Ray Singh
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Apr 30, 2017 19:43:17 GMT
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Its 23 years tomorrow (1st May) that Ayrton Senna passed away at Imola. His name is very much being kept alive in Brazil. www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39640707As a 18 year old, I was very much influenced by the skills that Ayrton demonstrated. His racing style was flambouant. I recall watching the very race in which he died. Some of his driving: NSX video. RIP Ayrton.
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simes
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Apr 30, 2017 23:08:19 GMT
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Its 23 years tomorrow (1st May) that Ayrton Senna passed away at Imola. His name is very much being kept alive in Brazil. www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39640707As a 18 year old, I was very much influenced by the skills that Ayrton demonstrated. His racing style was flambouant. I recall watching the very race in which he died. Some of his driving: NSX video. RIP Ayrton. I was watching it too, I was 20. I still have the following days' Times newspaper; he was the headline news.
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Last Edit: Apr 30, 2017 23:08:53 GMT by simes
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I remember it like it was yesterday. My wife and I got the keys to our first house that weekend. We were sat on the floor eating takeaway pizza listening to the radio when they broke the news. Roland Ratzenberger had sadly been killed in practice for the race and I remember thinking no, they've got that wrong. It's Ratzenberger not Senna.
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An excellent tribute to the man from Honda, who powered him to three world titles.
If you haven't seen this before then watch it on the biggest screen possible with the sound as loud as it will go.
If you have, the same applies.
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I remember it well, like it was just yesterday. I was quite into motor racing at the time, it used to be Sunday afternoons essential viewing. I remember Roland Ratzenberger being killed in practice, which was quite a shock to me at the time. Anyway, the following day as the rest of my family sat down to watch the Grand Prix i said to my Dad that i wasn't watching, i was going out. He asked me why not, and i just said to him that i didn't want to see it, it was going to be bad. I know it sounds odd, but i had a wierd feeling. When i got in later that day my Dad said to me Ayrton Senna is dead, that was it for me, I wasn't a big Ayrton Senna fan. I admired the man, and his incredible talent, but i wanted Damon Hill to win, I'm English, i cheered on the local boy! But along with Ayrton Senna my love of watching the Formula 1 died too. I've never watched another race live, i've occaisionally seen the highlights, but i stopped following it, and infact i stopped watching motor racing in general. It was an odd time in motorsports and i felt like a lot of it was won, not on the track, but in to boardroom. It was all getting a bit political for my liking. Anyway i'm getting away from the point. I watched the film 'SENNA' just recently, and even 23 years on, it's burned so deeply into my brain that it was a fresh as the day it happened, back then he was just a man, a racing driver, the enemy, but after watching the film he became, the man the person, the racing driver with incredible talent, a fellow human being who was to be admired for the person he was both on and off the track. I mourned his death for the second time, and even had a little tear at the end of the film. Rest In Piece Ayrton Senna. And let's not forget, Rest In Peace Roland Ratzenberger. Formula 1's somewhat forgotton man, the 33-year-old Austrian racing driver whos passing was overshadowed by events that took place 24 hours later when three-time world champion Ayrton Senna was killed in Sunday's race at the Imola circuit.
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I remember watching the race.
I've followed F1 since the late 70s and attended several Grand Prix in the 80s and 90s. There was always something different about Senna. Something almost supernatural, in a way?
One of my favourite stories: Once, during practise or qualifying, he came into the pits saying there was something not right with the engine. There was nothing wrong showing on the telemetry, but because it was Senna, the team changed the engine anyway. When they got the engine back to the factory and stripped it down, they found a hairline crack in one of the components. It would not have lasted the race! How did he know?!!! Spooky!
Still one of the most amazingly gifted drivers ever.
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Mark
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I was at Imola the weekend of Senna and Ratzenbergers deaths. I was a 20 something working as a gopher for a Formula Opel team (David Lloyd Motorsport) and our driver, Richard Westbrook, actually won. It was a very sad weekend though, as you can imagine. Can't believe how quickly 27 years have passed.
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