Remembering a hero: Ayrton Senna Da Silva

I never really had the chance to meet him, but I do know one of his personal friends. However, I never really talked to him about it... or mentioned him. I never really understood, I was to young at the time. By today's standards, I would have probably been able to see and "like" his Facebook-posts. If the tie rod hit 2 centimeters to the right he would still be among us, racing probably. He would probably still be the best, to me, Senna was and still is, Number One.

Starting at 4 years old in go-carting, Senna climbed the long ladder that would take him to the top. He showed a God-given talent, a sixth sense of where the grip was before he turned into a corner. He could push himself and his vehicles far beyond their intented operating window into the unknown and just keep on pushing, where others would manage to outqualify their colleagues by a couple of tenths, Senna could take entire seconds of his time. He was in full attack mode every single time he was driving, he would rather crash himself and the other car then give in to a driver's pressure. He would talk sometimes about his experience when driving, feeling like he was watching himself from a distance, acting purely on instinct, working like a machine without pain, exhaustion, without borders. He did his job in cars that where like wild ferocious animals like the McLaren MP4-4 with a qualifying trim of over 1200 horsepower... 1200 horsepower is what you get in a Bugatti Veyron, something that is more Jet than car, and he made it dance around the track, clipping apexes and kickin' it's tail out side to side like it was build for that stuff, like it was doing it all on it's own. With the following video collection I will try to explain why to me, and to so many others, he rose to the top.

The first video I present to you is one of the most fitting tributes for me personally, it shows highlights as well as downfall and courage

Second, the trailer of "Senna", the motion picture.

As a third video, I have chosen the Top Gear segment featuring Lewis Hamilton driving the MP4-4 and explaining to us what his opinion of Senna was.

Fourthly, this documentary depicts his last 24 hours.