17 years ago today one of the greatest drivers to ever get behind the wheel died.
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sucks he died and he was a good racer, but stop making it like it is the end all be all of racing.
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i'm guessing you're an 18 year old kid who's only knowledge of senna is from other people talking about him.
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It's a bummer, he could have won a lot more podiums. LOL that he was complaining that Schumacher was "somehow" using driver aids once they were taken away
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>>4632835 it really bums me out we never got to see a proper duel between the two, Senna never had a competetive car once schumacher debuted
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I'm a huge ignorant regarding race car drivers.
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>>4632870 all of the above, an insanely passionate and dedicated person.
There were races that he won by more than a minute, despite his team mate having a nearly identical car, his ability to qualify was probably what he was best known for though.
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>>4632870 All of the above.
He's the man who walked over the edge of the cliff, looked down, and walked back to stand on the edge.
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he was also known for being a dominant rain driver
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>>4632870 He lapped everybody but 1 person (Prost, I think, his team mate, and the reigning world champion) during one Monaco GP.
And in the rain? He was even better. Lesser men would brake earlier, and drive slower.
Watch the 2.5 hour long documentary, Senna: Beyond the Speed of Sound. You can find it on the interbutts, or you can buy it (Not sure if there's a NA release). There's subs on the interbutts for the non-English parts. I recommend it.
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he's also part of the reason honda has such a good reputation for racing engines, while he was on team McLaren, many considered him to have been a honda driver, with a McLaren chasis
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>>4632870 he was a fast driver who intentionally wrecked people on the track and generally drove recklessly. then he died and became overly idolized because he was dead and everybody jumped on the senna bandwagon. in b4 "but all of those race car drivers in the interviews said he was one of the best?!?!?" well, what the fuck do you expect them to say in a public interview?
in many ways hes basicaly the same as MSC except mikey isnt dead so everybody can hate him.
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obligatory YT vid. Hamilton driving Senna's Honda F1
http://youtu.be/0yCsdnUW2Ww Anonymous
>>4632921 He lapped everybody but 1 person (Prost, I think, his team mate, and the reigning world champion) during one Monaco GP.rained hard there. senna was 4 seconds faster than prost.
however: stefan bellof, in the only non-turbo car, was .5 of a second faster than senna.
bellof > senna. but then, there were lots of better drivers than senna
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>>4632931 alain prost was a fucking douche who deserved it,
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>>4632870 He drove the FW16 in 1994 and won the pole in every race he was in, even though it's handling was so bad that almost everyone that was driving in F1 knew about it at the time. He also almost won the 84 monaco grand prix, in his rookie year, on his first road course race, in heavy rain, and in a very uncompetitive car. The only reason he didn't win was that prost, who was in the lead and being caught at something like 4 seconds a lap by senna, was waving his hands like mad to get the race stopped. Senna ended up getting 3 podiums in his toleman that year, also the only 3 podiums toleman ever achieved.
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>>4632949 Non turbo in the rain, where it would probable have and advantage. Not to mention that he was later DQed because his car was under weight anyway.
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>>4632949 >posts about one single race were beloff was faster than senna >bellof is bettah hurrr Anonymous
>>4632983 Prost got a bad rap. Everyone at McLaren was on Ayrton's jock and Prost was tired of it. Totally understandable.
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>>4632921 There's also the non directors cut which is 1h45m and the full japanese version that's 5 hours.
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>implying greatest racing driver
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>>4633008 true, he was not a good sport about a younger driver who may be equal or better than him though. Remember what happened at McLaren with Alonso and Hamilton? same situation, Prost shoulda left McLaren sooner. That being said he did phenomenally well given how much his team liked his team mate over him
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>>4632870 I'm that anon. Thanks for your answers.
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bump cause new thread is full of fail
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ITT: Some 16 year old tripfag saw the Senna movie and based his entire opinion on everything F1 related and all its history on that one movie
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>>4632835 Later that year, a launch control program was found on the Benetton. The team claimed it had never been used in a race, and that it was for 'practice'. They were never penalized for it.
>>4632991 I do not recall where I read this, but there has been some speculation that the FW16 was designed before active suspension was banned. Also, the Imola race was the first for some changes the Williams team made to the FW16 (wheelbase extended, sidepods changed, and a few other things I do not recall ATM). Senna had his car set up on the 'ragged edge': controllable, but only just.
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Bene was cheating their balls off in 1994 and 1995.
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>>4635208 >mfw I have this race on tape (Betamax, no less) Anonymous
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The F1 cars were trully beautiful pieces of engineering back then.
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>>4635289 1991 British Grand Prix.
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>>4635309 i think its always been about function over form, and i honestly think today's machine's are just incredible, i really just love seeing the cars change over the years, that probably why i like F1 so much, unlike stupid fucking Nascar, the cars are always changing, always being taken to new places, new tricks are developed to get just the tiniest little edge, its all quite fascinating
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>>4635309 >race car >cares about looks Get back to Speedhunters and go jack off to drift cars, you ricer fuck. Race cars aren't built to look good, they're built purely to perform to the best of their current abilities within the rule set. If you want anything else, then you're watching the wrong sport.
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Senna was a dick. Purposely crashing other racers = not fucking cool. He should have been thrown out of F1.
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>>4635542 speaking of speedhunters, visited there today just for the hell of it, it had been quite a while
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>drift article >article about things to do before you die >Senna tribute stuff >Civic >70's JDM cars >Civic >Civic >Civic >old VW >Civic >drift article >rusty Corolla henry_ford !T/cybz7iao
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>>4635632 holy shit that place is awful
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>>4635632 It's honda month, expect that. It will be over soon.
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>>4635632 its honda month
and holy christ that silver "USDM style" civic is gay
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>>4635584 prost deserved it, senna had been robbed a year earlier, it wasn't a very dangerous crash anyways. besides, the other drivers could've chosen to brake and back down any time that shit happened
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for all those who are curious, Senna is now streaming on Netflix. Def a good watch even if just for its behind the scenes info on F1 in the 80's
