehouse and borrowed a pen from the accountant on site.
The Brazilian Grand Prix took place on March 27, 1994. Senna took pole position, but Schumacher won the race, a scenario repeated at the Pacific Grand Prix on April 17 and at the tragic Grand Prix of San Marino, in Imola, on May 1st.
This autograph is one of the driver's last, signed a few hours before his final race on Brazilian soil and a little over a month before the damned Tamburello curve. Signatures and dedications from the 1994 idol are the rarest and most sought after, and examples on period working documents from the Interlagos construction site are virtually unheard of.
The Schahin Cury form itself — an Autorização de Trabalho Extra — is a genuine artifact of the Interlagos renovation, listing fields for cargo, chapa, and participant names, with approval boxes for the apontador, mestre, and eng° fiscal. It survives as both a piece of Brazilian motorsport history and a document of the very works Senna inspected daily by helicopter.