TEXT: A.Giustini PHOTO: WafeProject - D.Pastanella
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On the eve of the 1993 Grand Prix of Australia, the journalist Mark Fogerty asked Ayrton Senna who his biggest rival was. The Brazilian's answer left everyone speechless; not Alain Prost (close to retirement), nor fellow countryman Nelson Piquet or the British Nigel Mansell, but Terry Fullerton.Senna's most dificult adversary did not drive a Formula 1, but rather a DAP / Parilla, a testimony of how much the karting past has marked, sports-wise and not, the career of a driver. Even today, karting is the best training ground for drivers, as well as the sole road that can be embarked upon at the beginning of that circuit that leads to the peaks of car racing.