It’s a fitting place to sell such an iconic racing car. On the gleaming Mediterranean, Ayrton Senna’s glorious Toleman-Hart will find a new stable to join after being auctioned off at Les Grandes Marques du Monde a Monaco. It’s the TG184 with which Senna entered into the world of Formula 1. Cleverly, the young Brazilian planned a route into F1 without much expectation—avoiding offers from more prominent teams. Without a proven machine to pin his accomplishments to, Senna could draw attention like few other young hopefuls—especially when the heavens decided to open.

The rain is considered a great equalizer, and that helped Senna in his Toleman do battle with some of the established stars in much quicker machinery. Though the reduced levels of grip negate power advantages, it didn’t help that the Toleman’s Hart engine—spiky, laggy, and very unrefined—was a chore to manage. The 415T was a single-turbo, 1.5.-liter inline-four, making somewhere around 608 horsepower, which was sent through a Hewland five-speed. With a narrow powerband, a short track, and somewhere around 2,000 manual shifts around Monaco, handling this monster meant a bloody shifting hand and an invariably exhausted driver.

It was far from the technically sophisticated Porsche-TAG Turbo motors sitting in the dominant McLarens, and yet Senna was able to match their pace in sodden Monaco. Senna worked his way through the field and capitalized on the equalized playing field. The eager Brazilian was closing on race leader Alain Prost, at a rate of three seconds per lap, when the race was prematurely ended on lap 31 with Senna trailing just seven seconds behind. As the marshall was Belgian Jacky Ickx, some accused the game of being rigged; of “French timing” ending the race in Prost’s dwindling favor, but it was unlikely Senna’s charge would’ve lasted longer since he had severely damaged his front suspension in the hunt.

Regardless, it announced the arrival of Formula 1’s greatest ever star. Sounding the trumpet was James Hunt who famously said, “I think we are watching the arrival of Ayrton Senna as a truly outstanding talent in Grand Prix racing.” It also sparked the beginning of the heated Prost-Senna rivalry. With its double rear wing, square figure, and simple livery, it’s a quintessential relic from the turbo era.

This was by all means Senna’s least successful car, but the young talent still racked up three podiums with it in 1984. Third places at the British and Portuguese Grand Prixs were the additional evidence needed to prove the young Brazilian was well on his way. The next year he would join Lotus, where he would win his first race.

This rolling piece of Formula 1 history goes up for auction on May 11th in the place where it became legend. Though the Toleman-Hart is currently listed without an estimate, it was sold for £1,000,000 back in 2015. One month shy of the thirty-fourth anniversary of the famous race, it might make more.