BBC F1 1990 - Ayrton Senna Interview part 2

1990

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[cafedelmar99]

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

[tonypap1]

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 ???

[dojOdRiFTeR]

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

[beqa16v]

@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.

[SuperMoominMama]

@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.

[22astonmartin]

@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]

@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.

[22astonmartin]

@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.

[22astonmartin]

@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.

[22astonmartin]

@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]

@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

[22astonmartin]

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