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#41003
Yes a very sad time that was for me, i was only 13 the race was on late sunday night but i couldnt sleep knowing the race was on, so i got up turned on the tv to watch the race only to see there was no Senna at that point the commentators were saying he was at hospital which was depressing enough, eventually fell asleep with the tv on, in the morning my mum told me he had passed away, i was in shock and almost in tears my hero was gone.

on the cause there was an episode of seconds from disaster about the accident, it was taking the slant of tyre pressures being the cause from memory.
#41016
I never saw the race, nor did I know of Senna until a couple of years ago. Someone showed me the footage and I've never watched it again. Same with that of countless others. I know that I never want to see a weekend like that, though. I feared for Kubica in Canada last year, so I was very glad to see that he was okay after that horrible crash.

There is one thing that occured after that weekend that, after reading about it, did make me respect Max Mosley to an extent, and that is that he went to RR's funeral instead of Senna's...
#41024
WHether Berger did too I don't know but he was the vocal one about everybody forgetting about Roland because of Senna. Roland was a compatriot of Berger.

Prost was one od Senna's pall bearers.
#41025
Sacred ground which is watered by tear's :cry:. Could someone translate the word's on Ayrton's headstone please?
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#41196
I was 3 when he died and 10 years later i became obbsessed with f1 and about a 1/2 a year ago i read a book called The Life Of Senna. It goes in depth of his life and sadly death.
I reccomend it but you might want to skip the death chapter, i read it and it was really sad, adn if you did actually watch him you would be in tears :( .

This movie is my favorite tribute. The music is Nickelback-Hero and it feels like it was meant for him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgqnJpIz0Io
#41251
I was 3 when he died and 10 years later i became obbsessed with f1 and about a 1/2 a year ago i read a book called The Life Of Senna. It goes in depth of his life and sadly death.
I reccomend it but you might want to skip the death chapter, i read it and it was really sad, adn if you did actually watch him you would be in tears :( .

This movie is my favorite tribute. The music is Nickelback-Hero and it feels like it was meant for him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgqnJpIz0Io

Would that be Tom Rubython's book? If so, I thought it was pretty poor. Apparently he was the editor rather the author, using articles etc. that our people had written and passing them off as his own given his position as the editor of the official F1 magazine a long time ago. Each chapter does feel as though it was written by a different person. As a lot of the book has been in articles, most of the material was already known, and some of it ended up being repeated from chapter to chapter. Moreover, Rubython's attitude towards Prost was a disgrace. He runs Prost down so much that it makes Senna's achievement in actually beating seem less glorious. The chapter with a grisly account of Senna's injuries and death was really uncalled for. I didn't see it coming and after reading it I felt physically sick and had to put the book down. Williams' and Sutton's books are much better in my opinion. Overall, Rubython's book is a reflexion of the commercialism that surrounds Senna, for instance, the DVD released a few years ago about him. We get a load of stuff already shown and no racing footage - something people would actually like to see - all to make profit from the man's death, which I think is sick.
#41286
I was 3 when he died and 10 years later i became obbsessed with f1 and about a 1/2 a year ago i read a book called The Life Of Senna. It goes in depth of his life and sadly death. I reccomend it but you might want to skip the death chapter, i read it and it was really sad, adn if you did actually watch him you would be in tears :(.

I read that book last year, it's a good read. The best chapters are without a doubt the Senna/Prost rivalry. The death chapter almost had me in tears again, the trial was a boring chapter, although not a complete waste. It is slightly out of date though as it gives the impression that "nobody may even touch Senna's pole position record", but Schumi only just narrowly broke it in 2006. I still consider that the record belongs to Senna on merit, afterall this book was written, published and released prior to the 10th Anniversary of his death.
#41399
The record is Senna's undoubtedly. Senna got many of those pole positions in average cars, or cars that weren't the out-and-out best car, got his pole positions in a much shorter space of time, and in an era when the pole position actually meant you were the fastest rather than being a reflexion of how much fuel you had in your car.
#41403
When I saw the title of the thread I knew what this was about. I remember as a kid seeing that live on TV, It was all I could think about for weeks after. I remember I couldn't even look at the picture I had of Senna I had in my room, I was just too freaked out by it. I have vowed to never watch that again, as I do not want to relive the thoughts I originally had.
#41475
The record is Senna's undoubtedly. Senna got many of those pole positions in average cars, or cars that weren't the out-and-out best car, got his pole positions in a much shorter space of time, and in an era when the pole position actually meant you were the fastest rather than being a reflexion of how much fuel you had in your car.

8):wink:
#41550
I was 3 when he died and 10 years later i became obbsessed with f1 and about a 1/2 a year ago i read a book called The Life Of Senna. It goes in depth of his life and sadly death.
I reccomend it but you might want to skip the death chapter, i read it and it was really sad, adn if you did actually watch him you would be in tears :( .

This movie is my favorite tribute. The music is Nickelback-Hero and it feels like it was meant for him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgqnJpIz0Io

Would that be Tom Rubython's book? If so, I thought it was pretty poor. Apparently he was the editor rather the author, using articles etc. that our people had written and passing them off as his own given his position as the editor of the official F1 magazine a long time ago. Each chapter does feel as though it was written by a different person. As a lot of the book has been in articles, most of the material was already known, and some of it ended up being repeated from chapter to chapter. Moreover, Rubython's attitude towards Prost was a disgrace. He runs Prost down so much that it makes Senna's achievement in actually beating seem less glorious. The chapter with a grisly account of Senna's injuries and death was really uncalled for. I didn't see it coming and after reading it I felt physically sick and had to put the book down. Williams' and Sutton's books are much better in my opinion. Overall, Rubython's book is a reflexion of the commercialism that surrounds Senna, for instance, the DVD released a few years ago about him. We get a load of stuff already shown and no racing footage - something people would actually like to see - all to make profit from the man's death, which I think is sick.


I bought that book on ebay a while ago and it has not arrived, even after 8 weeks. The seller is still working with me though.

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