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  • it be awesome if they made an f1 blu ray set of the two 3 season between  prost senn 1988-1990

  • What I love about Ayrton is that he is so geniune, his answers arent scripted boring and planned out ahead of time. You really get to see the real man whenever he talks.

  • @kshaffer82 Fully agree. I often challenge his status as the greatest of all time and some other opinions also but in this regard he was by far the best. Honest and direct answers and a very very deep personality.

  • I really love this interview. He has a kind of honesty and transparency about him when he talks, he always sticks to his beliefs and passions and is never afraid to expose them, and this is remarkable by itself. 

  • @JuliaSilverWren He was tremendously beautiful and sexy. I fully understand and share your opinion! LOL!! ;-)

  • I was fortunate enough to go up to Morumbi in Sao Paulo and spent an hour at Ayrton's graveside. It was a beautiful sunny day, there was practically no-one there so I had this wonderful period of peace to just sit there and spend some time with the great man. A wonderful moment for me. I was lucky to see Ayrton's wins at Donington, Spa, Silverstone and also met him at Silverstone 1993. Ayrton came from a period in the sport when F1 really was IT.

  • @tonypap1 You are a lucky guy! Senna was the best F1 pilot EVER and a magnificent human being :)

  • I can listen to him talk for hours!!! Love you Ayrton.

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  • What amazes me about Ayrton is how articulate & expressive he is in the selection of words, although he learned English by watching TV shows after he moved to England in teh 70s of last century!

    Rest In Peace Ayrton Senna

  • Senna is such a great guy but I have feeling that he was quite a troubled person too easpecially in the last couple of years. It is a shame he did not have anyone to turn to.

  • @SuperMoominMama He was troubled because he basically had a few world championships denied him due to F1 politics (i.e. - Prost blocking him from the then dominant Williams team in '92 so he had no shot at the WDC that year or the next)...then the disastrous car he instead got when he finally did get to Williams. The irony was crazy - he then gets killed because of mechanical failure. Such a tragedy - he deserved the best because he was the best, and instead he was crossed time and time again.

  • @22astonmartin Yes I surmised as much from what I have read. Although I have also read that he also had personal problems (just to complete his misery!). Would you please explain something to me; was the Williams car he drove unstable because the electronic gadgets had been taken out? If so why could they not put him in an older car? I apologise in advance if this question is a really stupid question - I have only started to be interested in Motorsport since I watched a certain film. Thanks

  • @SuperMoominMama Perhaps you read that his family was not fond of his girlfriend, Adriane Galisteu - there were rumors that Senna's brother, Leonardo, was at Imola (in part) to try to convince Ayrton to break up with her - for the first time in his career, he was planning to remain in Portugal (at his home there) with Adriane during the F1 season rather than returning to Brazil every other race to spend time with his close-knit family.

  • @SuperMoominMama They had trouble accepting this, supposedly, and thought Adriane had too much influence over him - who knows. He was also upset over a magazine photo shoot/interview she did in Brazil that he found too revealing (in both senses!), so he was becoming uneasy about whether she was really fit to become his wife (being a celebrity). She was very young too, and was still in touch with her ex-boyfriend, so Senna was concerned about her loyalty too.

  • @SuperMoominMama Of course, his ex-girlfriend Xuxa (who he was crazy about and who his family thought he would eventually marry) had posed in Playboy years before they dated, so this doesn't make much sense either. Of course, Adriane eded up posing for Playboy only a year after Senna's demise, which was seen as extremely distasteful, which it was. I've read a few biographies, and they contradict each other, so who knows what the truth is - but it is interesting, nonetheless.

  • @SuperMoominMama As for the 1994 F1 season, it was an "accident waiting to happen" because of the following bans on the cars: power brakes, anti-lock braking, traction control, and active suspension. Williams' previous car was nearly perfect, but it relied heavily on all of these advances. So when they were banned, what remained was a car that was unsteady and very hard to control (albeit with a powerful Renault engine). Senna, ever the perfectionist, was disappointed beyond belief.

  • @SuperMoominMama Another factor upsetting Senna in '94 was that he suspected that Schumacher's Benetton car had illegally retained some of its electronic aids. This was the only explanation for MS's winning streak in '94 - it made no sense to anyone that he was beating the supernatural Senna. Ayrton wanted Williams to protest, but they refused. The rest is history, and it's very dark and shameful, indeed. No need to apologize, by the way :)

  • @22astonmartin Hi Thanks for taking the time to reply so fully. Williams refusing to protest is understandable espescially if they had no solid evidence. However they knowingly put their driver in an unsafe car which I think is criminal. BTW I did not the stuff about his girlfriends but they sound awful.

  • Wow so eloquent. What a beautiful person.

  • These were the golden age of F1. Today one is told to give way because Fernando is faster then him. A device called DRS is the biggest stupidity of todays F1.

  • Ayrton had an astonishing command of English and was an exceptional intellectual if you note how powerful and cerebral his words were, all which were unrehearsed and with a natural pace and easy confidence. Plus he had a great golf swing! Not only was he the greatest motorcar driver ever--he was a hellava guy too. We only have a handful of people like Ayrton Senna who come around, live amazing lives and, sadly, disappear so young; it makes me wonder what they could have done in a full lifetime.

  • @JayMaySayHey Senna didn't play golf. !!! Are you thinking of Alain Prost or Nigel Mansell ? Golf was not a hobby of Ayrton's .

  • @thehitchrules You're right... I confused Ayrton with Alain Prost and that was my mistake. Now, if I were an F1 driver in a race, such a lapse might force me off the track or even result in my death. That's why being the greatest F1 driver means so much to a man for whom it was less important than being the best man he could be. That was Ayrton Senna.

  • This was an age that Strategy was to drive and to acelerate...

  • Do you imagine Senna, Prost, Mansell, Piquet (the Father) open to someone due to an order in the radio? Because this, they were and are the best Generation, THE BEST age of F1!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • @JuliaSilverWren i am no f1 driver, have no money, no a good man but i am beatiful. Please let me know if you are interested in me or want to wait for me until I become f1 driver, good man and earn money. Keep me posted about your resolution because i should start NOW. Thanks

    PD: Senna was not only good looking man but he was an extremely good, mature and inteligent man

  • @juansyttho Oh, shut up. You're just jealous that he was handsome... Well, he was. Very handsome. And a very good driver. And rich. And helped many people. And I bet he was also very, very good in bed. God!! he had it all!!! LOL. (Wish there were more like him in the world...)

  • Thank you AlanMcB

    You mad me very happy.

  • @MotorsportMonster don't compare, MJ was a disgusting child molester freak, Senna was a pure human being

  • Brilliant driver. Flawed tactician . Discuss......

  • @oneinamillion232 F1 drivers aren't tacticians, it is their teams come up with the tactics for them.

  • @Drenwickification That's what you thought, and it might be correct, right? Nope, Senna was a tactician. After every practice session he got into the tiny details and changed what was needed to change. Ofcourse he didn't change stuff, the team did that for him but he came up with it. One time Once he tweaked his neck and his session was over. However he was back the next day just to tell the needed changes on the car. He was that fantastic.

  • @rivalcf4 getting the car setup isn't tactics... All drivers help with the setup, because ultimately they have to decide which setup is best because different drivers prefer different types of setups.

    It is true that senna went into further details than other drivers did, but I seem confused because you initially said he was a flawed tactician then went on to praise him being a tactician.

  • @Drenwickification That was not me. That was someone else.

  • @Drenwickification lol I now see I made lots of typo's in that post. I was in a hurry.

  • @Drenwickification Drivers aren't tacticians !! ?Of course they are. Drivers have tactics and strategy like any top sportsmen. What planet are you on ?: !!

  • @thehitchrules Erm, teams can have like 10-30 people looking at data constantly throughout a race back at their factories to see what the best strategy is for a driver at any given point in a race. It is impossible for a driver to come up with those strategies because they simply don't have the data to make the call, so (most of the time), they just trust their team and do as their told as to how many stops etc, they will have.

    I mean what exactly do you mean by 'strategy'? :/

  • @Drenwickification They are not robots. They do actually make decisions constantly throughout a race. They have input and say on tactics and straregy;. You are a little naive if you think it is 'completely 'down to the teams.

  • @thehitchrules The only input to strategy they have is to say when the tyres are going off. That's it.

  • @Drenwickification rubbish

  • @Drenwickification Rubbish

  • @thehitchrules quite an insightful reply there.

  • I still miss you Ayrton! I love you and always will love you. You're still the benchmark, even after death. Never again will be none like it.

    So why should this happen?

    You are gone and everything changed.

    Lament of the world because it is a void that you left after that can never be replaced!

  • What if it had rained on May 1, 1994 in Italy? We would have seen a whole different world of Formula 1. Senna would have won that day. Then maybe 3 or 4 more titles, (with about 85 or 90 poles) and retired to help the poor children of South America, and the world. Anyone want to talk shit about that? But, it didn't rain.

  • @freewill51 It actually rained on May 1, 1994 at San Marino... at the evening after the race.

  • part 1?

  • This is a fascinating interview. I think in 1988-90, his intensity levels really hit their peak, and I don't think it was until 1990, when he was teamed with Gerhard Berger, that he learned to relax a bit more in his sporting life. Steve Rider interviews him very well, easygoing, non-intrusive and respectful, it's why he's so respected as a sports broadcaster to this day.

    I always admired him as a driver, and as a man, he had so much more commitment and drive to succeed. Very special man.

  • jr cash what makes him a saint is how he touched peoples hearts something you know nothing about he is and always will be the legend of formula 1 and people who dont understand like you are obviously too young and never saw this great man from a start fo a race to the end of one he was my first and only hero and the fact that he is dead still hurts so many people till this day and thats why he is a saint

  • "The second driver on the finish line is the first of the loosers" - Ayrton Senna.

  • Bruno could have been so great,if ayrton where alive now. I admire this men so much,for his talent,personality and the big heart. Just amazing. He was everyone's favorite when he was alive ,but now...just a hero. As I see these videos I just wish he was here today. Amazing

  • Wonderful man, we miss you Ayrton.. :(

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  • some day when my kids ask me to explain what is 'passion', I will show them a video of Ayrton Senna.

  • @cafedelmar99 you made my day m8

  • he really does sound like michael corleone at the start of this! awesome

  • I had the honour to visit the great man's grave in Sao Paulo. I spent an hour with the old boy !!!!

    Ayrton...... we'll love you forever.

    What's happened to F1 ???

  • This man was a master at what he did. Very misunderstood but utterly brilliant. Also, it is a misconception that he hated Alain Prost. Senna respected no driver as much as Alain Prost.

  • @Audioquest56 absolutely.

  • As a brazilian i can say that ours sundays was never the same since Senna died.

    RIP. Senna 4 EVER!

  • 2:59 is Xuxa with senna? o_o

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  • I am brazilian and I admire Senna because his style of driving was very agressive. But I don't admire his arrogance and, sometimes, no humility. Anybody is perfect (just God is) and Senna was fantastic as driver but not so good as person.

  • These are not trolles ,these are cratures of YT..

    But remember my friends...

    "The values i have in my life are stronger than any other desire to influence tose values and destroy those values.

    Thats what we have and these monsters will never have-VALUES!

    "Mr.Mouth allways speaks truth"

    Mr.Mouth

    Special hello to all my friends!!

  • If you don't like him ignore him and do not waste your breath over him!That would what a serious self respectful fan should do!

  • true stoookton haters are dumbasses!

  • Well said, I just thumbs down or occasionally spam and get on to reading all the praising comments. Ayrton was human and had failings which others just seem to only see, but I feel he made up for those by superb dedication to his passion and unbelievable skill...

  • Self righteous, arrogant and a dirty asshole to the end is you and your coward creature account,but without you people wouldnt have jobs in mental institution thats the only good thing from you..

    Mr.Mouth

  • Thank you so much for putting this online...

  • Couldnt manage to hold the tears after seeing this! Thank you!

    Ayrton, o Brasil e o mundo te amam para sempre!

    Brazil and the world loves you forever!

  • Its nice to see him talking though.....at times it makes me feel like he is still alive.....I repay him for the joy he gave me, by standing up for him and never letting his legend die

  • A beautiful man in every way.

  • "......because if you don't have personality and a bit of character nobody will care what you are doing." Same could be said about many of the F1 drivers today.

  • Steve Rider was fantastic interviewing Ayrton, probably the best in the sport for interviewers in my opinion, non evasive and easy going, props to Steve for being friendly yet professional! Ayrton Para Sempre!

  • this is just amazing, a great interview.

    WE STILL MISS YOU AYRTON!!!!!!!!

  • Senna , Prost , Mansell ate the best three drivers of all time

    PS : Xuxa`s a skank

  • I loved every part of this video. So rare to find videos of Xuxa and Senna together.

  • Senna is still my hero, both as a racing driver and as a man, someone I still look up to although I was just a kid by the time he left us. He was the only f1 driver that really cared about others on track as he cared about orphans all over the world, something no body never knew about. But he did it because of his big heart not publicity unlike many people today. We miss you Ayrton!

  • we miss you.

  • @n0cud06 zillions of thumbs up 4 u

  • @n0cud06 How much he cared about others on track, when crashing into them on track to make them back up the next race. Just the fact, that he's dead doesn't make him a saint. Though of course he was a very good driver.

  • @n0cud06 'cared about others on track', apart from those he admitted to ramming off the track.

  • what a great man.. even after the horrible season and a horrible finish against Prost he was man enough to give Prost respect for his achievments..

    the drivers today should learn abit from him and stop whining about every shit that happens to them

  • EXTREMELY INTELLIGENT MAN!!

  • Great and very rare video!!! Thanks doctormarkon for sharing :)

    We miss you Ayrton !!!

  • Great archive

    Thanks

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