Ayrton (pronounced Ayeerton rather than airton) Desilva aka Ayrton Senna, he was recommended to change his name just because 'Desilva' was a very common name in Brazil ,Senna being his mothers maiden name. When I was hittin my 3rd garde my uncle was a keen follower of F1 races so I would always watch races with him. There was this guy who burst his rear tyre in a race instead of stoppin the car he was drivin on 3 wheels, though this happen quite often I saw him do it first .. And i was like wow this guy is awesome.My uncle was also praisin him like, nobody has got the reflex time as he is and that he was really awesome in the wet weather condition.. I started hero worshipping Ayrton Senna Desilva . In 1994 May 01 he died in a race in San marino at a curve called Tamburello which was a lightning shaped very fast corner...Then I started collecting information about Ayrton Senna..
Born in Sao paulo in Brazil he started his racing career in the form most drivers do Karting he never won a karting championship which was his major grousing but that didn't stop him from trying he it seems would take time off from his more advanced levels of racing like Formula 1,3 just to get the world championship... What attracted most about him is his sense of kinship and his win at all costs attitude..Sid Watkins a very close friend of Senna and the neuro surgeon of F1 used to say that At one time he and Senna were travelling by car in ythe city and the doctor had been at the wheel during the course of the drive he had aske how he was driving to ,which Ayrton had replied that he was driving very carefully but he was very very slow ..The doctor not wanting to keep the master away from his duty asked Ayrtoon to drive during which he was confirmed that he had actually experienced the phrase heart in mouth
Senna it seems could be seen in Belgian Grand prix jumping out of his car helping Erik Comas, who had crashed heavily he stopped his car ran on the track hit the engine kill switch before the car started to burn. He was also seen helpin Alex Zanardi at the same place the next year when he had crashe and he could be seen helpin him out of the car When Ralf crashed in 2004 at Indianapolis we didn't see Michael running to see him let alone help him, when everybody thought he had had a very bad shunt and he wasn't even moving..
In the season 1990 in the championship deciding race between him and Alain Prost ,Senna requested the offricials to change the side of the track because he was at a disadvantage officilas didn't agree, during the race when Prost made a move on him at the same particular place he bumped him and won the championship while both the racers were out of the race... This nature of his was criticized as video game behaviour .. I was attracted to it...
He was asked on the day before the accident to quit F1 as it was getting very dangerous then by Sid Watkins ... He told him That he had started on it and would finish it...He started a driver safety committee off the track instead...Senna is known for his peculiar yellow coloured helmet it became synonymous with him..He still holds the record for the highest no. of pole positions 65 which Michael has managed to equal just now... He also has the record for the max no. of wins at a circuit 7.... When williams team with which he drove was completely on the backfoot with a badly performoing car and a young driver with a near perfect Bennetton ,Michael Schumacher was setting the race track on fire Senna had pole positions ... A particular writer put it very well "It would seem as though he had a covenant with God...From where he summoned those pole postions remains a secret between them"...He was the fastest driver during the qualifying runs...
It has been found that the safety car period had lowered the pressure in the tyre thereby losing downforce ... His car bottomed at the Tamburello curve which made a drastic loss in downforce or grip which Senna corrected by turning his steering, it seems he might have lived but for this mistake , his quick reflexes had cost him his life...
Am ending this article on Senna with the most famous and marvellous words of his "On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit and you go for this limit and you touch this limit and you think, ok, this is the limit. As soon as you touch this limit, something happens and you realise that you can suddenly go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and your experience as well, you can fly very high."
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