No Senna ?
Haven't watched this yet but how could they leave him out ?
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if you haven't watched it, how can you make a statement about Senna not being in it when you couldn't possibly know without seeing it? He is in it actually anyway, so your comment was kind of pointless really.
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Kind oh hard to interview Senna for this 2013 documentary, since the chap has been dead since 1994.
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Although Senna was never shy about interviews I cannot think of anything he said that would have added. Gilles gave veey few interviews and Jaques rarely speaks/spoke about his death.
Sad,though, that there was no mention of a critical piece of safety hardware. I guess it's because it came from the US. But F1 was first to make its use universal. HANS became extrermly popular after Scotty Brayton's death and Earnhardt's death cemented it in the US. But before it became mandatory in the major US sports it was long in use and mandatory.
I have 6 point harrnes. Thank you F1. I wear a "15" firesuit. More than FIA but because of F1. I wear a FIA certified helmet. Because F1 I wear a FIA certified HANS device. Because of F1.
The movie shows the evolution of safety in F1 but doesn't emphasize it. Nor, really, the impact the GPDA had. Some people may hate or even despise Bernie & Max but the pushed a lot improvements.
Yeah, kind of confused. What was it really about?
Forget these other guys. I'm with you, man. How could they leave Senna out of guys they interviewed? They didn't even interview Jim Clark or Gilles Villeneuve. Appalling!!!
shareThe guy that got zero mention was Alain Prost the guy won 4 championships...
shareCorrect, but he was an asshat. So it figures...
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What??? Senna was not just an sss-hat, he was THE ass-hat. Ass-hat Numero Uno! Not to mention a filthy cheat and gutless cry-baby whose absence improved the sport immensely. Prost was a man of honour - something that was glaringly missing in Senna - and he was a much, MUCH better driver than Senna. Sadly Prost's final years were overshadowed by a cowardly sook with lackluster driving skills who, by luck, happened to get a drive in the only car that could win, if the driver cheated; which Senna did. If they'd kicked Senna out - which they should have done - then whoever replaced him would have done just as well if they'd cheated too because it certainly wasn't Senna's mediocre driving which made him World Champion. Thankfully they left him out of this documentary because it's not good for the sport to keep remembering a cheat who couldn't drive. Hopefully it's the start of a trend and eventually no one knows who Senna was because he's been relegated to the dustbin of history; where he belongs...
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Prost wasn't mentioned (although he was shown a few times) due to the film's focus on safety rather than simply world champions and the best drivers. You just can't make a film about safety in Formula One and its martyrs without including Ayrton Senna.
Although perhaps they could've shown Prost choosing to retire on the first lap of the 1989 Australian Grand Prix after saying he would do so, as well as his rant before the race and after he retired. I definitely thought of that moment when Max Mosley said he thought Lauda was the only driver to ever willingly retire under such circumstances -- not stated as a fact but he obviously didn't remember Prost's retirement during that race with awful wet conditions.
Of course he stole one of them by blowing the fat french dude Balestre in Japan so it seems fair to leave out the pathetic waste of flesh.
shareKeep in mind that F1 footage is copyrighted by Bernie Ecclestone and as far as I heard it is very difficult to get a license for F1 footage! He probably wants too much for it.
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