Renault Brazil welcomes Bruno Senna

Bruno Senna was the guest of honour at the Renault plant in Curitiba, Brazil, today. Poignantly, the complex is named in honour of Brazil’s greatest-ever F1 world champion, and Bruno’s uncle, Ayrton Senna.

The young Brazilian, who competes this weekend in his home Grand Prix for the Lotus Renault GP team, visited the facility in the Brazilian city, where models are produced for the Brazilian market across three plants: the passenger car plant (bodywork and assembly), the engine plant, Mecanica Mercosul, and the light commercial vehicle (LCV) plant, operated with Nissan.

More than one million passenger cars and light utility vehicles have rolled off the production lines of the Ayrton Senna complex and in 2010 Renault’s Brazilian subsidiary achieved its best results yet. Bruno got the opportunity to see this production for himself, plus talk to some of the six thousand of employees that work in the plant.

Speaking at the event, Bruno said: "This is only my second visit to a production facility, and it’s certainly impressive. I’m sure my uncle would have been proud to see so many people working here. The warm welcome I got here as well was amazing - so many people turned out to say hello, which is so positive going into my home race. I would love to get a good result on Sunday in front of my home crowd, and this visit has put me in exactly the right frame of mind."