Formula one driver killed

Follow Following. Horror History. Sign me up. Already have a WordPress. Log in now. Loading Comments Email Required Name Required Website. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. A deeply religious person with a single-minded dedication to race- car driving, Senna had expressed apprehension about the season in a Brazilian newspaper last month. Fear is a very important feeling to have. Ayrton was a good friend, a truly great person and a great race driver.

He was totally different from the image you get from European writers. He was very helpful to me all year, off and on the track. I feel like I would if I lost a member of my family. When Michael Andretti won the season-opening Indy-car race in Australia last March, one of the first congratulatory messages he received was from Senna.

I was stunned when the Austrian driver Ratzenberger was killed on Saturday, and for Ayrton to lose his life the very next day makes this a very black weekend in motor racing history. Senna won 41 races in Formula One starts, second only to Alain Prost, and drove a McLaren to the championships in , and In , he won eight of 16 races, a record for one season until Mansell won nine two years ago.

As I understand it, drivers occasionally succumb to a "crippling indecisiveness" off the track say, where to eat dinner tonight or whether to make an offer on that house , when they're forced to make decisions that require more thought than flash reflexes. But with drivers like Senna, there existed the possibility of holding both an academic consideration of the car's physicality and a sort of graceful fearlessness of the track, all at once in one's hands and feet.

Senna, whose spirituality seems as mythically present in the F1 world as his death, would sometimes say things like this: "Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my teammate with the same car.

And I suddenly realized I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was kind of driving it by instinct, only I was in a different dimension. I was in a tunnel. That sort of stuff used to freak some people out, including Alain Prost, Senna's great rival during the late '80s and early '90s. And, judging by the only metric that really counts, those measures worked.

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