I can't wait to see this movie. I have chicken skin from the trailer. For some reason I wasn't into F1 very much during the Senna days–for one thing, there wasn't much of a way to be a fan in the US. It wasn't until Speedvision (Now, regrettably the NASCAR and hokey "reality" heavy Speed Channel) came along that I could get thoroughly hooked. But even as a non-fan I knew that Ayrton Senna was special. I've watched a lot of archival video of his most famous races, and they are simply amazing. His control of the challenging cars of…
Even back then, the F1 races were covered on TV, just not as extensively at today. (Speed TV is worth that alone, just as Versus, the bull-riding waste of time, is valuable for its cycling coverage). I remember the day Senna crashed at the end of the long dog-leg straight. But we saw him move in the car, so it seemed like it was OK. Later I saw the crawl at the bottom of the screen that said Senna had died. He was a cut above, and never equaled until Schumacher. Very sad that, as the trailer says, his luck ran out.
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