Did anyone see the show last night that analyzed Senna's death? It was really good. I think the name of the show was countdown to disaster. Man the more I hear about him the more I wish I could have seen him race. Ohh yeah Antonio Banderas is supposed to be doing a movie on his life. I hope it doesn't turn out to be a big streaming pile of pooo.

 

Just the mention of Antonio Banderas guarantees that it will be a big steaming pile of poo.

 

Yeah, I caught that last night. They were talking about the technical reasons for the crash, a very unfortunate accident. Very interesting.

 

supposedly Banderas is a huge fan of Senna and a racing enthusiast. May not mean much though

 

Here is a cool video of Senna . . . It shows a different side of the tenacious competetor.


http://ayrtonforever.free.fr/Senna-Belgium1992.mpeg

 

You ain't lying about that. I hope they subtitle that ****** too cause I never understand WTF he is saying. :laugh:

 

Did anyone notice that Michele Albereto was doing some of the reflections on Senna. Creepy huh?

 

good show last night.

great vid.... *snifle*

D

 

I was just thinking of posting a thread about this in Members. I'm glad someone else caught it. I was lying in bed watching it my woman and all I could keep saying was, "This show is really ******* awesome."

 

I watched it... it was quite awesome! So the pace car made him wreck!

 

Ohh yeah and I'm not buying that **** about the safety car making his tires cool enough to drop his ride height. Not saying his ride height wasn't the cause but, I have footage of his last lap before the crash and his was going at speed for the whole lap. One lap = tire temps up = ride height ok.

 

I still believe his steering shaft broke. That is the most logical deduction. Williams even admits to filing it down to help get him in the car.


All kinds of good info including telemetry, videos and pics of his death:


http://www.thesennafiles.com/s-files/start.html

 

Interesting clip... Didn't Senna did the same thing when Zanardi crashed at Spa? I seem to remember him deliberately spinning the car and positioning it to protect Alex... he also jumped out to help.

I consider myself extremly fortunate to have seen Senna win several Detroit Grands Prix in person. There was a sense of awe watching him (even before I started racing) that I don't get watching Schumacher.

 

great vid.

yshi - who wishes he could've seen Senna race

 

I think I caught the very very end of it - like the last 10 seconds or something...then they started showing something else...

I would've liked to see that.

 

Check this video. Click on the "Fimato ridoto"
http://www.cineca.it/HPSystems/Vis.I...nna/movie.html

Look from Schumachers car at Senna's at 2.5 seconds. See the spark under his car?

I thought that corner was smoother than a babies butt.......why are there sparks?


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sparks

 

Anybody ever seen in-car of one of Senna's qualifying laps at Monaco? I can't remember the year of the one I saw (it's probably somewhere on the net), but it's freakin' amazing!

 

Senna was dead long before Zanardi ever made his way over to F1.

 

How old are you Drew?

Zanardi was in F1 long before he was in CART. His days with Williams were round 2. He spent time at Lotus and a couple other mid-pack teams before crashing heavily on the exit of Eau Rouge at Spa. He was seriously injured.

 

This is true.

 

Banderas is a good choice IMO....compared to that crap Sly did.

 

I was gonna post a topic about this yesterday, guess I got beat

It was AWESOME show. This shoe beats the AUTOCOURSE videos.

It was commonly believed that the steering shaft broke on Senna's Williams. But this show had some interesting evidence.
Do you guys remember, they(Italian authorities) just gave the car back to Frank Williams like two months ago? They held it in a garage all these years in Italy as an evidence.

That video clip is very good example of Senna's personality. Can you imagine that son of a bitch Schumacher(both brothers) doing that? Matter of fact, M. Schmacher was running behind Senna on that dreadful day in '94 at San Marino.

In reality, I think you'd get fined heavily for what Senna did on the video clip now days.

Anyways, Shmacher brothers took one-two at qualifying this morning

 

No in-car, but i got to see it live. The only F1 race ive ever been to, but damn it was fun

 

The video " A Star Named Senna" has one lap of Senna's qualifying, where he broke the record five or six times in a row. If you like Senna you'll like this movie.

Also as for the Antonio Banderas movie, I think it will be great for the simple fact that Senna's family is directly involved.